Aged care minister insists he worked on portfolio duties ‘all through that weekend’ in mid-January when he was at Ashes cricket for three days
but backed him for continuing to work on aged care issues.
Colbeck denied putting his sport portfolio above aged care, insisting he “continued to work on both”. “The Test match in Hobart was a significant event for Tasmania, as minister for sport I had to be conscious of that as an issue,” the minister said. The Labor senator Katy Gallagher noted on Wednesday that the aged care sector was struggling with outbreaks in half of all facilities with 10,000 cases overall, residents locked down, and the sector suffering workforce shortages. There had been 657 deaths in the sector since July 2021.
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