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| Coronavirus update Australia: parliament resumes as Victoria records 116 new cases and 15 deaths – question time live | Coronavirus update Australia: parliament resumes as Victoria records 116 new cases and 15 deaths – question time live |
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| Brisbane watches hotspots after youth detention centre outbreak, Victoria’s hotel inquiry continues and politicians gather in Canberra for the first time in 10 weeks. Follow today’s latest updates | Brisbane watches hotspots after youth detention centre outbreak, Victoria’s hotel inquiry continues and politicians gather in Canberra for the first time in 10 weeks. Follow today’s latest updates |
| (There were outbreaks in NSW aged care centres before Victoria) | |
| Julie Collins to Scott Morrison: | |
| Can the prime minister confirm the government’s own report into Covid-19 are back at Dorothy Henderson Lodge show that even well managed providers need help to provide a response on day one and Kenny confirm he received this report in April but was kept secret until the royal commission published this month and why didn’t his government do the things it was told was necessary to keep aged care residents safe? | |
| Morrison: | |
| Greg Hunt is asked about the government’s Covid vaccine strategy. | |
| The strategy appears to be to get one. | |
| The aged care minister has once again fumbled the number of aged care deaths, just an hour after apologising for doing it on Friday. | |
| “Every single one of those 385… 35… Every one of those 335 deaths is an absolutely, absolute tragedy. Every single one of those deaths is a tragedy.” | |
| Susan Templeton to Scott Morrison: | |
| Why did the prime minister say in July the complete withdrawal of an aged care workforce could not be anticipated or foreshadowed when that is precisely what happened at Dorothy Henderson Lodge in March and Newmarch House in April? | |
| Morrison: | |
| It has taken one interjection during a dixer for Greg Hunt to lose control of the carefully curated ‘quiet, statesman like, we will fight them on the beaches, Covid-calm’ voice he has been deploying in press conferences lately. | |
| Nature is healing. | |
| Julie Collins to Scott Morrison: | |
| Why did the prime minister wait until now, six months into the pandemic, after hundreds of aged care residents have died, to announce the aged care advisory group. | |
| Morrison: | |
| So there are arrangements and plans and plans and arrangements and it is so, because arrangements and plans have been mentioned as words. | |
| Simples. | |
| Just as a reminder – it was the Howard government which privatised aged care. | |
| Bronwyn Bishop was the minister when the kerosene baths scandal broke. | |
| Ken Wyatt was the minister when the Oakden scandal broke. | |
| Anthony Albanese to Scott Morrison: | |
| The commissioners presiding over the Aged Care Royal Commission said today, quote, “Had the Australian government acted upon previous reviews of aged care, the persistent problems would have been known much earlier and the suffering of so many people could’ve been avoided.” Are the commissioners correct, what Australians are seeing the aged care could’ve been avoided, why didn’t the government and you act? | |
| Morrison: | |
| Michael McCormack is at the despatch box, which is making me rethink every plan that has ever led to me standing here, in this moment, and where it all went wrong. | Michael McCormack is at the despatch box, which is making me rethink every plan that has ever led to me standing here, in this moment, and where it all went wrong. |
| You know, it is possible to repeatedly say the word ‘plan’ (eight times in those few minutes at my rough count) – and even have a document with the word ‘plan’ on it, and there still not actually be a plan. | You know, it is possible to repeatedly say the word ‘plan’ (eight times in those few minutes at my rough count) – and even have a document with the word ‘plan’ on it, and there still not actually be a plan. |
| For example, I had a plan to marry rich and retire by the time I was 30. That did not happen. It was written down and everything. Under the headline ‘life plan’ and yet – here I am. Blogging question time. | For example, I had a plan to marry rich and retire by the time I was 30. That did not happen. It was written down and everything. Under the headline ‘life plan’ and yet – here I am. Blogging question time. |