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The Latest Breaking News from Richard Colbeck

Aged Care Services Minister Richard Colbeck says Labor appears to be backtracking on its aim to have a 24/7 nurse in aged care facilities.

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From Lambie’s ‘loud girl’ to Ericmentum, Tasmania’s fierce Senate race is a taste of what’s to come

Weeks out from the 2022 federal election, it pays to remember the House contest determines who governs but the Senate always shapes what happens next

The Guardian - AU

Thousands of aged care workers have not got their promised bonus, union says

Many aged care workers are questioning why they are yet to receive a $400 bonus promised by the Prime Minister earlier this year.

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Survey finds 97% of Australia’s aged care workers have not received $800 bonus

Staff across Australia take first steps towards industrial action as promised payments are caught up in bureaucratic delays

The Guardian - AU

When Omicron peaked, the number of aged care residents dying without COVID-19 jumped too, new data reveals

During the Omicron wave, there was a "highly statistically significant" jump in the number of people who died in aged care without COVID-19, according to a prominent epidemiologist.

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Richard Colbeck is a national disgrace — and an affront to his own side of politics

The appalling aged care minister claims the government has ‘stepped up’ like the sector’s workers, yet more evidence this bumbling fool must go.

Crikey

The hundreds who’ve died this year in Australia nursing homes deserve justice at the election

The Morrison government has wreaked carnage in the sector but without an alternative it may not matter at the polling booth

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Jeta Gardens resident Lottie Meek died with COVID-19. Her family is angry the facility wasn't better prepared for an outbreak

Sixteen residents at Jeta Gardens have died with COVID-19 since late December, and it's emerged the Aged Care Safety and Quality Commission raised concerns last year about the facility's lack of preparedness for an outbreak.

ABC News

Aged care deaths not an indication of failure? Colbeck shirks responsibility in Senate estimates

Aged Care Minister Richard Colbeck has evaded responsibility for the aged care crisis, instead lambasting questioning by Labor and the Greens as ‘political point-scoring’.

Crikey

Colbeck denies aged-care COVID deaths reflect his performance

Richard Colbeck says the 691 COVID deaths reported in aged care already in 2022 are no indicator of his performance, as he rejects calls to resign.

The New Daily

Richard Colbeck defends saying aged care not in crisis as sector still deals with COVID outbreaks

The Aged Care Services Minister dismisses suggestions he should resign while defending his declaration the sector is not in crisis, amid growing criticism of the government's handling of widespread COVID-19 outbreaks and record deaths.

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COVID deaths in aged care pass 2020 toll

More people have died in aged care so far this year from COVID-19 than in all of 2020, but Richard Colbeck has rebuffed calls to resign from his ministry.

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Parliament debates character test bill – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU

George Christensen claims a new study found ivermectin has anti-viral properties. But that's not the full story

Nationals backbencher George Christensen this week shared a new Japanese study which he said proves ivermectin has "anti-viral" properties. But that's not the full story.

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The New Daily

Alan Kohler: Aged care needs compulsory national insurance

It’s obvious that aged care is underfunded. Elderly residents will see it displayed in crisp khaki next week when soldiers show up to call the bingo.

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Scott Morrison says Richard Colbeck has appeared before the Senate Select Committee on COVID-19 'many, many times'. Is that correct?

Prime Minister Scott Morrison claims Minister for Senior Australians and Aged Care Services, Richard Colbeck, has appeared before the Senate Select Committee on COVID-19 on "countless occasions". Is that correct? RMIT ABC Fact Check investigates.

The Guardian - AU

Scott Morrison faces question time grilling over government response to Covid aged care crisis

Labor sharpens attack on Coalition’s handling of pandemic and again calls for aged care minister Richard Colbeck to be sacked

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Aged care minister bucks calls to resign

Aged Care Services Minister Richard Colbeck has defended the handling of the COVID-19 response in the sector in parliament.

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Your Say: Should Richard Colbeck be sacked from his $332,720 a year job? Absolutely

Crikey readers have spoken: Colbeck must go.

The Canberra Times

The day the COVID 'bomb' exploded in Canberra's nursing homes

Warrigal's three aged care homes in the Canberra region had avoided COVID-19 for almost two years. That changed on New Year's Day.

The Conversation

View From The Hill: Aged care residents are paying for lessons not learned fast enough

Richard Colbeck had to face the music this week over attending the fifth test in his home state of Tasmania when he’d told the Senate COVID committee he was too busy working on the Omicron wave spreading through aged care to appear.

The Guardian - AU

PM shuts down Peter Dutton after defence minister flags sending troops into nursing homes

Scott Morrison says ‘defence forces are not a shadow workforce for the aged care sector’ after minister announces troops could be used ‘if required’

Crikey

The case against Richard Colbeck is clear: he must resign or be sacked

Ministers of the Crown have not only a duty but a responsibility to be competent. If they are proved to be inept, they must go.

The Guardian - AU

Eighty-four coronavirus deaths recorded; Morrison backs slow reopening for WA – as it happened

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Michael Pascoe: Aged care, COVID, cheap migrant labour and the minister from the BBC circa 1980

As the spotlight hits the Morrison government’s treatment of aged care workers, we’re to have a task force “examine” deaths in residential aged care.

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