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So the minister who had NO PLAN to prevent outbreaks in aged care, made PPE training voluntary, put no policy in place regarding hospital transfers, and didn't even know the numbers of deaths, is now pointing fingers.

THE TEMERITY. #auspol #agedcarerc
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In case anyone needs a reminder, Colbeck:

- Put no national plan in place for COVID in aged care
- Couldn't even say whether he'd briefed Cabinet about the Royal Commission's interim report
- Did not know the number of aged care deaths in Senate hearings - not once, but TWICE
- Implemented no meaningful changes after the fatal outbreaks at Newmarch House and Dorothy Henderson Lodge
- Failed to consider how the existing failures in aged care would exacerbate the threat posed by COVID outbreaks
- Failed to provide expert infection control to facilities
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Listening to @abcnews I am amazed at the lengths they go to ‘describe’ the supposed adverse impacts of the lockdown in Victoria; from individual business to the how tough it’s been for kids unable to go to ‘childcare’ without reference to the number of lives saved; long term
Impact on lifelong health of contracting and surviving #CoVid19 Some may be surprised to learn that many kids never get to go to childcare, or access to early childhood education; get home schooled or distance education for all sorts of reasons. Some kids miss years of school
Have escaped war inflicted on them by so called ‘civilised’ nations and on escaping and arriving by boat in those so called civilised western countries are locked up in gulags; meanwhile in an alternative universe the appalling adverse impact of cutting Jobseeker and the hounding
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