Thread by @BiancaMinnie4

Peter Hartcher nails it. In the Morrison govt there's no care & no acceptance of responsibility. We know what happened in #agedcare last year. You’d think the fed govt would have put extra protections in place against any recurrence. 1/
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2/ The Morrison govt would have a plan for vaccinating residents AND workers in #agedcare homes as a priority. You'd think...but it seems only around 10% of workers in aged care homes have been vaccinated. They think...

3/ Turns out the fed govt doesn’t know how many have been vaccinated & they don’t even know how many workers are in the system. 😳😳😳
This week, Sen Richard Colbeck refused to say he was responsible for aged care vaccinations. When Sen Watt (Labor) criticised Colbeck...

4/ ...for not accepting responsibility for the vaccination of #agedcare workers, Sen Colbeck told Watt he found his approach “offensive”.
[At this point, I have to say that Sen Colbeck seemed even more offensive than he has previously...]

5/ As Peter Hartcher pointed out, although 685 people died in the aged care system last year & Colbeck was the minister responsible at the time, Morrison lacked the political courage to remove him & Colbeck lacked the decency to resign.

6. So why would Colbeck think responsibility for vaccinating #agedcare workers lay with him?
Taking responsibility just isn't required if you're a minister in the Morrison govt.

7/ Lynelle Briggs, one of the commissioners for the #agedcare Royal Commission, said “It’s becoming pretty clear to me that there’s no clear strategy for vaccinating the workers in the sector, and that’s dreadful. There’s a litany of examples of poor performance.

8/8 [It's like incompetence is a mandatory requirement to be appointed as a minister in the Morrison govt.]
So as well as incompetence, as Peter Hartcher says, while vaccines may be in short supply for the #agedcare sector, responsibility is nowhere to be found. 😡