Re: @Senator_Patrick’s calls for a Royal Commission into Australia’s COVID response:
We’ve just had a $120m+ 3 yr RC into #agedcare. Morrison is yet to front a presser & answer questions about its recs. Reform-wise, the govt has cherry-picked easy fixes w/ no scrutiny #auspol
We’ve just had a $120m+ 3 yr RC into #agedcare. Morrison is yet to front a presser & answer questions about its recs. Reform-wise, the govt has cherry-picked easy fixes w/ no scrutiny #auspol
The thing about RCs and inquiries is they’ve got to produce systemic change. Otherwise they’re expensive fact-finding missions that tell us what we already know.
Look at all 17 major inquiries into aged care preceding the RC. All identified the same issues and made similar recs.
Look at all 17 major inquiries into aged care preceding the RC. All identified the same issues and made similar recs.
What’s the Morrison govt’s score card in implementing major reforms after its own RCs?
Abysmal.
Banking RC? More than half Hayne’s recommendations abandoned or not implemented. Aged care RC? Major recs like on-site nurses 24/7 rejected. Not even a presser from the PM. #auspol
Abysmal.
Banking RC? More than half Hayne’s recommendations abandoned or not implemented. Aged care RC? Major recs like on-site nurses 24/7 rejected. Not even a presser from the PM. #auspol
Clearly the fed govt has major questions to answer re: its COVID response, not least in relation to the appalling failures of planning for the already-foundering aged care sector, the bungled aged care vax rollout and boosters.
Its aged care response has been an omnishambles.
Its aged care response has been an omnishambles.
But we also shouldn’t accept the promise of a RC as some sort of laudable redress of serious governmental failures.
Morrison used the #agedcarerc as a stalling tactic to avoid any meaningful policy reform in aged care for 3 years. ‘Wait for the findings,’ etc. #auspol
Morrison used the #agedcarerc as a stalling tactic to avoid any meaningful policy reform in aged care for 3 years. ‘Wait for the findings,’ etc. #auspol
There is no point in having yet another RC when the recent past is strewn with the wreckage of RCs that have yet to deliver the major reforms they promised.
RCs are meaningless unless the govt of the day is committed to implementing reforms. #auspol
RCs are meaningless unless the govt of the day is committed to implementing reforms. #auspol
If Morrison hasn’t been held accountable for failing to implement the recs of the banking and aged care RCs, why would an RC into our COVID response be any different?
If the PM can get away with not even holding a presser to answer qs after a RC, why have another one? #auspol
If the PM can get away with not even holding a presser to answer qs after a RC, why have another one? #auspol
By all means, have another RC. But the fundamental issue of holding the government accountable afterwards remains. #auspol
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