Government rejects Royal Commission's claim of no aged care plan, as commission set to grill regulator
- Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The federal government has clashed with the Royal Commission into Aged Care, strongly rejecting the claim by senior counsel assisting the inquiry Peter Rozen that it had no specific COVID-19 plan for the sector.
Aged Care Minister Richard Colbeck told a news conference: “We have had a plan to deal with COVID-19 in residential aged care, going...