Coronavirus Australia live: Victoria announces five-day aged care vaccination blitz after three new Covid cases
Minister Richard Colbeck comes under fire over aged care failures after outbreak in two Melbourne homes. Follow live updates
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Somewhere in between the Victorian press conference and question time, Anthony Albanese and Mark Butler held a press conference to talk about the government’s aged care vaccination roll out.
Here is part of it:
Richard Colbeck’s extraordinary performance before Senate Estimates today makes it difficult to know where to start on the critique of his performance. But this has been a rolling maul of incompetence now ever since he was in the portfolio.
It’s extraordinary that Scott Morrison had the chance to move him when he had the reshuffle but he kept him in this job, in spite of the fact that we know in previous performances before the Senate, he wasn’t aware of how many deaths there’d been in aged care.
The secretary of the defence department, Greg Moriarty, has warned against insider leaks.
At Senate estimates, Moriarty confirmed he had conveyed that message at a meeting of the senior leadership group had been held at the Australian Defence Force Academy in May.
Myself, the CDF and other members of the senior leadership group were concerned that there were comments appearing in the press purporting to be from defence personnel.
