Coronavirus has now claimed the lives of more than 400 aged care residents across Australia, most of those in Victoria. This week the Federal Government pledged to spend another $500 million on its response plan. We invited the Aged Care Minister Richard Colbeck or the Health Minister Greg Hunt to discuss it in an interview. Neither was available but we’ll keep asking.
Instead we speak to Sarah Holland-Batt, an advocate who made a submission to the royal commission into aged care.
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