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Aged care workers are facing a 'crisis level of exhaustion' as the COVID-19 pandemic continues

Advocates say the Prime Minister's announcement of a one-off bonus payment of $800 for aged care workers will not do enough to fix a system that's broken after years of neglect.

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Minister faces sacking call over aged-care deaths

Labor leader Anthony Albanese has demanded the Aged Care Services Minister resign or be sacked amid the escalating crisis and death toll in aged care.

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Labor demands Richard Colbeck's resignation as government launches aged care deaths task force

Anthony Albanese calls on the Aged Care Services Minister to resign as the government commissions a task force to analyse deaths in the sector.

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Albanese demands Colbeck ‘resign today’ as nation records 82 Covid deaths – as it happened

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Aged Care Services Minister Richard Colbeck defends going to cricket instead of a COVID committee

Richard Colbeck says he has to "live with" his decision to attend the Ashes in Hobart instead of a COVID committee hearing into the Omicron spread in aged care homes.

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Richard Colbeck defends skipping aged care Covid inquiry for ‘significant’ Test match in Hobart

Aged care minister insists he worked on portfolio duties ‘all through that weekend’ in mid-January when he was at Ashes cricket for three days

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Minister denies aged care sector in crisis

Aged care services minister Richard Colbeck has defended attending the cricket over a COVID committee hearing, saying he was balancing both of his portfolios.

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Nation records 69 Covid deaths as hospital numbers fall – as it happened

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Letters: There's a surge in the scourge of city graffiti

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At least 98 deaths on nation’s deadliest day – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU

Backlash grows over aged care minister attending Ashes cricket instead of Covid inquiry

Richard Colbeck, who is also the federal sport minister, was guest of Cricket Tasmania and Cricket Australia at the Hobart Test

The Guardian - AU

Minister's cricket trip 'arrogant': Labor

A decision by Aged Care Services Minister Richard Colbeck to attend an Ashes test on the same day he declined a COVID committee hearing has been criticised.

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Aged care minister Richard Colbeck went to Ashes Test on same day he declined to appear at Covid committee

Colbeck had cited urgent work fighting Omicron, but has now registered he was attending Hobart cricket match

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