8th Feb 2022, 3:22 PM – Representatives Motions - Covid-19: Aged Care - Don't let a vote happen

The majority voted in favour of disagreeing with the motion to suspend the usual procedural rules - known as standing orders - in order to let another vote happen. Because this vote passed, the other vote will not happen.

Motion text

That so much of standing orders be suspended as would prevent the Leader of the Opposition moving the following motion immediately:

That the House:

(1) notes:

(a) in the third year of the pandemic, aged care remains in crisis, with almost 12,000 aged care residents and workers infected with COVID in more than 1,100 facilities as of Friday, and over 600 deaths among aged care residents this year;

(b) tens of thousands of aged care residents are still waiting for a booster dose;

(c) aged care facilities have been left without rapid antigen tests and PPE;

(d) aged care residents have been left without food, water and medical care because the Government's surge workforce strategy was inadequate; and

(e) despite aged care being in crisis, the Minister for Aged Care Services has declared the sector is performing exceptionally well; and

(2) therefore calls on the Prime Minister to:

(a) immediately sack his Minister for Aged Care Services; and

(b) apologise to aged care residents and their families for his failure to listen and act on countless warnings about the continuing crisis in aged care.