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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
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Aged care advocates and unions have lambasted the minister for aged care and sport, Richard Colbeck, for attending the Ashes cricket on the same day he declined to front an inquiry about the federal government’s Covid response.
Advocacy group Aged Care Matters and the Health Services Union have accused Colbeck of failing to do his job and dodging accountability during the peak of the Omicron crisis.
Read the original article at The Guardian