Peter Rozen

The federal government has been accused of showing ‘a degree of self-congratulation and even hubris’ in the months leading up to the COVID-19 aged care crisis in Victoria.

Australia has ‘no hope’ of fighting the COVID-19 aged care crisis if the state and federal governments do not work together, the aged care royal commission has heard.

The members of the aged care royal commission and their senior counsel assisting began this week’s hearings with personal tributes to the former chair of the inquest, Justice Richard Tracey, who died last week, seven weeks after being diagnosed with terminal cancer.