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Aged Care Final Report Handed To Government

by | Fri, Feb 26 2021

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The aged care royal commission has handed its final report to the federal government after years of harrowing evidence at hearings across the nation.

Governor-General David Hurley received the report, which is likely to include more than one hundred recommendations for reform, at Sydney’s Admiralty House on Friday.

The two-year inquiry was told countless tales of abuse and neglect, with its 2019 interim paper calling for a complete overhaul of a “woefully inadequate” system.

Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt said the government will review the report over the weekend and provide an interim response by the middle of next week.

“We are anticipating it could be well over a thousand pages and there could be more than a hundred recommendations,” he told reporters on Thursday.

The Prime Minister has committed to fixing some of the issues outlined in report, giving,  pledging a more detailed response in the May budget.