Richard Colbeck refuses responsibility for aged care deaths

The minister for age care Richard Colbeck defended his performance during the height of Australia’s coronavirus outbreak in a Senate estimates hearing on Tuesday. Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian. Australia’s aged care minister, Richard Colbeck, has said he does not feel personally responsible for the nearly 700 coronavirus-related deaths that have occurred across the sector and wants to keep his job in the forthcoming reshuffle.