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Richard Colbeck then leaves the press conference while questions are still being asked.
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Richard Colbeck says he never considered resigning:
The responsibility for funding and regulating the aged care sector, as a Commonwealth responsibility.
But we are also in a global pandemic here, we have a significant public health emergency in Victoria, that’s why the public health emergency has been declared by the Victorians, this is a joint effort that is why we have set up the Victorian health response centre to make sure the systems come together to provide the support required for all Victorians and residential aged care, and I have to say, the Victorian Aged Care Response Centre, an initiative of the Commonwealth has been an absolute success and has assisted enormously, to bring the situation back under control.
