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What did StewartBrown calculate earlier this year as the additional cost per resident per day needed to protect older Australians in residential aged care from Covid-19?
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Senator Siewert
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Written: 21 August 2020
Initial response to question on notice: 21 October 2020 (Document no. 520)
Department's reference: IQ20-000526
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In relation to these comments by Minister Hunt reported in the Australian on 8 August about Victoria's COVID-19 modelling:
We were given the high-level modelling, and the best advice I had last night from the Department of Health was that they hadn't received the underlying data and assumptions…
…We would like to not only receive it as a national government, as an Australian government, but we believe that all assumptions, all elements should be published.
a. Has the Commonwealth Government published up-to-date versions of all modelling used to inform its health response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including the underlying data and assumptions?
b. If no, please provide this modelling to the committee
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Senator Gallagher
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Written: 11 September 2020
Initial response to question on notice: 6 October 2020 (Document no. 450)
Department's reference: IQ20-000632
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Senator PATRICK: Can you point the committee to the actual decision? You have disclosed that there has been a decision of cabinet that the AHPPC is a subcommittee of cabinet. Can you provide that decision—noting that it has been disclosed—to the committee. I guess it must have been sent in writing to the AHPPC.
Dr Murphy: I can ask the cabinet secretary or PM&C to provide you that letter to that effect.
Senator PATRICK: I am actually asking you as Health. I don't care if you seek advice. You would be in possession of that decision, because it would have been communicated to you through the normal processes.
Dr Murphy: But that is a national cabinet decision, and I am not at liberty to disclose the deliberations of national cabinet.
Senator PATRICK: No, I am not asking you to. I want to be very clear: I am not asking you to disclose the deliberations of cabinet. You have yourself disclosed, or at least said to this committee, that a decision of cabinet has been made. Decisions of cabinet that have been disclosed do not attract cabinet-in-confidence. You must have a direction that was given to you, either as the chair of the AHPPC or as a Secretary of the Department of Health.
Dr Murphy: Correct.
Senator PATRICK: I'm asking you to provide a copy. Of course, you can seek advice from the cabinet office as to whether or not they still wish to maintain confidentiality.
Dr Murphy: That was a verbal direction to me, as I attended national cabinet. The national cabinet decided that AHPPC would become a subcommittee, and I was instructed at that time that all its deliberations and materials would be subject to cabinet confidentiality and only released at the approval of national cabinet. I think the easiest thing would be to request the cabinet secretary to formally write and convey that the national cabinet has decided that the AHPPC is a subcommittee of national cabinet and subject to those cabinet-in-confidence provisions. I am happy to take that on notice and provide some written proof of that decision of national cabinet.
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Senator Patrick
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Committee Hansard, 29 September 2020, p. 23.
Initial response to question on notice: 10 November 2020 (Document no. 546)
Department's reference: IQ20-000687
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