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Working conditions in aged care homes are awful, largely because the work is done by women

  • Written by Sarah Kaine, Associate Professor UTS Centre for Business and Social Innovation, University of Technology Sydney
Working conditions in aged care homes are awful, largely because the work is done by womenVulnerable Australians are in the hands of workers who don't have time to properly care for them.Shutterstock

The aged care royal commission is the just the latest in an avalanche of reviews and inquires over three decades that have found the same things: abuse and neglect and, lying behind them, appalling work conditions.

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