For decades, we’ve been warned about a crisis in Australia’s aged care sector, and the coronavirus pandemic has exposed its failures. In the first half of a special two part series Rick Morton traces the problems in aged care to Howard-era reforms, demanded by private, for-profit providers.

Guest: Senior reporter for The Saturday Paper Rick Morton.

Background reading: The collapse of aged care (part one) in The Saturday Paper

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