Aged Care inquiry: 'Worse stories still to come' says whistleblower

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The greed in the industry is disgraceful as the elderly are neglected and fed food of low nutritional value, never mind its tasteless.

This has been bandied about for some time now. Guess since they're old ppl & therefore relatively defenseless & certainly aren't a threat, nothing of any substance will be done anytime soon. Just run more headlines.

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