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Michael Pascoe

Michael Pascoe: Aged care, COVID, cheap migrant labour and the minister from the BBC circa 1980

The newly announced aged-care task force is unlikely to report before the election, Michael Pascoe writes. Photo: TND/Getty

There’s not a physical similarity between Yes, Minister’s Jim Hacker and Richard Colbeck – Hacker seemed more awake – nor chief medical officer Paul Kelly and any of the cast of the ABC’s Hollow Men, but if you’ve watched a bit of television, you’ll feel you’ve seen this show before.

As the spotlight hits the Morrison government’s parsimonious treatment of overworked and underpaid aged-care workers and the senior citizens’ COVID death toll mounts, we’re to have a task force “examine” deaths in residential aged care.

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