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By Ruth Brook and Rosanne Maloney

The 'elephant in the room' of racism in Australia's aged care homes

Pratik Sigdel says he grew to accept racism as part of his job as an aged care worker. (ABC News: Michael Brooks)

On his first day working in aged care, Pratik Sigdel was told by a resident to go back to where he came from.

He had arrived in the country less than a year earlier from Nepal — and entered a job where racism became a part of his everyday professional life.

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