Aged care, death and taxes after the royal commission
- Written by Anna Howe, Honorary Professor, Department of Sociology, Macquarie University, Macquarie University
The Governor General was handed the report of the aged care royal commission on Friday. It will be made public in the coming week.
Overlaying its considerations has been Australia’s 909 deaths from COVID-19, more than two-thirds of them (685) people in aged care facilities.
It has to be recognised that COVID accounts for an extremely small...