• Oakden aged care scandal part 3 - “Boss on the floor” … or, how bad things stayed secret

  • Mar 3 2025
  • Length: 35 mins
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Oakden aged care scandal part 3 - “Boss on the floor” … or, how bad things stayed secret

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  • How did the abuse at Oakden remain hidden for so long? And what finally brought it to light?

    In this episode we discuss:

    • why families might not complain
    • how small, isolated outposts can hide terrible things
    • the importance of following up on things that don’t feel quite right.

    Intro grab from the RN Background Briefing episode A Failure to Care: The Oakden Nursing Home, featuring Lorraine Baff, whose father was a patient at Oakden.

    You can find the full ICAC Report into Oakden here, and the Chief Psychiatrist report here.

    Now for some appropriately bureaucratic disclaimers....

    While we have tried to be as thorough in our research as busy full time jobs and lives allow, we definitely don’t guarantee that we’ve got all the details right.

    If you want rigorous reporting on Robodebt, we recommend the work of Rick Morton at the Saturday Paper, Chris Knaus and Luke Henriques-Gomes at the Guardian, Ben Eltham at Crikey, Julian Bajkowski at The Mandarin, and of course, the Robodebt Royal Commission itself.

    Please feel free to email us corrections, episode suggestions, or anything else, at thewestminstertraditionpod@gmail.com.

    Thanks to PanPot audio for our intro and outro music.

    'Til next time!
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