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Canberra aged care crisis: The day the COVID bomb went off

Dan Jervis-Bardy
HN
Updated February 7 2022 - 9:28am, first published February 6 2022 - 5:30am
Warrigal Calwell general manager Loy Spratford in full protective equipment. Picture: Sitthixay Ditthavong
Warrigal Calwell general manager Loy Spratford in full protective equipment. Picture: Sitthixay Ditthavong

Toward the end of last year, Mark Sewell recalls how staff at Warrigal's nursing homes described feeling as though they were "tiptoeing around a time bomb".

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Dan Jervis-Bardy

Dan Jervis-Bardy

Federal Politics Reporter

Dan covers federal politics from Parliament House, with a special focus on climate policy and the NDIS. He has previously reported on ACT politics and urban affairs since joining the Canberra Times in 2018.

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Hannah Neale

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Hannah is a reporter with The Canberra Times. She is currently covering ACT courts. Hannah started as a journalist with The Southern Highland News and The Goulburn Post before moving to the ACT.

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