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When the roar of 65,000 people greeted the first race of the third day, at 1.30pm on Thursday 12 March last year, Geoff Bodman was feeling just fine. The 56-year-old painter and decorator from Tremorfa in Cardiff, whose friends call him âBoddieâ, had been going to the Cheltenham Festival every year for 25 years. He had paid £30 for a ticket to the affordable Best Mate enclosure, where he planned to have a punt on the horses and a day on the beer. The following morning heâd be back in Cardiff, getting on with a job painting the outside of a house.
Howard government faced public outrage over treatment of residents in aged care homes
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The Howard government was faced with public outrage when a number of residents in a Melbourne nursing home sustained chemical burns when given kerosene baths as a cheap alternative to standard treatment of scabies.
Nursing staff who objected and refused to comply lodged a complaint but instead of any public punishment the government agency set about a drawn out regulatory process of mediation with the owners of the home.
Bronwyn Bishop was heavily criticised for her handling of an aged care scandal in 2000. She would later be made Speaker of the House of Representatives.