Advisory

Vision Lifestyle

Jan 08 2024 Updated January 9, 2024

Group Editor

1 min read

Contact

John Burgess

Director & General Manager

Vision Lifestyle

visionlp.com.au

Peak bodies outcry over Aged Care Taskforce silence: ‘no excuse for delay’

Catholic Health Australia, the peak body representing 350 Catholic Not For Profit aged care facilities, said there “is no excuse for delay” in the reform of aged care by adoption of the Aged Care Taskforce recommendations. “It’s been six months...

Ian Horswill

14 May 2024

Government Policy

“End this uncertainty”: aged care sector implores Govt to act on Taskforce recommendations

Aged care providers are expressing their disappointment in reports the Government will not unveil its responses to the Aged Care Taskforce’s recommendations in tomorrow’s Federal Budget. Last week, The Australian reported that aged care will not be...

Caroline Egan

13 May 2024

Aged Care

Unions and aged care providers’ peak body at odds over staggering Stage 3 wage rise

The peak body for aged care providers, Aged and Community Care Providers Association (ACCPA), is reluctantly supporting the Government’s April 2024 proposal to phase in the Fair Work Commission (FWC)’s Stage 3 wage rise for aged care workers. “The...

Caroline Egan

14 May 2024

Opinion

Disappointment confirmed: Taskforce recommendations excluded from next Tuesday’s Budget

I wrote in March that the release of the recommendations was “all about shifting the ground and conversations”

Chris Baynes

09 May 2024

Lendlease to fight ATO’s tax bills over sale of retirement village business

The former No. 1 village operator and construction heavyweight says it will oppose payment of $24.5 million in interest and dispute a $112 million tax bill issued to on Friday over its sale of 25% of the retirement village business to Dutch...

Ian Horswill

14 May 2024

Mergers & Acquisitions

Aged care social impact investor For Purpose Investment Partners buys a second meal service

For Purpose Investment Partners (FPIP), the Australian social impact investment fund manager that last month acquired 14 aged care homes from private operator Signature Care, has acquired national meal delivery business Tender Loving Cuisine (TLC)...

Caroline Egan

09 May 2024

Mergers & Acquisitions

Aspen’s bid to buy the 52 rental retirement village operator Eureka is dead... for now

David Dixon and John Carter (pictured below) look to be stymied in their current bid to buy the country’s only pure play owner/operator of over-55s rental communities and create a $500 million affordable housing company. Aspen Group’s CEOs have...

Ian Horswill

07 May 2024