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Aged Care

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Government Policy

Labor-stacked Senate Inquiry presses for urgent passage of Aged Care Act changes

Less than a month after being introduced to Parliament, two Bills amending the new Aged Care Act have been backed by a Senate inquiry report that calls for them to be passed “without delay.”

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Caroline Egan
22 Aug 2025
Opinion

Plan T or bust: care costs are drowning Australia

The Productivity Commission delivered a blunt warning in its fifth and final interim report ‘Delivering quality care efficiently: care costs are going to swamp Government budgets. Plan T – Transformation – must be seized as the system’s lifesaver: cut through regulation, rebuild efficiency.

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Lauren Broomham
20 Aug 2025
Aged Care

Care minutes risk undermining Bupa’s virtual care success in aged care

Bupa Villages and Aged Care says its virtual care Wellness Hubs are driving better clinical outcomes, quicker response times and new career pathways for staff – but warns the model is unsustainable under current Government policy.

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Caroline Egan
20 Aug 2025
Government Policy

People dying waiting for home care, Inspector-General of Aged Care told

The Inspector-General of Aged Care Natalie Siegel-Brown has called on the Federal Government to release additional Home Care Packages before 1 November, stating her office has received “tragic instances of loved ones dying while waiting”” for a package.

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Caroline Egan
21 Aug 2025
Aged Care

Amplar Health launches $31M virtual nursing trial in 30 aged care homes

The Medibank-owned virtual care specialists were awarded $31.2 million by the Federal Government in March to test a new framework to deliver virtual nursing in residential aged care.

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Caroline Egan
20 Aug 2025
Government Policy

Providers left disappointed as aged care regulator holds firm on new fees

The Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission (ACQSC) has quietly released draft registration and accreditation fees on its website, ahead of the new Aged Care Act coming into effect on 1 November 2025.

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Caroline Egan
20 Aug 2025
Not for Profit

Respect acquires NVC Group’s aged care homes and retirement villages in NSW

The Not For Profit operator is strengthening its presence on the NSW Mid North Coast, acquiring three aged care homes and three retirement villages operated by NVC Group in the Nambucca and Macleay Valleys.

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Ian Horswill
19 Aug 2025
Aged Care

3,800 aged care qualifications cancelled by Federal VET regulator

The Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) has cancelled the registration of 10 “critically non-compliant” providers since November 2024 as part of an ongoing campaign to weed out “non-genuine” or “bad faith” providers.

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Caroline Egan
20 Aug 2025
Aged Care

36% of aged care homes increase RADs beyond $550K: Mirus

Aged care providers are taking up the opportunity to increase their Refundable Accommodation Deposit (RAD)s after the maximum amount was increased from $550,000 to $750,000 as of 1 January 2025.

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Caroline Egan
20 Aug 2025
Government
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Government Policy

Labor-stacked Senate Inquiry presses for urgent passage of Aged Care Act changes

Less than a month after being introduced to Parliament, two Bills amending the new Aged Care Act have been backed by a Senate inquiry report that calls for them to be passed “without delay.”

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Caroline Egan
22 Aug 2025
Government Policy

Aged Care and Seniors Minister Sam Rae launches $21.5M nursing scholarship program

Aged Care and Seniors Minister Sam Rae announced the Australian College of Nurse Practitioners will deliver the Aged Care Nursing Scholarships Program, which has 1,050 scholarships available of up to a value of $30,000.

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Caroline Egan
21 Aug 2025
Home Care

Care management costs expose why home care fees must rise under Support at Home

The Department of Health, Disability and Ageing’s March 2024-25 Quarterly Financial Snapshot (QFS) shows that between 2020-21 and 2023-24, care management charges made up 16.5%-18% of home care providers’ total revenue, while the cost of delivering these services accounted for just 10.5%-11%.

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Caroline Egan
21 Aug 2025
Government Policy

People dying waiting for home care, Inspector-General of Aged Care told

The Inspector-General of Aged Care Natalie Siegel-Brown has called on the Federal Government to release additional Home Care Packages before 1 November, stating her office has received “tragic instances of loved ones dying while waiting”” for a package.

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Caroline Egan
21 Aug 2025
Aged Care

Care minutes risk undermining Bupa’s virtual care success in aged care

Bupa Villages and Aged Care says its virtual care Wellness Hubs are driving better clinical outcomes, quicker response times and new career pathways for staff – but warns the model is unsustainable under current Government policy.

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Caroline Egan
20 Aug 2025
Aged Care

Amplar Health launches $31M virtual nursing trial in 30 aged care homes

The Medibank-owned virtual care specialists were awarded $31.2 million by the Federal Government in March to test a new framework to deliver virtual nursing in residential aged care.

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Caroline Egan
20 Aug 2025
Aged Care

36% of aged care homes increase RADs beyond $550K: Mirus

Aged care providers are taking up the opportunity to increase their Refundable Accommodation Deposit (RAD)s after the maximum amount was increased from $550,000 to $750,000 as of 1 January 2025.

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Caroline Egan
20 Aug 2025
Development
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Mergers & Acquisitions

Over 50s land lease communities operator Lincoln Place buys site for its biggest estate and promises more acquisitions

In July 2023, Lincoln Place founders Nicholas Collishaw and Ben Hindmarsh told The Weekly SOURCE they expected to build in scale to be in the “top three in the (land lease) sector” Their latest acquisition - a 31.25ha site in the Yeppoon suburb...

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Ian Horswill
21 Aug 2025
Development

Oryx opens $80M Melvista in Perth after decade-long journey, with RADs up to $2.2M

Perth-based aged care and retirement living operator Oryx Communities has officially opened The Melvista in Nedlands, located 7km west of Perth’s city centre, more than a decade after first securing the site.

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Caroline Egan
20 Aug 2025
Development

VIC Govt unveils designs for $2.3M per bed public aged care home in Maffra

The new 30-bed aged care home, which will cost the Victorian Government $69.7 million to build in Maffra, 220km east of Melbourne, replaces a 30-bed home - no new aged care beds will be created with the investment.

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Caroline Egan
20 Aug 2025
Development

Catholic Healthcare launches final stage of McQuoin Park connected community in Sydney

Not For Profit Catholic Healthcare, along with construction partner Growthbuilt, celebrated the turning of the sod to commemorate the construction of the final 79 apartments of McQuion Park Retirement Village in Wahroonga, 18km northwest of Sydney’s CBD.

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Ian Horswill
18 Aug 2025
Development

Sod turned on 372-home Ingenia Lifestyle Kō in Gordonvale, Far North Queensland

ASX-listed Ingenia Communities has broken ground on its 29th land lease community – and its first in Far North Queensland – with a sod-turning ceremony at Ingenia Lifestyle Kō in Gordonvale.

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Ian Horswill
18 Aug 2025
Community Living

It took 11 years but Watermark Residences at Newgreens Chatswood is in a class of its own

The just opened 106 apartment retirement village is the cornerstone of the rebirth of Chatswood Golf Club and will be the go to measure of a great village/club partnership. It is testament to the vision of Watermark Living, joint venture investor Pariter and Alan Hall-Watson, Golf Club President.

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Ian Horswill
18 Aug 2025
Development

Construction begins on $100M Liven Willow Rise land lease estate in Gympie as Stage 1 sells out in 24 hours

A sod-turning ceremony has marked the start of construction at Liven Willow Rise, a $100 million lifestyle community on more than seven hectares in Gympie’s Southside, part of Queensland’s Greater Sunshine Coast.

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Ian Horswill
18 Aug 2025
Development

Sundale expands Palmwoods Garden Village on QLD’s Sunshine Coast

Sundale, the community-based, Not For Profit organisation, has unveiled 40 additional retirement living villas and the Hilltop Events Centre, the second community space, featuring an inground swimming pool, at Palmwoods Garden Village.

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Ian Horswill
18 Aug 2025
Community Living

Sydney’s St Francis Xavier Terrace Retirement Village faces closure under redevelopment plan

Residents of the 31-unit St Francis Xavier Terrace Retirement Village in Lavender Bay, Sydney, have been told their homes will be demolished if a proposed redevelopment of the site proceeds.

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Ian Horswill
18 Aug 2025
Health
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Ageing

SATURDAY sounds the alarm: Dementia is ‘galloping’ through retirement villages

Dementia rates in villages are climbing fast – but with limited staff, legal barriers to moving residents, and no clear safety net, operators risk being caught off guard. Where are the biggest risks – and what’s being tried to fix them? Find out in this week’s SATURDAY, our premium digital magazine.

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Lauren Broomham
11 Aug 2025
Sector Moves & People

Former Newcastle Lord Mayor and prominent developer Jeff McCloy dies aged 75

The builder behind Newcastle’s John Hunter Hospital and several major retirement village projects has been remembered for his vision and love of the Hunter Region. He passed away, surrounded by family and friends on Queensland’s Gold Coast, at 1pm...

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Ian Horswill
30 Jun 2025
Aged Care

Aged care COVID-19 cases hit 12-month high as 34 die in one week

As winter conditions settle in, the number of aged care staff and residents who contracted COVID-19 in the last week increased 14% to more than 2,000, with outbreaks in 268 homes.

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Caroline Egan
26 Jun 2025
Mergers & Acquisitions
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Mergers & Acquisitions

Over 50s land lease communities operator Lincoln Place buys site for its biggest estate and promises more acquisitions

In July 2023, Lincoln Place founders Nicholas Collishaw and Ben Hindmarsh told The Weekly SOURCE they expected to build in scale to be in the “top three in the (land lease) sector” Their latest acquisition - a 31.25ha site in the Yeppoon suburb...

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Ian Horswill
21 Aug 2025
Not for Profit

Respect acquires NVC Group’s aged care homes and retirement villages in NSW

The Not For Profit operator is strengthening its presence on the NSW Mid North Coast, acquiring three aged care homes and three retirement villages operated by NVC Group in the Nambucca and Macleay Valleys.

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Ian Horswill
19 Aug 2025
Mergers & Acquisitions

BaptistCare set to take over Sunrise Supported Living Tuncurry retirement village and home care service

The Not For Profit has agreed to take over Sunrise Supported Living’s Tuncurry retirement village and home care service on the NSW Mid North Coast, adding what the operator calls “a new and proven aged care alternative” to its portfolio.

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Ian Horswill
19 Aug 2025
Mergers & Acquisitions

Moran Health Care Group sells its only Victorian aged care home to Benetas

Benetas is to take over Moran Health Care Group’s Moran Roxburgh Park, a 126-bed aged care home co-located with Benetas’ Bridgewater Lake Retirement Estate. Benetas CEO Sandra Hills said she is looking forward to welcoming Moran Roxburgh Park to its portfolio of 12 aged care homes.

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Caroline Egan
14 Aug 2025
Opinion
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Opinion

Plan T or bust: care costs are drowning Australia

The Productivity Commission delivered a blunt warning in its fifth and final interim report ‘Delivering quality care efficiently: care costs are going to swamp Government budgets. Plan T – Transformation – must be seized as the system’s lifesaver: cut through regulation, rebuild efficiency.

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Lauren Broomham
20 Aug 2025
Opinion

The gnarly problem of dementia in retirement villages

Dementia is no longer hidden in retirement villages. It is in plain sight for residents and Village Managers alike and the question now is: will operators open their eyes, or continue to bury their heads in the sand? The latest edition of SATURDAY laid out the scale of the challenge.

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Lauren Broomham
18 Aug 2025
Opinion

Sink or swim: aged care can’t wait for productivity reform

Hospitals are already flooded with elderly Australians lying in beds when they should be in aged care. The tide is rising. In 2022, then-Aged Care Minister Anika Wells warned the system was not ready for the incoming wave of Baby Boomers. The reality? She may have been five years too late. 

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Lauren Broomham
14 Aug 2025
Opinion

Retirement villages overcome loneliness – good news in Loneliness Awareness Week but more to do

Newly published research from the Bolton Clarke Research Institute and Monash University reveals moving to a retirement village halves loneliness within 12 months. As the average stay in retirement living is now nine years, this appears to be great...

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Ian Horswill
12 Aug 2025
Opinion

Aged care beds are running out. What’s the plan?

The numbers don’t lie: we are headed for a shortfall of aged care and hospital beds unlike anything we’ve seen before. As we report in this issue, in Western Australia alone, around 200 hospital beds a day are being occupied by older people who...

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Lauren Broomham
06 Aug 2025
Opinion

It’s time for retirement village operators to provide guidance on Voluntary Assisted Dying

Over the past fortnight, the DCM Institute has been holding Professional Development Days across the country. One of the topics we have been discussing, at the request of a handful of retirement village operators, has been VAD

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James Wiltshire
05 Aug 2025
Opinion

Productivity is sinking – Plan T is the lifeline

Productivity is Canberra’s buzzword of the year and for good reason. Government spending is at its highest level since WWII, care waitlists are ballooning, and the economy is leaning heavily on sectors that aren’t delivering a strong return on...

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Lauren Broomham
31 Jul 2025
Opinion

Why the retirement living sector should embrace RetireAustralia’s Care Hub

RetireAustralia’s The Care Hub will be in every new RetireAustralia village going forward, so why has the retirement living sector been so reluctant to follow? It is a magnet for residents, who hate the thought of entering residential aged care or languishing in a hospital bed awaiting aged care.

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Ian Horswill
29 Jul 2025
Opinion

Across Australia there is a model of aged care where eager customers are lining up at the door to enter

These are retirement villages, not aged care homes, and we call it private aged care. While we have been banging on about this model for several years, we are seeing the early green shoots of a new, significant sector, being driven by the new...

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Chris Baynes
24 Jul 2025
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