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Jul 02 2008 Updated July 4, 2023

The Weekly Source

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'Seachange vision unfolds,' The Gold Coast Bulletin, June 27, 2008, p. 90.

Seachange Developments, a collaboration of property investors and architects, has announced a 395-home project near Arundal on the Gold Coast.

The three aged care bombshells from Senate Estimates

Last week’s Senate Estimates hearing – held just three weeks before sweeping reforms roll out – gave politicians the chance to ask Government heavyweights the questions they’re getting from constituents and to interrogate the once-in-a-generation changes.

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Caroline Egan

15 Oct 2025

Opinion

Keyton’s thought leadership in a sea of misunderstanding on what retirement villages are

Why has Keyton for the second year financed a Future of Retirement Living roundtable in Canberra plus a full page in the Australian? They identify two major problems: bureaucrats still don’t understand what retirement villages are and don’t...

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Ian Horswill

21 Oct 2025

Opinion

Our big idea: co-located retirement villages can solve hospital ‘bed occupancy’ in 16 weeks

Across Australia 2,000 hospital beds now hold 2,000 older Australians getting sicker, waiting for an aged care bed. The cost: $1,500 to $2,000 per day. Could co-located retirement villages offer a solution?

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Chris Baynes

16 Oct 2025

Government Policy

No excuse for providers to not be ready on 1 November: Aged Care Minister Sam Rae

Aged Care Minister Sam Rae has told ABC radio the Aged Care Rules have been in place for “a significant amount of time” and the Government has been listening to and supporting to the sector, “so, there really isn’t an excuse from any provider to not be prepared for 1 November”.

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Caroline Egan

23 Oct 2025

St Vincent’s Health Australia still determining what data taken by hacker

“We are managing some important network disruptions as part of our remediation works,“ St Vincent’s Health Australia said in its latest statement

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Ian Horswill

10 Jan 2024

The Daily RESOURCE

Aged care homes on Sydney’s Northern Beaches directed to ban visitors after NSW records five new COVID-19 cases – one an aged care worker

NSW has recorded a further five COVID-19 cases overnight after a 45-year-old man was the first confirmed case of community transmission in more than two weeks on Wednesday. NSW Health has confirmed two Northern Beaches residents returned positive...

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The Weekly Source

17 Dec 2020

The Daily RESOURCE

Aged care regulator notches up record 5,500 assessments in September quarter – but most contacts carried out remotely

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The Weekly Source

17 Dec 2020

The Daily RESOURCE

Aged Care Minister pledges to release reports into COVID outbreaks at St Basil’s and Heritage Care’s Epping Gardens before Christmas – confirms he wants to stay in portfolio

As we reported here last week, Labor has been pushing the Government to release the independent reports which were completed in November and were due to be released on 30 November (three weeks ago). St. Basil’s Home for the Aged in Fawkner and...

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The Weekly Source

17 Dec 2020