March 30 sees over 50 leading speakers at the Retirement Communities World Conference in Sydney, including Paul Klaassen who founded and still runs Sunrise Seniors Living, operating over 440 villages in the US, Canada, Germany and UK. Given the housing market in each of those countries, he will have an unrivalled insight into the challenges of new sales. See http://www.terrapinn.com/2009/rcw_au/programme.stm for the full program.
Australian Senate votes for two separate inquiries into aged care reform
The Senate has voted to establish two new Senate inquiries into the Government’s historic aged care reforms, rollout out on the weekend after years of preparation, amid concerns they will not deliver for older Australians.