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RLC’s Daniel Gannon tells Economic Reform Roundtable: retirement system stuck in the past

Retirement Living Council Executive Director Daniel Gannon has told the Federal Economic Reform Roundtable that Australia’s retirement system is failing to keep pace with demographic and economic realities.

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Ian Horswill
17 hours ago
Legal Issues

Broadlands appeals NSW South Coast land lease rejection

NSW land lease operator Broadlands will appeal to the Land and Environment Court after Eurobodalla Shire Council rejected its development application (DA) in May. Consultants Urbis told a public meeting that a revised plan is now on exhibition as part of the process. The meeting formed part of a social impact assessment by Urbis, which may be used in the appeal. The proposal was first presented to council officers in February 2023, with the DA lodged in March 2024.

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Ian Horswill
15 Aug 2025
Legal Issues

Home care operator Annecto placed in liquidation, may have traded while insolvent

At a second Creditors Meeting held on Monday this week (11 August 2025), disability and home care support services provider Annecto was officially placed into liquidation after 70 years in operation.

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Caroline Egan
13 Aug 2025
Legal Issues

WA’s amended Retirement Villages Act signals major shift in operators’ obligations

Amber Crosthwaite, Partner specialising in Care and Living at WA legal firm Lavan, says the amendments to the Retirement Villages Act 1992 (WA) formally separate capital maintenance from capital replacement – a change that significantly alters operators’ financial and governance responsibilities.

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Ian Horswill
11 Aug 2025
Legal Issues

Echo Law’s class action against Bupa Aged Care like ‘wrestling jelly’

Federal Court Judge Catherine Button adjourned Echo Law’s class action against Bupa Aged Care, giving it three weeks to submit an ‘Amended Statement of Claim’ to clarify their application. Bupa Aged Care sought to have the class action dismissed. comparing the evidence like “wrestling jelly”.

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Caroline Egan
06 Aug 2025
Legal Issues

Ex-police officer Kristian White avoids prison for manslaughter of aged care resident Clare Nowland

The Department of Public Prosecutions has lost its appeal against the sentencing of former police officer Kristian White, who was sentenced to a two-year community corrections order and community service after he was found guilty of the manslaughter of 95-year-old aged care resident Clare Nowland.

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Caroline Egan
30 Jul 2025
Legal Issues

Lifestyle Communities CEO Henry Ruiz: VCAT ruling will have “implications for the sector”

On 20 July, the publication gave Lifestyle Communities CEO Henry Ruiz, who only took on the role in March, permission to write a simialr length article rebutting all of the claims in Lloyd’s article, headlined “Lifestyle Communities’ fees show...

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Ian Horswill
21 Jul 2025
Legal Issues

QCAT delays closure of Seasons Caloundra as residents win right to stay

The Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal (QCAT) has granted a stay on the closure of the Seasons Living Caloundra retirement village, allowing four remaining residents to stay in their homes until a legal review is complete. The Queensland...

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Ian Horswill
11 Jul 2025
Legal Issues

Ingenia Communities and ABC’s Adele Ferguson on VCAT’s voiding of Lifestyle Communities’ DMFs

Ingenia Communities Group provides the following update in relation to the Group’s exposure to Deferred Management Fee (DMF) contracts across its portfolio. Ingenia has limited exposure to contracts which include a Deferred Management...

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Ian Horswill
14 Jul 2025
Legal Issues

Lifestyle Communities shares drop 37.22% as it appeals VCAT DMF ruling

The ASX-listed land lease community operator will appeal a Victorian tribunal ruling that struck down its Deferred Management Fee (DMF) clause – and seek a stay on the orders while the process plays out. The VCAT decision, handed down on Monday (7...

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Ian Horswill
09 Jul 2025
Legal Issues

VCAT rules Lifestyle Communities’ DMF model illegal

Lifestyle Communities’ business model is under serious threat after a ruling by VCAT President Justice Ted Woodward found its exit fee structure to be illegal. The ASX-listed land lease operator, which was valued at $861.9 million and placed in...

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Ian Horswill
07 Jul 2025
Legal Issues

Aged care resident Clare Nowland given “no chance” to avoid being Tasered: sentence appealed

The Director of the Office of Public Prosecutions, Sally Dowling SC, appeared before the New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal last Friday, arguing the sentencing of former police officer Kristian White, who fatally Tasered 95-year-old Clare Nowland, was inadequate.

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Caroline Egan
02 Jul 2025
Legal Issues

Nine years and counting: Federal Golf Club, Canberra, taking legal action after Mbark’s retirement village approval rescinded

The golf club in Red Hill is taking ACT Civil and Administrative Tribunal’s decision to rescind an approved development application for its proposed retirement village by the acclaimed retirement living operator to the ACT Supreme Court in...

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Ian Horswill
16 Jun 2025
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