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48 aged care facilities reported closed in 14 months because unprofitable
Sep 24 2009
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The Weekly Source

The National’s Senator John Williams (NSW) is pushing the need for increased care funding, pointing out 48 facilities have closed in 14 months to last February because they can’t cover costs. With 2,800 aged care facilities this equates to just under 2% however.

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Providence Lifestyle files two DAs for over 500 land lease homes in WA

Providence Lifestyle – founded in 2020 by John Green, Brad Denison, James Turnbull and John Wood – has lodged two development applications in Western Australia totalling 504 over-50s homes.

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Community Living

Lifestyle Communities CFO Darren Rowland resigns, with successor named

Lifestyle Communities has announced the resignation of Chief Financial Officer (and Joint Company Secretary) Darren Rowland, effective end of January 2026. He has served as CFO since May 2018.

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Topic - Developments

Levande lodges new SSDA to rebuild 40-year-old Killara retirement village

Levande has returned with a fresh State Significant Development Application (SSDA) to redevelop the 40-plus-year-old Lourdes Retirement Village at Killara, 14km north-west of the Sydney CBD – more than 18 months after the Sydney North Planning Panel rejected an earlier proposal, a decision the operator called “deeply disappointing.”

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Thousands of NSW village residents to benefit from embedded network price cap

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