WA: New Health Department Director General gets $541,000 salary

Jul 19 2010 Updated July 4, 2023

The Weekly Source

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Kim Snowball has been appointed as the new health chief of Western Australia, with an annual salary package of $541,000. His previous appointments include five years with St John of God Healthcare and numerous senior executive positions in WA health services.

Pocock wins fight for Senate inquiry into home care delays and aged care reform

ACT Independent Senator David Pocock’s push for a Senate Inquiry into aged care reform delays and the withholding of Home Care Packages secured backing from the Coalition, Greens, and Independents yesterday (Monday 28 July), ensuring the inquiry will proceed.

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Caroline Egan

29 Jul 2025

Sector Moves & People

Former IRT CEO Patrick Reid appointed Uniting NSW.ACT Chief Operating Officer

Patrick, who stepped down as CEO of IRT Group in May, is making a quick return to the seniors living sector – this time with a major Not For Profit competitor.

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Ian Horswill

29 Jul 2025

Home Care

Senate inquiry looms over Govt refusal to release Home Care Packages

A Senate inquiry could soon be launched into the Albanese Government’s decision to withhold the release of 20,000 additional Home Care Packages – despite more than 87,000 older Australians remaining stuck on the national waitlist.

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Lauren Broomham

25 Jul 2025

Government Policy

Final Aged Care Rules land, three months out from major system overhaul

The final draft of the Aged Care Rules released ahead of 1 November new Aged Care Act, detailing major changes across residential care, Support at Home and provider obligations has been released by the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing. Ageing Australia responds.

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Lauren Broomham

01 Aug 2025

VMCH has development approval for St. Francis on the Park retirement village in Ivanhoe East, Melbourne

VMCH, the for-purpose organisation, has a ministerial planning permit for its newest retirement living precinct the Jackson Clements Burrows Architects-designed St. Francis on the Park, in Ivanhoe East, Melbourne, after more than two years of planning and community engagement.

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Ian Horswill

2 hours ago

Development

Opal HealthCare’s St Ives Botanica Care Community on Sydney’s Upper North Shore approved

Australia’s largest residential aged care provider has secured its second NSW State Significant Development (SSD) approval, marking another major milestone.

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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

23 hours ago

Development

VIC Govt completes construction of largest public aged care home

The Victorian Government has finished construction on its largest ever public residential aged care facility – the $139.6 million Boollam Boollan Aged Care Centre in Heatherton, 19km southeast of Melbourne’s CBD.

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Caroline Egan

23 hours ago