SA to now conduct a review of the RV Act

Apr 25 2013 Updated July 4, 2023

The Weekly Source

1 min read

SA Minister for Ageing, Jack Snelling, has announced the legislation of the Retirement Village Act will be reviewed. This follows a review in 2012 of the regulations behind the Act. Following the recent high profile receivership of a village, the Minister explained: There are issues in relation to the current powers of investigation and auditing requirements that govern a village's operation while they are in receivership. These need to be addressed and the only way to do this adequately is through a review of the act." He pointed out SA has 522 registered retirement villages, with about 24,400 residents.

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...

Click here

Ian Horswill

21 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”.

Click here

Caroline Egan

23 Oct 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

Aged care consolidation continues: Regis Aged Care on the march

The ASX-listed operator has entered into binding agreements to acquire family-owned OC Health’s two remaining aged care homes for $45 million plus a $36 million liability for RADs. The purchase of Ocean Mist, in Torquay, a seaside town southwest of...

Click here

Caroline Egan

23 Oct 2025

Opinion

Aged care beds going backwards – where’s the outrage?

StewartBrown just dropped a number that should jolt the sector: average time on a Home Care Package has plunged from 3.6 years in FY24 to 2.4 in FY25. That’s not a tweak – it’s a cliff. And it speaks to the same uncomfortable truth across...

Click here

Lauren Broomham

23 Oct 2025

Lincoln Place hits $44M in development acquisitions in nine months

Land lease community operator Lincoln Place, founded in 2019 by Ben Hindmarsh and Nicholas Collishaw, has added another major project to its pipeline, acquiring a 16.3-hectare greenfield site in Wangaratta, 98km from Shepparton, Victoria.

Click here

Dementia specialists HammondCare win tender for Canberra first

The aged care provider has been selected to lead the transformation of the former Curtin Primary School, 8km southwest of Canberra’s CBD, into a best-practice dementia care village following a competitive tender process.

Click here

Ian Horswill

31 Oct 2025

Development

Aged care operator Hall & Prior in historic first

The $89 million Sister Kate’s Health and Aged Care Facility, on the in Queens Park, 11km from the CBD, will be developed by Hall & Prior Health & Aged Care Group in partnership with Sister Kate’s Children 1934–1953 Aboriginal...

Click here

Ian Horswill

31 Oct 2025

Development

Uniting NSW.ACT and Wyanga Aboriginal Aged Care to build aged care home afer buying site for $1

The City of Sydney Council will award the site, currently a $20 million 55-space car park in Sydney’s inner west, to the Uniting NSW.ACT and Wyanga Aboriginal Aged Care for a nominal fee of $1.

Click here

Caroline Egan

30 Oct 2025