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6 hours ago

The three aged care bombshells from Senate Estimates

Last week’s Senate Estimates hearing – held just three weeks before sweeping reforms roll out – gave politicians the chance to ask Government heavyweights the questions they’re getting from constituents and to interrogate the once-in-a-generation changes.

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10 hours ago

Aged care’s remoteness tool “not fit for purpose,” consultation finds

The Government’s review of the Modified Monash Model (MMM) – used to allocate rural, regional and remote aged care funding – has found the tool is “useful but limited” and, in its current form, “not fit for purpose” for aged care.

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13 hours ago

Home Care

Countdown to 1 November: Home care customers “incredibly confused” by co-contributions

With the new Aged Care Act just two weeks away, Community Vision CEO Yvonne Timson says the Perth Not For Profit’s priority is helping its 150 Home Care Package clients make sense of new pricing and budgets.

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13 hours ago

Aged care visa deal brings just 249 overseas workers in 2.5 years

The Aged Care Industry Labour Agreement (ACILA) program – central to the Federal Government’s plan to ease aged care workforce shortages – has fallen well short, with only 249 overseas recruits arriving since May 2023, according to a new report from the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA).

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Mergers & Acquisitions

Prestige Inhome Care takes on Vision Australia’s Home Care Packages

Prestige Inhome Care has assumed management of Vision Australia’s Home Care Package (HCP) clients, effective 1 October 2025.

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Sector Moves & People

Columbia Aged Care CEO Lucy O’Flaherty steps down

Lucy O’Flaherty will step down as CEO of Sydney-based private operator Columbia Aged Care at year’s end to become Chief Executive of Not For Profit Primary Health Tasmania.

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“Three whole wards” can’t be discharged: Premier ramps up call for aged care funding

Tasmania’s Premier Jeremy Rockliff says the number of hospital patients medically cleared but unable to be discharged would “fill three full wards,” intensifying pressure on the Commonwealth to lift investment in aged care and disability supports.

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Under the hood of Services Australia’s new aged care systems – and good news

When a leading WA provider told The Weekly SOURCE they couldn’t see Support at Home contribution rates by 1 October – the Reform Roadmap deadline – we asked Services Australia for comment.

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15 hours ago

Sector Moves & People

Treasure Jennings appointed Aged Care Complaints Commissioner

Treasure Jennings, the current head of Victoria’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission, has been appointed Aged Care Complaints Commissioner, effective 1 November 2025, just as the new aged care reforms take effect.

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Aged care assessments like a “lottery” with Department forced to reallocate referrals

The Department of Health, Disability, and Aged Care has intervened in redirecting delayed aged care assessments to organisations that have “greater capacity”, following reports 120,000 older Australians are on the waiting list to be assessed.

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Aged Care

Westpac Leading Conversations: do aged care operators have the ambition to drive change?

Do aged care leaders have the ambition to drive change? Aged care leaders Sandra Hills OAM, Matthew Filocamo, Faye Spiteri OAM, Caroline Lee and Brian Wong considered the question, and others, at a recent Westpac Leading Conversations at the Wharf lunch in Melbourne, hosted by Westpac and DCM Group.

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Aged Care

Only in SATURDAY: Roshana’s next chapter – betting on regional care and medical integration

Roshana Care Group CEO Dr Rosh Jalagge is turning his focus to the regions – reopening closed homes, building GP-led health hubs and creating vertically integrated care ecosystems that link aged care, primary care and mental health. Read the full feature in the new issue of SATURDAY, out tomorrow.

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