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Ideagen

Oct 26 2023 Updated December 3, 2024

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Ideagen is built for regulated and high-compliance industries to protect your people, customers, operations and reputations. It enables you to collaborate on, manage and improve governance, risk and compliance processes for EHS, quality, audit, operational and enterprise risk management.

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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”.

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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...

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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...

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Lauren Broomham

23 Oct 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

Prices for aged care homes in demand “far exceed” recent valuations

Aged care homes are selling for prices well above their most recent valuations, fuelling a surge in merger and acquisition (M&A) activity across the sector, according to aged care consultancy Pride Aged Living.

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Caroline Egan

29 Oct 2025

Liven Communities taps ex-Spicers Retreat COO Andrea Richards as inaugural CEO

Liven Communities has appointed hospitality executive Andrea Richards as its first Chief Executive Officer, signalling a hotel-grade service ethos for the over-50s land lease operator.

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Ian Horswill

21 Oct 2025

Sector Moves & People

Warrigal appoints Sophie Ray as Board Chair, succeeding Wyn Janssen

Warrigal has named Sophie Ray as its new Board Chair, replacing Wyn Janssen, who joined the Board in 1997 and has served as Chair since 2016.

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Ian Horswill

20 Oct 2025

Sector Moves & People

Government Policy

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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Caroline Egan

15 Oct 2025

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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Caroline Egan

15 Oct 2025