Topic - Aged Care

Hynes Legal provides background to village and care operators on the VIC voluntary assisted dying legislation

Oct 23 2017 Updated May 3, 2023

The Weekly Source

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Julie McStay at Hynes Legal has issued a background paper on the legislation that has just passed the Victorian Lower House.

It goes to the Upper House next week.

It is a useful, succinct piece – you can read it here.

VCAT rules Lifestyle Communities’ DMF model illegal

Lifestyle Communities’ business model is under serious threat after a ruling by VCAT President Justice Ted Woodward found its exit fee structure to be illegal. The ASX-listed land lease operator, which was valued at $861.9 million and placed in...

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Ian Horswill

07 Jul 2025

Community Living

Catholic Healthcare investing $600M to build connected communities across NSW

One of Australia’s largest Not For Profit providers of home care, residential care and retirement living services, is investing over $600 million over the next five years in five innovative connected communities in New South Wales. “We’ve spent...

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Ian Horswill

07 Jul 2025

Government Policy

Regulator locks in new liquidity standards for aged care providers

The Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission (ACQSC) has released its consultation report on the draft Financial and Prudential Standards set to come into effect under the new Aged Care Act from 1 November 2025 – and as expected, the core liquidity...

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Lauren Broomham

03 Jul 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

Three years after $1B+ valuation, RetireAustralia faces $850M sale

Infratil and NZ Super put its jointly owned business RetireAustralia on the market in March 2022 with a reported price tag of over $1 billion. With its profits soring, the joint owners announced it was off the market in December 2023. In April last...

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Ian Horswill

08 Jul 2025

Govt needs to bring forward review of aged care accommodation funding: Uniting NSW.ACT

Not For Profit Uniting NSW.ACT, which is the largest provider of support to older people of limited means in NSW and the ACT, is calling on the federal Government to urgently bring forward its planned review of aged care accommodation funding for clients who cannot cover the cost of aged care services.

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Caroline Egan

10 Jul 2025

Aged Care

Mates seek Govt funding for Cunnamulla QLD aged care after home closed in 2020

When Daniel Manley and Brett Sandy went to their community in Cunnamulla, 800km west of Brisbane, floating the idea of opening an aged care facility in the town, they received 47 applications in 10 minutes and had to take the proposal down from the...

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A return to the dark days: Negative media headlines are back – can the sector pressure the Government for real change?

In 2018, just before the ABC’s Who Cares? program aired and the Morrison Government announced the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, the headlines around home care and aged care turned bleak. Reading the papers this week, it’s...

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Lauren Broomham

10 Jul 2025