Topic - Developments

Catholic Archdiocese looks to build 5 storey / 35 ILU village in Toorak

Feb 10 2014 Updated May 3, 2023

The Weekly Source

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St Peters Church in Toorak has applied to build a vertical village plus a car park for 117 cars adjacent to its church on the prime corner of Toorak Road and Dalriada Street. It will require the removal of a healthy Atlantic cedar tree plus the demolition of the St Peters Toorak Tennis Club building. They have had 892 signatures signing a petition to fight the development.

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Mergers & Acquisitions

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Community Living

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Government Policy

Regulator locks in new liquidity standards for aged care providers

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Lauren Broomham

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Not For Profit takes over management of Council-run home care services in Far North QLD

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Topic - Acquisitions

Mergers & Acquisitions

Melbourne’s Latvian Community aged care facility transferred to Uniting AgeWell

Uniting AgeWell now has 21 aged care facilities – 13 in Victoria and 8 in Tasmani

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Caroline Egan

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Topic - Acquisitions

Mergers & Acquisitions

Home care provider Kinyara Health expands into SA with Accept Care acquisition

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Topic - Acquisitions

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

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