Topic - Developments

Gold Coast’s Italo Australia club forsakes soccer for retirement village

Nov 14 2017 Updated May 3, 2023

The Weekly Source

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The Italo Australia Club, located at Clear Island Waters, has notified the Merrimac Soccer Club that its home ground for 40 years, the Tony Cecco Field, is likely to become a retirement village after the club made an application to council.

(Merrimac has decided not to field a team this year while it finds a new ground).

Breaking news: Government delays new Aged Care Act

Minister for Health and Ageing Mark Butler and Minister for Aged Care and Seniors Sam Rae announced this morning that commencement of the new Aged Care Act on 1 July 2025 will be delayed four months until 1 November 2025.

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Caroline Egan

04 Jun 2025

Opinion

Why the delayed Aged Care Act is a double-edged sword

Just 17 business days out from its long-awaited start, the Federal Government has delayed the new Aged Care Act – again. It’s the third time the legislation has been pushed back, and while the pause has been welcomed by peak bodies and providers, make no mistake: this delay comes at a cost.

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Lauren Broomham

05 Jun 2025

Aged Care

10 sector CEOs react to four-month delay of new Aged Care Act

The shock announcement in Adelaide yesterday morning by Minister for Aged Care and Seniors, Sam Rae, flanked by Minister for Health and Ageing Mark Butler, to delay the new Aged Care Act from 1 July to 1 November has revealed there are major...

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Ian Horswill

05 Jun 2025

Home Care

Breaking news: 83,000 Home Care Packages the latest aged care measure to be delayed

In a further twist for Australia’s aged care sector, Federal Minister for Health and Aged Care, Mark Butler, has confirmed that the rollout of 83,000 new Home Care Packages – originally scheduled to commence on 1 July 2025 – will now be delayed until 1 November 2025.

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Lauren Broomham

06 Jun 2025

Anglicare Southern Queensland open first specialist dementia care units on Gold Coast

The Australian Government Department of halth, Disability and Ageing has given $2.6 million to the has been spent unit at the Abri Residential Aged Care Home in Southport. The SDCP unit will be delivered through funding from the Commonwealth...

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Ian Horswill

12 Jun 2025

The Weekly SOURCE

Sector Moves & People

Hall & Prior CEO Graeme Prior recognised with AM honour

Graeme Prior, CEO of the growing Perth-based aged care provider Hall & Prior, has been made a Member of the Order of Australia for his significant services to the aged care sector and Alzheimer’s research.

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Residential aged care profitability up – but risks loom as care minute compliance tightens

The Government’s Quarterly Financial Snapshot for the December 2024 quarter showed improved profitability for residential aged care providers, but future earnings are likely to be eroded as providers move towards compliance with care minute targets.

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Caroline Egan

12 Jun 2025

Aged Care

“Burdensome and underfunded”: aged care sector tells IHACPA what they think of AN-ACC cost collection

The Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority (IHACPA) has released a 46-page report outlining the feedback received from the sector in the latest round of consultations on their pricing methodology. IHACPA received submissions from...

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Caroline Egan

12 Jun 2025