Chasing the gold, we trade away rights of the oldBy Dr Sarah Russell | November 8, 2021Australia has signed on to one of the world's biggest ever trade deals with most of the Asia-Pacific. We ...
Profits over People: in-home care a cash bonanza for greedy aged providersBy Dr Sarah Russell | October 10, 2021A $53,000 home-care package gets just nine hours of support yet the government has slung suppliers an extra ...
“Political Stunt”: how the Budget cash splash means profit to providers over aged care reformBy Dr Sarah Russell | May 19, 2021The Budget cash splash in aged care has rendered the Royal Commission a political stunt as the billions in extra ...
Aged Care fail – and now a Budget bonanza for Home Care freeloadersBy Dr Sarah Russell | May 10, 2021The highest level of home care support costs $52,000. This $1000 a week buys, on average, less than nine hours of ...
End neo-liberal experiment: gutting of bureaucracy led to vaccine and aged care failuresBy Dr Sarah Russell | April 11, 2021The vaccine rollout debacle is further evidence that the federal Department of Health should not be in charge of ...
Glib response to Aged Care Royal Commission portends another failed roadmapBy Dr Sarah Russell | March 3, 2021Attempts to stage-manage the Aged Care Royal Commission report by Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Health ...
No Plan PM: how government’s lack of an aged care plan cost livesBy Dr Sarah Russell | January 1, 2021While the federal government indulged in semantics, Covid-19 deaths continued to rise in the woefully ...
Greg Hunt’s climate change plan drowns public money in Port Phillip BayBy Dr Sarah Russell | December 22, 2020Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt ploughed ahead with a "beach nourishment" project in his electorate even though ...
El Cheapo Aged Care: why the Coalition’s make-work schemes won’t workBy Dr Sarah Russell | December 10, 2020The best interests of older people are not uppermost in this government’s thinking. Referring to older people ...
Coalition Spin Kings: real reform in aged care trumped by re-announcements and a deluge of cashBy Dr Sarah Russell | December 4, 2020The federal Health Department has learnt a thing or two from Scotty from Marketing. It has just announced version ...
Yes, Minister: aged care, it’s not my faultBy Dr Sarah Russell | October 30, 2020Ministerial responsibility is dead. With the refusal of Aged Care Minister Richard Colbeck to accept ...
No strings attached: aged care providers have the Coalition wrapped around their little fingersBy Dr Sarah Russell | October 5, 2020Locking out visitors has made it difficult for staff to meet the daily care needs of aged care residents. What an ...