Dr Sarah Russell

Dr Sarah Russell is a public health researcher. She is the Principal Researcher at Research Matters and Chair of Progressives of the Peninsula. She was formerly the Director, Aged Care Matters.
End neo-liberal experiment: gutting of bureaucracy led to vaccine and aged care failures

End neo-liberal experiment: gutting of bureaucracy led to vaccine and aged care failures

The 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 roadmap

Glib response to Aged Care Royal Commission portends another failed roadmap

Attempts 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 lives

No Plan PM: how government’s lack of an aged care plan cost lives

While 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 Bay

Greg Hunt’s climate change plan drowns public money in Port Phillip Bay

Federal 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 work

El Cheapo Aged Care: why the Coalition’s make-work schemes won’t work

The 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 cash

Coalition Spin Kings: real reform in aged care trumped by re-announcements and a deluge of cash

The 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 fault

Yes, Minister: aged care, it’s not my fault

Ministerial 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 fingers

No strings attached: aged care providers have the Coalition wrapped around their little fingers

Locking out visitors has made it difficult for staff to meet the daily care needs of aged care residents. What an ...
Tone deaf: aged care providers’ PR campaign strikes wrong note

Tone deaf: aged care providers’ PR campaign strikes wrong note

Hiring properly qualified staff, staff-resident ratios and a commitment to be transparent and accountable for the ...
Covid-19 aged care guidelines: ‘They’re not a national plan. This is a plan!’

Covid-19 aged care guidelines: ‘They’re not a national plan. This is a plan!’

Dr Sarah Russell critically examines two documents that Scott Morrison asserts were the federal government’s ...
Covid-19 tragedy in aged care: whose side is the Coalition government on?

Covid-19 tragedy in aged care: whose side is the Coalition government on?

The numerous inquiries, reviews and consultations over the years have provided mounds of evidence of negligence, ...
Passing the Buck: why Victoria’s Covid is raging in private aged care homes

Passing the Buck: why Victoria’s Covid is raging in private aged care homes

The deaths of 80 elderly people are imminent as a result of COVID-19 spreading through private aged care homes. ...

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