Profits over People: in-home care a cash bonanza for greedy aged providers
A $53,000 home-care package gets just nine hours of support yet the government has slung suppliers an extra ...
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.
“Political Stunt”: how the Budget cash splash means profit to providers over aged care reform
The 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 freeloaders
The 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Hiring properly qualified staff, staff-resident ratios and a commitment to be transparent and accountable for the ...
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