Oh dear Josh: is that aged care joke funny or sad?By Dr Sarah Russell | April 9, 2022He might be the second most important man in our government, but Treasurer Josh Frydenberg is still learning the ...
A Poor Knock: Colbeck carousing at the cricket amid aged care crisis just tip of incompetence icebergBy Dr Sarah Russell | January 29, 2022Failure to protect Federal aged care residents has left 389 elderly Australians dead this year alone, and 40% of ...
“Living with Covid” – not so easy if you’re in an aged care home!By Dr Sarah Russell | January 11, 2022Covid has spread like wildfire to around 500 aged care homes as the government failed to deliver RATs, booster ...
Amended dignity: our elders denied their human rights againBy Dr Sarah Russell | November 27, 2021It will be up to the Senate to hold the line against one of the Morrison government's most alarming sleights of ...
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 ...