Aged Care

SATURDAY means business: What’s the relationship between the size of your aged care organisation and wages?

Mar 13 2025 Updated 6 hours ago

Caroline Egan

1 min read

2023-24 data just released by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency reveals the average wages paid by large aged care organisations compared with their smaller counterparts.

What does this tell us about scale?

To find out, read the article by Editor Lauren Broomham in this week's SATURDAY, out tomorrow. Subscribe here.

Breaking news: RLC not happy – and secures emergency meeting with federal aged care regulator tomorrow to discuss proposed retirement village liquidity requirements

In a first for the retirement village sector, Retirement Living Council (RLC) representatives will meet with the Federal Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission (ACQSC) tomorrow (Thursday 6 March) to urgently counsel them on the impact of proposed federal liquidity requirements on village operators that will potentially stunt the village business model.

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Lauren Broomham

05 Mar 2025

Sector Moves & People

BaptistCare announce leadership team for new entity after merger finalised

The successful completion of the merger between Baptcare(VIC, TAS, SA), Baptist Care SA and BaptistCare (NSW, ACT, WA) has been announced with the new entity to be known as BaptistCare. “This merger is about much more than pooling resources; it’s...

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Ian Horswill

07 Mar 2025

Opinion

Is this the canary in the coal mine for retirement village operators? The future when care crosses independent living

On 18 February, the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission quietly released an ‘Exposure Draft’ for the Aged Care Financial and Prudential Standards 2025. In it the Federal Government crossed the line into retirement villages. See the wording...

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Chris Baynes

04 Mar 2025

Opinion

Australian Unity Group CEO Rohan Mead calls out why all village operators need to focus on a new revenue business model

The Financial Review last Wednesday published an exclusive article based on Rohan Mead’s assertion that the Australian health system is about to be swamped. In simple language, currently we average 20,000 ageing Australians turning 80 each year...

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Chris Baynes

10 Mar 2025

Aged care providers poised to build after WA Labor’s state election win promise

With Roger Cook returned to Government amid a thumping win for Labor in Western Australia, aged care providers are preparing to build on the back of the party’s $140 million worth of promises for the sector.

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Rockpool Songbird Oxley in Brisbane on track to open late March

The six-storey, 152-bed residential aged care home, located 10km southwest of Brisbane’s CBD, is set to open, on schedule, later this month.

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Detailed plans to redevelop Highgate Park, Fullarton, Adelaide, for Living Choice and Opal HealthCare revealed

Ian Tregoning and Graham Hobbs’ retirement living business and the ASX-listed aged care provider bought the 2.8ha of land, which included the historic Julia Farr Centre, for $42 million in January 2024. Now detailed plans have been submitted to...

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Third.i latest to enter Over 50s land lease communities’ sector

Maitland City Council, in the city 166km north of Sydney’s CBD, is exhibiting a concept development application by the diversified property development and investment company with operations in Australia, UK and Singapore. The community with be...

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Ian Horswill

10 Mar 2025