Aged Care
23% pay rise for aged care AINs
April 11, 2024
Years of campaigning by the ANMF NSW and other unions has delivered a 23 per cent increase to award wages for Certificate III aged care workers. The Fair Work Commission has ordered new pay increases for aged care workers in further recognition that this mostly female workforce has been historically undervalued. On 15 March, the…
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Aged Care
Pandemic fight needs more staff
December 2, 2020
The Aged Care Royal Commission criticised the federal government’s lack of planning and leadership over…
Aged Care
Championing education for COVID-19
December 2, 2020
Nursing home “infection control champions” are on the frontline of the aged care sector’s response…
Aged Care
Nursing homes told to open books
December 2, 2020
Pressure is mounting on aged care providers to show how they spend taxpayer subsidies. Federal…
Aged Care
Victorian Labor to fund staffing ratios in nursing home...
November 26, 2020
Victoria may become the first state to both fund and mandate minimum staff-to-resident ratios in private…
Aged Care
New modelling finds investing in childcare and aged car...
October 30, 2020
In the absence of an official analysis of the impact of the budget by gender…
Aged Care
Despite more than 30 major inquiries, governments still...
October 26, 2020
Australia’s aged care sector has been the subject of more than 30 major inquiries and…
Aged Care
Older Australians deserve more than the aged care royal...
October 12, 2020
Amid the ongoing disaster in Victorian aged-care homes, the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality…
Aged Care
No leadership in aged care
October 6, 2020
Aged Care nurse Jocelyn Hofman criticises the lack of leadership from the Federal Government around…
Aged Care
Nurses are lifesavers for the elderly
October 6, 2020
Having an RN on duty would cut infection rates and deaths in facilities hit by…