1+ week, 15+ hour ago   (650+ words) One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has put forward a new policy that would let working Australians trade a slice of their future superannuation contributions for extra cash in their weekly pay packet. The proposal is aimed squarely at easing cost-of-living…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1081+ words) Dovida CE, Geoff Hogg points to a client living with Parkinson’s disease as an example. She had suffered multiple falls and hospitalisations, and her care team could see her condition had clearly declined. When she was reassessed, the standardised outcome…...

3+ week, 5+ hour ago   (426+ words) That funding algorithm is built from just two numbers, each produced by a separate scale: Those two scores are combined into 16 “classes”, which are then compressed into the eight funding levels people actually see on their letter. Professor Eagar’s blunt…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (360+ words) The Albanese Government has confirmed the Commonwealth Home Support Program (CHSP) will be retained as a standalone program until at least 30 June 2029, ending nearly a year of uncertainty for the 830,000 older Australians who rely on it and the roughly 1,300 organisations…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (477+ words) Two months ago, in an interview for an entirely different story, Flexi Care general manager Adrian Morgan raised an issue that I had yet to stumble across. Providers across the sector, he said, were watching the Department of Health, Disability…...