Aged care
Aged care sector calls for government to foot wage rise
The aged care industry says the federal government should pay for the wage increases flowing from the Fair Work Commission’s decision on the minimum wage.
- by Angus Thompson
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It’s time we started properly valuing the women who care for us
Women employed in the caring sector are at the front line of COVID and often live far from the leafy, affluent suburbs of Melbourne or Sydney.
- by Jamila Rizvi
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Skills shortage
‘Address genuine skills shortages’: New aged care minister’s migration focus
Anika Wells will begin looking at the prospect of using migration to help fill tens of thousands of vacancies across the embattled sector.
- by Angus Thompson
Eleven a day dying in aged care homes while many families shun the sector
There have been 1572 COVID-related deaths in nursing homes within the first five months of this year.
- by Clay Lucas
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Aged care wages should be Labor’s ‘first priority’: HSU boss
Health Services Union national president Gerard Hayes said Labor’s promise to endorse a wage rise for the aged-care workforce should occur within its first few weeks of government.
- by Angus Thompson
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Aged-care ‘totally unsustainable’ with study finding 60,000 staff vacancies nationwide
Aged care providers are calling for prioritised childcare and migration incentives to draw people back into the workforce.
- by Angus Thompson
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To understand Anthony Albanese, you need to know about his mother, Maryanne
It was early 1982 when the 470 bus to Sydney University pulled up in front of the old Children’s Hospital in Camperdown and a skinny young bloke in a denim jacket came on board. I soon came to realise how profound an impact one woman had had on his life.
- by Alex Bukarica
Aged care homes will struggle to meet staff ratios as losses pile up: report
More aged care homes are running at a financial loss as the growing home-care sector poaches workers, putting new minimum staffing standards at risk.
- by Dana Daniel
Coalition will import aged care workers and cover higher wages, minister says
Aged Care Services Minister Richard Colbeck has backed workers’ push for a pay rise and says the Coalition’s new funding model will cover the costs.
- by Dana Daniel
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Aged care head backs 25 per cent wage rise in fight for gender equality
UnitingCare has called for the next government to fund the increase being sought by the Health Services Union as sections of the national workforce prepare to strike in the lead-up to the May 21 federal election.
- by Angus Thompson
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The cultural change needed to ensure a good death in nursing homes
Overworked and exhausted aged care workers struggle to offer a good life to their residents, let alone a good death.
- by Margaret Rice