The federal Labor government last week called for a long-promised increase in minimum wages for aged care workers across Australia to be delayed and phased in over two years. Under Labor’s proposal, ...

Prohibition orders banning people from working in aged care are soaring, with almost 400 cases nationally since 2023 ...

Matthew Xerri is affiliated with the Centre for Work, Organisation, and Wellbeing at the Griffith Business School, Griffith University. This month, the Fair Work Commission handed Australia’s aged ...

Exclusive: Member of working group behind questionnaire had no idea it would eventually be underpinned by ‘ridiculously simplistic’ algorithm ...

A Fair Work Commission (FWC) decision raising minimum wages in the aged care sector, handed down last week, has been hailed by the trade unions and the corporate media as a major victory for more than ...

Alan Nicolle was already approved for urgent aged care supports, but delays and confusion under a ‘Kafkaesque’ system made his final days exhausting and painful ...

The vast majority of aged care facilities would be unable to evacuate in the case of a bushfire, according to the Australian Workers Union.

VIDEO: Aged care providers need to work more closely with health and social care stakeholders to collaboratively find ways to make the system work better, says Dr George Margelis on conference ...

SYDNEY, May 4 (Reuters) - Australia's Labor government on Thursday said it would set aside A$11.3 billion ($7.5 billion) in next week's federal budget to fund a 15% pay rise for retirement home staff ...

As our population ages, we're living longer and dying older. End-of-life care is therefore an increasingly important part of aged care. In Australia, around 50% of people aged over 85 die in an aged ...