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Australia is currently playing out its love affair with holding Royal Commissions. We’ve had many in recent memory. Some recent commissions are listed below. Today, Residential and other Aged Care Services across Australia are in turmoil primarily due to funding freezes, punitive funding instrument audits which result in a punitive clawed back funds, and due to a particularly depressed interest rate climate.
Quality and safety standards are also transitioning into a new model (starting 1 July 2019). This results in additional demands, costs, and time, to demonstrate compliance. Cynical industry pundits assert that these standards and…
It was 2011 and we were all living in suburban Melbourne. A dear friend at that time developed breast cancer, and we and our extended troops rallied around her. What that experience did for us, apart from our community participation in support and fundraising, was make us really think…
A full eleven years prior, we’d being living and working in inner Sydney; we had a lovely, tiny Paddington cottage and a short walk to work daily — but the hustle and bustle — the spreading drugs culture and inner city violence of our area felt like it was squeezing us…
Phil Abbott
Phil lives in central Victoria Australia; is a registered nurse by trade; words are amongst the most amazing things on the planet!
