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Australia’s aged care system is already underfunded for the quality of care we expect – and the costs of providing aged care are likely to more than double over the next two decades.
Following the aged care royal commission, big changes were announced to improve the quality of care in aged care facilities, such as ensuring nurses are always available to care for a resident when needed, day or night, and a star rating system to assess the quality of providers. But the question of the system’s long-term sustainability remained.
This week, the government’s Aged Care Taskforce delivered its final report offering these long-term solutions. But as La Trobe University’s Hal Swerissen explains, this didn’t deliver the bold solutions that would transform the sustainability of the aged care sector, such as introducing a Medicare-style levy.
Instead, Swerissen says, it largely recommends tidying up existing arrangements and keeping the status quo. But with one key change – getting users to pay more for their care. Here’s what we know so far about how this would work.
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Fron Jackson-Webb
Deputy Editor and Senior Health Editor
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Hal Swerissen, La Trobe University
Rather than bold reforms that will safeguard Australians’ aged care services into the future, the taskforce largely recommends tidying up and keeping the status quo. And getting users to pay more.
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Doug Drury, CQUniversity Australia
It’s unclear exactly what happened to violently shake up LATAM flight 800, but the moral for passengers is clear: wear your seatbelt.
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T.J. Thomson, RMIT University
The Princess of Wales is caught in a social media storm after the release of a clearly edited photo. But image editing is increasingly common, and your phone can even do it without you knowing.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
Peter Dutton’s speech to the Australian Financial Review Business Summit reveals his strongest commitment to pursuing nuclear power whilst discrediting Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen.
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Natalie Krikowa, University of Technology Sydney
On the surface, All of Us Strangers is a dark and twisty love story. Underneath, there is the often-present storyline seen in queer cinema: that of trauma and tragedy.
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Gregory Harper, Torrens University Australia; Ros Cameron, Torrens University Australia
Every done leadership training for work, come back to the office and thought: ‘That was a huge waste of time’?
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Triona Fitton, University of Kent; Alida Payson, Cardiff University
Secondhand markets are built to increase consumption, not cut it back.
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Wendy Ward, Sheffield Hallam University
Every wardrobe tells a story and reconnecting with the clothes you already own could reduce your need to buy more fast fashion. Here are three ways to fall back in love with your wardrobe.
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Diana Bell, University of East Anglia
Bird flu is decimating species already threatened by climate change and habitat loss.
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Patrick D. Nunn, University of the Sunshine Coast; Roselyn Kumar, University of the Sunshine Coast
We reviewed evidence on traditional knowledge in the Pacific for coping with climate change, and found much of it was scientifically plausible.
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Jessica Terruhn, University of Waikato; Francis L Collins, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
Renters face all types of housing discrimination, new research has found. This needs to be taken into consideration when it comes to relying on the private sector to help with emergency housing.
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Politics + Society
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Michael Legg, UNSW Sydney; Vicki McNamara, UNSW Sydney
Generative AI can be a useful tool, but it can also create inaccurate information. Here’s how to safeguard Australian courts against fake cases, like we’ve already seen overseas.
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James Martin, Deakin University; David Bright, Deakin University
Black markets tend to attract established organised crime groups, which have the capacity to use violence to enforce contracts, collect debts and threaten competitors.
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Health + Medicine
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Hayley O'Neill, Bond University
Many dieters vouch for the effect of intermittent fasting on their body – but what about their brain?
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Science + Technology
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Adriana Dutkiewicz, University of Sydney; Dietmar Müller, University of Sydney; Slah Boulila, Sorbonne Université
Deep-sea sediments show how the changing orbits of Earth and Mars are linked to past global warming and the speeding up of deep-ocean eddies.
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Arts + Culture
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Julie Andrews, La Trobe University
Playwright Nathan Maynard uses the story of Adam Goodes to explore race in a local footy club.
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Damien O'Meara, Swinburne University of Technology; Whitney Monaghan, Monash University
From Dance Academy to Wentworth, Australian TV experienced a boom of queer representation over the 2000s and 2010s.
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Catherine Speck, University of Adelaide
Ruth Mackenzie’s Adelaide Festival of Arts has two heavyweights, performance artist Marina Abramović and avant-garde artist and musician Laurie Anderson.
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Books + Ideas
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Penni Russon, Monash University
Bigambul and Wakka Wakka author Melanie Saward’s Burn is structured around three fires. It bears witness to the role institutions play in exacerbating trauma associated with colonialism.
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Business + Economy
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Charlie Huang, RMIT University
China’s steel mills are shifting to greener production processes which don’t favour Australian iron ore. Australian miners must quickly adapt or get left behind.
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