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September

Pacific Equity Partners managing director Andrew Charlier.

PEP bankers up for aged care giant Opal HealthCare; lobs bid

Pacific Equity Partners’ secure assets team has put in a non-binding indicative offer for the $200 million-a-year business.

  • Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Aged Care Minister Anika Wells said pay rises would help retain staff.

Fee increase for retirees to cover extra $3.8b in aged care wages

The government will spend another $3.8 billion on aged care sector wages, taking the total cost of the pay increase to almost $18 billion. 

  • Phillip Coorey
Minister for Aged Care Anika Wells after announcing the changes at Parliament House this week.

Bipartisan, pragmatic, down to the wire: the deal that almost wasn’t

Panic set in this week as the government’s much-vaunted aged care reforms stalled. They were finally settled on a plane trip from Sydney to Canberra.

  • Phillip Coorey
Aged Care Minister Annika Wells and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announce the long-awaited aged care deal this week.

A reform to face the test of an ageing Australia

It is encouraging that the two main parties have tackled such a fundamental challenge to the nation in a bipartisan way.

  • The AFR View
Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Aged Care Minister Anika Wells on Thursday.

Aged care concessions cost $5b in revenue

The Albanese government sacrificed about $5 billion in budget savings in return for securing the Coalition’s support for the aged care reforms.

  • Phillip Coorey
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This week’s announcement acknowledges that the sector is once again on is knees.

It’s deja vu all over again when it comes to aged care and RBA reforms

This week’s agreement on aged care and the failure to agree on the RBA reprises arguments that took place decades ago.

  • Laura Tingle
Aged Care Minister Anika Wells during a press conference in Canberra on Thursday.

Finally, politicians reach a reform deal worthy of the title

Bipartisanship and reform, two rarities these days, have combined in the shape of the age care funding changes.

  • Phillip Coorey
The cost of residential aged care is rising.

All your questions about the aged care overhaul answered

The first thing to know is that how aged care is funded remains very complex. We’ll do our best to break it down.

  • Andrew Tillett
Treasurer Jim Chalmers, Aged Care Minister Anika Wells and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Canberra on Thursday to announce a deal on aged care reform.

Aged care overhaul to push more cost onto self-funded retirees

A “user pays” overhaul of aged care funding will come into effect from July 1 next year, after agreement between the government and opposition.

  • Phillip Coorey
Peter Dutton sides with angry farmers outside Parliament on Tuesday

‘Best friend’ Dutton promises miners he’ll target IR, green tape

Peter Dutton will promise to be the best friend that the mining and resources sector in Australia will ever have.

  • Phillip Coorey
Peter Dutton is making the government sweat for its aged care reforms.

Labor questions Dutton’s goodwill as aged care impasse drags on

Frustrations within the federal government are starting to boil over after the Coalition again delayed finalising the agreement on reforms.

  • Phillip Coorey
Many older Australians remain in large homes until it becomes unmanageable and they must move to residential care.

Aged care deal a small step to fairer system for young workers

Expecting taxpayers to foot the bill for spiralling aged care costs, just to avoid politically difficult conversations about independent retirement, only exacerbates generational inequality.

  • Emilie Dye

August

Health and Aged Care Minister Mark Butler.

Aged care deal delayed amid backbench anxiety

Peter Dutton wants the approval of his MPs before confirming support for the aged care deal negotiated with the government.

  • Phillip Coorey
Anthony Bailey is an 85 year old man whose wife Lurlene has Alzheimer’s pictured in their retirement village home.

The Australians who may soon pay more for aged care

Labor and the Coalition are drawing closer to an agreement on changes to aged care funding. This is what it would mean.

  • Lucy Dean
Aged Care Minister Anika Wells in parliament on Wednesday.

Aged care wait list exemption granted as parties close in on deal

The major parties have agreed in-principle to a new aged care funding model.

  • Phillip Coorey
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Opposition health spokeswoman Anne Ruston.

Government lowers contribution caps to secure aged care deal

The Albanese government is set to lower its proposed lifetime caps in an effort seal a deal with the Coalition to secure more sustainable funding for the aged care sector.

  • Phillip Coorey
Minister for Aged Care and Minister for Sport Anika Wells at the Press Club in June last year.

Labor’s agenda trapped in Senate as foes sniff blood

There is a logjam of legislation currently before the parliament, and it is clear not all of it is going to make the cut before the election.

  • Phillip Coorey
Health and Aged Care Minister Mark Butler is expected to unveil a user pays reform package soon

Impatience grows over aged care reforms

The government is expected to release soon its long-overdue aged care reform proposals.

  • Phillip Coorey
The expectation is that fees will be higher but the government has yet to announce changes.

Changes to aged care fees are likely. This is how it might look

As providers face financial pressure, one option might be to increase the lifetime cap applied to means-tested fees.

  • Louise Biti

Rooms in aged care now cost $800 a week

Those who can’t afford the full accommodation deposit need to watch out for an 8.35pc sting in the tail.

  • Bina Brown

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