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Helen Matthews has run the gamut of homeless experiences, but after eight years she secured a place in community housing.
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Someone with profound or severe disability experiences physical or sexual violence every 10 minutes, the disability inquiry is told.
‘No leadership’ on aged care
Counsel assisting the Aged Care Royal Commission has ripped into the Morrison government’s ‘Claytons action plan’.
Care ‘a human rights issue’
Younger people living in aged care is a ‘significant human rights issue’, the Disability Discrimination Commissioner says.
Home dreams fade
Australians are increasingly less likely to own their home with each passing generation.
Nation weaning itself off benefits
Australia is making significant inroads in the number of people on welfare.
What parents want from childcare
Parents prioritise ‘warmth of care giving’ at a childcare facility over other factors despite costs, a new report finds.
More carers for ageing population
The welfare workforce is becoming an economic driver in its own right, employing more than 550,000, or 4.4 per cent of workers.
Aged care ‘hell’ for younger residents
Residential aged care was simply the wrong place for Catherine Roche’s husband after he suffered a stroke in his fifties.
Long recovery after love sours
Even seven years after separating, the emotional wellbeing of men and women in has not fully recovered.
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