A billion-dollar private aged-care company is set to transition to a non-profit structure, while still charging rent to the charity for use of its facilities.
As Australia plans its inquiry into the pandemic response, there is still no evidence key recommendations to deploy the National COVID-19 Health Management Plan are in place, six months after its release.
As the NDIS regulator pushes to meet targets, its staff say they are pressuring disabled people to drop complaints and are missing serious abuse and neglect.
The agency that regulates the NDIS has engaged lawyers in an attempt to prevent being served with a complaint about its own dysfunctional workplace culture.
Young children are being turned away from mental health services because their needs are too complex, and the problem is worse for those suffering trauma in disaster-affected regions.
Long Covid remains a mystery and a challenging daily reality for hundreds of thousands of people. A seven-month inquiry has found few answers, but vaccination remains one of them.
Despite a report recommending the Victorian government return all custodial healthcare to the public sector, it has signed a $33 million deal to outsource men’s services to a controversial US-based private prison operator linked to the former provider.
The agency responsible for advising the government on mental health is under investigation for alleged financial irregularities, dysfunction and workplace bullying.
