Aged Care Inspector General Natalie Siegel-Brown made strong parting remarks at the National Press Club in Canberra.

Labor’s reforms harm the people they’re supposed to help:aged care watchdog

The outgoing aged care watchdog said user co-payments and long wait times for home care packages were driving people into nursing homes and costing taxpayers.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos

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  • Melinda Wenner Moyer
Holding hands can be such a bonding act.

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A day can be an eternity to a child,and a year is something to behold.

  • Pauline Braniff
Kate Halfpenny re-succumbed to Botox before a big birthday.

Is Botox bogan? I thought I wanted an ‘old-money face’,but the real me needs a little help

I wanted to see my wrinkles as road maps to a life well lived,until I stopped recognising the face in the mirror.

  • Kate Halfpenny
Keki’s experienced housing stress after a devastating house fire and spend two months at Launch Housing’s She-Oak Place.

Keki had worked and paid rent her whole life. A fire left her without a home at 72

Keki never expected to be on the front line of the national housing crisis,but a devastating fire changed everything. Others are living out of cars or applying for student accommodation in their seventies.

  • Rachael Ward
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  • Adam Spencer
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At prices like these,pensioners are taking full advantage – across bus,train,light rail and ferry.

Am I going too hard on my seniors Opal card? You bet I am

With public transport capped at $2.50 a day,I’m taking full advantage – perhaps to my own detriment.

  • Richard Glover
Boomers are not treated with the respect they deserve.

Boomers are sick of being told the best thing we can do for the country is die

Boomer has become a term of elder abuse,when it should be carried with pride. A Boomer Army needs to rise up and claim a serious seat at the table.

  • Neil Mitchell
Plants need fertiliser to grow? Lesson learnt,if 50 years late.

Forget geography,these are the things I should’ve been taught 50 years ago

Younger readers (if I have any),take some advice from a moderately older gentleman.

  • Richard Glover

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The knee is the largest and most complicated joint in the body. It’s important to do what we can to protect them.

  • Gareth Jones