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Leading seniors advocate, COTA Australia, today congratulated the 2016 Senior Australian of the Year, Gordian Fulde, following a distinguished career as the Director of Emergency at St Vincent’s Hospital and Sydney Hospital for more than three decades.
The release of wide ranging reforms in mental health by the government today provide a welcome shift to a more person-centered, streamlined and localised approach but still fail to address to quite systemic neglect of the unique issues faced by older Australians, including depression and suicide
The release of the Rental Affordability Index today again highlights the high levels of housing stress being felt across the nation and the need for all levels of government to act to firstly prevent it from worsening, and preferably to turn it around.
The United Nations’ Universal Periodic Review focusing on Australia’s human rights record overnight put forward a number of recommendations around Australia’s treatment of older people including providing better access to the workforce and strengthening anti-discrimination measures.
COTA Australia, the peak body for older Australians, today welcomed stronger consumer protections as a result of the Federal Government’s long awaited response to the Financial Systems Inquiry’s Final Report, but called again for more action to improve the retirement incomes system.
Australia is ranked 17th on the Global AgeWatch Index 2015 which ranks 96 countries according to the social and economic wellbeing of older people. Australia is outranked by the Scandinavian countries, most of western Europe, Canada and New Zealand.
Australia’s peak organisation for older Australians today welcomed tri-partisan support for a Senate Inquiry into the financial security of older women – in the absence of a more comprehensive, independent Retirement Incomes Review.
The release of the ANZ Women’s Report again highlights the urgent need for a full and independent Retirement Incomes Review which would include addressing the growing numbers of older women living in poverty and at risk of homelessness, the peak body for older Australians, COTA Australia, said today
The peak body for older Australians, COTA Australia is calling on governments to address factors that are forcing more and more older Australian women into poverty and homelessness.
Leading seniors advocate and age consumer peak, COTA Australia, today welcomed the announcement that the federal Tax White Paper process will be broadened to include a more intensive review of retirement incomes involving extensive consultation with key stakeholders
Australian pensioners will find it difficult to accept the proposed changes to the pension assets test taper rate set out in the Federal Budget this week, without those changes being part of a broader, independent review of the retirement incomes space, said peak body COTA Australia
Older Australians will strongly welcome measures announced in the 2015 Federal Budget to give them direct control of their own aged care funding packages, have access to an independent complaints system, and introduce a streamlined approach to home care delivery, seniors advocate COTA Australia said