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Many older Australians have paid private health insurance premiums for decades. Now, just as they are more likely to need health care, Government are proposing to cut the age-based rebate that helps keep their cover affordable. If you don’t agree, add your support and sign our petition!
Revelations that 1.2 million pensioners will be directly affected by proposed changes to the private health insurance rebate are further evidence the changes need to be urgently reviewed, COTA Australia says.
COTA Australia’s submission to the Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee argues that removing the age-based private health insurance rebate would deepen an existing structural healthcare inequity, as well as make private health insurance unaffordable for most older Australians.
Research by Swinburne University (Australia) and Auckland University of Technology (New Zealand) examined how older adults are represented in Australian local, state, and national newspapers. Dr Michael Butson, Swinburne University …
COTA Australia’s submission to the Treasurer’s 2025 Economic Reform Roundtable says older people are not a burden, but a major opportunity for Australia’s future. The submission discusses four big areas of untapped productivity.
COTA Australia welcomed the establishment of the Senate Select Committee on Job Security and appreciates the opportunity to present this submission, with a specific focus on mature age and older workers
Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese’s commitment to delivering a national strategy to support older Australians has been welcomed by COTA Australia, as a crucial bipartisan step towards building a better, fairer nation putting the needs of older people above politics
Leading seniors’ advocacy body, COTA Australia, is urging all parliamentarians to sign the pledge against ageism at a cross-party morning tea being held at Parliament House this morning.
Government survey findings showing almost a third of Australian employers break the law by setting an age limit for job applicants demonstrates how much effort is still required to fight ageism in the workforce.
On the 2017 United Nations International Day of Older Persons (IDOP) today, Australia’s leading seniors’ advocacy body, COTA Australia is calling on the Federal Government to act decisively over the coming year to achieve the greater economic and social participation of older Australians…
Peak seniors advocate, COTA Australia, today welcomed the Hon. Dr Kay Patterson to her role as Australia’s new Age Discrimination Commissioner and the reinstatement of full time commissioners to the age and disability portfolios.
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