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As the world marks the International Day of Older Persons, this year’s UN theme of Rethinking Systems for Longer Lives highlights the need for a long term, whole-of-government plan for …
Are you a solo ager, navigating end of life and legal planning on your own, whether by choice or circumstances? Or have you been impacted by the death of a solo ager? Did you encounter legal or other issues? We would like you to be part of our project.
COTA Australia Chief Executive Officer Patricia Sparrow said the upcoming Federal Budget must resist the temptation to frame fairness as a choice between younger and older Australians.
COTA Australia’s submission argues that a new international human rights instrument for older people must name ageism as a root cause of the discrimination older people face, take an approach that recognises how disadvantage compounds over a lifetime, and place clear obligations on governments to act,.
Why COTA Australia’s evidence based State of the Older Nation 2025 is essential for business. SOTON 2025 is an authoritative, nationally representative study of Australians aged 50 and over and …
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 …
On Wednesday 4 February at 6pm at Parliament House, Canberra, Co-Chairs of the Parliamentary Friends of Seniors and Ageing, Rebekha Sharkie MP, Dr Mike Freelander MP and Senator the Hon. Richard Colbeck, welcomed everyone to the Parliamentary Friends Group launch and introduced the State of the Older Nation 2025 report.
The stereotype of older Australians as uniformly wealthy is not just wrong – it’s fuelling ageism that hurts people of all ages, new research shows.
The 2025 State of the Older Nation report released today reveals that while many older Australians report feeling more positive about their own lives, the data reveals a starkly uneven reality.
On Wed 4 Feb 2026, the State of the Older Nation 2025 report was released at an address by COTA Australia’s Independent Chair, The Hon. Christopher Pyne at the National Press Club and later the same day, at Parliament House, the Friends of Parliament launch presented SOTON25.
Tell us what you think – Equality, Age and Gender in Australia – Take the survey. Ageing affects all of us, but it does not affect all of us in the same way. Whatever your experience of ageing, we want to hear from you.
COTA Australia worked closely with the Digital Health Agency to recruit and train 16 Digital mentors. This two-year pilot project has recently concluded and we can now share some of the initial findings with you.
