Aged Care Act

• Exposure Draft: Aged Care Bill 2023 (Cth)

  11th Apr 2024

• Legal immunity for aged care providers must be removed from aged care bill: will strip residents of their rights

  1st Aug 2022

  Aged care advocates and lawyers are calling on politicians to urgently remove the clause in the proposed aged care legislation ­– the Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment (Royal Commission Response) Bill 2022 ­– that provides civil and criminal immunity to aged care providers.

• Immunity for aged care providers will strip elders of legal rights

  25th Mar 2022

  A proposed amendment to the Aged Care Act that will protect aged care providers from civil claims and criminal charges arising from unlawful restraint incidents must not proceed, say lawyers.

• The Morrison Government is proposing astounding discrimination against vulnerable aged care residents

  24th Mar 2022

  'When our Parliament is presented with a Bill which removes fundamental rights and liberties from a discrete cohort of Australians only, a cacophony of objections may be expected' writes Rodney Lewis. 'In this case, however, the victims have no voice.'