Community Citizen of the Year 2020
The Community Citizen of the Year Awards Program is offered as part of a corporate gold membership that the City of Perth has with Auspire – Australia Day Council of…
The Community Citizen of the Year Awards Program is offered as part of a corporate gold membership that the City of Perth has with Auspire – Australia Day Council of…
With the prospect of ‘staying in’ at home looming for many older Australians, we asked our community what support they felt they could draw on to stay healthy and safe…
Western Australians are living longer and healthier lives than ever before and are a growing resource for their communities. With the start of 2020, we’ve entered the World Health Organisation’s…
Through our long history of involvement with policy on seniors housing affordability, security and homelessness, including “One Rent Increase from Disaster” – Older renters living on the edge in Western…
In the leadup to Christmas. the ACCC’s Scam Watch service has wared Australians to be on the alert for online scammers. Scammers will often try to take advantage of people…
We’ve been deeply involved in the policy and consultation surrounding the Affordable Housing Action Plan. The most recent development Ageing with Choice: Future directions for seniors housing 2019-2024 has been…
Talking with older West Australians about their lives and the challenges they face will the subject of a series of focus groups over the next few months. These are part…
COTA Australia welcomed several additional commitments to the continuing aged care reform process in tonight’s Federal Budget but expressed concern about delays in moving on key reforms. Minister Greg Hunt…
The 2017 Federal Budget has some good measures for older Australians in the areas of health, housing and mature age employment but missed the opportunity to provide better support for…
Paul Miles, Lynn MacLaren and Margaret Quirk who spoke on the day. At our recent Election Q & A we asked people to pick the Party that best responded to…