15 February 2021
Calling itself the Australian Aged Care Collaboration, the alliance claimed that Australia devoted funding of only 1.2 per cent of GDP to aged care when the average for comparable countries was running at 2.5 per cent of GDP. Governments were responsible for spending $21bn a year on aged care, 63 per cent of which went into residential centres.
The group is spearheaded by the main church-backed providers — Catholic Health Care, Anglicare, Baptist Health Care, UnitingCare Australia — as well as charity and private operators covered by Aged and Community Services Australia (ACSA) and Leading Aged Services Australia.