What's New at COTA National Seniors

Update on Grandparents project

May 2003 update, plus notes from Logan Learning Circle with indigenous grandmothers
Myth buster

 

Older workers: coming to terms with the labour market of the 21^st century

A paper by Veronica Sheen, Deputy Director of the National Policy Secretariat has been accepted for the prestigious International Social Security Association Research Conference, "Social security in a long life society", to be held at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, on 5-7 May 2003.

The paper - Older workers: coming to terms with the labour market of the 21^st century - is online at http://www.issa.int/engl/homef.htm - go to Meetings, and to May for the ISSA Conference, Session 3.3 of Topic 2- Retaining older workers in the labour market.

 

Pricing review

Joint submission to Federal Government Review of Pricing Arrangements in Residential Aged Care by Carers Australia, Alzheimers's Australia and COTA National Seniors. Will be online at the Pricing Review's website at www.ageing.health.gov.au/rescare/acprtask/acprsubs.htm

Poverty submission

Submission to the Senate Community Affairs References Committee Inquiry into Poverty in Australia, April 2003. Online as submission no.184 at http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/committee/clac_ctte/poverty/submissions/sublist.htm

 

Federal Budget submission 2003-04

Letter to the federal Treasurer, Minister for Ageing, Minister for Health and Ageing, Minister for Family and Community Services, and Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, on 1 April 2003.

Speeches by Director

Aged care considerations - knowing how to plan for the future. Address by Patricia Reeve to Ageing at Home and Community Care Ausmed Conference, 7 April 2003

 

A Consumer Perspective on the need for community care reform. Address by Patricia Reeve at the ACS Community Care Conference, 27 March 2003

Media releases March 2003

Seniors welcome chance to improve community care services, 28 March 2003

Australasian Journal on Ageing - media highlights of March 2003 issue

 

Planning for retirement

COTA National Seniors Response to the Senate Select Committee on Superannuation Inquiry into Planning for Retirement. March 2003. Online as Submission no.31 at http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/committee/superannuation_ctte/retirement/submissions/sublist.htm

Grandparents project

Hon Larry Anthony, Minister for Children and Youth Affairs has commissioned COTA National Seniors to investigate the experiences and needs of grandparents who have taken on a caring role for their grandchildren. Workskops are underway during April and May 2003. See the media release, brochure and workshop dates.

 

If you are a grandparent caring for grandchildren, you may like to fill in a questionnaire online.

 

Age discrimination legislation

Response to the Proposed Commonwealth Age Discrimination Legislation, by COTA National Seniors Partnership, February 2003

Press articles

COTA submission

Long-term strategies to address the ageing of the Australian population over the next forty years: submission to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Ageing. Online as submission no.91 at www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/ageing/strategies/subs.htm

Employment workshops 2003

There will be more workshops during 2003 for mature aged workers providing information on the changing nature of the labour market and portfolio employment, continuing the 2002 project funded by the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations. More information.

Churchill Fellowship

Older worker policies in world spotlight - brief report on Veronica Sheen's Churchill Fellowship, in ReportAge no.37, December 2002.

A full report will be published online in 2003.

Job Futures conference paper

The challenges for older workers and employment services in the labour market of the 21st century - paper by Veronica Sheen to the Job Futures National Conference, Hobart, November 2002

 

COTA National Seniors Partnership launched 11 December

The two leading seniors organisations in Australia signed a Partnership Agreement to formally launch the COTA National Seniors Partnership at Parliament House, Canberra on 11 December. Media release

 

"New money for old. Australia's two peak lobby groups are merging, creating a potent political force for the nation's ageing population." Fred Bletchley reports in The Bulletin in June 2002 at http://bulletin.ninemsn.com.au/bulletin/eddesk.nsf/All/1FA46ABA6633F3E4CA256BD00009474F

Big changes at COTA, seniors press, July 2002

Bali Grandparents project

COTA (NT) is seeking support to assist Balinese grandparents now confronted with the task of caring for orphaned, traumatised grandchildren. More information and how to to send donations

COTA NT Conference 4 - 6 August 2003, Darwin: The Tyranny of Distance: Ageing in remote and rural Australia. Programme; Call for papers

 

Media releases Nov- December 2002

Australasian Journal on Ageing December issue

COTA National Seniors Partnership launch, 11 December 2002

Increase to pension age won't work says COTA, 2 December 2002

COTA brings Minister Vanstone up to speed on age discrimination, 13 November 2002

Major new appointment to Australia's leading peak older person's organisation, 11 November 2002

 

Older people, information and communications technology

Accessible E-commerce: crossing the digital generation gap. Paper by Helen Scott, Oliver Burmeister and Steve Roberts presented to the Third International Conference of the Australian Institute of Computer Ethics (AiCE) 2002, 30 September 2002

 

Broadband ups the ante for access to information technology - seniors press, October 2002

 

Bibliography of recent material in COTA (Australia) library, October 2002

 

Australasian Journal on Ageing -

Media highlights September 2002

 

Media release 4 September 2002

COTA welcomes Medicines Line – a new telephone enquiry service about all medicines

 

Strategic Ageing vol.15/2002

Superannuation and Standards of Living in Retirement, published 29 August 2002

 

Broadband submission

COTA's submission to the Broadband Advisory Group on broadband issues from the perspectives of both older people and of non-profit organisations in the community sector. 12 August 2002

 

Media release 8 August 2002

Ageing workforce: Australia's number one issue says Treasurer - What's New says COTA!!!

Press articles on older workers, 2002

Media release 2 August 2002

Older workers and customers welcome Westpac over 55s initiative

 

Media release 18 July 2002

Maintain public expenditure on retirement incomes - don't cut superannuation taxes

Press articles, August 2002

 

Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme review

COTA's submission to the Interdepartmental Review Committee on the PBS, July 2002

 

COTA National Seniors Partnership

"New money for old. Australia's two peak lobby groups are merging, creating a potent political force for the nation's ageing population." Fred Bletchley reports in The Bulletin at http://bulletin.ninemsn.com.au/bulletin/eddesk.nsf/All/1FA46ABA6633F3E4CA256BD00009474F

Big changes at COTA, seniors press, July 2002

 

Superannuation

COTA's submission to the Senate Select Committee on Superannuation Inquiry into Standards of Living in Retirement is online as no.63 at

http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/committee/superannuation_ctte/living_standards/Submissions/sublist.htm

Superannuation and retirement living standards, ReportAge no.35, June 2002, p.3

Maintain public expenditure on retirement incomes - don't cut superannuation taxes, press articles August 2002

Employment workshops

COTA is running workshops during June for mature aged workers providing information on the changing nature of the labour market and portfolio employment. This exciting project is funded by the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations. More information (brochure, how to enrol).

 

Older workers have their say; Govt funds COTA projects- press articles

Seniors are not cyberphobic,

4 June 2002

Federal Budget responses 2002-03

Press articles - Budget a hit and miss affair

Media releases 14 May 2002 - COTA slams increase to pharmaceutical costs; Government on track with aged care promises says COTA

See COTA's Federal Government submissions below.

Protect and support older disability pensioners, 9 May 2002

COTA rejects the call for 3% compulsory levy for health care,
media release 22 April 2002 and warns against scaremongering about ageing, 16 April 2002

Ageing in the next decade

The nature of ageing in the next decade: what needs to be considered if healthy ageing is to be successfully encouraged. Address by Denys Correll to AUSMED Ageing at Home and Community Care Conference, Melbourne, 20 March 2002. Article in Fifty-Plus News, May 2002

 

COTA History project

Read the newsletters - Issue 2 May 2002, Issue 1 March 2002.

 

Home equity conversion

Home equity conversion: Getting the policy right and getting the product right for older Australians. Paper presented by Veronica Sheen to Changing needs, Growing Markets Conference, Sydney,18 February 2002
An idea whose time has come? Fifty-Plus News, April 2002

Jan-June 2002 Media releases

Press articles 2002

COTA slams increase to pharmaceutical costs; Government on track with aged care promises says COTA 14 May

Protect and support older disability pensioners, 9 May

COTA rejects the call for 3% compulsory levy for health care, 22 April

COTA warns against scaremongering about ageing, 16 April

COTA welcomes new electronic banking standards, 15 April

COTA to represent older Australians on Myer Ageing Project, 9 April

Curb drug companies, not public access to pharmaceuticals, 31 March

Budget submission - older Australians missing out on dental care, 31 March

The National Strategy for an Ageing Australia must have a life says COTA, 17 February

Government urged to meet election commitment and introduce age discrimination legislation, 23 January

Ageing workforce policy a must for Government, 21 January 2002

More older people are struggling to make ends meet, 17 January 2002

Australasian Journal on Ageing - Media highlights for March 2002; December 2001 issues.

Federal Budget submissions 2002-03

Health and Ageing Portfolio: Submission to Federal Budget 2002-03. March 2002

Coming of age: an integrated policy framework for Australia's ageing workforce: COTA Federal Budget submission to Departments of Employment and Workplace Relations; Education, Science and Training; Family and Community Services; Attorney General. January 2002

Social security and social support for older Australians: COTA Federal Budget submission to Department of Family and Community Services. December 2001

 

Conferences

Maturity matters - IFA 6th Global Conference in Perth, 27-30 October 2002 http://www.congresswest.com.au/IFA/

 

Australian site with details and links for April's 2nd World Assembly on Ageing, the NGO Forum on Ageing and Valencia Forum - http://www.uws.edu.au/cshs/news.htm

 

See COTA's Conference Calendar for other national and interntional conferences, organised by month

Electronic banking standards

COTA response to Australian Bankers' Association draft industry standards on electronic banking, January 2002

See also Banking, e-commerce and access to technology below

New papers

Review by Denys Correll of "Australian directions in aged care: the generation of policies for generations of older people", by Professors Hal Kendig and Stephen Duckett, Australian Health Policy Institute at the University of Sydney Colloquium, 10 December 2001. Online at http://www.usyd.edu.au/chs/ahpi/colloquia.html

 

Information and education initiatives and strategies - COTA perspectives. Paper by Helen Scott for the Accessible E-commerce Forum, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Sydney, 29 November 2001. At this meeting new electronic draft banking standards were released. Public comment is urgently sought on these standards by January 31, 2002. See article Bank standards and the digital divide for details.

 

How are older women faring in Australia's ageing workforce? Presentation by Veronica Sheen to Australian Women Speak, Inaugural National Women's Conference, Canberra 26-28 August 2001

 

New COTA President,

Jim Giles. November 2001

You can now Search this site

Press the search button on the bar at the top of any page to search for words, names, or subjects in documents on COTA's web site.

 

COTA Congress 2001

Genteel poverty not the answer for older Australians, 13 November 2001

21st Century ageing - what it will be like for Australians, 11 November 2001

Election 2001 - COTA media releases

Democrats aged care policy holds promise of tackling the hard issues in aged care, 7 November

Coalition super policy tinkers at the edges with some good ideas but lacks thorough vision for an ageing future, 5 November

Coalition plans for age discrimination legislation: a winner for older Australian who want to work and good for the economy, 2 November

Labor adopts many of COTA's election policies for older Australians, 26 Oct

Coalition policy on health is worthy but misses some of the fundamentals, 25 Oct

Labor show leadership in hospital care, 23 October

COTA welcomes Coalition's residential care initiative in rural and remote areas, 22 October

Reality check on ageing policies for new Government, 21 October

Labor's GST roll back plan on sensitive cost items will attract older people, 19 October

ALP shows policy leadership on aged care, 13 October

Older people welcome plans for Coalition community care, 11 October

Nothing to report from National Strategy on Ageing 'release', 10 October

ALP dental policy provides welcome relief, 8 October

National dental care for older persons desperately needed now, 25 September

COTA pushes election candidates on promises for an ageing future,
19 September

COTA Election policy guide 2001

COTA released its election campaign policy guide - 21st Century Ageing: a plan for Government 2001-2004 - on 19 September. It oulines a nine point policy plan for all candidates to adopt.

 

AJA September 2001 issue

Australasian Journal on Ageing media release

 

COTA "ups the ante" on ageing policy in new reports

Council on the Ageing (Australia) challenged the Government and all election candidates to rethink their directions on ageing policy in the lead up to the federal election later in the year as it released four policy reports on 25 July. The reports, issues of COTA's Strategic Ageing series, are:

Looking up and looking out – healthy ageing, lifestyle, attitudes and community participation for older Australians. It includes a national strategy for healthy ageing in Aboriginal communities

Older Australians - an agenda for the new millennium on health and aged care

Investing in the future – policies for Australia's ageing workforce

Enough to live on - a retirement incomes policy framework.

Press release 25 July 2001

BMMS

COTA's Submission to the Department of Health and Aged Care on the Better Medication Management System Bill 2001, July 2001

Address to AMA 25 May 2001

"Public hospitals funding and models for alternatives to acute care" by Denys Corrrell. Discusses the need for a model of care that provides a flow from community to acute care to convalescence or rehabilitation to community or residential care.

Federal budget 2001

Seniors' press Articles on 2001 Budget

Three COTA media responses to the 2001 Federal Budget, 22 May
- COTA wins bonus for pensioners
- Welcome measure in health and aged care
- Welfare reform: COTA efforts for older workers pay off

Banking; E-commerce and technology access

 

Accessible E-commerce: crossing the digital generation gap. Paper by Helen Scott, Oliver Burmeister and Steve Roberts presented to the Third International Conference of the Australian Institute of Computer Ethics (AiCE) 2002, 30 September 2002

 

Older people, information and communications technology: Bibliography of recent material in COTA (Australia) library. September 2002

 

COTA's submission to the Broadband Advisory Group on broadband issues from the perspectives of both older people and of non-profit organisations in the community sector. 12 August 2002

 

Elderly need IT too, letter to The Australian, 4 June 2002

 

COTA welcomes new electronic banking standards, media release 15 April 2002

 

COTA response to Australian Bankers' Association draft industry standards on electronic banking, January 2002

 

Bank standards and the digital divide - ReportAge, December 2001

 

Information and education initiatives and strategies - COTA perspectives. Paper by Helen Scott for the Accessible E-commerce Forum, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Sydney, 29 November 2001.

 

"Teaching old dogs new clicks" - older people and the information age; paper by Helen Scott to E-Commerce, Electronic Banking and Older People Seminar, Victoria University of Technology, 22 May 2001.

 

COTAs response to the Banking Industry E-commerce Industry Action Plan, April 2001

Joint press release 24 May 2001, with Australian Consumers' Association - NAB announcement challenges banks to do better, at http://www.choice.com.au/articles/a102365p1.htm

Press release 20 April: Great bank news- ANZ free over the counter service for older customers

 

Seniors' press articles on banks- 'Victims of digital divide', Australian Senior, June 2001; A human face for the banks?, Fifty-Plus News, May 2001

 

ReportAge articles: Digital divide; Banks - June 2001; More on Banks - Nov 2001.

Accessible ecommerce forum and Web discrimination articles in ReportAge, November 2000.

 

Response to Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Issues paper: Accessibility of electronic commerce and other new service delivery technologies for older Australians and people with a disability. November 1999. Published on the HREOC website at http://www.humanrights.gov.au/disability_rights/inquiries/ecom_subs/cota.doc

 

See also item below - Seniors in Cyberspace

 

Submission to Prices Surveillance Authority on Fees and Charges imposed by Banks and other Financial Institutions, 1995

 

COTA Federal Budget submissions 2001-02

Media releases 2 May 2001 - Full pensioners stuggling most must be given priority for Budget assistance; 23 April - Go easy on older people in May budget

 

Older Australians: an agenda for the new millenium in health and aged care, Dec 2000

 

Investing in the future: Australia's ageing workforce, Feb 2001

 

An agenda for the new millenium: retirement incomes, housing and support for older Australians, Feb 2001

 

Press articles on COTA budget proposals

 

Attention Students, Journalists & Researchers!

Check our page of Australian fact sheets on ageing and aged care

 

Reference Information on Older People

A useful annotated list of bibliographies, indexes, databases, journals, key Australian texts on policy and consumer assistance, series and statistics. Continually updated.

 

CEDA Seminar on Australia's Ageing Workforce

Economics of the ageing population: the role of mature age employment: paper presented by Veronica Sheen, COTA Deputy Director, 20 March 2001

 

Press release 20 March 2001 Discrimination against older workers will mean economic slowdown for Australia

 

Quality use of medicines

Submission to Commonwealth Dept of Health and Aged Care on the External Review of Consumer Outcomes of the Quality Use of Medicines (QUM) Strategy in Australia. October 2000

 

CED Conference, Washington DC, September 2000

Deputy Director Veronica Sheen was a guest of the US Committee for Economic Development and the only Australian to address its Conference The Ageing of the Global Workforce, Washington DC, 11-12 September 2000. Her paper is Older Australians a working future? The older population and work in the 21st Century
Press release 2 October 2000 World search for ageing workforce solutions
Full version jointly publised with CEDA as Older Australians: a working future? The ageing population and work in the 21st century, Strategic Ageing vol.10/2000

 

Welfare Reform

Mature aged wait for Budget bottom-line in welfare reform, Fifty-Plus News, Feb 2001

 

Government's first step to recognises older workers plight, 14 December 2000 Press release, 14 December 2000

 

Welfare Review and Nelson Inquiry show tackling age dicrimination must be a priority for older jobless Press release, 16 August 2000

 

COTA's response to the Interim Report of the Reference Group on Welfare Reform, May 2000.

COTA's Submission to the Reference Group on Welfare Reform, December 1999, is available on the Department of Family and Community Services website as submission no.188 (a PDF file) at http://www.facs.gov.au/internet/facsinternet.nsf/aboutfacs/welfaresubmissions2.htm

 

Age discrimination report launched at COTA

Age Matters?: a report on age discrimination by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission was launched on 18 July 2000 at the Council on Ageing (COTA) Australia, Melbourne.

Speakers were Chris Sidoti, Human Rights Commissioner, Denys Correll, Executive Director, COTA Australia and Clare Griffin, CREATE Foundation, Victoria. View the launch speeches by Chris Sidoti and Denys Correll.

Age Matters?: a report on age discrimination draws on submissions made to the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission in response to Age matters?: a discussion paper on age discrimination published in April 1999. Both are available on the HREOC website.

You can read COTA's response to the discussion paper, September 1999. It was extensively quoted in the final report, with many recommendations being taken up.

 

National Congress COTA

 

COTA 3rd annual Congress 2001
21st Century Ageing, 11-13 November, Old Parliament House ACT

Further information at http://www.cota-act.org.au/congress2001/index.htm

 

 

COTA's 2nd Annual National Congress was held
in Melbourne on 12-14 November 2000.

 

COTA's inaugural National Congress in Adelaide on 7-9 November 1999 was an outstanding success. Older Australians: A Working Future? explored the changing nature of work and retirement in Australia. for the 21st Century. Conference proceedings are available for $35 each ($10 seniors), from COTA SA, tel. 08 8232 0422. More information.

 

Conference Calendar 2000

Check the latest conferences, both national and international, on our calendar

Be Wise with Medicines project launched by Minister for Aged Care on 25 May 2000

ReportAge article, July 2000

Press release 24 May 2000

 

National Strategy for an Ageing Australia

Read COTA's responses to the Commonwealth's issues and discussion papers -

 

Response to Attitude, Life-style and Community Support discussion paper of the National Strategy for an Ageing Australia, January 2001

 

World Class Care: response to National Strategy for an Ageing Australia discussion paper, October 2000

 

Response to Employment for Mature Age Workers issues paper for the National Strategy for an Ageing Australia, June 2000

 

Response to Independence and Self Provision issues paper for the National Strategy for an Ageing Australia, April 2000

 

Reponse to Healthy Ageing discussion paper for the National Strategy for an Ageing Australia - the first paper, in February 2000

 

The Department of Health and Aged Care National Strategy papers are available online at http://www.health.gov.au/acc/ofoa/ageing_policy/commonwealth/index.htm

 

Seniors in Cyberspace – Older People and Information

A definitive review published in October 1999 as Strategic Ageing no.8/99

A short version is Information and older people - present and future, a paper presented by Helen Scott to Strait to the Future, the 8th Asia-Pacific Specials, Health and Law Librarians Conference, Hobart, Tasmania, 22-26 August 1999. Published online by Australian Library and Information Association at http://www.alia.org.au/conferences/strait/papers/scott.html

Older Workers - are a major policy concern.

Learn about the relevant issues:

 

Older workers: coming to terms with the labour market of the 21^st century. Paper by Veronica Sheen for International Social Security Association Research Conference, "Social security in a long life society", University of Antwerp, Belgium, 5-7 May 2003. Online at http://www.issa.int/engl/homef.htm - Topic 2, Session 3.3.

 

Workshops for mature age workers, 2002, 2003

 

Older worker policies in world spotlight - brief report on Veronica Sheen's Churchill Fellowship, in ReportAge no.37, December 2002.

 

The challenges for older workers and employment services in the labour market of the 21st century - paper by Veronica Sheen to the Job Futures National Conference, Hobart, November 2002

 

Press articles 2002

Coming of age: an integrated policy framework for Australia's ageing workforce: COTA Federal Budget submission to Departments of Employment and Workplace Relations; Education, Science and Training; Family and Community Services; Attorney General. January 2002

Australia's ageing workforce - the challenge for human resource management, paper presented by Veronica Sheen to Australian Human Resources Institute Conference, Melbourne Convention Centre, 22 May 2001

 

Economics of the ageing population: the role of mature age employment: paper presented by Veronica Sheen, COTA Deputy Director, 20 March 2001

 

Investing in the future: Australia's ageing workforce, Feb 2001 - COTA's Federal Budget submision 2001-02

 

Deputy Director Veronica Sheen's address to US Committee for Economic Development Conference, Washington DC, 11 September 2000 - Older Australians a working future? The older population and work in the 21st Century

 

Press releases 2001

World search for ageing workforce solutions Press release 2 October 2000

Time for older jobless action, Fifty-Plus News, September 2000

Welfare Review and Nelson Inquiry show tackling age dicrimination must be a priority for older jobless Press release 16 August 2000

Now Government action on older workers imperative: COTA responds to Nelson Inquiry Press release 14 August 2000

 

Response to Employment for Mature Age Workers issues paper for the National Strategy for an Ageing Australia. June 2000

 

Veronica Sheen's address The end of an era: mature age employment to Committee for Economic Development of Australia seminar Our Ageing Population: State of Health, 9 February 2000

 

COTA's submission to the House of Representatives, Mature Age Employment - An Inquiry into Issues Specific to Older Workers Seeking Employment, or Establishing a Business, Following Unemployment, May 1999. A transcript of COTA's presentation at the Committee's public hearings can be viewed at the House of Representatives website at http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/eewr/OWK/transcrp.htm - click on the 16 November 1999, Melbourne.

Older Australians: working for the future published in November 1999 as Strategic Ageing number 9/99, presents two submissions written for the Inquiry. It consists of two components - issues raised by mature aged people in focus groups, and policy recommendations directed to the Federal Government for action.

 

COTA's National Congress on 7-9 November 1999 in Adelaide - Older Australians: a working future? explored the changing nature of work and retirement in Australia for the 21st Century. Click for more information.

Age discrimination: response to Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Age Matters: a discussion paper on age discrimination. September 1999

 

Tax Reform - Older Australians and the GST.

Government trips up marketing of GST to pensioners: 2% clawback plan goes off the rails, 26 February 2001

Analysis of the revised tax reform package, June 1999

COTA's submission to the Senate Inquiry into the GST and Related Tax Reform Proposals (January 1999)

Press releases and articles 1999, 1998

COTA's response to Labor's tax reform package (September 1998)

COTA's response to the Coalition tax package (August 1998)

Summary of COTA's Submission to Tax Consultative Task Force (February 1998)

 

Contents pages for Australasian Journal on Ageing

 

COTA speaks out on aged care reforms and residential care

Joint submission to Federal Government Review of Pricing Arrangements in Residential Aged Care by Carers Australia, Alzheimers's Australia and COTA National Seniors. Will be online at the Pricing Review's website at www.ageing.health.gov.au/rescare/acprtask/acprsubs.htm

Aged care considerations - knowing how to plan for the future. Presentation by Patricia Reeve to Ageing at Home and Community Care onfference, Ausmed Publications, Melbourne, 7 April 2003

Federal Budget submissions

Press articles and media releases

ReportAge articles
- eg Ageing is on everyone's agenda, April 2002
- Aged Care Working Group, July 2001
- National Aged Care Alliance, March 2001 and February 2002
- Whither complaints, January 2001
- Lessons from Riverside Nursing Home, May 2000
- Aged care reform articles during 1997

 

The future of certification - The consumer's view. Paper presented by Denys Correll to 2^nd National Aged Care Industry Building Conference, "The Structures of Change", 8-9 July 1999

 

But what about us? - Consumer perspective. Paper presented by Denys Correll to Aged Care Australia 11th National Conference, Adelaide 22 August 1998, Plenary Three - The inevitable, the probable, the possible

 

Address by June Healy to Seminar on Aged Care Issues Affecting Australia
Special Meeting of the Health, Family Services and Veterans' Affairs Committee, 30 June 1998.

What will it cost the resident?
Speech by National Executive Director to Aged Care Reform, IBS Conferences, Sydney, 29 April 1998

 

"The grand plan: consumers' aspirations, expectations and limitations in preparing for residential care of the future"
Speech by National Executive Director to National Aged Care Building Conference, Melbourne, 16 Feb 1998.

 

Open letter to Senators and Members of the House of Representatives - A new approach to aged care reform, 22 October 1997

Health Insurance

Lifetime Health Cover: an unfunded lifetime community rating model for private health insurance: discussion paper. A submission to the Dept of Health and Aged care, March 1999

Older people reject calls by politicians and health funds to deluge senators with letters supporting private health insurance rebate - Media release, November 24, 1998

 

COTA is an Online Australia Day participating site

Online Australia Day's "virtual expo" website, showcasing Australia's achievements online, will be active for a year after its launch on November 27, 1998.

 

Federal Election October 3 1998

Check COTA's Inventory of major parties' policies for older Australians - a table comparing key policies of the Coalition, Labor and Democrats.

Valuing Older Australians: An election policy guide for all candidates, outlines policy priorities for the October 3 election. It is available free from COTA (Australia) - tel. 03 9820 2655 or email us at: cota@cota.org.au

 

Achieving Social Change through International Years

Paper presented by Denys Correll to 28th ICSW International Conference on Social Welfare, Jerusalem - Plenary - 1999 United Nations International Year of Older Persons, 8 July 1998.

 

COTA's responses to the 1998-99 Federal Budget

ReportAge no 14, June 1998

Media releases May 12, 1998

 

Health financing: Underlying principles, limitations and new directions

Policy paper by COTA and Australian Consumers' Association submitted to the Prime Minister and Minister for Health in May 1998, on ACA site at http://www.choice.com.au/articles/a100221p1.htm. The paper details underlying principles, limitations and new directions in health financing and affirms support for Medicare as Australia's universal health system.

 

New Web Address - April 1998!

http://www.cota.org.au
Remember to update your bookmarks, and e-mail address to: cota@cota.org.au

 

COTA's submission to Senate Inquiry into Public Dental Services, February 1998

 

"COTA (Australia) - What is it? How does it address issues?"

Speech by Mrs June Healy OAM, President, to First Biennial State Conference of COTA Queensland, 31 October 1997.

See also Policy made simple: key concepts, terms, ideas and processes related to policy and policy change by Veronica Sheen & Helen Scott, presented to the HelpAge International Workshop on Practical Tools for Policy Development, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 3-5 May 1999

 

1999 is the International Year of Older Persons (IYOP)

This year has been declared the International Year of Older Persons (IYOP) by the United Nations. COTA (Australia) and the various State and Territory COTAs are involved in the preparations for this special year through partnership in Australian Coalition '99.

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