The Long View https://thelongview.au/ An independent news masthead covering aged care in Australia. It reads the sector's primary sources, the Aged Care Act and Rules, the regulator's registers, the quarterly Star Ratings and financial datasets, and the pricing and wage determinations, end to end, and reports what they mean for providers and for families, with every factual claim linked to its primary source. en The evidence base for aged care's missing price says the funding model's own relativities need a rethink https://thelongview.au/funding-and-pricing/cost-collection-2024-25/ https://thelongview.au/funding-and-pricing/cost-collection-2024-25/ Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:00:00 GMT IHACPA costed 200 residential aged care homes, 12,537 residents and 355,830 days of care, measuring direct care time with Bluetooth devices. Average daily cost was $430 per permanent resident, but $768 in the most remote homes against $419 in the cities. The report's own recommendation R5 asks whether the AN-ACC price weights still match measured costs. The median wait for home care services has doubled to 245 days https://thelongview.au/for-families/home-care-wait-times/ https://thelongview.au/for-families/home-care-wait-times/ Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:00:00 GMT RoGS 2026: the median elapsed time from home-care approval to services commencing rose from 118 days in 2023-24 to 245 days in 2024-25; package assignment alone went from 78 to 204 days. What the stages mean, who is prioritised, and what the figures do and do not say about Support at Home. The price that funds every aged care bed expires on 30 September. Its replacement is not published yet https://thelongview.au/funding-and-pricing/an-acc-price-gap/ https://thelongview.au/funding-and-pricing/an-acc-price-gap/ Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:00:00 GMT The AN-ACC price of $295.64 per NWAU runs to 30 September 2026 and the 2026-27 dollar advice remains unpublished as at 18 July 2026. IHACPA's 2026-27 framework is methodology only, and its new consultation feeds 2027-28. The anatomy of the current price and the honest state of the gap. Is aged care losing money? The sector's two scorecards disagree, and both are right https://thelongview.au/funding-and-pricing/who-is-losing-money/ https://thelongview.au/funding-and-pricing/who-is-losing-money/ Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:00:00 GMT StewartBrown's December 2025 survey has 61% of homes at an operating loss; the Government's Q1 2025-26 snapshot has 64.5% of providers profitable. Different populations, windows and profit definitions. Both bases reported side by side, attributed, with the documents linked. The banning register names 461 people and not one provider. How aged care enforcement actually works https://thelongview.au/quality-and-safety/enforcement-register-decoded/ https://thelongview.au/quality-and-safety/enforcement-register-decoded/ Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:00:00 GMT The ACQSC Register of Banning Orders, downloaded and analysed: 461 of 461 entries ban individuals, none bans an organisation. How the provider-level tools work instead, with the Havilah Hostel enforceable undertaking as a worked example, and the fact that the Commission's care-minutes compliance series stopped publishing in November 2025. Seven in ten aged care homes carry the same star rating. The spread is hiding in the sub-ratings https://thelongview.au/quality-and-safety/star-ratings-may-2026/ https://thelongview.au/quality-and-safety/star-ratings-may-2026/ Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:00:00 GMT The May 2026 Star Ratings extract: 71.9% of rated homes hold 4 stars and one home nationally holds 1 star, yet 26.4% of homes score 1 or 2 stars on Staffing and 27.2% miss at least one mandated care-minutes target. National distribution, state league table and the quarter's movers, computed from the government's own workbooks. The government's own inspector: the aged care 'transformation' has not been achieved https://thelongview.au/regulation/igac-transformation-verdict/ https://thelongview.au/regulation/igac-transformation-verdict/ Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:00:00 GMT The Inspector-General of Aged Care's 2025 progress report found that as at 1 January 2025 the required sector transformation had not been achieved, describing much of the reform agenda as disparate and sometimes disconnected changes rather than systemic change, while crediting the new Act as a compass for transformation. Quoted directly from the report. Support at Home price caps are paused. Here is what stands between you and an unfair bill now https://thelongview.au/regulation/support-at-home-price-caps/ https://thelongview.au/regulation/support-at-home-price-caps/ Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:00:00 GMT The Government deferred formal Support at Home price caps on 19 May 2026, citing an unstable price baseline, and substituted a consumer-protection package: ACQSC refund powers, a quarterly national price summary, monitoring of the 1 October 2026 personal-care transition, and a working group with the peaks. From 1 August, aged care nursing pay rises for the last time under the work value case. The exact new rates https://thelongview.au/workforce/nurses-final-pay-rise/ https://thelongview.au/workforce/nurses-final-pay-rise/ Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:00:00 GMT FWC determination PR812118, signed 15 July 2026, sets the final aged care RN and EN award rates operative 1 August 2026: RN level 1 first year $1,571.60 a week, experienced RN level 1 $1,801.10, RN level 5 $2,711.30. The full table and the work value case behind it, from the determinations themselves.