The reading on the scale, every quarter

Star Ratings, care minutes, the enforcement registers and the serious-incident data: the public record of how good Australia’s aged care homes actually are. We download the government’s own workbooks each quarter, compute the distributions ourselves, and show the working.

Quality + safety

Seven in ten aged care homes carry the same star rating. The spread is hiding in the sub-ratings

The May 2026 extract, computed in full: the national distribution, the state league table, the quarter’s movers, and the 27.2 per cent of homes missing a care-minutes target. The quarterly tracker, first edition.

18 July 2026

Quality + safety

The banning register names 461 people and not one provider. How aged care enforcement actually works

Every entry in the banning register is an individual; providers answer through different tools. A decoded guide with a real enforceable undertaking as the worked example, and the compliance series that quietly stopped publishing.

18 July 2026