This article considers the collective regulation of wages and conditions in the highly feminized residential aged care workforce. It argues that the traditional regulation of wages and conditions through industrial instruments ...

A great deal of contemporary attention, including the scholarly, is focused upon issues of sustainability and while much of this is specifically directed to environmental matters, the literature demonstrates a considerable ...

The ageing of the Australian population is attracting increasing levels of public and political concern. Given that residential aged care is largely publicly funded, an area of particular concern is the activity of for-profit ...

As Australia's population ages, the provision of aged care is gaining economic, social and political significance. The increasing importance of aged care is reflected in a number of recent government ...