Dementia Australia has welcomed the launch of the Aged Care Diversity Framework action plans at Parliament House today by Ken Wyatt, Minister for Senior Australians and Aged Care. The action plans are guiding resources that can help providers, peak organisations and governments to ensure their services are inclusive and culturally safe for all consumers. The […]
Tags: Aged Care, dementia, Ken Wyatt
14 Feb 2019 /
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The Turnbull Government have released a review of aged care for LGBTI+ Australians, following the implementation of an inclusive strategy five years ago. The National Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Ageing and Aged Care Strategy was designed in consultation with LGBTI+ groups and advisors to ensure “equitable access to high-quality, culturally appropriate aged care […]
Tags: Aged Care, AusPol, Barnett Government, care, elderly, government, Ken Wyatt, Politics
23 Nov 2017 |
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Liberal front-bencher Ken Wyatt has shared how he’s gone backwards and forwards on how he should personally vote in the marriage postal survey. Speaking on the Karvelas program on Sky News, the Assistant Health Minister told Patricia Karvelas that he hadn’t filled out the form yet, but was leaning towards voting ‘no’. For many years […]
Tags: AusPol, Hasluck, Ken Wyatt, Liberal, Marriage, marriage equality, postal survey, Same Sex Marriage, traditional marriage
1 Oct 2017 |
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The federal government is reviewing the national strategies that support the aged care needs of people from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex (LGBTI) communities and people across both sectors are being encouraged to put their views. Minister for Aged Care, Ken Wyatt, said that public consultation is a […]
Tags: Ageing, gay, Intersex, Ken Wyatt, Lesbian, LGBT, LGBTI, LGBTIQ, National Aged Care Plan, queer, trans*, transgender
19 Apr 2017 |
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Older gay men’s concerns regarding ageing and aged-care settings are driven by their class and sexuality, according to new research from Swinburne University of Technology. There has been a growing focus both locally and internationally into how LGBTIQ people are treated in aged care. Plans for the first LGBT specific retirement home were launched in […]
Tags: Aged Care, Ageing, Dr Kathryn Almac, Dr Peter Robinson, GRAI, Ken Wyatt, nursing home, retirement
24 Jan 2017 |
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Liberal back-bencher and former PM Tony Abbott has called for the Safe Schools program to be de-funded, claiming it is a form of “social engineering”. Mr Abbott joins his voice with other conservative MPs like Cory Bernardi, who has been railing against the program for months, leading to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull calling for a review of […]
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1 Mar 2016 |
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WA Liberal MP Ken Wyatt does not support marriage equality. The member for Hasluck has told OUTinPerth that he is personally not in favour of allowing same sex couples to wed, and neither are people in his Perth electorate. Mr Wyatt, who is the first indigenous Australian to be elected to the House of Representatives, […]
Tags: Christian institution, gay marriage, Ken Wyatt, Liberal, Marriage, marriage equality, Same Sex Marriage
13 Aug 2015 |
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