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A high school and an aged care home in regional Victoria band together to bridge the generation gap, through the power of song and dance.
By
Mahalia Dobson
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The home my grandfather is in should be the norm, not an aberration only the wealthy get to enjoy, writes Melanie Tait.
By Melanie Tait
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With Australia's aging population, palliative care services are busier than ever. Experts say people under 60 with a terminal illness are one of the groups falling through the cracks, but there could be more.
By Louise Crealy
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The South Australian coroner calls for a register of "resident to resident" aggression in the aged care sector following an inquest into the death of a man who was attacked by another patient at the condemned Oakden nursing home.
By court reporter Rebecca Opie
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WARNING: Graphic content. Two disability workers are recorded verbally abusing a autistic boy in a group home.
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WARNING: Graphic content. Two disability workers are recorded verbally abusing a autistic boy in a group home.
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WARNING: Graphic content. Two disability workers are recorded verbally abusing a autistic boy in a group home.
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Selecting a respectful, clean and well-run new home for your loved one is often down to visiting and comparing several facilities and asking the right questions. This is what to consider.
By Grace Jennings-Edquist
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An indigenous run aged care centre is changing the lives of both the young and the old at the remote Alpurrurulam aboriginal community in the Northern Territory. The meals-on-wheels service offers hot meals and a friendly face to older residents, while also providing meaningful employment and training opportunities for staff. Read more
By
Lucy Murray
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When a relative moves into residential aged care, it's not often easy for them to adjust. But how can you tell if having a hard time settling in is something more serious?
By Kellie Scott
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In Western society we fear dependency, invisibility and dying. Aged care is a silo of these fears. And until it affects us personally, we ignore it, write Bridget Laging, Amanda Kenny and Rhonda Nay.
By Bridget Laging, Amanda Kenny and Rhonda Nay
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Hidden cameras uncover shocking revelations of workers abusing residents at nursing homes in Australia, but legal experts and employee advocates warn their use is a legal minefield.
By Rebecca Trigger and Katherine Gregory
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As the nation's population ages, many people are looking to at-home care and even living with housemates.
By Zoe Ferguson
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Amid concern of widespread malnutrition in aged care facilities, a new health education program is helping ageing Australians delay entry into care homes by maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
By
Donal Sheil
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Hidden camera footage shows 92-year-old Jean Robbins being pushed, hauled into bed and laughed at by nursing home carers. [WARNING: distressing content.]
By Anne Connolly, Brigid Andersen, Mary Fallon, Patricia Drum
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For many millennials, working in aged care might not be a career they have considered, but it is an industry that is expected to require 5,000 extra workers in Tasmania by 2025.
By
Annah Fromberg
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This is Merle's house. The 82-year-old loves everything about it — especially because it means she doesn't have to rely on carers. So could tiny homes spark a retirement revolution?
By Anna Kelsey-Sugg and Michael Mackenzie for Life Matters
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It took months after Georgina Fitz-Gibbon's husband Jeff died before she recognised she was fast slipping into a state of depression. She's one of many elderly Australians learning to deal with loneliness.
By political reporter Lucy Barbour
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An aged care worker who was captured on hidden camera slapping and hitting a dementia patient is sentenced to at least six months in home detention.
By court reporter Mazoe Ford
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Despite the struggles of caring for her parents — both of whom have dementia — in her own home, Louise Simpson simply cannot bring herself to put them into a facility after seeing how they have been treated.
By James Fettes
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Greens senator Jordon Steele-John breaks down in Parliament as he lists the names and shocking ways people living with disabilities have died while in residential and institutional care.
By political reporter Matthew Doran
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The job of forensically dissecting controversial issues and recommending solid, recommendations is now being passed on to institutions outside of Parliament, and it's setting a precedent, writes Sabra Lane.
By political reporter Sabra Lane
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Greens senator Jordon Steele-John calls for the aged care royal commission to be expanded to also encompass the abuse of people in disability care, citing "unspeakable acts of cruelty".
By political reporter Alexandra Beech
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A Queensland woman welcomes news of a royal commission into Australian aged care services after alleging her husband was neglected at a Rockhampton facility earlier this year.
By Rachel McGhee
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Aged care advocates say nursing homes must implement minimum staff-to-resident ratios to protect the elderly and infirm, after a crowd-sourced investigation by the ABC revealed reports of neglect and malnutrition.
By Rebecca Trigger and John Stewart, ABC Investigations
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The Federal Government has been accused of major cuts to aged care funding. Here's how much has really been slashed.
By political reporter Lucy Barbour
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We asked people who worked in or visited aged care homes to send in pictures of what was fed to the residents.
By Clare Blumer, ABC Investigations
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Among the motivations for calling a royal commission into the aged care sector, Scott Morrison cites the scandal of Oakden, the South Australian nursing home closed down last year over the shocking mistreatment of residents. But that was a year and three aged care inquiries ago, writes Anne Connolly.
By Anne Connolly
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In the ABC's biggest crowdsourced investigation, current and former aged care workers reveal the chronic neglect, mistreatment and understaffing in facilities across the country.
By Anne Connolly, Brigid Andersen, Mary Fallon, Patricia Drum
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Ken Wyatt appeared luke-warm on a royal commission when questioned by Four Corners last month. Now he appears to have a different opinion.
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Minister Ken Wyatt explains his shift in position on a royal commission into aged care. When interviewed by Four Corners a few weeks ago, Mr Wyatt said 'would rather spend the money on frontline services for aged care than on a royal commission'. He now says he supports the idea.
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The Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced a royal commission into the aged care sector.
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Scott Morrison says the new royal commission will focus on residential and in-home aged care for seniors but will also cover care for young people with disabilities who live in aged care homes.
By political reporter Alexandra Beech
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Our bodies and brains get knocked around as we age — and diet plays a critical role in keeping us healthy. So why aren't we talking about the future of our food?
By Rebecca Huntley for Future Tense
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Elloise Farrow-Smith
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Clydesdales are regular visitors to a north coast NSW nursing home — with heartwarming results.
By Elloise Farrow-Smith
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Many people are committing "unacceptable and illegal" elder abuse without even realising it, the deputy chair of a parliamentary committee examining the issue says.
By Rebecca Turner
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The South Australian coroner finds Port Pirie Hospital failed to give "bread and butter" care to an elderly patient who died of multi-organ failure stemming from a severe bedsore.
By Patrick Martin and Shannon Corvo
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A petition is calling for mandated staff-to-resident ratios at aged care facilities to help over-worked and undervalued staff provide proper care to the elderly.
By Nicole Mills
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An aged care worker is facing multiple charges after allegedly hitting an elderly man with a shoe at a facility on Sydney's northern beaches. Police have released video of the alleged incident. WARNING: This story contains footage that may distress some viewers.
By police reporter Mark Reddie and Jennine Khalik
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Every week this group of octogenarians attends a gymnastics class in Toowoomba.
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It's not about building muscles for this group of octogenarians who are taking gymnastics classes.
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Belinda Sanders
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Nathan Morris
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Delicious home-cooked meals hand-delivered to the elderly residents in the remote community of Alpurrurulam are lifting the spirits of not just the recipients but also the workers.
By
Lucy Murray
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It's more than just pension savings that the Government has decided to forgo because, in the Prime Minister's words, "he did not think the measure was needed anymore", writes Saul Eslake.
By Saul Eslake
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An audio recording shows how an energy broker convinced a nursing home resident with dementia to adopt an energy plan that eventually charged her thousands of dollars.
By Nicole Mills
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Recorded phone call from an energy broker acting on behalf of 1st Energy who cold-called nursing home resident Joan Ford and convinced her to sign up to a business energy account.
ABC News: Cory Zanoni
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Queensland's Premier has ordered an inquiry into end-of-life care, including the issue of voluntary euthanasia, with Queensland the last state in the country to debate the issue.
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For 40 years Julie Bates concealed the truth about her life as a sex worker - but she's not hiding any more. Her long-term activism on behalf of sex workers has now earned her an Order of Australia.
Jane Hutcheon
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A man convicted of murdering two nursing home residents is appealing his lengthy jail term on the basis there was no motive, and claims the killer may have been a woman.
By
Giselle Wakatama
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ABC News: Harriet Tatham
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A western Sydney aged care facility working to break the monotony of life in care invites two drag queens to live among the residents.
By Harriet Tatham
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A retirement village owner in Tasmania facing a $564,000 rates bill hike is taking its case against local government charges to the Supreme Court.
By state political reporter Alexandra Humphries
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A NSW nursing home worker who was secretly recorded hitting and slapping an elderly dementia patient is sentenced to at least six months in detention, but she may serve the time at home.
By Nadia Daly
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A Newcastle aged care facility at the centre of an ABC investigation has had its accreditation revoked for alleged failings in its care.
By
Giselle Wakatama
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The daughter of renowned environmental scientist Mary White, charged with murdering her mother in an aged-care facility, is granted bail with strict conditions.
By Adrienne Francis and Elise Pianegonda
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A town in WA attracts people from around the state to live out their final days, thanks to top-notch palliative care, advanced health research initiatives, and a community-owned, state-of-the-art hospice.
By Ellie Honeybone
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The daughter of environmental scientist Mary E White is charged over her death, after police were called to an aged-care facility in the NSW town of Bundanoon.
By Jordan Hayne and Jon Healy
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The proportion of our population that is over 60 has increasing drastically and for a long time now, alarm bells have been ringing about how we'll meet all their health needs. Now the aged-care sector faces another strain, as more and more GPs cut back on caring for patients in nursing homes.
Tracy Bowden
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The chief executive of internationally recognised at home palliative care program Hospice@HOME vows to fight its closure.
By
Lucy MacDonald
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Passengers whose medical devices have triggered security alarms and required pat-downs while going through Australian airports say they are at risk of being robbed and are calling for an overhaul of the system.
By James Oaten
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After Helen Sweetnam's pacemaker set off an alarm as she passed through security at Melbourne Airport, a thief took her handbag from the conveyor belt.
By James Oaten
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A support group hopes to alleviate the stress and isolation that comes with caring for someone with dementia.
By Mark Kearney
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Sugary drinks and unhealthy snacks will no longer be sold in public hospitals and aged care centres under a new proposal, with the Queensland Government also cracking down on advertising targeted at children.
By Josh Bavas
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They may be frail or sick, but if the justice system rules a senior citizen is able to face a custodial sentence, they may have to live out their final years behind bars.
By Owen Jacques
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Students in Wollongong create a dementia-friendly house that is also environmentally friendly.
By Chloe Hart
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An aged carer accused of assaulting an 81-year-old Adelaide nursing home resident, who was found with bleeding on the brain, has the charge against him dropped.
By court reporter Rebecca Opie
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An advertisement in a Gold Coast newsletter has highlighted a gap in the protections for older Australians, with a solicitor calling for a screening system similar to those used for working with children.
By
Charmaine Kane
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As Australia's population ages and medical technology improves the chances of many of us making it to 100 has also increased. On the NSW Central Coast there's an aged care home that has not just one, but half a dozen centenarians - all women. The oldest was born in late 1913 before the outbreak of World War One.
Michael Vincent
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One retirement village on the NSW Central Coast is home to half a dozen women who have all celebrated their 100th birthday.
By Michael Vincent and Saskia Mabin
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At the Gunther Village aged care home in the rural Queensland town of Gayndah, a robotic seal is providing unconditional love for residents.
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Paro the robotic seal nuzzles in and closes his eyes like a pet, providing unconditional love for a group of elderly residents in rural Queensland.
By
Jess Lodge
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A NSW nursing home sanctioned for failing nearly half of the industry's benchmarks allegedly medicated problematic residents without documenting it and allowed insomniacs to wander around at night.
By
Giselle Wakatama
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Janet Mackozdi was 77, ill and in poor mental health when she died in a shipping container on her daughter's property. Now a Tasmanian coroner wants sweeping reforms to help combat elder abuse.
By Peta Carlyon
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A Newcastle nursing home is sanctioned by the federal Health Department for a second time in a year after officials deem it a serious and immediate risk to residents.
Exclusive by Giselle Wakatama
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Foreign Correspondent joined Perth scientist David Goodall, 104, to record an intimate portrait of his final days as he crossed the globe to farewell family and campaign for his last rights.
By Charlotte Hamlyn and Lisa McGregor
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Police say the woman confronted her son over his intentions to put her in the care facility because, he had said, she was difficult to live with.
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The care provided to an elderly patient who died after sustaining severe bedsores at Port Pirie Hospital has been described as "almost a death sentence" in a coronial inquest investigating his death.
By court reporter Rebecca Opie
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Aged care resident Margaret Davis is lobbying for others to speak out against changes at Christadelphian Aged Care facilities in NSW and Queensland, where 120 staff face being laid off because of outsourcing.
By Penny Timms
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Retirement villages will have to abide by a mandatory code of conduct — and will be policed by retirement village ambassador — in wide-ranging reforms set to be introduced to the sector in New South Wales.
By Nick Sas and Ashleigh Raper
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Madeline Adams says her grandmother Christine has "always been there", which is why she invited the 67-year-old to take part in a Tasmanian event to protest elder abuse.
By Felicity Ogilvie
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A Hobart man who stole $280,000 from his sick and widowed mother, leaving her unable to pay her nursing homes fees, is sentenced to almost three years' jail.
By
Edith Bevin
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Recently I received a call about an elderly patient believed to be the victim of financial abuse from nurses who didn't know where to turn. It’s a story I hear all too regularly and we need a better solution, writes Andrew Simpson.
By Andrew Simpson
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The case of an American carer supporting a 97-year-old war veteran highlights the need for a new kind of visa, a migration agent says.
By Simon Royal
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Federal, state and territory attorneys-general are meeting in Perth today to discuss a range of measures, including bolstering the nation's protections against elder abuse.
By political reporters Matthew Doran and Anna Henderson
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Fresh allegations of neglect have been levelled at a once-sanctioned New South Wales nursing home with claims chronic infections left two residents writhing in agony.
By
Giselle Wakatama
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Our elderly are facing neglect, abuse and negligence in some aged care homes. Better care begins with more registered nurses on duty, to boost health outcomes and reduce hospital admissions, writes Sarah Russell.
By Sarah Russell
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More than half of Australian deaths now occur in hospital, with 26 per cent in residential care, where "non-beneficial" treatments can prolong suffering and cost the taxpayer a lot of money, writes Nick Graves.
By Nick Graves
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There are concerns for the care of at least 24 seniors using Royal Darwin Hospital as a nursing home, with one family saying they have nowhere else to go.
By Jesse Thompson
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Aron Kleinlehrer — who is aged 96 and was earlier this year awarded the Order of Australia Medal — faces court charged with indecently assaulting two female nurses, aged 32 and 21, who cared for him in his home.
By David Spicer
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Cost-cutting and understaffing is being blamed for a case of shocking neglect in an aged care home in Newcastle, in which a woman with dementia suffered regular falls and was left with an undiagnosed urinary tract infection.
By
Giselle Wakatama
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Elderly Queenslanders are often suffering from chronic neglect in aged care homes, with serious ailments undiagnosed, bandages being reused and many facilities chronically understaffed, the nurses union says.
By Allyson Horn
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Despite its inevitability, death catches many of us off guard. We asked three people who come into contact with death daily how — if at all — it changes their outlook on life, and on dying.
By Freya Petersen
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Breaking into a rendition of Beethoven's 9th symphony, 104-year-old academic David Goodall — who is preparing to end his life in Switzerland — tells attendees at his final press conference he would like the masterpiece played in his final moments.
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Older Australians were a major focus of this year's budget, but there's a sense among some in the aged care sector that it only scratches the surface of the issues facing our ageing population.
By the Specialist Reporting Team's Barbara Miller and Alison Branley
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The French Government presents Brisbane war hero Bob Jackson with a brand new Medal of Honour after his original was destroyed in a fire that gutted his house and claimed the lives of his two beloved dogs.
By Lily Nothling
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Treasurer Scott Morrison unveiled the budget last night and there were quite a few gifts for voters. We asked our Messenger audience what they thought of it all and here's what they had to say.
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A south east Queensland mayor is "gobsmacked" by a budget decision which she says will limit jobs growth, but there has been applause for the budget from other sectors.
By Ashleigh Stevenson, Gail Burke and Anna MacDonald
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Strong personal connections to songs are more important than the music itself when it comes to using music as therapy, research shows.
By
Catherine Heuzenroeder
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A Queensland-first tech solution is helping reduce the stress and trauma suffered by aged-care residents who are unnecessarily taken to hospital emergency departments.
By
Melissa Maddison
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Cutting the waiting list for older Australians needing aged care in their own homes will be a focus of next week's federal budget.
By political correspondent Louise Yaxley