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The Retirement Village Residents Association (Inc)
ABN 16 674 035 894 |
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MEDIA LINKS Links to various items relating to Retirement Villages in the media. |
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1 February 2012
Sydney Morning Herald Aim for a stress-free move Aged-care facilities and retirement villages are poorly understood so it pays to understand the difference. As Bette Davis said, getting old isn't for sissies! Botox might deal with the wrinkles on the outside (if you want to take that route) but the worries inside stay the same. 
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5 November 2011
Sydney Morning Herald
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Retirement villages no guarantee of nursing care There is a real misunderstanding that when people go into retirement villages they will get additional care services. Elderly people mistakenly believe buying into a retirement village will guarantee them extra help or priority entry to a related nursing home, a study reveals. |
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26 October 2011
Sydney Morning Herald
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Back in control A court win for a group of retirement village occupants has reaffirmed laws giving resident-owners the right to control the sale of their units. Retirement village legislation in NSW and Victoria bars the practice of village managers insisting on naming the selling agent and setting the price. |
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12 October 2011
Sydney Morning Herald
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Money - Top position within reach It might not feel like it to retirees who are in the trenches battling the ravages of the global financial crisis but Australia's retirement income system is one of the best in the world. Second-best, in fact, according to a global survey released last night. |
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28 September 2011
Sunshine Coast Daily
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Slugged $25k after eight-week stay Ngaire Pye thought she was set for life when she moved into a serviced apartment at a luxury Peregian Springs retirement resort. Eight weeks later she left disappointed and $25,000 out of pocket. |
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29 July 2011
The Hon Anthony Roberts - Minister for Fair Trading - "Media Release".
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EXPERTS TO SIMPLIFY RETIREMENT VILLAGE CONTRACTS Fair Trading Minister Anthony Roberts has appointed an expert committee to help develop a set of standard terms to be used in all retirement village contracts. |
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30 June 2011
To Day Show - "Complaints spark SA retirement home review".
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Complaints about retirement villages have sparked a review with submissions sought from the public into the state of the industry ln South Australia. |
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25 May 2011
Sydney Morning Herald - "Village lifeline".
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Following a court victory, retirement home residents can get more transparency when it comes to charges. Article by Lesley Parker |
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28 April 2011
The Australian - "Developers slam ATO retirement village slug".
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PRIVATE retirement village developers were up in arms last night over an Australian Taxation Office ruling. |
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28 April 2011
ABC News - The world Today "ATO ruling to make retirement villages more expensive".
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Jennifer Macey reports - Transcript of interview. |
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14 April 2011
Australian Ageing Agenda - "RV residents vindicated in Stockland Stoush".
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Residents from a retirement village on NSW's mid north coast are celebrating a victory in what they describe as a David versus Goliath dispute with their village operator, |
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10April 2011
Sunday Telegraph - "Arise and take action".
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Citizen Power is the final defence against bad development By Wendy Harmer |
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5 April 2011
Courier Mail (Queensland) - "Elderly fleeced as aged care living policies fail ".
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Queensland seniors are being fleeced by big business...... |
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2 April 2011
Australian Financial Review - "Retirement villages need cleaning up".
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The country's thriving retirement village sector is taking some heavy hits to it's reputation as the Productive Commission inquiry into caring for older Australians uncovers financial horror stories. |
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2 April 2011
Sydney Morning Herald - "Jimmy Thompson".
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New broom - sweeping changes? |
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1 April 2011
Australian Financial Review - "Bankrupt retirement village sold.".
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This article relates to South Australia. |
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March 2011
CHOICE - "Retirement villages.".
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Moving to a retirement village can be a costly exercise; CHOICE outlines five key risks. This article has been "sourced with permission". |
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27 March 2011
The Canberra Times - "Creditors in the dark as DCM Green's light dims".
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ONE OF Australia's largest solar panel installers has gone into administration leaving debts understood to be worth millions of dollars and unfulfilled contracts with customers in Canberra, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. |
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23 February 2011
Camden Haven Courier - "Retirement village legislation a "dog's breakfast".
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RESIDENTS of Queens Lake Village (QLV) turned up in numbers last Thursday to discuss with the NSW shadow minister for Fair Trading their dispute with the new owners of their retirement home complex. |
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16 February 2011
Sydney Morning Herald - Money section - "Lifestyle's hidden costs".
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Retirement villages are a popular choice but can be a huge drain on finances, writes Lesley Parker. |
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14 February 2011
The 7.00pm Project - "Crisis in Aged Care".
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Jennifer Byrne looks at the aged care crisis. |
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January 2011
The Senior - "Our Village" State Resident Bodies form collation.
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Retirement village Residents across Australia will be represented by a united National Body. |
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9 January 2011
Sun Herald - "naked eye" Alex Mitchell comments on Minister's Speach writer.
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Alex Mitchell makes comment on the extraordinary amount paid by Government Ministers to Speech writers. |
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1 January 2011
State of the Nation.
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Wilf Robinson is the author of "Downsized in Paradise" - the definitive book on Community Lifestyle Retirement. The following is from the introduction to his paper "State of the Nation" World population growth is reaching an unsustainable level. While countries grapple with economics to manage the increase in population size – but none have systems to control the growth itself Economic principles may have served mankind during eras of populate or perish – but where growth is not infinite, and where economics = growth at any cost, growth is unsustainable. As a means of sustainability to an overcrowded planet – it is a disaster waiting to happen. One of the first victims of an unsustainable economic system is the elderly – wherein they become a burden to carry when their productivity capacity is overtaken by more virile younger persons. What to do with the elderly is one of mankind’s greatest ghosts – set to haunt every younger generation. It is said that primitive hunter-gatherer-nomads would simply leave the elderly by the wayside when their pace dropped to a level that could not keep pace with the pack, when they could not earn their food. Has anything changed? Do we kid ourselves that we are anything but primitive? What is the ideal status? |
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18 November 2010
Application of formulas for the variation of recurrent charges: Contract remains King
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This article is a report of a recent CTTT Hearing by Gadens Lawyers as reported on the "Litigation, Mediation & Arbitration" web site. |
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6 September 2010
Australian Property News - Retirement village structure 'needs reform'
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This article is in response to Jennie Brown's comments about retirement villages that appeared in Australian Property News week earlier. |
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23rd August 2010
Find Your Retirement Home - Blog
An interesting series of 10 articles (as at 23/08/2010) relating to Retirement Villages. |
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11th August 2010
Canberra Times:
Retirement villages object to new rules
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15th October 2009
Media Release:
Greg Aplin MP, Shadow Minister for Fair Trading
NSW Lib/Nats to standardise retirement village contracts. |
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12th February 1992
Caught in the web of retirement villages
Ben Hills - Sydney Morning Herald
Retirement villages - beware of the traps and rip-offs. |
