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Cassandra Winzar

Cassandra Winzar

Cassandra Winzar is a Senior Economist at the Committee for Economic Development of Australia.

Illustration by Simon Letch

To attract the aged care workers we need, Australia must do something radical

Australia will need at least half a million additional aged care workers by 2050. Current efforts to find them are just not working. We need to try something else.

  • Cassandra Winzar

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A larger proportion of the population has benefited from this shift to WFH.

Benefits of WFH now too big to ignore

One-third of Australians work from home regularly. But they’re not doing it for the money.

  • Cassandra Winzar
Poor pay rates have made it difficult to attract long- term staff into aged care.

It’s not a generation war, charging the wealthy more is essential to fix our aged care disaster

There is a crisis in aged care: beds are empty, while people are being forced into hospitals due to a lack of beds. Reforms are urgently required.

  • Melinda Cilento and Cassandra Winzar
Aged care homes are in crisis, according to the Prime Minister.

Radical reform needed to staff aged care sector

The federal government must come up with sustained initiatives to make careers in the aged-care sector more attractive. This means wages need to increase permanently.

  • Cassandra Winzar