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10 June 2025 - This Glossary for the Guiding Principles and User Guide contains terms, and if appropriate, definitions from external sources, that have been adapted to support and fit the context of the Guiding principles documents and User Guide: Role of a Medication Advisory Committee.

2 June 2025 - These lecture plans and tutorial activities are intended to help educators integrate the Framework’s intellectual disability health core capabilities into pre-registration health curricula.

22 May 2025 - This compliance update includes information on the support available, lessons learned from during 2022–23. The focus for compliance in 2023–24 is listed below. Providers should review their processes to ensure they remain compliant.

4 June 2025 - The Australian Government pays providers a subsidy for giving residential respite care.

5 February 2025 - The Australian Government is investing close to $20 million in funding for Australian researchers to support groundbreaking national research. This will give new hope to Australian children, adolescents and young adults with childhood brain cancers.

4 June 2025 - Restrictive practices should be used only as a last resort to help prevent harm to older people in aged care and their carers. Recent changes to laws strengthen existing requirements and put measures in place to reduce the inappropriate use of restrictive practices.

11 June 2025 - The national guidance and associated documents provide a framework to identify workers exposed to respirable crystalline silica dust, and supports medical practitioners to carry out health surveillance within their specific training and experience.

11 July 2025 - To further improve the transparency of Home Care Package pricing for senior Australians, their families and carers, the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing publishes national median prices for common home care services, care management and package management. This data is updated quarterly.

10 June 2025 - This facilitator guide supports discussion about duty of care practice in aged care.

31 January 2018 - This National Asthma Strategy 2018 outlines a national response to asthma. It identifies the most effective and appropriate interventions to reduce the impact of asthma in the community.