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16 October 2025 - This fact sheet explains the Higher Everyday Living Fee (HELF) that will be introduced on 1 November 2025. It includes useful information on the new fee and the transition from previous arrangements for both providers and consumers.

11 October 2022 - ACFA operated from 2012 following the Living Longer Living Better reforms to aged care until 30 June 2021. It provided independent advice about aged care funding and financing to the Australian Government, including the provision of an annual report on the funding of the aged care industry.

16 November 2025 - The Private Hospital Stream is part of the Junior Doctor Training Program. It supports education, training and supervision for junior doctors in private hospitals, supporting junior doctors to work in expanded settings, including working in rural communities.

23 April 2025 - This webinar gave aged care providers and older people, families and carers an overview of how residential care fees are changing under the Aged Care Act from 1 July 2025.

2 September 2021 - Australian Health Protection Principal Committee (AHPPC) statement on managed quarantine for international arrivals including hotel quarantine

17 March 2025 - The new Public Health (Tobacco and Other Products) Act 2023 discourages the use of tobacco and e-cigarette products and continues the ban on oral tobacco. It sets out new tobacco product, packaging and reporting requirements and bans tobacco and e-cigarette advertising and sponsorships.

20 March 2025 - A list of our initiatives, programs, campaigns, reforms or reviews related to mental health and suicide prevention.

4 December 2025 - The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Collaboration group provides advice to the Health Chief Executive Forum and Health Ministers Meeting on matters relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health.

6 April 2025 - Under the first stage of the 60-day dispensing policy, eligible Australians living with chronic health conditions will have access to 92 cheaper Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) medicines.

6 April 2025 - Killarney Memorial Aged Care will deliver holistic team-based care under the Innovative Models of Care Program to provide a collaborative network of multidisciplinary healthcare professionals.