Submission to the Productivity Commission: Inquiry into Caring for Older Australians
Published: 12 August 2010
The QNU thanks the Productivity Commission (the Commission) for providing this opportunity to comment on the current aged care services and to make recommendations on how the federal government can improve these services. Our submission responds to the questions the Commission specifically posed in its issues paper Caring for Older Australians (the paper), and includes some comments from individual members (see Attachment A). A number of our members have also made individual submissions directly to the Commission.
Aged care relies on its dedicated workforce. As a trade union we represent the industrial and professional interests of our members who provide the care our older Australians expect and deserve. We therefore begin our submission with an overview of the QNU and the nursing profession in order to bring to light the nature of the work our members undertake when caring for the community and in particular our older Australians.
We ask the Commission to read this submission in conjunction with that of our federal counterpart the Australian Nursing Federation (ANF).
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Attached documents:
- Caring for Older Australians QNU submission (PDF File 343.7 KB)
- Attachment A (PDF File 1.2 MB)
- Attachment B (PDF File 687.8 KB)
- Attachment C (PDF File 263.7 KB)
- Attachment D (PDF File 560.6 KB)
- Attachment E (PDF File 209.2 KB)
- Attachment F (PDF File 1.4 MB)
- Attachment G (PDF File 351.2 KB)
- Attachment H (a) (PDF File 103.2 KB)
- Attachment H (b) (PDF File 124.9 KB)
- Attachment H (c) (PDF File 106.9 KB)
