Whether you’re a new leader or an experienced head, workplaces are constantly changing. It’s always worth self-reflecting on your leadership style to ensure you effectively support your team and organisation as a whole. In this section, you’ll find a collection of informative articles to help you become the best leader you can be.
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Why KPMG’s whistleblower failure should concern every aged care provider
Following KPMG’s high-profile whistleblower governance failure, Australian aged care directors face heightened scrutiny. Under the new Aged Care Act, leaders can be personally fined up to $165,000 for non-compliant reporting systems, even if the organisation itself escapes regulatory action.
The future of aged care is led by organisations that keep learning
Workforce shortages remain a challenge, but technology is creating a new capability gap. Leaders who invest in continuous learning, workforce development and organisational adaptability will be best placed to navigate the future of Australia’s aged care sector.
Aged care divided cannot score its goals – part 3: exhaustion, loss of MVPs and when risk is the best strategy
Aged care’s greatest loss may not be funding or capacity — it may be the experienced leaders walking away. As reform fatigue deepens, Juniper Care CEO Russell Bricknell warns that exhaustion is driving talent from the sector and exposing the limits of an increasingly risk-averse system. From dignity of risk to lessons from Europe, he outlines why a fundamental shift in thinking may be needed to secure aged care’s future.
Aged Care Week 2026 – Diverse thought leaders lean in for collaborative solves
Aged Care Week 2026 brought sector leaders to Sydney to confront governance, AI, recruitment and rights-based care head-on. Across three days, a clear theme emerged: providers leaning into honest, on-the-ground lessons to shape a more sustainable future.
Support at Home’s design flaws are now a governance problem, outgoing watchdog tells Senate
Outgoing Inspector-General Natalie Siegel-Brown tells a Senate inquiry that Support at Home’s assessment algorithm, means-testing design and co-payment structure are driving older Australians into costlier residential care. And warns the budget isn’t the problem – the administration is.
The leadership test hiding inside aged care’s consolidation wave
When 642 providers have become the new normal and consolidation still accelerating, the question boards should be asking isn’t whether consolidation can be stopped. It’s whether the leadership inside their organisation is built for what comes next.
Aged care divided cannot score its goals – part 2: exhaustion and playing by the rules ending in penalties
The promise of aged care reform was better care, stronger safeguards and a more sustainable future. But nine months into the new regulatory landscape, many providers say the cost of compliance is draining resources, exhausting teams and making growth harder to achieve. In this candid interview, Juniper CEO Russell Bricknell reflects on the realities of reform, the challenge of building new capacity, and why long-term solutions remain trapped by short-term decision-making.
Your clients own the house. They can’t fund the care.
Dianne Shepherd has spent 20 years watching older Australians run out of cash while sitting on million-dollar homes. She says Support at Home doesn’t close the funding gap and that aged care providers are building care plans on assumptions that won’t hold.
Support at Home is failing regional Australia – one hour at a time
The top home care package funds 20 hours a week. Advanced dementia needs round-the-clock supervision. What happens in the remaining 148 hours? Rosie Fitzgerald can tell you.
Ambulances on ramps and older Australians on waitlists: Daniel Gannon wants governments to connect the dots
Retirement villages aren’t a lifestyle product: they’re health infrastructure. Daniel Gannon makes the case that without planning reform and supply investment, the pipeline crisis feeding hospital strain and aged care pressure will only deepen.
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