Stephen Duckett author

Dr Stephen Duckett has recently concluded a decade as Director of Grattan Institute’s Health and Aged Care Program. He is an Honorary Enterprise Professor in the School of Population and Global Health and in the Department of General Practice at the University of Melbourne. He has held top health sector leadership positions in Australia and Canada and literally wrote the book on the Australian health care system (Oxford University Press, 6e, 2022). An economist, he is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, and of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.

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Aged Care, Opinion
Who will look after us in our final years? A pay rise alone won’t solve aged-care workforce shortages
Stephen Duckett Mar 19, 2024

Aged-care workers will receive a significant pay increase after the Fair Work Commission ruled they deserved substantial wage rises of up to 28%. The federal

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Aged Care, Opinion
We need a new way to pay for aged care. But it can’t shut out those on low incomes
Stephen Duckett Aug 31, 2023

Aged-care funding is again on the agenda, with the latest Intergenerational Report predicting Australia’s aged population will triple over the next 40 years. As a

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