Australia s most respected LGBTI news source
Friday 19 April 2013 | Issue 1171 | starobserver.
com.
au
RickyMartin
giveaway
page07
Francesays
‘Ido’
page10
ANZACDay
sceneguide
page11
Kaki’sbackwith
anewglow
page15
Tossedfromthetopspot
Coalition
heeds LGBTI...
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Australia s most respected LGBTI news source
Friday 19 April 2013 | Issue 1171 | starobserver.
com.
au
RickyMartin
giveaway
page07
Francesays
‘Ido’
page10
ANZACDay
sceneguide
page11
Kaki’sbackwith
anewglow
page15
Tossedfromthetopspot
Coalition
heeds LGBTI
ageing issues
National
Benn Dorrington
The Coalition supports greater awareness
of older LGBTI Australians but it will
wait for committee recommendations
on whether it will support the federal
government’s raft of reforms currently in
Parliament.
Ageing minister Mark Butler announced
the National LGBTI Ageing and Aged Care
Strategy last December which included a
number of measures to make aged care
services LGBTI-friendlier, such as staff
training worth $2.
5 million over five years.
The strategy is part of the larger Living
Longer Living Better package of general
aged care law reforms that the Coalition is
yet to endorse.
One of the reforms is the inclusion of
LGBTI people as a special needs group
in aged care that would essential
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