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Australia cares
- Date published: 1/3/2024
- Author/s: Sydney Policy Lab, University of Sydney
- Summary: Launched in 2022 by Sydney Policy Lab, 'Australia Cares' is a project formed out of dialogues with public policy experts, care recipients and practitioners aiming to 'radically transform' Australia's systems, practices, and cultures of care. This report makes clear that it is not a welfare reform project, but an initiative that aims to challenge the ways we live and organise our communities. In short, the project believes that the narrow, short-term, gendered and individualist thinking that has shaped our care system must be replaced with something better.
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Search all ThemesFacts about carers
A carer is any individual who provides care and support to a family member, child or friend who lives with a disability, mental illness, alcohol or drug dependency, chronic condition, terminal illness or who is frail due to age. There are more than 2.65 million carers across Australia.
Many carers don't use the word ‘carer’ to describe themselves. However, each one of us is likely to become a carer for a family member or friend at some stage in our lives. Carers come from all walks of life, cultural backgrounds and age groups.
For many, caring is a 24 hour-a-day job with emotional, physical and financial impacts that can also affect their participation in employment, education and community activities.
* Australian Bureau of Statistics 2018 Survey of Disability, Ageing and Carers
** Deloitte Access Economics 2020 The value of informal care in 2020
*** Carers NSW 2020 National Carer Survey
1 in 10 Australians
is a carer*
260,700 carers
are aged 25 years and under*
8 million hours
of care are provided by Australian carers every week*
$77.9 billion
is how much it would cost every year to replace carers**
1 in 3
carers are highly socially isolated***
About the Carer Knowledge Exchange
Connecting research to practice
The Carer Knowledge Exchange is a partnership project delivered by Carers NSW and the Institute for Public Policy and Governance at the University of Technology Sydney, proudly funded by the NSW Government. The project brings together carers, former carers, researchers, students, decision makers, professionals and service providers to share their knowledge about carers and learn from each other with the aim to improve outcomes for carers across Australia. It features an interactive digital platform and a range of events and opportunities. Find out more below.