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Abstract The Aged Persons' Homes Act 1954 initiated the now extensive involvement of the Commonwealth Government in funding housing and residential care for older Australians. This article reviews the House and Senate debates related to this legislation from early 1950 to the present. The aim is to identify recurrent themes and ideology underlying the political debate, and their relationship to actual program developments. An understanding of these ideas and expectations can assist in considering options for policy reform in the future.
Dargavel et al. (Thu,) studied this question.