Please find attached the March 2025 Aged Care Performance Survey Analysis Report, covering the 9-month 1 July 2024 to 31 March 2025 period which incorporates detailed financial and supporting data from 1,192 aged care homes (99,323 beds/places) and 79,975 home care packages across Australia.

Click here to download a PDF copy of the Stewartbrown Aged Care Financial Performance Survey Analysis report for March 2025 (Nine months).

StewartBrown are pleased to announce the release of StewartBrown FY24 Retirement Living Performance Survey Report.

This report is first annual Retirement Living Report which joins the stable of detailed granular sector reports that StewartBrown first established in 1995 with the Aged Care Financial Performance Report and the Corporate Administration Survey which commenced in 2016.

79 retirement living operators participated in the FY24 Survey, which incorporated 455 individual villages with 31,000 village units.

With the demographic shift to persons entering the retirement living sector increasing to 78.4 years with one in three residents being over 85 years of age, the sector is moving to a combination of accommodation and continuum of care settings. The Survey combines granular analysis of the financial and demographic attributes of the sector with an overlay highlighting the increasing demands to provide access to care and wellbeing for residents.

We wish to acknowledge the important contribution to the Survey from DCM Group and Ageing Australia.

StewartBrown will be actively building the dataset and further increase the participation for the FY25 Survey to include a greater number of for-profit (private) operators as well as additional not-for-profit operators who already participate in our aged care Survey.

If your organisation is interested in registering to become a participant in the Retirement Living Survey’s please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Click here to view or download a PDF copy of the StewartBrown FY24 Retirement Living Performance Survey Report.

Careful planning and timing are always important when taxation is concerned. To help inform clients, we have prepared this checklist which you may find helpful in planning your year-end tax strategies. This document is not exhaustive, and your individual circumstances must be considered.

'Wild' tax deduction attempts

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) recently revealed some of the 'wild' work related expense tax claims people have tried to "put past" the ATO, including the following: