Jane Timbrell
Jane Timbrell is a retired trade union official, she is the Deputy Convenor and Campaign Manager of the Vintage Reds of the Canberra Region (an organisation of retired progressive trade unionists). In 2023, Jane was appointed to the ACT Governments Retirement Villages Working Group and in 2024 she was reappointed to the ACT Ministerial Advisory Council on Ageing.
Recent articles by Jane Timbrell
28 October 2024
How can we make retirement villages better for residents?
Recently, the matter of retirement villages has come to the fore in the media, led by investigative journalist Adele Ferguson on ABC 7.30 Report. Ferguson’s report and case studies raised the question of “what protections should be put in place to protect the residents from the avarice of owners and operators of retirement villages?”
3 September 2024
The sisterhood reads Pearls and Irritations
In my article published last week I referred to my tram-driver grandfather and my home duties grandmother, but instead P&I amended it to read my tram-driving grandfather and my grandmother who did not work. Nothing could be further from the truth. My second wave feminist friends and I were incensed and rightfully so. My grandmother did work, but not in the paid workforce; she, like her contemporaries, was described as Home Duties in the print and electronic media, on electoral rolls and other public documents. This is a lesson for young editors.
30 August 2024
Retirement villages: are they really a safe haven for retirees?
The looming question for me and my partner is “where might we live as we grow older and frailer?” For us, the ideal place is likely to be a retirement village. But at what cost?