Malcolm Turnbull has used his year as Prime Minister to prove he isn’t Tony Abbott – he is even worse.

Labor will fight the Government’s plan to hand private and intimate health data that is usually only disclosed between a person and their GP to a for-profit telecommunications corporation.

Labor will oppose the Government’s axing of the Child Dental Benefits Schedule (CDBS), standing up against Malcolm Turnbull’s plan to force over five million children onto long public dental waiting lists.

In an interview in today’s Australian, Mr Turnbull said the Government had “not decided to change the policy”. This is in spite of Mr Turnbull’s comments, in the same interview, that “what we have to do this term is categorically reassure Australians about our commitment to universal health and Medicare”. Mr Turnbull’s comments echo his

The Government’s triumphalism about today’s bulk billing figures shows how out of touch they are on Medicare. As the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners has said previously, the statistics the Government is using are “misleading” and “should be rejected”. That’s because they measure the number of services that are bulk billed, not the number

Malcolm Turnbull has confirmed that he is continuing with every one of his cuts to Medicare. In Question Time today, Opposition Leader Bill Shorten asked the Prime Minister which of his health cuts he had reversed in the two months since the election. This followed Mr Turnbull’s claim that he had learned the lesson of