THE HON. BILL SHORTEN MP LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION SHADOW MINISTER FOR INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS & ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDERS MEMBER FOR MARIBYRNONG THE HON. CATHERINE KING MP SHADOW MINISTER FOR HEALTH AND MEDICARE MEMBER FOR BALLARAT Labor is inviting consumers, experts and the private health sector to have their say on how to improve

After five years of relentless public hospital cuts, Scott Morrison and the Liberals simply cannot be trusted to deliver on a promise of extra funding. This tricky announcement does not match Labor’s funding, and it does not reverse the savage cuts that Scott Morrison has inflicted on every public hospital in Australia. As Treasurer, Morrison

The 13 million Australians with private health insurance will be slugged with another above-inflation private health insurance hike next year because Scott Morrison’s Liberals have failed to stand up to the insurers and get prices under control. Premiums have already risen more than $1,000 a year under the Liberals – up 27 per cent since

Australians are languishing for longer in emergency departments and on elective surgery waiting lists because of the savage cuts the Liberals have inflicted on the nation’s hospitals. As Treasurer, Morrison inflicted savage cuts on health and hospitals in every budget he authored. Now we are seeing the damage those cuts have done. Two new reports

CATHERINE KING SHADOW MINISTER FOR HEALTH AND MEDICARE MEMBER FOR BALLARAT MALARNDIRRI MCCARTHY CHAIR OF THE SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON STILLBIRTH RESEARCH AND EDUCATION LABOR SENATOR FOR NT KRISTINA KENEALLY MEMBER OF THE SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON STILLBIRTH RESEARCH AND EDUCATION LABOR SENATOR FOR NSW We welcome the Government’s announcement that it will follow our

After five years of Liberal dithering this is what you get: more and more Australians downgrading or ditching their private health cover in response to relentless price rises, soaring out-of-pocket costs and growing exclusions. The latest ACCC report into private health insurance offers yet more confirmation that the Liberals’ so-called “reforms” – designed hand-in-hand with

Labor welcomes the Morrison Government’s decision to heed our call to give more people living with Type 1 diabetes free access to the technology they need to improve their lives. We went to the 2016 election with an $80 million promise to expand subsidies for Continuous Glucose Monitoring devices so that pregnant women and high-risk

THE HON TANYA PLIBERSEK MP   DEPUTY LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION SHADOW MINISTER FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING SHADOW MINISTER FOR WOMEN MEMBER FOR SYDNEY THE HON CATHERINE KING MP SHADOW MINISTER FOR HEALTH AND MEDICARE MEMBER FOR BALLARAT HEALTHY HAROLD GETS A LIFELINE FROM LABOR A Shorten Labor Government will reverse Morrison Government cuts to Healthy

Private health insurers are raking in the profits even as more Australians are being forced to abandon their coverage because of ever-increasing costs. The latest Australian Prudential Regulation Authority figures show the insurers took in more than $24 billion in revenue from premiums in the year to September 2018 but paid out only $20.4 billion

The Morrison Government has been dragged kicking and screaming into accepting an extension to the My Health Record opt-out period. For months, Labor has been calling for an extension in order to get this important reform right. For months, the Liberals have been insisting there was no need for an extension. But in the Senate