BALLARAT SCHOOLS TO SUFFER FROM TURNBULL GONSKI DECEIT
Wednesday, 30 December 2015
Malcolm Turnbull’s decision to abandon our schools will have a devastating impact on the Ballarat region.
- Published in MEDIA
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TURNBULL CANT BE TRUSTED ON MEDICARE REVIEW
Monday, 28 December 2015
Labor is happy to look at sensible reforms to Medicare, but Australians are right to be deeply suspicious about the motives of a government which has already ripped more than $60 billion from health, and sought to slug them with a tax every time they visit the doctor.
- Published in MEDIA
HEPATITIS C DRUG LISTING LONG OVERDUE
Sunday, 20 December 2015
Labor welcomes the long overdue decision to finally list potentially life saving hepatitis C drugs on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.
- Published in MEDIA
PLAIN PACKAGING WIN A VICTORY FOR PUBLIC HEALTH
Friday, 18 December 2015
Today’s decision to uphold Labor’s world leading plain packaging laws is a victory for public health and a vindication of the strategy Labor adopted in government, under Health Ministers Nicola Roxon and Tanya Plibersek.
- Published in MEDIA
BULK BILLING FACTS CONTRADICT MINISTER
Thursday, 17 December 2015
A media release on the Minister for Health’s own website has directly contradicted her justification for the Mid-Year Budget decision to scrap bulk billing incentives for pathology and diagnostic imaging.
- Published in MEDIA
FIGURES CONFIRM GP TAX BY STEALTH WILL HURT PATIENTS
Wednesday, 16 December 2015
Malcolm Turnbull’s $2.1 billion attack on health care will be devastating to patients, and could be even more damaging for some than Tony Abbott’s GP Tax, new figures confirm.
- Published in MEDIA
LIBERALS CUT UNIVERSITY CLINICAL TRAINING TO THE BONE
Wednesday, 16 December 2015
Fewer aspiring doctors and allied health practitioners will have access to clinical training – especially in rural and regional locations – thanks to Malcom Turnbull’s decision to axe the Clinical Training Fund.
- Published in MEDIA
LEY ADMITS SOME MAY BE WORSE OFF FROM MYEFO HEALTH CUTS
Wednesday, 16 December 2015
The Minister for Health has flatly contradicted the Finance Minister and Treasurer by admitting Malcolm Turnbull’s cut to pathology and diagnostic imaging will leave some patients worse off
- Published in MEDIA
DIFFERENT LEADER, MORE HEALTH CUTS
Tuesday, 15 December 2015
Malcolm Turnbull’s first major economic statement has continued Tony Abbott’s attack on health care. Another $2.1 billion in cuts will make health care even less affordable to millions of Australians.
- Published in MEDIA
POOREST HIT HARDEST BY GST ON FOOD
Thursday, 10 December 2015
The independent Parliamentary Budget Office has confirmed the heaviest burden of a GST on fresh food will fall on those least able to pay.
- Published in MEDIA