LIBERALS 15 PER CENT GST ON FOOD TO WORSEN OBESITY CRISIS
Wednesday, 09 December 2015
Malcolm Turnbull’s obsession with lifting the GST and extending it to fresh food would drive up Australia’s already alarming rates of obesity and be a disaster for health from a government determined to wreck Australia's health system.
- Published in MEDIA
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BALLARAT SNUBBED IN BASKETBALL GAMES
Monday, 07 December 2015
Federal Member for Ballarat, Catherine King says Ballarat has again been ignored by Malcolm Turnbull and the Liberal government, with the Ballarat Basketball Association being passed over for the second time while funding is provided for similar projects in metropolitan Liberal electorates.
- Published in MEDIA
EUREKA 161st ANIVERSARY SPEECH
Thursday, 03 December 2015
Eureka is a moment of history very close to my heart, and very close to home, occurring within my electorate of Ballarat in Victoria.
- Published in MEDIA
GOVERNMENT MUST GO MUCH FURTHER ON MEDICINAL CANNABIS
Wednesday, 02 December 2015
Labor welcomes the Government’s decision to adopt Labor’s policy to have a single national scheme to regulate the cultivation of medicinal cannabis.
- Published in MEDIA
PLAIN PACKAGING LAWS HELP SEND TOBACCO CONSUMPTION TO YET ANOTHER RECORD LOW
Wednesday, 02 December 2015
Labor’s world leading plain packaging laws have helped drive tobacco consumption down to yet another new record low.
- Published in MEDIA
WORLD AIDS DAY PARLIAMENTARY BREAKFAST SPEECH
Tuesday, 01 December 2015
Our aim must remain, absolutely, as it has been in the global World AIDS Day theme for the past five years: zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination, zero AIDS-related deaths.
- Published in MEDIA
MEDICARE SAFETY NET CHANGES ANOTHER HEALTH DEBACLE
Tuesday, 01 December 2015
Labor welcomes the Turnbull Government’s decision to shelve its unfair and flawed changes to the Medicare Safety Nets. Today’s announcement is a vindication of Labor’s decision to stand firm against the plan to rip another $267 million off patients.
- Published in MEDIA
SENATE MUST PUT PATIENTS FIRST
Monday, 30 November 2015
The Senate must today put patients first and reject Malcolm Turnbull’s flawed plans to rip $270 million from the Medicare Safety Nets.
- Published in MEDIA
HEALTH MINISTER PANS TOBACCO TAX OPEN TO NEW TAX ON FRESH FOOD
Sunday, 29 November 2015
Labor is deeply disappointed the Minister for Health Sussan Ley has reversed her long standing support for higher tobacco taxes at the same time as her Government presses ahead with a GST on fresh food.
- Published in MEDIA
MORE DETAIL NEEDED FROM GOVERNMENT RESPONSE ON MENTAL HEALTH REFORM
Thursday, 26 November 2015
Labor is pleased that the government has finally responded to the National Mental Health Commission review into mental health programmes and services one year after it was provided to them.
- Published in MEDIA