Catherine King

Catherine King

CATHERINE KING MP
Federal Member Ballarat
Shadow Minister Infrastructure, Transport & Regional Development

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Monday, 05 January 2015 / Published in MEDIA

GST ON HEALTH ANOTHER $3 BILLION A YEAR HIT ON AUSTRALIAN FAMILIES

p>The Abbott Government’s push to introduce the GST to healthcare would be another $3 billion a year slug on Australian families, from a Government determined to wreck Australia’s health system.
 
Senior Victorian Liberal Dan Tehan has today called for families to be slugged with a new GST on school education, university education, healthcare and financial advice.

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The Abbott Government’s push to introduce the GST to healthcare would be another $3 billion a year slug on Australian families, from a Government determined to wreck Australia’s health system.
 
Senior Victorian Liberal Dan Tehan has today called for families to be slugged with a new GST on school education, university education, healthcare and financial advice.
 
His call comes just days after WA Premier Colin Barnett called for the GST to be extended to cover fresh fruit and vegetables.
 
As conservative commentator Judith Sloan has noted, the Abbott Government is now clearly embarking on a campaign to extend the GST and Mr Tehan “presumably has been instructed to write this piece about widening the GST base.”
 
Extending the GST to health would slug families around $3 billion a year on top of the already massive cuts to health and tax hikes it announced in its first Budget.

Coupled with a government that has slashed more than $50 billion from hospital funding, and wants to slug families with a GP Tax every time they visit a doctor, a GST on health care would be the final straw for many families.
 
New Health Minister Sussan Ley must immediately rule out a new GST on hospital visits, going to the doctor and general healthcare.
 
Anything less is another broken promise to families which will increase the cost of living and worsen health outcomes.
 

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