UN REPORT SHOWS WHY AUSTRALIA MUST TACKLE INEQUALITY
Friday, 15 April 2016
The newly released United Nations report, Fairness for Children, shows Australia ranks 27th out of 35 countries in health equality outcomes among OECD countries and 24th out of 37 in education equality results.
- Published in MEDIA
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WELCOME TO BALLARAT MINISTER NOW EXPLAIN WHY YOU WANT TO WRECK OUR HOSPITAL
Friday, 15 April 2016
I welcome the Minister for Health’s visit to our local hospital today and hope she takes the time to listen to the staff about the damage being done by her Government’s cuts to public hospitals.
- Published in MEDIA
MORE LIBERAL AGILITY ON TOBACCO TAX
Friday, 15 April 2016
Labor welcomes today’s reports the Liberal Party is set to back Labor’s world leading tobacco policy after yet another backflip.
- Published in MEDIA
HEALTH MINISTER DISAPPOINTED STATES BAULKED AT LIBERALS DOUBLE TAXATION PLANS
Saturday, 02 April 2016
- Published in MEDIA
PATIENTS THE VICTIMS OF THE TURNBULL $5 BILLION HOSPITAL HEIST
Friday, 01 April 2016
Patients will suffer, and emergency and elective surgery waiting times will worsen as a result of Malcolm Turnbull’s decision to rip almost $5 billion out of public hospitals over the next four years.
- Published in MEDIA
TURNBULL GOVERNMENT HIDES GLOWING REVIEW OF LABORS CHILD DENTAL BENEFITS SCHEME
Thursday, 31 March 2016
The Turnbull Government has attempted to bury a glowing review by its own Department of Health which directly repudiates its attempt to scrap Labor’s Child Dental Benefits Scheme.
- Published in MEDIA
HEALTH MINISTER SHUT OUT AS TURNBULL REPUDIATES ATTACK ON HOSPITAL FUNDING
Thursday, 31 March 2016
The Minister for Health has confirmed she has been shut out of negotiations on hospital funding, after her attack on Labor’s hospital funding policy was directly repudiated by the Prime Minister.
- Published in MEDIA
CHRONIC DISEASE CANNOT BE MANAGED BY CUTTING $2 BILLION FOR GENERAL PRACTICE
Thursday, 31 March 2016
Proposals to better manage chronic care are doomed unless the Turnbull Government abandons its more than $2 billion in cuts to general practice.
- Published in MEDIA
PATIENTS SUFFER AS TURNBULL GOVERNMENT BRAWLS OVER HOSPITALS
Wednesday, 23 March 2016
Labor is deeply concerned at reports patients are being held hostage by a brawl between the Prime Minister and Treasurer over Malcolm Turnbull’s attempt to buy off the states with a pre-election bribe on hospital funding.
- Published in MEDIA
HODGMAN PUTS LIBERAL MATE BEFORE STATE AS TASMANIAN HOSPITALS CRIPPLED BY TURNBULL CUTS
Tuesday, 22 March 2016
Labor is deeply disappointed the Hodgman Government has refused access to the Royal Hobart Hospital site at a time when its Liberal mates in Canberra are gutting the state’s hospital funding.
- Published in MEDIA