THE HON. BILL SHORTEN MP LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION SHADOW MINISTER FOR INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS AND ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDERS MEMBER FOR MARIBYRNONG CATHERINE KING MP SHADOW MINISTER FOR HEALTH AND MEDICARE MEMBER FOR BALLARAT LABOR’S RECORD BOOST FOR TYPE 1 DIABETES RESEARCH FOR KIDS A Shorten Labor Government will provide a record boost for

SPEECH TO ALP NATIONAL CONFERENCE REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH RESOLUTION ADELAIDE TUESDAY, 18 DECEMBER 2018 Since we last met, Labor state and territory governments have made significant progress on access to sexual and reproductive health care across Australia. Queensland has decriminalised abortion. The Northern Territory has amended its laws to enable medical termination of pregnancy and overhauled

CATHERINE KING MP SHADOW MINISTER FOR HEALTH AND MEDICARE MEMBER FOR BALLARAT SPEECH TO ALP NATIONAL CONFERENCE “A HEALTH SYSTEM FOR ALL” ADELAIDE Delegates, It’s been three-and-a-half years since I last stood before you and spoke of Labor’s vision of “A Health System For All”. Since then we’ve had quite a fight on our hands.

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