PBS FIGURES REVEAL DOUBLE HIT TO SICK AUSTRALIANS
Sunday, 24 August 2014
Health Department figures have revealed the double hit to sick Australians from the Abbott Government’s GP Tax and PBS price hikes.
- Published in MEDIA
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PBO CONFIRMS ABBOTT’S $75 BILLION HEALTH LIE
Saturday, 23 August 2014
The independent Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) has revealed the Abbott Government is ripping another $23.3 billion out of health over the next decade with its GP Tax, cuts to MBS rebates and hikes in medicine prices.
- Published in MEDIA
BAD FOR HEALTH, BAD FOR PATIENTS, BAD FOR THE BUDGET: SENATE INQUIRY SAYS SCRAP THE GP TAX AND PBS HIKES
Friday, 22 August 2014
It’s official Prime Minister – your GP Tax and PBS hikes are a disaster and must be scrapped.
- Published in MEDIA
ABBOTT’S UNFAIR GP TAX IS NOT FIXABLE
Thursday, 21 August 2014
The GP Tax is unfair, regressive and bad health policy. Taxing sick Australians will only prevent them seeing a doctor, leading to more serious and expensive health problems
- Published in MEDIA
ROTTEN GP TAX MUST BE AXED NOT AMENDED
Wednesday, 20 August 2014
No amount of fiddling can fix Tony Abbott’s rotten GP Tax and it should be axed today, following more reports the Government is considering amending the unfair tax.
- Published in MEDIA
BALLAN RED CROSS CELEBRATES 100 YEARS
Wednesday, 20 August 2014
Federal Member for Ballarat Catherine King today joined members of the Ballan Branch of the Australian Red Cross to celebrate the centenary of the branch.
- Published in MEDIA
ABBOTT INSULTS PENSIONERS ON GP TAX
Wednesday, 20 August 2014
Tony Abbott has again insulted Australian pensioners by declaring they don’t deserve access to universal health care
- Published in MEDIA
ABBOTTS CUTS TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT CONFIRMED
Tuesday, 19 August 2014
Federal Member for Ballarat Catherine King today warned that local roads and community infrastructure would be a casualty of Tony Abbott’s budget cuts to Local Government Financial Assistance Grants.
- Published in MEDIA
ABBOTT CUTS $605 MILLION FROM TERRITORY HOSPITALS
Monday, 18 August 2014
The Abbott Government must come clean with Territorians about the damage its cuts to hospital funding, the GP tax, the proposed hospital tax and medicine price hike will do to the Top End’s health system.
- Published in MEDIA
CLP DISCOVERS MEDI-HOTEL TWO YEARS LATE
Monday, 18 August 2014
The CLP Government’s decision to finally use Labor’s Darwin medi-hotel to relieve pressure on Royal Darwin Hospital comes two years too late.
- Published in MEDIA