Malcolm Turnbull’s decision to abandon our schools will have a devastating impact on the Ballarat region.

Labor is happy to look at sensible reforms to Medicare, but Australians are right to be deeply suspicious about the motives of a government which has already ripped more than $60 billion from health, and sought to slug them with a tax every time they visit the doctor.

Labor welcomes the long overdue decision to finally list potentially life saving hepatitis C drugs on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.

Today’s decision to uphold Labor’s world leading plain packaging laws is a victory for public health and a vindication of the strategy Labor adopted in government, under Health Ministers Nicola Roxon and Tanya Plibersek.

A media release on the Minister for Health’s own website has directly contradicted her justification for the Mid-Year Budget decision to scrap bulk billing incentives for pathology and diagnostic imaging.

Malcolm Turnbull’s $2.1 billion attack on health care will be devastating to patients, and could be even more damaging for some than Tony Abbott’s GP Tax, new figures confirm.

Fewer aspiring doctors and allied health practitioners will have access to clinical training – especially in rural and regional locations – thanks to Malcom Turnbull’s decision to axe the Clinical Training Fund.

The Minister for Health has flatly contradicted the Finance Minister and Treasurer by admitting Malcolm Turnbull’s cut to pathology and diagnostic imaging will leave some patients worse off

Malcolm Turnbull’s first major economic statement has continued Tony Abbott’s attack on health care. Another $2.1 billion in cuts will make health care even less affordable to millions of Australians.

The independent Parliamentary Budget Office has confirmed the heaviest burden of a GST on fresh food will fall on those least able to pay.