PATIENTS OUT OF POCKET AS ABBOTT HEALTH CUTS BITE
Thursday, 20 August 2015
Tony Abbott’s health cuts have helped drive a record rise in hospital patients paying gap fees, with over 1.2 million services requiring patients to dip into their own pockets in the year to June.
- Published in MEDIA
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KING CALLS FOR NDIS ROLLOUT IN BALLARAT
Thursday, 20 August 2015
Federal Member for Ballarat, Catherine King, today called for Ballarat to be included in the next rollout of the NDIS.
- Published in MEDIA
BIG TOBACCO FOI ATTACK ON CHILDREN A NEW LOW
Thursday, 20 August 2015
Labor is alarmed at today’s report tobacco companies are hijacking Freedom of Information laws to obtain data from surveys by thousands of Victorian school children and teenagers that reveal their attitudes to smoking and alcohol.
- Published in MEDIA
LEY CONFESSES TO TWO YEARS OF FAILURE ON HEALTH
Wednesday, 19 August 2015
The Health Minister’s admission that her government has spent the last two years doing nothing to reform health care in Australia is a damning indictment on the Abbott Government.
- Published in MEDIA
MORE HEALTH CHAOS AS GOVERNMENT FORCED TO VOTE DOWN ITS OWN MRFF AMENDMENT
Thursday, 13 August 2015
The Abbott Government was forced to vote down its own amendment to its Medical Research Future Fund Bill after the clerks ruled the change unconstitutional.
- Published in MEDIA
CHRONIC DISEASE EPIDEMIC HIGHLIGHTS STUPIDITY OF $1.3 BILLION GP TAX
Wednesday, 12 August 2015
Alarming new research showing half of all Australians have at least one chronic disease highlights the stupidity of the Abbott Government’s $1.3 billion cuts to primary care.
- Published in MEDIA
BALLAN PATIENTS VICTIMS OF TONY ABBOTTS GP TAX
Thursday, 06 August 2015
The decision by the Ballan District Health Centre to charge some patients a fee of $26 each time they visit the doctor at the clinic from September 1 is entirely due to Tony Abbott’s four year freeze on Medicare rebates.
- Published in MEDIA
$3.8 MILLION ROAD SAFETY BLACKSPOT FUNDING WELCOMED
Thursday, 06 August 2015
Federal Member for Ballarat, Catherine King today welcomed $3,897,000 in funding that will improve 17 traffic blackspots across the Ballarat region.
- Published in MEDIA
TPP: ABBOTT MUST STAND FIRM ON DRUG DATA
Tuesday, 04 August 2015
Labor is concerned by reports of a push to use the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal to boost the monopoly power of pharmaceutical companies, a move that risks pushing up drug prices in Australia.
- Published in MEDIA
INQUIRY TO SCRUTINISE MEDICAL RESEARCH FUTURE FUND
Tuesday, 04 August 2015
The Medical Research Future Fund legislation will be closely scrutinised by the Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee at a one day hearing in Melbourne today.
- Published in MEDIA