Speech to ALP National Conference – Reproductive Health Resolution
Tuesday, 18 December 2018
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
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Speech to ALP National Conference in Adelaide – “A Health System For All”
Monday, 17 December 2018
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.
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HELP SHAPE LABOR’S PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE INQUIRY
Tuesday, 11 December 2018
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
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SCOTT MORRISON CANNOT BE TRUSTED ON HOSPITAL FUNDING
Tuesday, 11 December 2018
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
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MORRISON FAILS FAMILIES WITH ANOTHER LIBERAL HEALTH HIKE
Sunday, 09 December 2018
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
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AUSTRALIANS WAITING LONGER FOR HEALTH CARE UNDER LIBERALS
Thursday, 06 December 2018
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
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GOVERNMENT FOLLOWS LABOR’S LEAD ON STILLBIRTH FUNDING
Wednesday, 05 December 2018
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
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ACCC REPORT INTO PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE
Monday, 26 November 2018
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
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MORRISON HEEDS LABOR’S CALL FOR BETTER DIABETES FUNDING
Sunday, 25 November 2018
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
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HEALTHY HAROLD GETS A LIFELINE FROM LABOR
Wednesday, 21 November 2018
THE HON TANYA PLIBERSEK MP DEPUTY LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION SHADOW MINISTER FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING SHADOW MINISTER FOR WOMEN MEMBER FOR SYDNEY THE HON CATHERINE KING MP SHADOW MINISTER FOR HEALTH AND MEDICARE MEMBER FOR BALLARAT HEALTHY HAROLD GETS A LIFELINE FROM LABOR A Shorten Labor Government will reverse Morrison Government cuts to Healthy
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