NEARLY ONE MILLION AUSTRALIANS OPT OUT OF MY HEALTH RECORD
Tuesday, 18 September 2018
NEARLY ONE MILLION AUSTRALIANS OPT OUT OF MY HEALTH RECORD Nearly one million Australians have opted out of the My Health Record following the Government’s botched rollout – proving public trust in this important reform has been severely damaged. Under Labor questioning in a Senate Committee, the Australian Digital Health Agency has finally admitted that
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Speech to PharmAus18 conference – 17 September 2018
Monday, 17 September 2018
SPEECH TO PHARMAUS18 CANBERRA MONDAY, 17 SEPTEMBER 2018 *** CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY *** Good afternoon and thanks for having me back. It’s always a pleasure to speak you all. I’d like to begin by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land upon which we meet, and I pay my respects to their elders past and
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SCOTT MORRISON’S HEALTH FUND PROTECTION RACKET
Friday, 14 September 2018
SCOTT MORRISON’S HEALTH FUND PROTECTION RACKET The Liberals are doing everything in their power to protect the profits of the big health funds but nothing to help ordinary Australians struggling with relentless premium price rises and ballooning out-of-pocket costs. Newspaper reports today offer yet more evidence that the Abbott-Turnbull-Morrison health insurance “reforms” put their big
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MORRISON’S PLAN TO RIP MORE MONEY FROM PUBLIC HOSPITALS
Monday, 10 September 2018
CATHERINE KING MP SHADOW MINISTER FOR HEALTH AND MEDICARE MEMBER FOR BALLARAT MORRISON’S PLAN TO RIP MORE MONEY FROM PUBLIC HOSPITALS Two weeks in the top job and Scott Morrison is already planning to rip hundreds of millions of dollars more out of Australia’s public hospitals. Not content with cutting billions of dollars from public
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LABOR TO DELIVER BETTER HEART CARE IN CENTRAL QUEENSLAND
Tuesday, 04 September 2018
BILL SHORTEN MP LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION SHADOW MINISTER FOR INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS AND ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDERS MEMBER FOR MARIBYRNONG CATHERINE KING SHADOW MINISTER FOR HEALTH AND MEDICARE MEMBER FOR BALLARAT RUSSELL ROBERTSON LABOR CANDIDATE FOR CAPRICORNIA ZAC BEERS LABOR CANDIDATE FOR FLYNN LABOR TO DELIVER BETTER HEART CARE IN CENTRAL QUEENSLAND A Shorten
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SCOTT MORRISON MUST SHOW LEADERSHIP ON GAY CONVERSION
Monday, 03 September 2018
CATHERINE KING SHADOW MINISTER FOR HEALTH AND MEDICARE MEMBER FOR BALLARAT JULIE COLLINS SHADOW MINISTER FOR AGEING AND MENTAL HEALTH MEMBER FOR FRANKLIN SENATOR LOUISE PRATT SENATOR FOR WESTERN AUSTRALIA SHADOW ASSISTANT MINISTER FOR UNIVERSITIES AND EQUALITY SCOTT MORRISON MUST SHOW LEADERSHIP ON GAY CONVERSION Scott Morrison must show some leadership, stand up to the
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LABOR WELCOMES ORKAMBI LISTING
Sunday, 02 September 2018
CATHERINE KING SHADOW MINISTER FOR HEALTH AND MEDICARE MEMBER FOR BALLARAT LABOR WELCOMES ORKAMBI LISTING Labor welcomes the news that the life-changing cystic fibrosis medicine Orkambi will finally be subsidised, after a three-year fight. This is a big day for more than 1000 sufferers of this terrible, deadly disease. They have been forced to wait
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LABOR TO DELIVER MEDICARE-FUNDED MRI SCANS FOR PERTH’S EASTERN SUBURBS
Thursday, 30 August 2018
BILL SHORTEN MP LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION SHADOW MINISTER FOR INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS & ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDERS MEMBER FOR MARIBYRNONG CATHERINE KING MP SHADOW MINISTER FOR HEALTH AND MEDICARE MEMBER FOR BALLARAT JAMES MARTIN LABOR CANDIDATE FOR HASLUCK KIM TRAVERS LABOR CANDIDATE FOR PEARCE LABOR TO DELIVER MEDICARE-FUNDED MRI SCANS FOR PERTH’S EASTERN SUBURBS
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DOCTORS BLOW THE WHISTLE ON TASMANIA’S HEALTH FUNDING CRISIS
Tuesday, 28 August 2018
CATHERINE KING SHADOW MINISTER FOR HEALTH AND MEDICARE MEMBER FOR BALLARAT JULIE COLLINS SHADOW MINISTER FOR AGEING AND MENTAL HEALTH MEMBER FOR FRANKLIN DOCTORS BLOW THE WHISTLE ON TASMANIA’S HEALTH FUNDING CRISIS Tasmania’s health care crisis has hit boiling point, with local doctors no longer able to contain their frustration over Liberal cuts and neglect.
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PETER DUTTON’S HEALTH CUTS HURT DICKSON
Monday, 27 August 2018
CATHERINE KING MP SHADOW MINISTER FOR HEALTH AND MEDICARE MEMBER FOR BALLARAT SENATOR CHRIS KETTER SENATOR FOR QUEENSLAND ALI FRANCE LABOR CANDIDATE FOR DICKSON PETER DUTTON’S HEALTH CUTS HURT DICKSON Doctors had good reason to name Peter Dutton the worst federal Health Minister in 35 years: his cuts to hospitals and Medicare represented an unprecedented
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