Recent News
Interview With Sonya Feldhoff, Jules Schiller and Rory McClaren, ABC Adelaide Mornings
Topics: Private health insurance rebate changes; public hospital pressures; specialist fees and means testing.
Dragged Into the Light: Labor’s Secret Numbers Show 78,000 Older Australians to Drop Cover
Documents the Albanese Government kept from the public show its own Department expects 78,000 older Australians to drop their private health insurance under Labor’s rebate cut, almost double the 44,000 figure Health Minister Mark Butler has used publicly.
Nowhere To Hide, Deaths On Labor’s Home Care Waitlist Nearly Double
More than 17 older Australians died every day waiting for home care in 2025-26, an increase of more than a third on the previous year, and almost double the number of Labor’s first year in office. In total, more than 6,400 older Australians died waiting, a figure the Albanese Government has been refusing to hand over to the Senate.
Labor’s Pensioner Penalty: Committee Waves Through Private Health Pensioner Tax
Labor Senators have used their numbers on the Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee to back the Albanese Government’s cut to the private health insurance rebate for older Australians, ignoring the overwhelming weight of evidence presented to the inquiry and the vast majority of more than 600 submissions.


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