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The Truth is Now Out About Labor’s Private Health Cuts to 1.2 Million Pensioners
The Albanese Government has been forced to admit that its cut to the private health insurance rebate for older Australians will place financial pressure on around 1.2 million pensioners.
Embattled Minister’s Aged Care About-Face, Late as Always
Shadow Minister for Health and Aged Care, Senator the Hon Anne Ruston, has described Labor’s decision to extend the Commonwealth Home Support Programme (CHSP) to 2029 as an “embarrassing backdown” after months of mounting evidence and pressure that abolishing the program would be reckless.
Answers Overdue: Senate Inquiry Into Contaminated Blood Scandal
The Senate has agreed to establish an inquiry into Australia's infected blood scandal, following a referral to the Community Affairs References Committee secured through cooperation between the Coalition and the crossbench.
Senator Ruston Statement on Tainted Blood
Decades ago, thousands of Australians, many of them children, were infected with Hepatitis C and HIV through contaminated blood products. Many have carried the physical and emotional toll of that ever since.I have met with a group of these survivors and listened to their stories. Health Minister Mark Butler has refused to do the same.
“When aged care fails, the cost is measured in lives”: Older Australians reveal the human impact of Labor’s aged care reforms
Older Australians, carers and advocates have delivered a devastating indictment of Labor’s aged care reforms, telling a Senate inquiry the system is failing people in deeply personal and damaging ways.
Labor's Own Department Admits Pensioners Will Be Forced to Go Without Under Private Health Tax Grab
Labor's own department has given the game away with internal documents warning pensioners would be forced to cut back on essentials, downgrade their cover, or drop it altogether and go without medical treatment under the Albanese Government’s private health insurance rebate cuts for over-65s
Inspector-General’s Damning Verdict: Labor’s Aged Care Crisis Laid Bare
The Albanese Labor Government’s aged care crisis has been laid bare by its own independent watchdog, with the Inspector-General of Aged Care using her National Press Club address today to deliver a damning assessment of a system “funding decline rather than independence”.
2025 National Drug Strategy Household Survey
The Coalition welcomes any decline in smoking rates and the long-term trend reflects decades of work by all governments.But Minister Butler should not mistake a headline for a success story, however, because buried in the same survey he celebrated today were a number of finding his press release glossed over entirely:
Labor's Support at Home Implementation Off the Rails
The Albanese Government’s implementation of the Support at Home program is off the rails, with the first full-day hearing of the Senate inquiry into the program exposing a litany of failures leaving older Australians without the care they need and were promised.
The Coalition Will Restore Crucial Funding for Suicide Prevention Research
An elected Dutton Coalition Government will continue our proud legacy of supporting life saving research into suicide prevention by investing $15 million to continue the National Suicide Prevention Research Fund.
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The Coalition Will Provide a Lifeline to Critical Children’s Health Service
An elected Dutton Coalition Government will step in to save a critical healthcare service for babies and children with rare and devastating conditions, after Anthony Albanese refused to continue its funding.
More GPs for families in regional Australia under a Coalition Government
A Dutton-Littleproud Coalition Government will invest $100 million towards upgrading regional medical training facilities across Australia and delivering 200 additional regional medical Commonwealth Supported Places (CSPs).
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