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A worrying pattern is developing, with the Albanese Labor Government putting even more cuts to healthcare on the table this week.

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Interview with Amanda Stoker

Sky News

26 March 2023

Subjects: Aged Care Challenges in Rural and Regional Australia, Workforce Shortages, Aged Care Regulation

More than 15,000 Australians with diabetes will be left in the lurch following the Albanese Government’s removal of Fiasp from the PBS. Astoundingly, the Minister for Health, Mark Butler has taken absolutely no responsibility for this harmful decision. 

Anthony Albanese has broken his headline election commitment to older Australians to have a registered nurse on site 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in every aged care home by 1 July 2023.

I move: That the Senate notes the Albanese Government's broken promises to deliver cheaper power prices, cheaper mortgages, to not make any changes to super, as well as broken promises on medicines, country doctors, Medicare and mental health.

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Monday, 6 March 2023

Subjects: Aged care 24/7 nurses requirement, workforce shortages, Labor's superannuation changes, the Voice machinery bill 

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Friday, 3 March 2023

Subjects: Aged care staffing requirements, critical workforce shortages, the Regional Health Workforce Summit

15,000 families have had the rug pulled out from under them, as the Labor Government quietly removes a life-changing diabetes insulin from the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.

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17 February 2023

Subjects: Senate Estimates, Strengthening Medicare Taskforce, workforce shortages, Urgent Care Clinics

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Tuesday, 7 February 2023

Subjects: Ovarian Cancer Month, workforce shortages in regional Australia, 887 regional visas