As predicted, health and healthcare are big issues in the first week of the federal election campaign, to the extent that online news outlet Crikey declared on Wednesday that “Labor’s... Read more
In this article, originally published at The Conversation, Stephen Duckett, Director of the Health Program at the Grattan Institute, looks at the claims, counter-claims and facts behind two... Read more
In this article, one of a series on health and other issues being published at The Conversation in the leadup to the May 18 federal election, Jim Gillespie, Deputy Director, Menzies Centre f... Read more
Melissa Sweet writes: Ahead of the federal election, one of the world’s leaders in tackling health inequalities has warned against top-down approaches to addressing poverty and related healt... Read more
Labor leader Bill Shorten has described his ‘Cancer package’ as the most popular policy announcement he has ever made. The centrepiece of the package is the $2.3 billion (over four years) st... Read more
Like the Government’s budget, the Federal Opposition’s budget reply fails to address entrenched poverty and other challenges facing many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peo... Read more
After more than two years as Health Minister in a Government that has failed to tackle key public health issues such as climate change and obesity, Greg Hunt has committed to working more cl... Read more
Below is the section of Opposition leader Bill Shorten’s Budget reply speech (read in full here), where he outlines plans to address out-of-pocket costs for cancer patients. As Croakey... Read more
The Federal Government has executed a post-Budget backflip to include Newstart recipients in a one-off payment towards power bills for welfare recipients. However, the Government failed agai... Read more
*** This post was updated and expanded on 4 & 5 April *** The Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Sector has sounded the alarm over the Federal Budget’s failure to invest approp... Read more
