Current Articles
20 August 2009 Health Minister Nicola Roxon is being forced to back-down over moves to cut funding for chemotherapy drugs outlined in the Rudd Government’s first Budget. She revealed to Parliament this afternoon that she was about to postpone implementation of the Budget measure for a third time... Read more...
16 August 2009 Nurses are being made redundant while Kevin Rudd stumbles blindly onwards with his ‘listening’ tour to find out what’s wrong in Australia’s public hospitals. That’s the incredible latest development in New South Wales Health. New South Wales Labor’s idea of ‘fixing’ hospitals i... Read more...
14 August 2009 Kevin Rudd’s hospital ‘listening’ tour rolled into Victoria today, but it seems the Prime Minister doesn’t really want to hear the truth that he has failed to ‘fix’ hospitals. The Prime Minister’s nationwide ‘consultations’ were nothing more than an exercise in PR-spin ... Read more...
14 August 2009 Another of Kevin Rudd’s promises – to end the blame game in health – has been shredded. After failing to ‘fix’ hospitals by mid-2009 as Mr Rudd promised, his Health Minister Nicola Roxon is now blaming the New South Wales Government for problems in hospitals. As several thousan... Read more...
12 August 2009 Health Minister Nicola Roxon has deserted her guarantee to Australians needing IVF treatment that they would not be worse off under her Government’s changes to the Extended Medicare Safety Net. The Minister refused today to stand by the guarantee to the estimated 40,000 Australian... Read more...
10 August 2009 South Australia is the latest Labor state caught out “doctoring” elective surgery waiting lists to hide thousands of people - again highlighting the sick state of health which Kevin Rudd has failed to fix. Revelations by Adelaide’s Sunday Mail that thousands of people are “languis... Read more...
7 August 2009 The case of a New South Wales teenager who lost a finger after a bungled transfer between hospitals again highlighted the sick state of health that Kevin Rudd has failed to fix. Shadow Health Minister Peter Dutton said the case as reported in today’s Sydney Daily Telegraph was extr... Read more...
27 July 2009 Kevin Rudd has run away from taking the tough decisions on health for the second time in a month. The Prime Minister failed to meet his promise to fix hospitals by mid-2009, now he’s going to sit on his hands after his handpicked Commission told him action was required. “This is ... Read more...
21 July 2009 The latest “snapshot” of Australia’s Emergency Department’s has yet again put the lie to Kevin Rudd’s promise to “fix” the nation’s hospitals. Almost a month after Mr Rudd’s failure to deliver on his promise comes new information which shows that rather than improving – the situatio... Read more...
30 June 2009 The deadline has arrived – the delivery is missing. Kevin Rudd’s promise to “fix” the nation’s hospitals today lies exposed as nothing more than a cynical ploy perpetrated for electoral popularity at the last election. The Prime Minister’s self-imposed deadline to “fix” hospi... Read more...