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7 July 2011 Shadow Minister for Health Peter Dutton today called for the public release of a report upon which the Gillard Government has justified its backdown on key elements of its health ‘reforms’. Mr Dutton said the Minister should release the report immediately. The H... Read more...
PETER DUTTON: I just wanted to make a couple of comments about Nicola Roxon’s latest backflip. Kevin Rudd promised in 2007 that the Labor Party would fix public hospitals. Julia Gillard promised only four months ago that she had an agreement. It turned out that it was a H... Read more...
6 July 2011 The Gillard Government must come clean on its attempts to solicit donations from cigarette companies and their executives. Over two weeks ago Shadow Health Minister Peter Dutton called on the Prime Minister to reveal which Labor Party branches and which Ministers (... Read more...
5 July 2011 Nicola Roxon is resorting to deception to try to cover the harm her broken promise on private health insurance rebates will do to the nation’s health system. The Minister has produced a report to purport to show that there was no impact from the Medicare Levy Surcharge changes in ... Read more...
The Gillard Labor Government is on the path to wrecking private health insurance. Labor’s plans to slash the 30 per cent rebate for insurance cover will force premiums to go up and up and more and more people would drop their cover, the Shadow Minister for Health Peter Dutton said today. Nic... Read more...
23 June 2011 The uncertainty for patients created by Cabinet deferrals of listing medicines on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme will be the subject of a Senate inquiry. Peter Dutton, Shadow Minister for Health and Ageing, said the independence of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory... Read more...
21 June 2011 Shadow Minister for Health Peter Dutton has called on the Gillard Government to abandon its politicisation of the life-saving Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme. Mr Dutton said, unlike any previous Government, Gillard Labor had taken it upon itself to effectively make life-... Read more...
Transcript of interview with the Hon Peter Dutton MP 21 June 2011 PETER DUTTON: The Government today has said to Australian patients, about 400 of them, that they are going to have pay $1500 a week between now and the first of September when Erbitux is listed. ... Read more...
15 June 2011 Health Minister Nicola Roxon is evading parliamentary scrutiny following exposure of her soaring hypocrisy over financial donations from tobacco companies. The Minister failed to appear today at the annual committee sessions to consider the Government’s Budget bills in detail. Shadow ... Read more...
3 June 2011 A Senate Inquiry has yet again revealed the inability of the Gillard Government to deliver successful outcomes in health policy. The inquiry into the new Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) has found the organisation was unable to efficiently carry out the v... Read more...