Current Articles
16 September 2009 The Coalition has successfully moved to ensure Health Minister Nicola Roxon will not be able to make changes to the Extended Medicare Safety Net without reference to Parliament. The Minister, in future, will have to seek the approval of both the House of Representatives and the S... Read more...
16 September 2009 Nicola Roxon has been forced into another back-flip – today withdrawing treatment for macular degeneration from proposed caps to the Extended Medicare Safety Net. Sufferers of macular degeneration had feared the Rudd Government’s safety net caps would make their treatment unaffor... Read more...
Remember when Kevin Rudd uttered that four-letter word on television. It was as faked and staged as everything this Prime Minister does and probably run through a focus group fifty times before it left the Prime Ministerial mouth. I don’t think he can help it – he’s just plain boring. And the Par... Read more...
9 September 2009 The Rudd Labor Government’s moves to begin dismantling private health insurance in Australia have been defeated. The “Fairer Private Health Insurance Bills” were voted down by the Coalition and all cross-bench Senators. Its attempts to reduce private health insurance rebates ... Read more...
9 September 2009 The Rudd Government has voted against a Coalition amendment to the midwife indemnity insurance Bills which would have considered the feasibility of extending the insurance provisions to independent midwives involved in homebirths. “The Minister, despite ample opportunitie... Read more...
8 September 2009 Senior Australians and others with cataracts will not have to pay more for cataract surgery. Rudd Labor Government attempts to halve Medicare rebates which would have left people hundreds of dollars out of pocket from November 1 will not pass the Senate. The Coalition, Indepe... Read more...
4 September 2009 The Health Minister, Nicola Roxon, has performed another spectacular back-flip – this time on the issue of midwives providing home-birthing services. It is a humiliating and major embarrassment for the Rudd Government. On the limited information available, it appears the Mini... Read more...
3 September 2009 Health Minister Nicola Roxon should end continuing uncertainty for families facing increased out of pocket costs for IVF treatment to start a family. Parliament resumes next week and the Government’s changes to the Extended Medicare Safety Net, which it promised before the last ... Read more...
31 August 2009 Residents of the City of Cockburn in Western Australia could be waiting a long time for Kevin Rudd to deliver a new so-called “GP Super Clinic”. So far the Government is yet to have any of the 31 “Super Clinics” it promised before the last election opened and fully operational. ... Read more...
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...