Current Articles
9 August 2010 The Coalition has committed $1.5 billion to expand Mental Health facilities with a particular emphasis on early intervention. Professor John Mendoza writing in The Australian newspaper on 1 July 2010 described this as "... the most significant announcement by any political party ... Read more...
8 August 2010 The Coalition has committed $750 million to ensure the building of the Petrie - Redcliffe Rail Link while minimising the cost to local government. The main points are highlighted in the attached summary. Read more...
The Coalition will increase the Education Tax Rebate to reduce cost pressures on families.
27 July 2010 The Rudd-Gillard has failed yet again to grasp what needs to be done in health. Today’s announcement of additional $277 million funding for suicide prevention falls far short of the needs of the mental health sector and those who suffer from mental health conditions. Shadow He... Read more...
26 July 2010 Today’s announcement by Julia Gillard to increase the number of doctors and nurses in emergency departments over the next decade is just “more of the same” from Labor. Another promise in health that is unlikely ever to be met. In fact they’ve made these promises before... Read more...
21 July 2010 Julia Gillard will do to Australia what Anna Bligh has done to Queensland. That is why she is desperate to avoid being seen with the Queensland Premier and next-in-line Labor national president. She knows that if Queenslanders look into the Gillard mirror they ... Read more...
5 July 2010 Hundreds of families in Pine Rivers could benefit directly or in the future from the establishment of Diabetes Clinical Trial Network (CTN) in Australia. The Coalition will provide $35 million dollars to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation to pursue finding a cure ... Read more...
30 June 2010 Mental health professionals and services in Dickson will get greater support from a major expansion of frontline mental healthcare services under a Coalition Government, the Member for Dickson and Shadow Minister for Health, Peter Dutton said today. In particular young people suf... Read more...
23 June 2010 First it was Victoria – now it’s New South Wales - saying clearly – ‘nothing will change in health under Kevin Rudd’s health reforms’. John Brumby said it on his return to Melbourne after the COAG meeting that Kevin Rudd’s great big ‘reforms’ to health meant there would be “no big chan... Read more...
21 June 2010 Kevin Rudd has again shown his spiteful true colours in Parliament today refusing to acknowledge the work of Professor John Mendoza for the government and for those who suffer mental health issues. The Prime Minister never once mentioned Professor Mendoza when questioned about the Prof... Read more...