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12 December 2011 Having failed to deliver on crucial promises – including to “fix” public hospitals – Nicola Roxon has fled her failures after four tumultuous years as Health Minister. Shadow Health Minister Peter Dutton said there was no significant success in health that Nicola Ro... Read more...
7 December 2011 The Shadow Minister for Health Peter Dutton today called on Health Minister Nicola Roxon to publicly release the interim report from the National Advisory Council on Dental Health. Mr Dutton questioned why the report was being kept secret, yet it h... Read more...
30 November 2011 Australians who provide for their healthcare with private health insurance will be forced to pay for the Gillard Government’s waste and mismanagement. The Mid Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook re-confirmed that the Gillard Government is determined to t... Read more...
29 November 2011 Today’s MYEFO shows how the Gillard Government’s priorities in health are all wrong. While it wastes hundreds of millions of dollars on GP Super Clinics it will rip almost three quarters of a billion dollars from Australia’s hospital system over the next four years. ... Read more...
22 November 2011 Nicola Roxon is ill equipped to explain “Why policy and politics matter to patients” at her appearance at the National Press Club today. Her record as Health Minister has delivered only failed policy and petty politics with patients little more than the ... Read more...
3 November 2011 The Shadow Minister for Health and Ageing Peter Dutton said today the Australian Medical Association’s latest Public Hospital Report Card put the lie to the Gillard Government’s constant, extravagant claims of reform and improved performance in health. “This is the word from... Read more...
26 October 2011 The Gillard Government and Health Minister Nicola Roxon stand condemned by today’s revelations that their callous cuts to the Medicare Safety Net had prevented Australian couples from starting a family through assisted reproductive treatments. Shadow Health Minister Peter Dutton sai... Read more...
12 October 2011 Joint Media Release Peter Dutton MP, Shadow Minister for Health and Ageing; Andrew Southcott MP, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Primary Healthcare and Natasha Griggs MP Federal Member for Solomon. Today’s hidden announcement by the Minister fo... Read more...
6 October 2011 On Monday this week Nicola Roxon stood in Hobart telling Tasmanians that the Gillard Government’s “historic national health reform” was delivering them better access to hospitals, more services and more beds. Each day since then it’s been revealed the Labor-Greens All... Read more...
5 October 2011 Hobart dentist Dr Wilma Johnson is a victim of the Gillard Government’s unwarranted vendetta to close the Medicare Chronic Disease Dental Scheme. Medicare Australia is demanding that Dr Johnson repay over $24,000 in benefits paid to the dental practice where she is employed, for serv... Read more...