Current Articles
3 June 2010 Health Minister Nicola Roxon is the perfect example of why Rudd Labor gave us the deadly pink batt blunders and the school hall scandals, she’s so busy out there scaremongering that she’s not doing her job. The Minister constantly engages in juvenile attempts to misrepresent the... Read more...
19 May 2010 Health Minister Nicola Roxon has been forced to perform the first Budget back-flip of 2010 less than a week after it was delivered. The Health Minister announced today that she would defer changes that would have prevented social workers and occupational therapists providing mental hea... Read more...
11 May 2010 Splashing hundreds of millions of dollars on more so-called GP super clinics in tonight’s Budget would be a massive mistake, Shadow Minister for Health Peter Dutton said today. It would be a massive mistake because the Rudd Government had shown itself incapable of deliv... Read more...
18 April 2010 The focal point of Kevin Rudd’s so-called health reform – making the Commonwealth the dominant funder of public hospitals - appears to be disappearing fast even before the participants have sat around the COAG table. Nicola Roxon, Kristina Keneally and Wayne Swan now are all t... Read more...
9 April 2010 Mr Brumby makes a very serious claim that questions the Prime Minister’s ‘dominant funder’ status. If the claim by Mr Brumby is correct that under Mr Rudd’s plan Commonwealth funding will go from 41 per cent to 42 per cent, not 60 per cent, then Mr Rudd must now clarify... Read more...
24 March 2010 Kevin Rudd’s admission yesterday that he would have to adjust funding in his “health plan” to keep regional hospitals open clearly showed how he was making policy on the run. Shadow Minister for Health Peter Dutton said it had taken just two weeks for Kevin Rudd to per... Read more...
18 March 2010 The Coalition today welcomed the news that almost two thousand Australian women had been assisted by McGrath Foundation breast care nurses. Shadow Minister for Health Peter Dutton said breast care nurses played an important role in helping women who are diagnosed with breast can... Read more...
17 March 2010 Kevin Rudd’s so-called health reforms threaten hundreds of regional hospitals. Research for the NSW Government indicates that any hospital with ten or fewer beds or those that have unpredictable workloads would face closure under Mr Rudd’s plan for case-mix funding... Read more...
15 March 2010 Around the country thousands of Dads and other ‘ordinary’ blokes come together every week under the ‘Men’s Shed’ banner. The Men’s Shed – there are more than 400 of them across Australia – provides a location and support system for many men who are socially... Read more...
2 March 2010 Watch out Australia – Kevin Rudd intends to “whack” you before you get the chance to “whack” him – forget all those crocodile tears at the weekend. It seems certain he’s going to “whack-in” a whole new layer of bureaucracy as his answer to ‘fixing’ hospitals and health. It’s a well wo... Read more...