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5 October 2011 The Opposition today accused the Gillard Government of carrying out an unwarranted vendetta against hundreds of dentists across Australia. The Shadow Minister for Health Peter Dutton said the Government’s actions could force the closure of vital dental practices and t... Read more...
4 October 2011 an opinion piece as appeared on The Punch from the Shadow Minister for Health and Ageing, the Hon Peter Dutton MP, regarding the Gillard Government’s intended closure of the Medicare Chronic Disease Dental Scheme and the targeting of dentists for administrative errors th... Read more...
30 September 2011 The Gillard Government today announced there will be further “deferrals into the future” for new medicines being subsidised on the PBS. In February this year, the Government indefinitely deferred the listing of seven new medicines and a vaccine recommen... Read more...
29 September 2011. Media Release from Dr Southcott, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Primary Healthcare. A GP Super Clinic at Redcliffe was promised by the ALP in 2007. Until recently the Department of Health and Ageing were advising that the Clinic would open in July or August of... Read more...
28 September 2011 Health Minister Nicola Roxon has serious questions to answer regarding the stalled Redcliffe GP Super Clinic and cannot avoid public scrutiny over obvious problems with this publicly funded project. The Queensland Government has referred the project to ... Read more...
27 September 2011 Media Release from Andrew Southcott MP, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Primary Healthcare The discovery that the Gillard Government has been locked out of the $16.5 million Redcliffe GP Super Clinic is just further proof that Minister Roxon h... Read more...
7 September 2011 Nicola Roxon’s launch today of a “health implementation plan” defies the track record of the Rudd and Gillard Government’s over the past four years. Labor has fallen over on the “implementation” of any of its major policies over its entire term in government as it l... Read more...
25 August 2011 Transcript of interview with the Hon Peter Dutton MP, Federal Member for Dickson and Shadow Minister for Health and Ageing on 4BC with Gary Hardgrave GARY HARDGRAVE: Redcliffe GP Super Clinic - much promised, but where is it? There’... Read more...
16 August 2011 An invitation to explain the impacts of the carbon tax to residents of Pine Rivers, the Hills District, Samford and Dayboro has been ignored by the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard. The Federal Member for Dickson Peter Dutton wrote to Ms Gillard six weeks ago off... Read more...
4 August 2011 Julia Gillard’s partner in government – the Greens – today put paid to her sham that her health agreement with the States is “health reform”. Green’s health spokesman Senator Richard Di Natale - a doctor - told ABC Radio in Hobart this morning that the agreement w... Read more...