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Roxon’s private health hikes only the start

  25 February 2011 Health Minister Nicola Roxon today added to rising cost of living pressures for families by hiking private health insurance premiums and failing to clarify the extent of the Government’s planned cuts to the private health insurance rebates.   Shadow Health Minister Pe... Read more...

Roxon targets patients for savings

25 February 2011   In an unprecedented move that will affect thousands of Australian patients, Health Minister Nicola Roxon has refused to follow the recommendations of the Pharmaceuticals Benefits Advisory Committee to subsidise seven medicines and vaccines through the PBS.   The S... Read more...

Medicare Locals – just more spin

22 February 2011 The Gillard Government remains unable to clearly explain the role of Medicare Locals in its so-called health ‘reforms’, despite issuing a 20 page document about them today. But what has become clear, Shadow Minister for Health Peter Dutton said today, is that they are all about spi... Read more...

Health ‘reform’ – Gillard’s ETS

7 February 2011   “We’ll be transforming our health system for decades to come” Julia Gillard, The 7.30 Report, 6 December 2010   “From July 1 the Commonwealth’s share of hospital funding will increase to sixty per cent…GST retention and dedication to health care will commence.” Juli... Read more...

Health registration – Labor’s latest bungle

4 February 2011 The national health registration process for health professionals has descended into the Gillard Government’s latest bungle, set to rival the pink batts scandal and the BER fiascos. Thousands of health professionals are battling to have their registration renewed or be registered fo... Read more...

Registration “shambles”

   2 February 2011 The Shadow Minister for Health Peter Dutton today called on the Health Minister Nicola Roxon to intervene to sort-out the strife-riddled changeover to a national registration system for the medical workforce.   Doctors, nurses and other health practitioners are f... Read more...

IMPORTANT INFORMATION 12/1/2011 Commonwealth and Queensland payments and services available to flood affected persons

  PAYMENTS AVAILABLE   (eligibility varies for these payments – please call the numbers listed below to check)   Australian Government  Disaster Recovery Payment - Fact Sheet   - Not Means Tested LinkClick.aspx    Centrelink_Disaster Recove... Read more...

EMERGENCY AND IMPORTANT CONTACT NUMBERS - UPDATED REGULARLY *Note not alphabetical listing

SES...132500           QLD FLOOD HOTLINE...1300 993 191   EMERGENCY - life threatening ONLY  - 000 ... Read more...

TELSTRA UPDATE 17/1/2011

  TELSTRA FLOOD DISASTER INFORMATION MONDAY 17 JANUARY 2011   In the last 24 hours we have seen further restoration of landline, broadband and Foxtel services in and around Brisbane, with more power being turned on and more of the network being repaired. We have also had further restor... Read more...

IMPORTANT - FREE MEDICAL ADVICE OVER TELEPHONE FOR THOSE STRANDED BY FLOODS 16/1/2011

  1300HEALTH – A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE 1300HEALTH will provide FREE medical advice over the telephone for those people in flood-affected areas who cannot access their own general practitioner. Founder of 1300HEALTH (1300 432 584) Dr Josef Goldbaum said over the coming weeks, people would need ... Read more...

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