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2 June 2009 The Rudd Government last night refused to increase taxes on cigarettes preferring instead to make health insurance more expensive for 1.7 million Australians. Its action will see private health insurance rebates for almost ten per cent of Australians phased down and wiped out, leaving ... Read more...
The Rudd Labor Government was forced to reveal today that a staggering 1.7 million Australians – 10 per cent of the population - will be slugged with massive hikes in private health insurance costs and taxes in the wake of the Rudd Government’s broken promise on health insurance rebates. One point ... Read more...
Bowen, a young Melbourne boy who suffers from Hunter Syndrome desperately needs access to the life saving drug, Elaprase but has been denied it. The drug is available to other young children such as Beaconsfield’s Jimmy Webber. It halts the relentless progression of the crippling disease and gives ... Read more...
Shadow Health Minister Peter Dutton today said Tuesday’s budget was likely to include a “big spend” in health to try to mask the Rudd Labor Government’s failure to honour its election promises. “Mr Rudd will try to divert attention from his failures and broken promises in health with a headline ann... Read more...
Labor Media Release – Kevin Rudd and Nicola Roxon - 22 September 2007 “A Rudd Labor Government will retain the Medicare safety net as Australian working families have come to rely on it for help with their family budgets. “Federal Labor will not put more pressure on family budgets by taking that... Read more...