Current Articles
27 July 2010 The Rudd-Gillard has failed yet again to grasp what needs to be done in health. Today’s announcement of additional $277 million funding for suicide prevention falls far short of the needs of the mental health sector and those who suffer from mental health conditions. Shadow He... Read more...
26 July 2010 Today’s announcement by Julia Gillard to increase the number of doctors and nurses in emergency departments over the next decade is just “more of the same” from Labor. Another promise in health that is unlikely ever to be met. In fact they’ve made these promises before... Read more...
21 July 2010 Julia Gillard will do to Australia what Anna Bligh has done to Queensland. That is why she is desperate to avoid being seen with the Queensland Premier and next-in-line Labor national president. She knows that if Queenslanders look into the Gillard mirror they ... Read more...
5 July 2010 Hundreds of families in Pine Rivers could benefit directly or in the future from the establishment of Diabetes Clinical Trial Network (CTN) in Australia. The Coalition will provide $35 million dollars to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation to pursue finding a cure ... Read more...
30 June 2010 Mental health professionals and services in Dickson will get greater support from a major expansion of frontline mental healthcare services under a Coalition Government, the Member for Dickson and Shadow Minister for Health, Peter Dutton said today. In particular young people suf... Read more...
23 June 2010 First it was Victoria – now it’s New South Wales - saying clearly – ‘nothing will change in health under Kevin Rudd’s health reforms’. John Brumby said it on his return to Melbourne after the COAG meeting that Kevin Rudd’s great big ‘reforms’ to health meant there would be “no big chan... Read more...
21 June 2010 Kevin Rudd has again shown his spiteful true colours in Parliament today refusing to acknowledge the work of Professor John Mendoza for the government and for those who suffer mental health issues. The Prime Minister never once mentioned Professor Mendoza when questioned about the Prof... Read more...
10 June 2010 The Coalition today slammed the Rudd Government for its ongoing incompetence and mismanagement of the Medicare Chronic Disease Dental Scheme. It joins the failed pink batt insulation program and school halls waste as yet another example of the Rudd Government’s inability to man... Read more...
8 June 2010 Health workers and the public are being misled by the Rudd Government’s deceptive advertising campaign on its so-called health ‘reforms’ which promises a ‘federally funded – locally managed’ health and hospitals system. The Prime Minister’s deception was apparent... Read more...
7 June 2010 Joint Media Release the Hon Peter Dutton MP, Shadow Minister for Health and Senator Fierravanti-Wells, Shadow Minister for Ageing. A variety of the nation’s major medical groups today questioned whether the Rudd Government’s so-called health reforms would meet the many prom... Read more...