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Healthcare
Archive of parliamentary statements and platform divergences tagged with this topic.
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About this archive
Topics are assigned during statement analysis and linked to party platform policies. Statements tagged as Other are also matched by content keywords. Use this page to trace how parties and members engage with healthcare policy areas.
Party platform policies
Australian Labor Party
Aged care
Labor’s aged care settings include Aged Care Act reforms, the Support at Home program trajectory, aged care worker wage decisions, and means-tested residential care fees. Age Pension remains the primary income support for eligible older Australians.
Australian Labor Party
Healthcare and Medicare
Labor’s current Medicare settings include bulk-billing incentive changes, cheaper PBS medicines, and Medicare Urgent Care Clinics. Medicare levy and safety net rules continue to apply.
Australian Labor Party
Medicare and Healthcare
Strengthen Medicare, reduce out-of-pocket healthcare costs, and expand access to primary care across regional Australia.
Australian Greens
Universal Healthcare
Expand Medicare to include dental care and mental health services as fully funded public entitlements.
Liberal Party of Australia
Aged care
Liberal platform material emphasises aged care quality, workforce and financially sustainable funding. Distinct fee-schedule alternatives to Labor’s Support at Home design are limited in our recorded rows.
Liberal Party of Australia
Healthcare and Medicare
Liberal platform language supports Medicare while emphasising private health insurance rebates/incentives and hospital system capacity.
Liberal Party of Australia
Healthcare Choice
Support private health insurance, reduce elective surgery wait times, and strengthen hospital funding arrangements with states.
Pauline Hanson's One Nation
Aged care
One Nation states support for improved aged care for Australians. Distinct redesign of Support at Home fees or Age Pension assets tests is not recorded in our database.
Pauline Hanson's One Nation
Healthcare and Medicare
One Nation states support for Medicare access for Australians. Distinct redesign of PBS co-payments or bulk-billing incentives is not detailed in our recorded platform rows.
United Australia Party
National Health Policy
Expand hospital capacity, reduce elective surgery wait lists, and increase funding for regional health services.
Recent statements
Australians are screaming out for mass migration to be cut because they are doing it tough. They can’t find…
Labor Gags it's own Multi-Purpose Service Program on $1.6 Billion Pensioner Health Tax. https://t.co/fIm3JYjTA…
Aged care access is failing Mallee families. I’m hosting a tri-state forum in Mildura on 23rd September to hea…
Labor is addicted to mass migration. The numbers have been too high and the standards have been too low. Ther…
Labor is delivering for Queensland with billions of dollars of investment in hospitals, schools, roads, and mo…
Cutting support for private health doesn’t remove the pressure — it shifts it onto the public system. SA Heal…
Labor Health Minister Calls Aged Care a “National Crisis” and it’s Only Getting Worse. https://t.co/cI5wZeIcTe
New on my Good Life podcast: Norman Swan on super-agers, brain health and living well Apple Podcasts: https:/…
Veterans deserve respect, not cartoons. Andrew Hastie and Angus Taylor are right to call for One Nation’s cart…
The Senate has voted to back the Coalition’s amendments to scrap Labor’s $5,000 cap on veterans’ healthcare.…
Whistleblowers deserve protection not punishment when they expose major safety breaches. I questioned ASIC in…
One Nation supports the sensible reforms to let trained registered nurses prescribe common PBS medications, a…
Great to chat with Men’s Shed members from across Canberra at ShedFEST during Men’s Shed Week. From terrific w…
I'm proud to be joining many others this Thursday evening (10 September) calling for a Royal Commission into C…
An extra $1,600 a year could force pensioner couples to choose between health insurance, groceries and heating…
Social media algorithms are built to provoke. They reward anger and deepen division, including by feeding youn…
In Senate Estimates, I questioned the government on how they plan to achieve $38 billion in proposed NDIS savi…
Media Release: Site secured for new Health Sciences Academy in Rockhampton https://t.co/LiQdId0iNX
Have your say on the Senate Inquiry into Contaminated Blood and Blood Products. The Community Affairs Referen…
Brendan Lane’s latest article exposing the evils of gender ideology And its capture of the so-called “health”…
Four hours of home care a week. Prices up 38%. Profits near zero. 62% of homes losing money. 100,000 still wai…
Labor created Medicare, and we will defend it from the constant attacks by the Liberals and their One Nation m…
Good news! The Senate has passed One Nation’s motion to hold a Senate Inquiry into Australia’s Infected Blood…
Platform divergences
No divergences for this topic.