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    Tag: Politics

    Blair Comley. AAP.

    Top health bureaucrat wants ‘less reviewing, more doing’ from Mark Butler after 70 reviews in three years

    June 30, 2025

    The top health bureaucrat wants “more doing, less reviewing” from Mark Butler, according to a memo released under Freedom of Information laws. Department of Health,…

    Govt releases details of the $102 Medicare item for menopause assessment

    June 25, 2025

    GPs will need to perform a 20-minute assessment, including a physical examination and blood pressure measurements, to bill the Federal Government’s new Medicare item for…

    Dr Monique Ryan. Twitter/X,

    ‘Angry men behaving badly wherever you looked’: Dr Monique Ryan on her second election battle

    June 24, 2025

    In her second election, Dr Monique Ryan’s seat was one of the most closely watched. The paediatric neurologist turned teal independent held onto the Melbourne…

    Mark Butler. Twitter.

    Higher rebates for specialist attendances ‘off the table’ despite $141 average gap fee

    May 23, 2025

    The Minister for Health and Aged Care has shot down a suggestion he could raise rebates for non-GP specialists to stop out-of-pocket costs spiralling further…

    Sussan Ley.

    Another former health minister takes Coalition leadership

    May 13, 2025

    Having once succeeded Peter Dutton as health minister, Sussan Ley has now succeeded her former boss as Liberal Party leader. The member for Farrer since…

    AMA calls for fresh consultation with doctors over looming restrictions to vitamin B12 test rebates

    April 24, 2025

    Whoever wins the 3 May federal election should delay and re-consult on the incoming restrictions on Medicare rebates for vitamin B12 and urine tests, the…

    Anthony Albanese ‘stakes his prime ministership’ on GPs bulk-billing more

    April 23, 2025

    Asked if he would stake his prime ministership on increasing GP bulk-billing, Anthony Albanese has committed “absolutely”. Nine political editor Charles Croucher laid down the…

    Minister for Health Mark Butler

    Mark Butler: Policy froth and the Medicare promised land

    April 15, 2025

    This is the second in our two-part federal election series. Last week we looked at the pledges made by Opposition health spokeswoman Senator Anne Ruston. When Mark…

    Jimi Hendrix, jail and life as a ’70s doctor: AusDoc interviews Bob Brown

    April 15, 2025

    In September 1970, a 25-year-old Dr Bob Brown met a patient he would never forget. “It was around 8am, and he was brought up on a trolley…

    Budget Paper 2: Peter Dutton and the haunting of Anne Ruston

    April 10, 2025

    This is the first in a two-part federal election series. Next week we’ll look at what Mark Butler, the Minister for Health and Aged Care,…

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    Budget Paper 2: Peter Dutton and the haunting of Anne Ruston

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