Budget Paper 2: Peter Dutton and the haunting of Anne Ruston
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,…
Tag: Politics
More than 5000 doctors leave their posts in historic unprotected strike
More than 5000 doctors from 32 public hospitals have defied legal orders and begun a three-day strike — NSW doctors’ first industrial action since 1998.…
Health Minister accuses doctors of misleading patients over safety of their three-day strike
Doctors say their planned three-day strike this week will not risk patient safety, with EDs remaining fully staffed and emergency surgeries going ahead. But NSW…
Health department tells doctors it could report them to AHPRA if three-day strike goes ahead
Health officials have told doctors they could be reported to AHPRA for striking next week and defying a legal ban on taking industrial action. The…
Thousands of doctors to strike for three days over salaries and unsafe working conditions
Thousands of doctors will stop working for three days next week, leaving public hospitals with a skeleton staff and defying legal orders banning their industrial…
Will politicians ever wave goodbye to Medicare fee-for-service? It’s the $7.9 billion question
The AMA, policy analysts and even the politicians themselves say Medicare requires fundamental reform to respond to an ageing population with more complex needs. Two…
Do doctors lack insight into the realities of being a politician in control of the health budget?
Judged by the complaints they generate, you suspect everyone thinks it’s easy being politician. So why the stupidity of the Medicare freeze, the experiments with…
Are Trump’s tariffs a blessing in disguise for our medical workforce and the Aussie space program?
I used to joke that I was a refugee from Los Angeles. I left the US over 45 years ago, and even back then I…
‘The smell of death everywhere’: Doctors and nurses return to Gaza amid a fractured peace
Hundreds of thousands of displaced Gaza residents returned home last month. The news images showed the lines of people with their belongings traversing a moonscape.…
Anthony Albanese promises even more urgent care clinics: ‘80% of Aussies will live within 20 minutes of one’
The Prime Minister has committed to expanding the urgent care clinic network from 87 to 137 even though the independent evaluation of whether the clinics…
