News Source: The Courier-Mail
| about 1 month ago
Labor announced in the May Budget it would halve the rebate for cataract surgery to $312 because new technology had made the procedure quicker. But the change, set to save $98 million over four years, now looks doomed. Independent senator Nick...
News Source: Sydney Morning Herald
| about 1 month ago
Now it wants the planned national preventative health agency deferred until after the government announces its response to a taskforce report. "We can't just be setting up health bureaucracies for the sake of it," opposition health spokesman Peter...
News Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| about 1 month ago
The Opposition has moved a motion to delay consideration of the legislation to set up the agency until after the Government announces its response to the preventative health taskforce report...Health Minister Nicola Roxon says she is surprised and...
News Source: The Age
| about 1 month ago
THE Government's campaign against unhealthy living has hit a snag, with the Opposition moving to block the immediate creation of the planned National Preventive Health Agency. The agency, which critics say would promote a ''nanny state'', would lead...
News Source: Labor Herald
| about 1 month ago
The Opposition's move to block the establishment of the nation's first National Preventative Health Agency defies logic. The establishment of the Agency by 1 January 2010, a key weapon in the Government's fight against obesity, chronic disease and...