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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.
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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, while also addressing concerns about Labor's economic policies that may impose higher taxes, potentially impacting families and small businesses.
Liberal Party of Australia
Healthcare and Medicare
Liberal platform language supports Medicare while emphasising private health insurance rebates/incentives, hospital system capacity, and critiques of Labor's economic policies that may impose higher taxes affecting families and small businesses.
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, emphasizing the need for transparency and accountability in governance. This includes a commitment to redesign Support at Home fees or Age Pension assets tests to ensure fair practices that impact all Australians, including farmers and small business owners.
Pauline Hanson's One Nation
Healthcare and Medicare
One Nation states support for Medicare access for Australians. However, there are contradictions in their stance on capital gains tax, indicating a potential shift towards supporting CGT concessions for Australians, which may affect investors and businesses.
United Australia Party
National Health Policy
Expand hospital capacity, reduce elective surgery wait lists, and increase funding for regional health services.
Recent statements
The Senate said NO. Retirees shouldn’t have to choose between private health insurance and paying the bills. L…
Twitter/XOfficial source1 day ago
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Higher premiums. More pressure on public hospitals. Labor’s proposed rebate cut would hit over three million…
Twitter/XOfficial source2 days ago
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The Senate has blocked Labor’s Bill to cut private health insurance rebates for more than 3 million older Aust…
Twitter/XOfficial source3 days ago
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A win for older Australians. We’ve fought to stop Labor’s private health insurance rebate cuts, which would h…
Twitter/XOfficial source3 days ago
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$9 billion regional health spending gap - that's the gap governments have left, over $1,200 less per regional…
Twitter/XOfficial source3 days ago
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Media Release: Labor lets accused terrorist walk free on taxpayer-funded NDIS Mohamed Musse Bakit, a Somali-b…
Twitter/XOfficial source4 days ago
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Big food makes you sick, and big pharma sells you the treatment. It’s the perfect symbiotic relationship. They…
Twitter/XOfficial source6 days ago
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Labor has gone after small businesses. They’ve gone after veterans. Now they’re going after pensioners. One…
Twitter/XOfficial source6 days ago
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Senator Tyron Whitten from Western Australia and I had the honour of discussing men’s health & support wit…
Twitter/XOfficial source8 days ago
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Pensioners will shoulder around $1.6 billion of Labor’s private health insurance changes. Older Australians o…
Twitter/XOfficial source9 days ago
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Calling for spending cuts is easy. Finding sensible ones is harder. We’ve made tough calls on the NDIS, consul…
Twitter/XOfficial source16 days ago
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Dropped into the Campbelltown Medicare Mental Health Centre with @Emma4Dobell and Dr Mike Freelander for the s…
Twitter/XOfficial source16 days ago
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More than 3,700 aged care patients are stranded in public hospitals. SA and other states warn changes to priv…
Twitter/XOfficial source18 days ago
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Only men can defend against tyranny, women will not and cannot, a healthy masculine population is the antithes…
Twitter/XOfficial source19 days ago
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