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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
There are now over 3,800 bulk-billing clinics right across the country. If you take four seconds to say the na…
Labor were cunning with the spin when they fooled Australians into electing them into power. Now, in governmen…
As minister, I'm incredibly fortunate to be able to see many projects being delivered across the country. But…
I thank the member for Hasluck for her interest in the H5 bird flu. I know that she, like many members in this…
I'll tell you what's a disgrace, Deputy Speaker: the deliberate scaring of older Australians that is occurring…
At the request of Senator Antic, I move: That there be laid on the table by the Minister representing the Min…
Cancer takes a huge toll on so many Australians and their families. Even with effective treatments, its effect…
I seek leave to make a short statement. The PRESIDENT 112096 Leave is granted for one minute…
Prime Minister was asked about why we have done this, and I repeat what I said yesterday, which is to say that…
Mr Speaker, pursuant to standing order 105, I request that you write to the Minister for Aged Care and Seniors…
The message that Labor is sending to young Australians is that they're better off not saving, not investing an…
The federal and state Labor governments are continuing to deliver for my electorate of Brand, which is why I'm…
At the request of Senator Ruston, I move: That there be laid on the table by the Minister representing the Mi…
My question is to the Prime Minister. Today I met with older Australians at Parliament House who are scared of…
I seek leave to amend general business notice of motion No. 569. Leave granted. Senator DAVID POCOCK…
Thanks to the member for Bass for her question, for her support for our Medicare agenda and for hosting me aga…
Thanks to my friend the member for Leichhardt for his question. In a short time in this place, he has already…
Earlier today, the Leader of the Opposition, Angus Taylor, convened a roundtable at Parliament House on Labor'…
I thank the senator for the question. Not only do we want Australians to be able to see a GP for free; we want…
I'm keen to understand what Medicare—
On the one hand, Labor hands out welfare and home deposits to non-citizens. On the other hand, Labor is cuttin…
I do thank Senator Ananda-Rajah for that question and her continued advocacy for Victorians and their health c…
Don't let the woefully inadequate be the enemy of the good.
I condemn the Albanese Labor government's appalling $11 billion attack on older Australians through its cuts t…
That's not much to Albo and his mates, but a nice whack to the income of pensioners.
Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation. The SPEAKER 53517 Does the member for Gol…
I rise today to pay tribute to one of the finest Australians I've had the privilege to know: Flying Officer Ho…
Healthcare in this country, despite the political spin and the press releases, is under real pressure. In regi…
Madam President, we extend our warmest greetings and hospitality to your family who live in Perth, Western Aus…
This week marks Kidney Action Week. Kidney disease affects some 2.7 million Australians. One in seven Australi…
Platform divergences
No divergences for this topic.