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MEDIA

July 1, 2026

Strengthening Enforcement for the Social Media Minimum Age

The coalition led the way in November 2023 with our private member's bill to impose age verification online. Labor rejected it and then, in the 2024 budget, accepted it.

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Parliament

June 30, 2026

Labor's Private Health Changes Will Hit Regional Families Hard

Labor has broken faith with the people who built this country—those who worked hard, paid taxes, raised families, volunteered, served their towns and did the right thing all their lives.

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Parliament

June 30, 2026

Labor's Housing Tax Policies Are Crushing Confidence, Here's What I'm Hearing in Mallee

Wes Davidson is a prominent real estate agent in Horsham, in Mallee, and he says: 'We are now seeing the biggest lack of confidence in real estate that I have ever seen in over four decades in the industry.

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Parliament

June 29, 2026

3 Amazing Doctors Honored for Rural Medical Service

The paperwork that is now required, the compliance that is now required, just makes it so much harder that less GPs, not more, are actually prepared to step into that space. In terms of policy, we've got to change it.

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Parliament

June 29, 2026

Your Postcode Shouldn't Decide Your Healthcare

We need funding models that are built around access, not just volume. We need blended funding that recognises the fixed cost of keeping primary care available in smaller communities.

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Parliament

June 29, 2026

Why It Costs More to Be Sick in Regional Australia

For many regional Australians, aviation is not a luxury; it is an essential service. Regional communities rely on aviation for health care, education, business, family connections and economic opportunity.

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Parliament

June 29, 2026

Labor's Medicare Paperwork Won't Fix Regional Health

In my view of the world, UCCs are fundamentally bandaids that do not solve the underlying issues. Where we have chronic care, they are missing in action.

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Parliament

June 24, 2026

Taxpayer Contracts Tied to Union Deals Under New Bill

Under these changes, businesses with enterprise agreements could be given preference for government contracts, grants and procurement opportunities. That has nothing to do with delivering value for taxpayers.

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Parliament

June 22, 2026

Labor's tobacco policy has failed.

Under Labor, health labelling has been undermined, point-of-sale controls have been undermined, legal retailers have been undercut, revenue has been lost, organised crime has thrived and Australians are paying the price.

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