“Our regional private hospitals serve millions of older Australians, and this cut put some of them at real risk of closing. When a regional private hospital closes, those patients don’t disappear. They end up on the waiting list ...

“Regional Australians are beyond despair about the lack of government investment in their healthcare – they are angry, and rightly so. We should not be dying prematurely due to government neglect.

Cameron says "It's pure chaos—everyone is running their own show in the government—nobody is in charge—its madness—if you ran a corporation like that it would be broke in 6 months..."

Marking World Heart Day, I am pleased to say, after a lot of hard work, the Coalition's Medical Research Future Fund is running a heart health check community project to get strong data across our region

The Australia-First Migration Plan will cut net overseas migration to 100,000 a year for two years, then about 160,000 by year four.

Resources Victoria has confirmed the mining licence for the proposed project north-east of Horsham. The licence covers up to 3,426 hectares over 38 years.

Independent modelling commissioned by Ageing Australia found funding needed to increase around 5.2 per cent to reflect providers’ actual cost increases.

“This must be the beginning of telecommunications reform, not the end of it. Regional Australians need reliable coverage every day, not a limited service after a natural disaster has already brought a network down."

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