The Coalition won the fight this week in the Senate to reject Labor's cut to private health insurance rebates for Australians aged over 65.

TOPICS: government underspending on regional healthcare, National Rural Health Alliance, regional mortality rates, flight reliability, private health insurance rebate, tax treatment of premiums, aged care funding

TOPICS: government underspending on regional health, health workforce shortages, aged care telephone assessments

TOPICS: Allegations against Greens Senator, private health insurance rebates, Victorian IBAC findings on COVID-era grants

Around two in five small-business owners are working more hours, and one in four worked longer hours for no additional pay. It's little wonder business owners turned to AI after Labor's toxic taxes on trusts to depict their new business partner.

I am pleased to say, after I brought the Leader of the Nationals to St Arnaud in my electorate, where he declared we would not support VNI West, that that is the position now taken by the Victorian Nationals and Liberals.

“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..."