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Mark Butler yday: 'Dutton in 2014 tried to abolish bulk billing altogether. When he couldn't do that, when the Senate blocked him, doctors opposed him...effectively tried to strangle bulk billing slowly by freezing the M'care rebate.' #auspol www.health.gov.au/ministers/th...

submitted 45 minutes ago • 0 comments

Dutton is playing the me too game. Okay. Let’s do negative gearing and franking credits PM. #auspol #ausvotes

submitted 20 minutes ago • 0 comments

Jane Hume grilled on Sky News after insisting on keeping secret from public what Liberals plan to cut if elected inc for more expensive Nuclear but ends up conceding Renewables through Future Made in Australia & investment in Housing are both on the chopping block. What a plan🤦‍♂️

submitted 19 minutes ago • 7 comments

Issue created over a long period is decreasing of Medicare bulk billing. Latest Cleanbill report shows a non-concession adult won't have a BB GP in 10% of fed electorates. Peter Dutton knew when he was health minister & proposed a $7 co-payment. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

submitted 28 minutes ago • 2 comments

Mark Butler says LNP promising not to touch Medicare is like 2013 when they promised “no cuts to health” & then slashed hospital funding under Dutton who also “tried to abolish B/Billing altogether” “Why on earth would u trust the man who created this mess in the first place?”🔥

submitted 1 hour ago • 8 comments

Hopefully you can read this gift article, because it’s so important. Trump is trying to resegregate America. The narrative they are using - saying diversity is anti-white racism, is the same as the narrative used by the No campaign during the Voice. Same people probably designed it - the CPAC freaks

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

#abcnews isn't even pretending to be non-partisan anymore. #auspol

submitted 6 hours ago • 4 comments

For someone whose been a senior politician for a very long time, Peter Dutton never ceases to amaze us with his lack of understanding about how govt works. According to Michelle Grattan, legislation isn't needed for Labor’s $8.5b health plan. The changes can be made by regulation. #auspol

submitted 5 hours ago • 2 comments

Now we are talking!! More of this, Albo. #SaveMedicare #auspol #AusVotes25 #DontRiskDutton www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

submitted 12 hours ago • 5 comments

Great announcement from Albo committing to use local steel in wind power projects. Good for long-term manufacturing jobs and good for climate. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

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submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

Ha! Dutton says the #LNP will match Labor’s increase in Medicare payment. Yeah Nah We remember #ABBOTT and his promises to match Labor on ‘no cuts to the #ABC’ ‘Equity ticket’ on funding public education. Lies lies lies #AusVotes25 #Auspol

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

Nobody in their right mind would believe this. Dutton's political career has been the reduction of gov, reducing public services, demonizing welfare recipients, and cutting Medicare. This is a rushed policy released just to cancel Labor. Dutton will never deliver $9b to healthcare #auspol

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

At this election Australia faces a clear choice: A stronger Medicare with more bulk billing for all Australians under Labor. Or more cuts to Medicare under Peter Dutton's Liberals. #ausvotes #auspol

submitted 16 hours ago • 3 comments

Hey, does anyone remember that time when Peter Dutton was Health Minister and tried to introduce a Medicare co-payment to make sure that no-one could see their doctor for free?

submitted 16 hours ago • 3 comments

Sure they will

submitted 20 hours ago • 2 comments

Dutton issued a press release as PM was making Labor's Medicare announcement. No original policies of their own. #auspol 'A Coalition govt, Dutton said, would invest $9 billion in Medicare "to fix Labor's healthcare crisis and ensure all Australians have timely and affordable access to a doctor."

submitted 17 hours ago • 6 comments

Medicare is not safe in Peter Dutton’s hands. He can’t find the $600b he needs to build nuclear reactors without coming after Medicare again, just like he did when he was health minister. #auspol #ausecon #insiders

submitted 21 hours ago • 10 comments

No matter what LNP says now, they will can this. '...the largest single investment in Medicare since its inception over 40 yrs ago ago, Labor will spend $8.5 billion over 4 yrs, incl to triple incentives to doctors to provide near universal bulk-billing.' #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

submitted 19 hours ago • 4 comments

The choice at the next election: A Labor PM strengthening Medicare or Peter Dutton who strangled it. #auspol

submitted 18 hours ago • 15 comments

Can Peter Dutton be trusted with Medicare? 10 years ago as health minister he was confident of implementing a $7 co-payment to visit the doctor. #auspol www.theguardian.com/world/2014/a...

submitted 18 hours ago • 13 comments

Sure thing. And Dutton never lies. Never, ever. #Labor’sMedicarePolicy

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

Albanese’s bulk billing pledge renews the promise at the heart of Medicare | Bill Bowtell

submitted 19 hours ago • 8 comments

Funny how the only policy they've costed so far is the one they've lifted wholesale from Labor. And, really, does anyone expect them to keep this promise? #anyonebutdutton #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Mark Butler goes back to when Dutton as Health Minister was condemned by GPs for trumpeting “skewed & misleading” data & when he “tried to abolish bulk billing altogether” Says b/billing went into “free fall” as a “direct result of a deliberate decision made by Peter Dutton” youtu.be/BR7O9pkx2qo?...

submitted 22 hours ago • 12 comments

GP visits to be free for most under #Labor's $8.5 billion #Medicare election promise. Of course, the #ABC immediately jumps on the "but how are they paying for it" trope, a line that isn't uttered when Dutton pushes a $600 billion #nuclear fantasy. #health #insiders #auspol

submitted 22 hours ago • 2 comments

increases in Medicare rebate include an extra 12.5 per cent that will only be paid to practices that exclusively bulk-bill. Labor are also promising 400 nursing scholarships and 2,000 new GP trainees a year by 2028. So sensible! www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

Jim Chalmers not convinced of Angus’ claim they won’t cut bulk billing reminds when Dutton came after Medicare as Health Min & slams the “shameful” veterans backlog left behind “U can’t pay $600bill in nuclear reactors w/out coming after Medicare again like he did last time” youtu.be/QUDmZ2nGKw4?...

submitted 23 hours ago • 8 comments

Your Medicare card will be all you'll need to see the GP with our biggest ever boost to Medicare.

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

Jim Chalmers says you can see that the economy is turning a corner in “at least 5 positive ways” “We’ve got inflation down ✅ Wages are up ✅ Unemployment is very low ✅ We’ve got the Liberal Debt down ✅ & now Interest Rates are starting to be cut as well ✅” #AbcInsiders

submitted 23 hours ago • 10 comments

NEWS: A re-elected Albanese Labor Government will make the single largest investment in Medicare ever.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments