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MEDIA

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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Parliament

June 22, 2026

Health care equity

When hospitals and aged-care providers cannot recruit permanent doctors, nurses, midwives, allied health workers and aged-care staff, they are forced into a desperate cycle of locums and agency nurses at enormous cost.

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Parliament

June 22, 2026

"What's the point?"

So I say to this government: listen to Vince. Listen to the young Australians asking, 'Why bother?' Scrap this tax, stop punishing effort and restore hope.

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Parliament

June 4, 2026

Brazen tax grab!

Labor have done more than rewrite the electoral playbook—they have thrown it out, burnt it on a pyre of all their other broken promises.

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Parliament

June 2, 2026

Regional health equity is just not front of mind for this Labor government.

This government continues to invest in its pet projects that are not fit for purpose in the regions, like urgent care clinics.

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Parliament

June 2, 2026

Treasury Laws Amendment

Amid Treasury's fairytales and fantasy stories told in the budget papers on estimates and assumptions—under the thumb of the Treasurer—are unbelievable revenue projections from these tax measures.

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