E&OE… Topics: $47 million for headspace to support youth mental health; Sex Offenders Register; Saudi Teen in Thailand PAUL KENNEDY: To federal politics now and the Government is pledging an extra $47 million for mental health services. For more we’re joined by the Health Minister Greg Hunt from Mount Martha on Victoria’s magnificent…
E&OE… Topics: $47 million for headspace to support youth mental health; beyondblue MESHEL LAURIE: We welcome to the program Federal Minister for Health, Greg Hunt. Hi Greg. GREG HUNT: Good morning, Meshel. MESHEL LAURIE: Hey, great news today. Can you please tell the listeners who haven’t caught up with it yet…
E&OE… Topics: $47 million for headspace to support youth mental health; superannuation MATT DORAN: The Government is investing a further $47 million to support the mental wellbeing of young Australians. One in four young Aussies aged 16 to 24 experience mental illness in any given year. EDWINA BARTHOLOMEW: It is a huge…
The Liberal National Government will a invest a further $47 million to continue to support the mental wellbeing of young Australians through headspace with a new youth mental health ambassadors project and funding for its head office. About 560,000 Australian children and adolescents are estimated to have a mental illness and one in four…
The Liberal National Government is providing nearly $1 million in funding to a medical research project that will use human stem cells to develop kidneys as an alternative for renal replacement. It is estimated that one in ten Australians will show evidence of chronic kidney disease by 2020, but only one in four patients…
The Liberal National Government is supporting research that will help us understand the role of cognitive networks in Parkinson’s disease with the hope of leading to better treatment and self-management of the disease. Parkinson’s disease is a progressive, degenerative neurological condition that affects a person’s control of their body movements. It currently affects…
E&OE… Topics: Immunisation rates – No Jab, No Pay; Labor’s poor record on PBS; CFMEU; record child immunisation rates CHRIS KENNY: Now there has been a lot on focus in vaccination in recent years, the lack of vaccination in our communities. There some good news here that the No Jab, No Pay policy…
The Liberal National Government is investing almost $800,000 into research into how prostate cancer spreads and becomes resistant to normal treatments. Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in Australia. It can be lethal when it spreads to other organs, and can become resistant to conventional therapies. Dr Philip Gregory, from the University of…
The Liberal National Government will provide $3 million for two studies that aims to reduce the debilitating symptoms attributed to tick bites. Thousands of Australians have had their lives, and those of their families, impacted by chronic symptoms associated with tick bites such as fatigue, arthritis, chronic pain, headaches and ongoing psychological symptoms. …
The Liberal National Government will make a medicine for the treatment of seizures associated with tuberous sclerosis more affordable, saving patients $17,000 a year. The medicine Afinitor® (everolimus) is being listed on the expert Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) from January 1, for the treatment of refractory seizures associated with tuberous sclerosis complex. The…
