Celebrating 30 years of BreastScreen Australia

The Hon. Greg Hunt MP Minister for Health and Aged Care   MEDIA RELEASE   BreastScreen Australia is celebrating 30 years of service in the Australian community.   In just the six years alone between 2013 and 2018, BreastScreen completed around 5 million mammograms with approximately 44,000 cancers detected.   Australia’s survival rate following a…

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R U OK? Day More Important Than Ever

The Hon Greg Hunt MP Minister for Health and Aged Care   The Hon. David Coleman MP Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister for Mental Health and Suicide Prevention   JOINT MEDIA RELEASE   The Morrison Government is encouraging Australians to reach out to the people we care about for an important conversation about mental…

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Labor Misleads on Vaccines Again

The Hon. Greg Hunt MP Minister for Health and Aged Care   MEDIA RELEASE   Contrary to Labor’s claims, the Australian Government was working with Pfizer and other pharmaceutical companies from early in the pandemic on vaccine purchase, including direct discussions with Pfizer prior to them allowing formal commencement of negotiations.   Labor is again…

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Landmark New Medicines Agreements to Bring Significant Benefits for Australian Patients

The Hon. Greg Hunt MP Minister for Health and Aged Care   MEDIA RELEASE   Australians will have more affordable, improved and guaranteed access to medicines under landmark long-term Strategic Agreements between the Morrison Government and Australia’s medicines industry.   The new five-year Strategic Agreements between the Government and Medicines Australia and the Generic and…

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Increased Workforce Support for Aged Care

  The Hon. Greg Hunt MP Minister for Health and Aged Care   Senator the Hon. Richard Colbeck Minister for Senior Australians and Aged Care Services Minister for Sport The Hon. Alex Hawke MP Minister for Immigration, Citizenship Migrant Services, and Multicultural Affairs   30 August 2021   Increased workforce support for aged care  …

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