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Road Paved With Broken Promises
In February 2006, Mike Rann committed to build an underpass at South Road under Sturt Road to ease traffic congestion at this major bottleneck. Prior to the 2007 Federal election, Kevin Rudd promised a $500 million investment for South Road and promised that a South Road flyover would be ...
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At the end of the day Rudd still a wowser
Kevin Rudd’s appearance on Q & A last night proved that he is truly out of touch with young Australians, calling for an increase in the drinking age to 21. The evidence from the Australian Guidelines to Reduce Health Risks from Drinking Alcohol were commissioned by the Government to advise on ...
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Labor Still Gunning for Private Health
The Labor Party this week reintroduced legislation to parliament to withdraw support for private health insurance, despite widespread assurances prior to the last election that the private health insurance rebate would be retained.Broken promises are increasingly the norm for the Rudd Labor ...
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Cataract rebates retained
Cataract sufferers will no longer be hit with hundreds of dollars in extra costs when they undergo surgery.Andrew Southcott, Federal Member for Boothby said the Coalition supported by crossbench Senators had forced the Rudd Government to back-down from imposing the extra costs.Labor has confirmed ...
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Rudd and Roxon take their inspiration from Sir Humphrey
After two years of no progress on the state of public hospitals and with only one GP super clinic established, Kevin Rudd and Nicola Roxon have today opened a cancer centre with no staff and no patients.Kevin Rudd’s opening of the Alan Walker Cancer Care Centre in Darwin today bears an uncanny ...
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Regional Health Chronically Neglected by Labor
Today’s release of the report on the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, Diabetes and Chronic Kidney Disease highlights some alarming trends in regional Australia. Increased risk factors such as obesity and sedentary lifestyles are considerably more prevalent in regional Australia, yet the Rudd ...
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