The Guardian • Medicare

Issue #2036

• September 4, 2023
• THE GUARDIAN

Commodification of health care

Since its introduction in 1984, Australia’s national health insurance scheme, Medicare, has been under constant attack from the privateers. Medicare is an anathema to their...

Issue #2036

• September 4, 2023
• THE GUARDIAN

DINGO

More than a thousand refugees and their supporters rallied outside Parliament House in Canberra on 29th November to demand permanent visas for refugees. Priya Nadesalingam,...

Issue #2058

• September 4, 2023
• THE GUARDIAN

AUKUS, the ranks are breaking

How good would it be if we could see headlines like these? Albanese to spend $300 billion on Public Housing or Power prices to plummet...

Issue #1989

• September 4, 2023
• THE GUARDIAN

Health care a right, not a privilege

The Liberal-National Coalition has never supported Medicare, constantly undermining it since its introduction.

Issue #2035

• September 4, 2023
• THE GUARDIAN

DINGO

The latest cost estimate for taxpayers of Australia’s pending nuclear submarines at more than $170 billion. Don’t be surprised when Australia’s supply of weaponry to...

Issue #2034

• September 4, 2023
• THE GUARDIAN

DINGO

Scott Morrison’s secret multiple portfolios has nothing on the dual role of PM Albanese and Defence Minister Richard Marles as salesmen/lobbyists for the arms manufacturers....

Issue #1986

• September 4, 2023
• THE GUARDIAN

Digital identity exposure draft is too light on the details

Digital rights advocacy groups such as “Digital Rights Watch” have raised several concerns and recommendations to ensure Australian’s digital identities remain safe.

Issue #2030

• September 4, 2023
• THE GUARDIAN

The mainstream media has excised coverage of Israel’s crimes in the West Bank and Gaza. While there is no end to the noise from the...

Issue #1966

• September 4, 2023
• THE GUARDIAN

The destruction of Medicare by stealth

Without warning, the government announced changes to more than 900 Medicare rebates, mostly in private hospitals, to commence 1st July.

Issue #2063

• September 4, 2023
• THE GUARDIAN

DINGO

The union movement extended its thoughts to the loved ones of the food delivery rider who tragically lost his life in Sydney last week working...

Issue #2030

• September 4, 2023
• THE GUARDIAN

Medicare under attack

An investigation by the ABC, and the Nine newspapers Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, claims that $8 billion (approximately thirty per cent) of Medicare’s...

Issue #2049

• September 4, 2023
• THE GUARDIAN

NO to AUKUS! – YES to Medicare!

Medicare as a public health insurance scheme offering universal access to bulkbilling, and funded through central revenue is becoming a distant memory. GPs are fully...

Issue #2041

• September 4, 2023
• THE GUARDIAN

Medicare plan – BULK PROFITS

For anyone looking for solutions to the Medicare crisis, the Albanese government’s Strengthening Medicare Taskforce Report raises more questions than it answers. It is full...

Issue #2068

• September 4, 2023
• THE GUARDIAN

Intergenerational Report – The march of history

A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of Communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this...