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Cheaper prescriptions plan to proceed as Senate votes down Coalition attempt to block 60-day dispensing

Patients will be able to buy two months of medicine from pharmacies for price of one, saving more than $1.6bn over four years

The Guardian - AU · Aug 10, 2023

Opposition to launch further attempt to disallow plan after defeat – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU · Aug 9, 2023

Coalition will seek to block Labor plan for cheaper medicine after backlash from pharmacies

Opposition won’t support 60-day dispensing policy that allows patients to buy two months of medicine for price of one over concerns community pharmacies will be forced to close

The Guardian - AU · Aug 9, 2023

Wider screening for rare health conditions in babies

Newborns will be tested for a wider range of rare health conditions in a promised overhaul that also seeks to iron out differences in screening between states.

AAP · Jun 28, 2023

'The dirty disease' – both smokers and non-smokers get lung cancer. They face stigma on top of illness

Earlier this year, federal health minister Mark Butler announced a new national Lung Cancer Screening Program. The first of its kind for lung cancer, the screening program will open initially to current and former smokers aged 50 to 70 years by July 2025. It aims to save lives by detecting…

The Conversation · Jun 27, 2023

​Missing 'Titanic' submarine: What we know about the 'Titan'

Missing \'Titanic\' Submarine: What We Know About the \'Titan\'

The Times of India · Jun 22, 2023

Will hundreds of Australian pharmacies close over dispensing changes or is it just a scare campaign?

We look at how the claims of potentially 20,000 job losses, medicine shortages and billion-dollar revenue falls stack up

The Guardian - AU · Jun 20, 2023

Deep-sea craft carrying 5 people to Titanic wreckage reported missing, search underway

A search is underway for a missing submersible that carries people to view the wreckage of the Titanic

The Independent UK · Jun 20, 2023

Warren Entsch denies he helped LNP donor get Pfizer vaccine during supply crisis

Allegation raised in parliament that MP arranged for property developer Alex Sekler to travel to Torres Strait for Covid jab referred to state corruption watchdog

The Guardian - AU · Jun 19, 2023

MP denies quid pro quo over COVID-19 jab for donor

The federal health minister has accused Liberal MP Warren Enstch of allowing a wealthy donor to use a COVID-19 vaccine dose intended for Indigenous people.

AAP · Jun 19, 2023