UNCOVERED: The pharmacy guild - The Untold Story

Understaffed and Underpaid: Why CVS Pharmacists in Three States Authorized a Strike

The pressure on pharmacy staff to work quickly leads to high turnover and threatens patient safety, workers say.

Capital & Main · Sep 14

Push to free up GPs with more pharmacist prescriptions

Letting pharmacists write medication scripts could save $1 billion in health costs and free up 10 million GP visits a year, a report has found.

AAP · Jun 8

60-day scripts were supposed to save time and money. So why are we still waiting for cheaper medicines?

Labor has committed A$690 million over four years to cut the maximum cost of medicines on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) to $25. The Coalition has matched the promise, which is estimated to save Australians $200 million a year.

The Conversation · Mar 26, 2025

Australian pharmacy losses predicted to total $1.2bn over four years under Labor prescription reforms

Government models also outline benefits to patients as guild says changes will send small and regional businesses ‘to the wall’

The Guardian - AU · May 16, 2023

‘Misleading’ pharmacy signs prompt boycott call over prescription changes

A Priceline pharmacy sign about an upcoming policy change to prescriptions has been branded as a "scare campaign".

The New Daily · May 9, 2023

Pharmacy Guild unleashes robocalls, text messages and posters opposing PBS changes

Patients say they are distressed and disappointed after receiving calls warning of prescription medicine shortages "due to the Albanese Labor government".

ABC News · May 9, 2023

Despite tears and panic from the pharmacy lobby, Labor’s medicine reforms won’t cause the world to end

In the interests of reassuring the community, let’s address each of the alarm bells set off by the Pharmacy Guild

The Guardian - AU · Apr 28, 2023

Pharmacists claim children at risk of overdose under Labor’s two-for-one prescription changes

Guild is pushing against the ‘dangerous’ policy, but MP and GP Mike Freelander says move is ‘long overdue’

The Guardian - AU · Apr 26, 2023

Major PBS shake-up will allow Australians to purchase more medicine for less

The cost of hundreds of medicines will be halved for millions of Australians with chronic illness, who will be able to buy 60 days' worth of medicine for the price of a single prescription from September.

ABC News · Apr 25, 2023