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Stephen Duckett, Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice, The University of Melbourne

What does the budget mean for Medicare, medicines, aged care and First Nations health?

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Labor’s first health budget in almost a decade has few surprises – and that is a good thing.

The budget foreshadows additional annual health and aged care spending of more than A$2.3 billion when initiatives are fully implemented in 2025–26, the end of the four-year forward estimates. The bulk of this is for policy initiatives foreshadowed in the election campaign.

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