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A government inquiry will be conducted into the Esther Foundation following Crikey’s investigation.

Peak GPs body calls for Medicare rebate to be extended to cover growing complexity of care for expectant mothers

The derangements of party factionalism, the mean girls and bullyboys, were finally punctured by the gravitas of Volodymyr Zelenskiy via videolink

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There is no reduction in "overall funding" for after hours care and any claim to the contrary is "categorically false", Hunt's spokesperson said.

After heartfelt debate in both chambers of parliament, a controversial bill to legalise mitochondrial donation in Australia has passed the Senate without amendment after a conscience vote.

The 2022 budget is an election-year budget. So stakeholders have been pushing their wheelbarrows up the hill to Parliament House to lobby for extra largesse to flow their way.

Without PBS subsidy, around 1,900 Australians would be up for more than $250,000 a year to access the CF drug.

The billionaire mining magnate known as Twiggy may be emulating Bill Gates with the scale of his philanthropy, but not everyone is convinced

Australia travel rules are about to get easier as the country is looking to drop its Covid test requirements for vaccinated travellers from next month including PCR and antigen tests

Australia is offering a fourth dose of Covid-19 vaccines to over 65s from next month, federal health authorities announced Friday, as a new Omicron strain races through the population. The top advisory group on vaccines approved the fourth shot for vulnerable groups: those aged over 65, indigenous people over 50,…