.MathiasCormann: Labor stopped listing recommending medicines on the PBS because they ran out of money, literally. Our track record is one where we’ve listed $10 billion worth of new medicines on the PBS, about 200 new medicines. MORE: Budget2019
The Opposition Leader has announced that Australians diagnosed with cancer will ‘battle without going broke’ under a would-be Labor government's $2.3 billion Medicare cancer plan.
Bill Shorten delivered his budget reply on Thursday night, revealing Labor’s plan to invest $600 million towards eliminating all out-of-pocket costs for diagnostic imaging such as CT scans, PET scans, mammograms, X-rays and ultrasounds. The plan includes $433 million to cover specialist consultations for cancer patients.
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Under Labor you can battle cancer without going broke: Shorten | Sky News AustraliaOpposition leader Bill Shorten has announced that under Labor, Australians diagnosed with cancer will ‘battle without going broke’ with the $2.3 billion Medicare Cancer Plan.\n\nMr Shorten delivered his budget reply on Thursday night, revealing Labor’s plan to invest $600 million towards eliminating all out-of-pocket costs for diagnostic imaging like CT scans, PET scans, mammograms, X Rays and ultrasounds.\n\nThe plan includes $433 million to cover specialist consultations for cancer patients. \n\nThe Labor leader also announced the Affordable Medicine Guarantee, where every cancer drug recommended by independent experts will be listed on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.\n\nImage: News Corp Australia\n\n\n
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Labor to give back public school and hospital funding after Liberal cuts: Shorten | Sky News AustraliaOpposition leader Bill Shorten has delivered his budget reply, following Treasurer Josh Frydenberg’s budget speech on Tuesday. \n\nMr Shorten says if elected, a Labor government will put back every dollar the Liberal government has cut from public schools and hospitals.\n\nImage: News Corp Australia\n\n\n
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Labor says 'No' to Kyoto credits and carbon pricing | Sky News AustraliaOpposition leader Bill Shorten has outlined Labor's climate policy, promising there will be 'no carbon tax or carbon pricing mechanism' under a Labor government.\n\nThe Labor leader has also affirmed the Party will not be using the Kyoto carryover credits in order to meet its 45 per cent emissions target by 2030.\n\nMr Shorten has described his climate policy as an extension of Malcolm Turnbull's 'safeguard mechanism', which sought to put a limit on pollution by big industries.\n\nImage: News Corp Australia\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Medicare rebate set to rise under Labor: Catherine King | Sky News AustraliaFULL INTERVIEW: Labor Leader Bill Shorten has announced a $2.3 billion Medicare cancer plan during his budget reply speech on Thursday night, which he says is the ‘most significant investment in Medicare in a generation’.\n\nSpeaking with Sky News, Shadow Health Minister Catherine King says the rate that the Medicare rebate is currently set quite low, explaining that Labor will raise it to around $150 from about $60.\n\nMs King says Labor has had all its policies in the Medicare plan costed by the Parliamentary Budget Office.\n\nImage: News Corp Australia\n\n\n
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Shorten to outbid govt's tax cuts in Budget reply | Sky News AustraliaOpposition leader Bill Shorten is expected to promise lower taxes than the Coalition for nearly three million workers when he delivers his Budget reply on Thursday evening.\n\nShould it come into power, Labor says 10 million Australians will receive equal or greater tax cuts, and nearly three million low paid workers will receive a substantially bigger relief. \n\nMr Shorten says his cuts are just one promise that proves Labor is the party 'for working mums and working families'. \n\nThe Labor leader is also expected to announce a $400 million boost to superannuation, and universal preschool for three and four-year-olds.\n\nThe speech is also expected to include a major health announcement ahead of what is set to be a Medicare-based election campaign. \n\n\nImage: News Corp Australia\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Labor should preference Liberals ahead of 'reckless and irresponsible' Greens: Cormann | Sky News AustraliaFinance Minister Mathias Cormann has called out Opposition leader Bill Shorten amid recent debates over voting preferences.\n\nIt comes after both Labor and the Coalition said they would put One Nation bellow their major party rivals when an undercover Al Jazeera investigation uncovered representatives of One Nation vying for donations from the US gun lobby in exchange for relaxed gun laws in Australia. \n\nMr Cormann says he supports the Prime Minister's move on preferencing One Nation beneath Labor '100 per cent' but says it's now a question of what Mr Shorten will do with the Greens.\n\nThe Finance Minister says the Labor leader should put the Greens behind the Liberal Party in its preferences unless he supports the 'reckless and irresponsible policies' of the Greens that 'undermine our national and economic security'.\n\nImage: News Corp Australia\n\n\n\n
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Labor has ‘almost no hope’ without the Greens’ preferences: Credlin | Sky News AustraliaSky News host Peta Credlin says that ‘without the Greens and their preferences’, Bill Shorten ‘stands almost no hope of winning’ the May election, as Labor’s primary vote is much lower than it needs to be if Mr Shorten is to ‘win in his own right’. \n\nMs Credlin says that wherever the Greens go, the Labor party follows down ‘the same economically destructive path’, which she says is evident in the party's climate change policy released on Monday. \n\nLabor has announced plans to cut emissions by 45 per cent by 2030 and reach a 50 per cent renewable energy target by 2050. \n\nMs Credlin says the climate plan will change the way Australians live and work, and will mean higher power prices, more costs on industries and manufacturing jobs migrating offshore. \n\nImage: News Corp Australia \n\n\n\n\n\n
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Labor needs to shift focus from wages to energy prices: McCrann | Sky News AustraliaEconomics columnist Terry McCrann has rubbished Labor’s plan to increase the minimum wage and urged the party to shift its focus towards tax cuts and energy prices. \n\nOpposition leader Bill Shorten has promised to raise the minimum wage to a 'living wage' so that no full-time worker lives in poverty. \n\nThe party’s policy proposal has come under fire by its opponents who say it will lead to mass job losses in an uncertain economy. \n\nMr McCrann says Australia is suffering through an ‘insane situation where we are paying more for Australian gas than Japanese customers’ and the nation’s leaders need to ‘actually deliver in the right places’. \n\nImage: News Corp Australia \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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