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Read the transcript of Assistant Minister McBride's doorstop on what the Australian Government is doing to address the health workforce shortage in regional and rural areas.

A world first guide addressing the unique demands and challenges for Registered Nurses in rural and regional Australia has been released today.

Read the transcript of Assistant Minister McBride's speech at the APP conference.

Read the transcript of Minister Butler's doorstop in Canberra on vaping.

Read the transcript of Minister Butler and Lisa Millar's television interview on vaping, and the First Nations Referendum Working Group.

Read the transcript of the radio interview with Minister Butler and Patricia Karvelas on vaping and the National Occupational Respiratory Disease Registry.

Read the transcript of Assistant Minister McBride and Debra Pearce's radio interview on Taking Stock suicide prevention for farmers, Black Dog NEWSS program and rural mental health.

Read the transcript of Minister Butler and Raf Epstein's radio interview on vaping, and primary health.

Read the transcript of the radio interview between Minister Butler and Leon Compton on vaping.

Read the transcript of the radio interview between Minister Butler and Ben Fordham on the diabetes drug, Fiasp.

The Australian Government has secured access to Fiasp and Fiasp FlexTouch on the Pharmaceutical Benefit Scheme (PBS) for Australians living with Type 1 diabetes for the next six months.

Australia’s emergency workers will receive additional mental health support through the establishment of the National Emergency Workers Support Service (NEWSS).

Today marks 60 years since Lifeline opened its telephone lines for the first time.

Taking Stock, a free online wellbeing and suicide prevention tool designed by and for Australia’s farmers, is now available.

In recent months a national conversation on eating disorders and disordered eating has come to the fore. I hope it stays there.

Through the Medical Research Future Fund, nearly 200 ground-breaking medical research projects will share in more than $382 million in grants, including more than $32 million to improve First Nations health.

Read the transcript of Assistant Minister McBride's interview on the Cootamundra flooding, AUKUS, vaping and the NSW State Election.

The Albanese Government is funding new research that could help prevent mitochondrial disease from being passed on to children by their mothers.

Support for additional mental health services will continue in north-west Tasmania with an investment of a further $3 million from the Albanese Government from July this year.

People living in Sydney’s west now have access to free, walk-in mental health care with the opening of Canterbury Head to Health at 1205 Canterbury Road, Roselands.

Read the transcript of the radio interview between Assistant Minister McBride and Rikki Lambert on rural health care; HELP debt; employer model; multidisciplinary care.

Australia’s pre-departure COVID-19 testing requirements for passengers arriving from the People’s Republic of China, including the Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau, will cease applying to flights that land in Australia at 12.01am on 11 March 2023.

Australians are being encouraged to fill their prescriptions for medicines, especially as the maximum out of pocket cost for most medicines on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme is now $12.50 lower.

Read the transcript of Minister Butler's doorstop on NSW Medicare Urgent Care Clinics Expressions of Interest, general practice, 'my health' app, digital health systems, TGA cough syrup recall, mental health and Distribution Priority Areas.

Read the transcript of Assistant Minister McBride's interview on bulk billing GPs and NSW Medicare Urgent Care Clinics.