Assistant Minister Kearney's media

The Australian Government, in partnership with Gayaa Dhuwi (Proud Spirit) Australia, are today launching the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention Strategy 2025-2035.

The Australian Government has today released an Australian-first roadmap to improve the health and wellbeing of the LGBTIQA+ community.

The Australian Government today announced the latest round of funding to help community-based and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander groups support Australians affected by cancer.

Read Assistant Minister Kearney's speech at the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO) Members National Conference in Canberra.

The Australian Government has published a new report on Australian climate change and health research, which outlines existing knowledge, identifies gaps, and makes recommendations about future climate and health research priorities.

Australians can now have a say on the draft strategy towards achieving a first class public sexual health and primary healthcare system by 2030.

The Australian Government is making a multimillion-dollar investment and partnering with countries in the Pacific region to address the health impacts of climate change.

Medicare billing data shows the Albanese Government’s record investment to strengthen Medicare one year ago has revived bulk billing, with Australians in regional Victoria having an additional 585,900 free visits to the GP in the past year.

Dialysis will be made available in more remote locations to allow First Nations people to stay closer to home and on Country during treatment for end-stage kidney disease.

More Australians will have access to a life-saving transplant with a new strategy laying out the steps for Australia to become a world-leader in organ donation, retrieval, and transplantation.

Read the transcript from the joint press conference with Minister Butler and Assistant Minister Kearney, which covered nurses and midwives providing Medicare Services.

In Medicare’s 40th birthday year, the Australian Government is making an historic change that will finally support nurses and midwives with some of the highest qualifications to independently provide Medicare services.

People can now add a digital copy of their organ donor card to their myGov app wallet for a new and convenient way to store and access this important document.

Read the transcript from Assistant Minister Kearney and Minister Shorten's doorstop on integrating the organ donor card into the myGov app.

The Australian Government’s innovative and successful Health in My Language program is entering a new phase – focusing on sexual and reproductive health for migrant and refugee communities.

A new multi-purpose service centre will make life easier for residents of the remote Northern Territory community of Borroloola, including those living with chronic kidney disease.

The Australian Government has today called for innovative grant applications to help raise awareness about organ and tissue donation.

The Australian Government is expanding the Connected Beginnings program, helping more First Nations children thrive in the crucial early years.

The Australian Government is bringing together Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations and the research sector to conduct innovative, First Nations-led cancer research through a new grant scheme and a $9.6 million investment.

Read the transcript of the television interview between Assistant Minister Kearney and Melissa Clarke on the RACGP Report, social media summit, Opposition Party nuclear policy, China-Australia trade.

19 major organisations will work together to deliver action on climate and health.

The Albanese Labor Government is celebrating an increase in breast cancer screening rates this Breast Cancer Month.

The Australian Government is expanding the highly successful “Deadly Choices” preventative health program to improve the health outcomes of First Nations Australians.

The Australian Government is investing $1.9 million to better care for victim survivors of Family, Sexual and Domestic Violence (FSDV) in the Nepean Blue Mountains area of New South Wales

The Australian Government is investing $4.3 million for a new program to ensure that victim-survivors of family, domestic and sexual violence or child sexual abuse in the ACT can get better support.