Assistant Minister Kearney's media

Labor is meeting the health needs of people from culturally, ethnically and linguistically diverse backgrounds (CALD) through a $2.5 million investment to establish the Australian Multicultural Health Collaborative.

The Australian Government is delivering on its commitment and making it easier for Victorians to get the care they need by opening the Inner Melbourne Medicare Urgent Care Clinic (Medicare UCC).

Read Assistant Minister Kearney's Doorstop in Carlton on Urgent Care Clinics, Medicare and bulk billing.

The Australian Government has launched Australia’s first National Health and Climate Strategy that is aimed at ensuring our health system can meet the challenges of climate change.

Read the transcript of Assistant Minister Kearney's speech on the launch of Australia's National Health and Climate Strategy.

Read Assistant Minister Kearney's speech launching Australia's National Health and Climate Strategy.

On the eve of World AIDS Day, the Australian Government has released the report of the HIV Taskforce

The Australian Government has restored the ability of midwives to deliver care to women who labour in their home before a planned birth in hospital.

The Australian Government will open a specialised Endometriosis and Pelvic Pain GP Clinic in Rouse Hill, providing women with expert, multidisciplinary care and a one-stop option for diagnosis, intervention, and treatment.

Read the transcript of Assistant Minister Kearney's speech at the 2023 National Multicultural Health and Wellbeing Conference

Read Assistant Minister Kearney's Doorstop in Rouse Hill on endometriosis; pelvic pain; women's health.

The Australian Government is leading the way for Australia to become the first country in the world to eliminate cervical cancer, with the release of the National Strategy for the Elimination of Cervical Cancer and a $48.2 million investment to support implementation.

Read the transcript of Assistant Minister Kearney's speech on making history by eliminating cervical cancer in Australia and our region.

Read the transcript of Assistant Minister Kearney's doorstop at the Australian Centre of the Prevention of Cervical Cancer

The Australian Government has taken the next step in fighting deadly occupational respiratory diseases like silicosis by establishing Australia’s first National Occupational Respiratory Disease Registry.

Read the transcript of Assistant Minister Kearney's Doorstop on bulk-billing; Urgent Care Clinics.

The Australian Government is ensuring better health outcomes by giving all Australians the opportunity to be involved in safe health and medical research.

The Australian Government is ensuring the next generation of lifesaving drugs and world-class medical treatments can be developed in Australia by launching MedChem Australia (MCA).

Read Assistant Minister Kearney's speech at the launch of MedChem Australia.

Read the transcript of Assistant Minister Kearney's press conference on the Weston Creek Medicare Urgent Care Clinic.

The Australian Government is establishing a National Centre of Excellence in Intellectual Disability Health – which fulfils an election commitment made in 2022.

Read Assistant Minister Kearney's op-ed published in the Women's Agenda on the 12th of October 2023

Read the transcript of Assistant Minister Kearney's doorstop on Doctors for Yes letter.

This Women’s Health Week, the Australian Government is urging women to share their experiences of bias in the health system through the first public consultation of its kind in Australia.

Read the transcript of Assistant Minister Kearney's doorstop on the call for submissions to women's health consultation during Women's Health Week.