Assistant Minister Kearney's media

Media release announcing outlining the commitment to open a Medicare Urgent Care Clinic in Clifton Hill

The Australian Government is delivering more nurses and midwives through a $28 million investment to build a new world-class Nurses and Midwives Academy facility at the Epworth Hospital in Melbourne.

Read the transcript of Assistant Minister Kearney's interview with Ali Moore on bulk billing and ER doctors seeking security.

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.

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

Read the transcript of Assistant Minister Kearney's press conference on primary health care investments.

The Australian Government continues to strengthen Medicare by supporting Australia’s nursing workforce.

The Australian Government is delivering another Medicare Urgent Care Clinic for WA with people in Perth’s south-eastern suburbs soon able to walk in for fully bulk billed urgent care from highly trained doctors and nurses.

The Australian Government has listened to Australian women suffering endometriosis and complex gynaecological conditions like chronic pelvic pain and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).

Read Minister Butler and Assistant Minister Kearney's press conference on historic Medicare changes for women battling endometriosis; more doctors in Adelaide.

Read the transcript of the radio interview between Assistant Minister Kearney and Sammy J on men's violence against women; bulk billing.

Read Assistant Minister Kearney's speech at the World Health Summit Regional Forum Opening Ceremony.

The Australian Government today launched the Stronger Medicare Awards, to honour those who have made a significant contribution to Australia’s primary care sector.

Read the transcript from Assistant Minister Kearney's interview on ABC Drive Melbourne on bulb billing and Medicare

Read the transcript from Assistant Minister Kearney's television interview on Afternoon Briefings discussing cost of living.

Australians in rural and regional Victoria have seen some of the largest increases in bulk billing in the country, since the Australian Government tripled the bulk billing incentive.

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.

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

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

The Government welcomes the Therapeutic Goods Administration’s decision to remove a number of restrictions on health professionals who prescribe and dispense MS-2 Step (mifepristone and misoprostol).

A provider for the Joondalup Medicare Urgent Care Clinic (Medicare UCC) has been selected, following an Expression of Interest process. This is the third provider announcement for Medicare UCCs in WA.

Read the transcript of Assistant Minister Kearney's doorstop on strengthening Medicare; bulk billing incentive; aged care pay rise; Palliative Care Week; cheaper medicines and 60 day dispensing.