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Budget 2019–20: International Sporting Events – support for the T20 World Cup 2020
This Budget fact sheet outlines the Government support for the International Cricket Council T20 World Cup 2020 in Australia. -
Budget 2019–20: International Sporting Events – support for Paralympic sports
This Budget fact sheet outlines the Government's funding to the Australian Paralympic Committee to support Paralympic sports, including preparing for and attending the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. -
Budget 2019–20: Investing in Health and Medical Research – Medical Research Future Fund 10-year investment plan
The Government announced a $5 billion, 10-year investment plan for the MRFF as part of its 2019–20 Budget. This plan continues our support for lifesaving research, gives researchers and industry certainty and direction, and reaffirms Australia’s reputation as a world leader in medical research. -
Budget 2019–20: Investing in Health and Medical Research – Health and Medical Research Office
This Budget fact sheet outlines the Government's plan to establish a new Health and Medical Research Office. -
Budget 2019–20: Investing in Health and Medical Research – Indigenous health and medical research
This Budget fact sheet outlines how the Government will invest $10 million in critical research focused on improving the health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. -
Budget 2019–20: Investing in Health and Medical Research – fighting diabetes
This Budget fact sheet outlines how the Government will provide $56 million for research that will give new hope and support to the more than 120,000 Australian children and adults living with type 1 diabetes. -
Budget 2019–20: Investing in Health and Medical Research – additional research infrastructure
This Budget fact sheet outlines how the Government will invest in critical infrastructure to support lifesaving health and medical research, building on its $605 million investment to support the provision of vital infrastructure through the Medical Research Future Fund 10 year plan. -
Budget 2019–20: Investing in Health and Medical Research – Channel Nine Queensland telethon
This Budget fact sheet outlines how the Government will support lifesaving research into new treatments and cures for childhood life threatening diseases with a $2 million contribution to the annual Channel Nine Queensland telethon, which raises money for the Children’s Hospital Foundation. -
Budget 2019–20: More Choices for a Longer Life – overview
This Budget fact sheet outlines how the Government will increase funding for aged care by $7 billion over five years. -
Budget 2019–20: More Choices for a Longer Life – residential care – interim increase to general subsidy
This Budget fact sheet outlines how the Government will provide a one-off, across the board increase to the general residential aged care subsidy between March 2019 and June 2019. -
Budget 2019–20: More Choices for a Longer Life – more home care packages
This Budget fact sheet outlines the Government's increase in home care packages. -
Budget 2019–20: More Choices for a Longer Life – mandatory national quality indicators
This Budget fact sheet outlines how the Government will help ensure senior Australians, in residential aged care facilities, are receiving high quality clinical care by requiring regular public reporting by providers across the nation. -
Budget 2019–20: More Choices for a Longer Life – serious incident response scheme
This Budget fact sheet outlines how the Government will introduce a serious incident response scheme for aged care providers to report assaults and serious incidents in their facilities. -
Budget 2019–20: More Choices for a Longer Life – reducing the misuse of medicines in residential aged care
This Budget fact sheet outlines how the Government will prioritise better use of medicines in aged care, including the use of psychotropic medicines. -
Budget 2019–20: More Choices for a Longer Life – strengthened regulation through risk based targeting and information sharing
This Budget fact sheet outlines how the Government will introduce a new way to target and respond to poorly performing aged care providers. -
Budget 2019–20: More Choices for a Longer Life – home care compliance – risk based monitoring and assessment
This Budget fact sheet outlines how the Government will strengthen protections to make sure aged care services are being delivered safely to senior Australians in their homes. -
Budget 2019–20: More Choices for a Longer Life – enhanced home care dementia cognition and support
This Budget fact sheet outlines how the Government will increase the supplement paid to people receiving home care who are living with moderate to severe dementia. -
Budget 2019–20: More Choices for a Longer Life – further enhancing safety in aged care
This Budget fact sheet outlines how the Government will improve compliance in aged care by further enhancing the quality, safety and integrity of home care packages – including audits and reviews of quality and safety with providers. -
Protect your baby from whooping cough. Vaccinate for free when pregnant – poster
This poster aims to prompt pregnant women to think about getting the free whooping cough vaccine when pregnant. -
Exploratory Research on School Based Immunisation - Qualitative Research Report
This research was conducted to further understand the knowledge base for adolescents and their parents around school-based vaccinations. -
National Men's Health Strategy 2020–2030
This strategy outlines Australia’s national approach to improving the health of men and boys – particularly those at greatest risk of poor health – and to reducing inequities between different groups. -
Home Care Packages Program Data Reports
These quarterly reports provide an update on the operation of the Home Care Packages Program. They include statistics on assessment, approvals, services, people waiting for services, wait times and maximum exit amounts. -
Life Saving Drugs Program – Fabry disease – Medicines review protocol
This final protocol describes the methodology reviewers will follow to assess use of Life Saving Drugs Program medicines for Fabry disease. -
Life Saving Drugs Program – Gaucher disease (type 1) – Medicines review protocol
This final protocol describes the methodology reviewers will follow to assess use of enzyme replacement medicines under the Life Saving Drugs Program medicines for Gaucher disease (type 1). -
Multijurisdictional Syphilis Outbreak (MJSO) Surveillance Report – consolidated reports May 2018 to January 2019
The surveillance reports summarise the status of an ongoing outbreak of infectious syphilis among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in remote and rural areas of northern Australia. This report consolidates the monthly surveillance reports from May 2018 to January 2019.