Press Office

TUE 02 AUGUST 2011

Transcript of joint press conference, Canberra

PM: I am joined by the Minister for Health and Ageing Nicola Roxon. In February this year I sat in this building with premiers and chief ministers from around the country and we entered an agreement to fundamentally reform our health system, an agreement to deliver better services to patients...

TUE 02 AUGUST 2011

National health reform finalised

The Gillard Government today signed off on the final details of national health reforms with all States and Territories to secure the future of health in Australia. This historic agreement will deliver the funding public hospitals need, with unprecedented levels of transparency and...

THU 07 JULY 2011

Transcript of interview with David Speers, Sky News

HOST: Prime Minister welcome, I want to start with the live cattle trade, it’s now been reopened to Indonesia, are you able to say now that no Australian cattle will be subject to the sort of brutal slaughter that we saw in the Four Corners program? ...

THU 30 JUNE 2011

GP health care a call away for families

After hours GP advice will only be a phone call away for Australian families with the launch of the after hours GP helpline tomorrow. The new helpline is one of the Gillard Labor Government’s key health initiatives that will provide late night reassurance for families,...

WED 29 JUNE 2011

Telehealth transforming health care

Australian patients will be able to have Medicare funded consultations with any medical specialist via a video conference for the first time starting this Friday. Telehealth will transform the way health care is delivered in Australia by removing distance, time and cost as a barrier to...

MON 27 JUNE 2011

Transcript of interview with Jon Faine, ABC Melbourne

HOST: Prime Minister, good morning to you. PM: Good morning, Jon. HOST: We’ll come to carbon tax problems in a moment, but I understand today you’re going to get for your anniversary a writ from Big Tobacco, who are opposed to your plain packaging legislation. Do...

SAT 25 JUNE 2011

Transcript of doorstop interview, Perth

PM: It’s been great to have the opportunity to address the Western Australian Labor Party Conference and it’s been great to be here in Western Australia. I came today to the Western Australian Labor Party Conference with a very simple message: I respect the voice of Western...

MON 20 JUNE 2011

Landmark agreement to achieve world standards in therapeutic products

The Australian and New Zealand Governments will establish a world leading agency to regulate medicines, medical devices and other therapeutic goods in both countries. Prime Minister Julia Gillard and New Zealand Prime Minister John Key today signed a statement of intent to implement...

SAT 18 JUNE 2011

'Governing well, driven by Labor values', Speech to the Queensland ALP State Conference, Brisbane

Thanks so much, Wayne, for that generous introduction. I see so many of my ministerial and parliamentary colleagues here today, Federal and State, far too many to name; so many friends from Queensland’s great labour movement. ...

FRI 17 JUNE 2011

Improving our lives through medical bionics

Australian researchers could make many world-first breakthroughs that would treat and heal injured and sick people across the globe thanks to the new Bionics Institute in Victoria. Announcing the Institute by video message, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said Australia had a proud...

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