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Labor’s central offer was clear. Then the Coalition hit the ground losing

Anthony Albanese has been disciplined and clear with his message. And Donald Trump has only helped the cause.

  • Peter Hartcher

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This disease has infected America. Australia must remain immune

Distrust in public institutions like the Centres for Disease Control has taken hold in America. We can’t allow our public health system to be undermined in the same way.

  • Peter Breadon
Albanese in the Melbourne electorate of Chisholm on Saturday, at a visit to the New Century Chinese Language School.

PM starts final campaign week pledging free hotline for after-hours telehealth

Anthony Albanese is pledging to expand telehealth services through the creation of a new Medicare hotline, ramming home what Labor sees as its greatest policy strength.

  • Matthew Knott
Opposition health spokeswoman Anne Ruston has accused Labor of seeking to mislead voters.

Mediscare 2.0: Labor spreads false claims about cuts to urgent care clinics

Labor has claimed the Coalition will shutter all existing Medicare urgent care clinics, despite an explicit vow from the Coalition that it will not do so.

  • Matthew Knott and Nick Bonyhady
Art by Monique Westermann.

The $8.5 billion health pledge doctors say will disadvantage women

Longer consults already attract a smaller rate of funding per minute than shorter consults. The gap is set to widen despite additional funding.

  • Aisha Dow and Kate Aubusson
Jenny Piper has been told she has just months to live.

‘Never taken seriously’: Jenny says doctors dismissed her concerns for years. Now she’s dying

More than 1800 women told us their stories of medical misogyny. Today we begin sharing those stories and building the case for change.

  • Kate Aubusson, Aisha Dow and Emily Kaine
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Anthony Albanese speaks with a family in Melbourne on Monday as he sought to capitalise on the Coalition’s work from home blunder.

Albanese raises stakes on mental health with $1b pledge as Dutton fuels cost-of-living policy

Anthony Albanese’s announcement will give him a $1 billion rebuttal to Peter Dutton’s $900 million in mental health funding ahead of a leaders’ debate on Tuesday.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
It’s been a week of a federal election heavily dominated by world politics. Here’s what Adam Bandt, Peter Dutton and Anthony Albanese have been saying, and if it’s true.

Exaggerations from Albanese, Dutton lost in Trump’s tariff blitz

We take a look at the prime minister’s claim Dutton wanted to end bulk-billing and the Coalition’s claim grocery prices are up 30 per cent under Labor.

  • Bronte Gossling
Patients will be able to receive 60-day scripts from September, with the same maximum co-payment of $30.

Dutton under pressure to match PM’s pledge to drop medicine prices by $6.60

Labor will bring the patient co-payment for subsidised medicines down to $25 from $31.60 as it wages an election battle over healthcare.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
Greens leader Adam Bandt has warned Prime Minister Anthony Albanese there needs to be further cost of living relief to keep Peter Dutton in opposition.

‘Pass this now’: Greens offer to help Labor ‘Dutton-proof’ key measures

In a letter penned to Anthony Albanese this week, Greens leader Adam Bandt had three key requests.

  • Millie Muroi

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