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Giving families the best start

5 March 2011

Having started her nursing career in 1960, City of Kingston maternal and child health nurse Yvonne Macalister says she probably should retire, but that's easier said than done... read full story

Safety warning: debate fireworks could explode in somebody's face

22 March 2010

Tony Abbott's first parliamentary question as leader was to challenge Kevin Rudd's intestinal fortitude. "Does the Prime Minister have the guts to have a nationally televised debate about climate change - my direct action versus his great big tax?" Abbott asked on February 2... read full story

Polls to temper hospitals debate

20 March 2010

THE political atmospherics for Tuesday's health and hospitals debate between Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott will be influenced by the outcomes of today's South Australian and Tasmanian elections... read full story

Rudd warns states: voters will back me

6 March 2010

STATE and federal politicians who try to obstruct the government's health reform plan are defying the wishes of the public for a better hospital system and will pay the price, the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, says... read full story

Cabinet reshuffle will be 'minimalist'

7 December 2009

THE Premier, Kristina Keneally, is set to promote two close allies of Eddie Obeid in her reshuffle this week, giving Phil Costa the planning portfolio and bringing Ian Macdonald back in his old portfolios of primary industries and state development... read full story

Baillieu reshuffles with eye on crime

6 November 2009

OPPOSITION Leader Ted Baillieu has signalled his intention to make next year's state election a referendum on crime and corruption by bolstering the Coalition's firepower in the police portfolio... read full story

Rivals demoted in Rees cabinet reshuffle

12 September 2009

THE Premier, Nathan Rees, has punished key rivals who plotted against him, sacking Tony Kelly as police minister and Ian Macdonald as energy minister, and has given a big promotion to the former union boss who helped him into the job, John Robertson... read full story

Breaking down study barriers

22 August 2009

The first indigenous child-and-family postgraduate workers are busily tending support to the "at risk" members of their community in regional Victoria... read full story

Ask Health Experts If You Want To Do What's Right

16 August 2008

All of us in the health sector have known for a long time that our system is in turmoil. From the inability - or refusal - of the Health Minister, Reba Meagher, to make changes at the state level, to a decade of the federal Liberals and Tony Abbott appearing to just keep the chair warm, we have got only worse... read full story