This week the Australian Greens health spokesperson, Senator Richard Di Natale, announced the Greens dental policy in advance of the upcoming election. The policy, which has the same broad aim of bringing dentistry under Medicare, was criticised by the ADA. […]
Denticare
Denticare begins?
The Federal Government has joined with The Greens to announce a $4 billion dental health reform package which builds on the half-billion dollars for dental announced in the last budget. At the centre of the six-year package, announced on Wednesday […]
Dental report is in
This week Health Minister Tanya Plibersek welcomed the final report of the National Advisory Council on Dental Health. Earlier this month the Minister made reference to the importance she placed on the report, when commenting on her promise to put […]
Government promises $165 million for dental
Health minister Tanya Plibersek has secured a deal with the Australian Greens that guarantees the passage of the Government’s changes to private health insurance in return for $165 million for dental care. However, the minister has clarified that the money […]
Greens and PM stand-off over dental funding
The Australian Greens have increased pressure on the Prime Minister Julia Gillard to honour their deal over delivery of a new universal dental scheme after she appeared to back away from the deal during question time this week. On Tuesday […]
ACOSS calls for national dental scheme
ACOSS has called on the Australian Government to tackle waste while giving priority to those who struggle the most in the next Federal Budget, and have specifically called for a national population-based oral health program, in place of the Medicare […]
Greens back dentists
Greens’ spokesperson for health, Richard Di Natale, has urged the government to stop targeting innocent dentists who have provided important services through the Chronic Disease Dental Scheme. The government has come under increasing pressure from the Opposition, the ADA, dentists […]
Cost complaints
The cost of dental care has been in the news again following the release of the report by the Ipsos Social Research Unit, which showed that around 1.9 million people went without dental care in 2009 because they could not […]
