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Amid a rising tide of chronic disease, structural reform to Medicare is vital to enable GPs to respond to Australia’s modern health needs.

Danielle Romanes is a Visiting Fellow at Grattan Institute.

The multinational companies – which supply the nation’s hospitals with medical devices such as hip joints, screws, pacemakers and trauma plates – have been accused of shifting the profits they are making in Australia to other countries including Singapore and Switzerland.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has identified the health portfolio as one of the major areas of spending pressure on the budget.

This morning Christopher Luxon refused to rule out working with Freedoms New Zealand, the Brian Tamaki entity which has held mock trials, alleged senior Government figures should be tried for treason and have professed a desire to make the country ungovernable.

To improve primary care access and affordability under Medicare we should look at what’s worked overseas

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What started out as an ego driven campaign is now developing into full blown Trumism as Leo Molloy thrashes around attempting to court attention in the belief, Trump like, that it will convert into political support.

RNZ's "The Detail" asked are New Zealand's sanctions against Russia working? They aren't, but one detail we learnt that MFAT has 100 staff members assigned to sorting out their complications!! What a waste.