Croakey contributors and readers – please help us document the full range of Budget cuts that have a bearing upon the community’s health (Health Budget papers are here).
We will list these cuts under the following categories.
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Health care and health policy
More details of cuts at this indepth Croakey piece, and here is ABC’s summary of healthcare cuts.
And a question mark:
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Public health
There goes the Australian National Preventive Health Agency and Health Workforce Australia.
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Indigenous health
• Reconciliation Australia outlines cuts and questions, including “no mention of funding for a further national partnership agreement on Indigenous health or investment for the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Plan”.
• Details of end of funding for Congress
• Minister’s statement about replacing more than 150 individual programmes and services with five broad-based programmes.
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Social determinants of health
• Many of the education and university changes will have profound implications for health inequalities as will the changes for the unemployed and people with a disability and those on low incomes.
• Changes to family benefits outlined here by ABC.
• How pensioners will be affected.
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Climate change
