This week, Croakey has published many thousands of words and commentary on the Federal Budget and its implications for health.
Below are some of the quotable quotes that illustrate a range of perspectives and concerns.
Quotables
This budget is a missed opportunity to address the impacts of worsening climate change on health. It represents a failure in our Government’s duty of care to protect Australians from what its own document recognises as the greatest threat to public health that we all face.
Dr Kate Wylie, Doctors for the Environment Australia
The Federal Budget serves as a placeholder in what could have been a landmark year for health reforms.
The Consumers Health Forum of Australia
True primary care reform and innovation are stymied by powerful lobby groups in Australia. Now is the time to stop talking about multidisciplinary team care and actually fund for it.
Allied Health Professions Australia
The 2024 Budget for mental health is small, but paradoxically offers some grand opportunities. Let’s take them.
Dr Sebastian Rosenberg
I cannot get my head around the Budget finding only $111 million a year for additional mental health services while we’re still happy to give the fossil fuel industries $14.5 billion a year in subsidies.
Independent MP Dr Monique Ryan
There is a health funding gap of $4.4 billion each year for our people. That equates to about $5,000 per Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander person. The Commonwealth’s share of that gap is $2.6 billion. So, we have a simple challenge to work through with the Government: let’s agree on a plan to close the funding gap, if we are ever to close the health gap.
Dr Dawn Casey, NACCHO
With this Budget, the Government has locked in the economy of the future while replicating the dynamics of the past, including adversarial relationships, delay, unnecessary cost, and impacts on Country.
Karrina Nolan, First Nations Clean Energy Network
Overall PWDA is concerned this budget was a missed opportunity to deliver the reform the Disability Royal Commission recommended.
People with Disability Australia
There is a gaping hole at the heart of this budget… While finding a way to deliver $26 billion in tax cuts, including $4,500 extra a year to people on $200,000, the Government hasn’t meaningfully raised the living standards of those most in need.
ACOSS
Health in All Policies
In many ways, the Budget outcomes remind us of the impotence of health ministers to influence the wider policies that shape health.
Here’s what happened when we played ‘Budget Bingo’ with the Treasurer.
Linking you into our Budget coverage and analysis
After this budget failure, the health sector must rally to make the climate health emergency an election issue
By Dr Kate Wylie
Refusing to lift JobSeeker and Youth Allowance will worsen health inequalities
By Adjunct Professor Cassandra Goldie
Federal Budget fails to deliver on First Nations outcomes in the clean energy transition
By Karrina Nolan
An overview of what the Federal Budget means for the health system, and access to care
By Peter Breadon and Anika Stobart
When the ambition for mental health reform exceeds the Federal Budget’s funding allocation, how to respond?
By Dr Sebastian Rosenberg
Documenting funding concerns for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and other important programs
By Charles Maskell-Knight
Rolling coverage of the Federal Budget and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ health and wellbeing
Statements by several organisations
A rolling wrap of reaction to the Federal Budget, and key health issues
Statements by more than 40 organisations
Wrapping reactions to the Federal Budget on the social determinants of health
Statements by several organisations
Health portfolio ministers face (some) questions on the budget
By Jason Staines
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