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Minister Tanya Plibersek has announced a new package of after hours medical services. [Full text]
Minister Plibersek has announced new listings on the PBS. [Full text]
The TGA has issued updated revaccination recommendations for Pneumovax 23. [Full text]
The AMA has urged governments to impose tougher restrictions on alcohol marketing to young people. [Full text]
AMA President has called on the Government and health groups to place a renewed focus on child and youth health issues in 2012. [Full text]
Ministers Plibersek and Mark Butler have announced Australia's first Partnership Centre for better dementia outcomes. [Full text]
Minister Brendan O'Connor has announced that 20 Medicare offices will move away from traditional cash benefits in 2012. [Full text]
NEHTA issued three recent presentations. [Full text]
Greens Senator Christine Milne said the Government must urgently send an observer to the Southern Ocean. [Full text]
Senator Milne has said the spill of toxic copper concentrate in the NT raises questions for Minister Tony Burke about the environmental assessment for the Olympic Dam expansion. [Full text]
Senator Milne has said DFAT should investigate what role Arc Exploration has played in events leading up to the shooting of protesters in Indonesia . [Full text]
Senator Milne has called on the Government and Opposition to support legislative moves for truth in labelling before Trans Pacific Partnership negotiations make it more difficult. [Full text]
Hansard is online of a 29/11 hearing in Canberra for a Senate committee inquiry into biosecurity and quarantine arrangements. [Full text]
Minister Tanya Plibersek issued draft regulations for plain packaging of non-cigarette tobacco products. [Full text]
The Parliamentary Secretary David Bradbury announced updated and expanded graphic health warnings for tobacco products. [Full text]
Parliamentary Secretary Catherine King thanked the retiring National Manager of the TGA, Dr Rohan Hammett. [Full text]
Greens Senator Penny Wright said organisations involved in training students for the medical profession must ensure that mental health is an integral part of any training program. [Full text]
The Mental Health Council said a study found that stigma experienced by mental health consumers seeking treatment from health professionals is similar to levels trom the general population. [Full text]
The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Equality Council issued a communiqué from its November meeting. [Full text]
The TGA issued a safety advisory for Lipro diet pills. [Full text]
Catholic Health issued its Budget submission. [Full text]
Ministers Joe Ludwig and Mark Arbib welcomed changes to the Farm Management Deposits Scheme. [Full text]
The ABS issued 'Stocks of Grain Held by Bulk Handling Companies and Grain Traders, Australia, Nov 2011'. [Full text]
RIRDC issued a newsletter. [Full text]
Agrifood issued a newsletter. [Full text]
AGRICULTURE/HEALTH/CHEMICAL REGULATION
APVMA issued a Regulatory Update. [Full text]
Minister Tony Burke placed Tasmania's Jordan River Levee on the National Heritage List. [Full text]
Minister Simon Crean has announced the appointment of Mr David Fricker as Director-General of the National Archives. [Full text]
Minister Warren Snowdon announced the appointment of Dr Alexander Zelinsky as Chief Defence Scientist and head of DSTO. [Full text]
Greens Senator Scott Ludlam said India will axe its current nuclear regulator. [Full text]
Catholic Health issued its submission to a Senate committee inquiry into the Mineral Resource Rent Tax Bill and related bills. [Full text]
Independent Senator Nick Xenophon called on Minister Jason Clare to impose interim duties on imported timber products that are subject to an anti-dumping investigation. [Full text]
The Parliamentary Library issued a Bill Digest for the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax Assessment Amendment Bill 2011. [Full text]
The Parliamentary Library issued a Bill Digest for three other Petroleum Resource Rent Tax bills. [Full text]
DBCDE invited comment on the possible re-issue of expiring 15 year spectrum licences. [Full text]
ACMA issued 'Privacy Guidelines for Broadcasters 2011'. [Full text]
NICTA issued a newsletter. [Full text]
The ARC issued instructions for preparing and submitting a 2011 End of Year Report. [Full text]
The GST Distribution Review invited submissions to a Supplementary Issues Paper. [Full text]
Treasury issued a Not-for-Profit newsletter. [Full text]
Treasury issued 'Strategic Review of Treasury'. [Full text]
The RBA issued 'Does Equity Mispricing Influence Household and Firm Decisions?' [Full text]