E&OE… Topics: Real time monitoring for controlled prescription medicine; Listing of Hepatitis C drug Epclusa; eating fresh food; citizenship SABRA LANE: Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt, good morning and welcome to AM. GREG HUNT: Good morning, Sabra. SABRA LANE: This plan for real time monitoring, is it about stopping people from accidentally overdosing on prescription…
E&OE… Topics: Private patients in public hospitals GREG HUNT: Thank you very much to Dan, to Cathy Ryan, to everybody associated with Catholic Heath Australia and with all of the amazing affiliate organisations. Suzanna, I’m actually delighted you made your reference to Indigenous Australia in your opening. One of our most important tasks in the…
E&OE… Topics: Medicinal cannabis; Coalition’s commitment to strong national security; Women’s World Cup bid in 2023; Clean Energy Target DAVID SPEERS: With me now is the Minister for Health, Greg Hunt. Thank you for your time this afternoon. GREG HUNT: It’s a pleasure. DAVID SPEERS: So we’ve spoken about this before, this issue. Remind us…
E&OE… Topics: Medicinal cannabis, Coalition’s commitment to strong national security GREG HUNT: I'm going to make a brief statement about the vote in the Senate today to remove the safeguards and to remove the protections against unsafe medicinal cannabis. Let me say this, this is a deeply concerning and disappointing decision. Mr Shorten and others…
E&OE… Topics: Labor’s hospital funding lie; medical research; terrorism; environment policy; obesity STEVE AUSTIN: Well my guest is Federal Health Minster Greg Hunt. He’s in Brisbane today to announce research funding or funding for medical research in Brisbane, we’ve asked him in the studio. Minister, thanks for coming in. GREG HUNT: Good morning Steve. STEVE…
E&OE… Topics: $5.2 million to support medical research and medical breakthroughs; Labor’s hospital funding lie IAN FRASER: My name is Professor Ian Fraser and I’m here in my capacity as chair of the Australian Medical Research Advisory Board, advisory to the Minister Greg Hunt on the use of the Medical Research Future Fund. And it’s…
E&OE… Topics: Coalition’s commitment to public hospitals and private health insurance, Labor’s plan to scrap the private health insurance rebate. GREG HUNT: I just want to respond to a story in the papers this morning about private health insurance and public hospitals. The story does not reflect Government policy. It will not be Government policy.…
E&OE… Topics: Coalition’s commitment to fully fund the NDIS, Labor’s refusal to fund the NDIS, Medicare, Cricket Australia, National Sport Plan BARRIE CASSIDY: Minister, good morning. Welcome. GREG HUNT: Good morning, Barry. BARRIE CASSIDY: That issue around fairness, it continually comes back to the question of the company tax cuts and that low and middle-income…
E&OE… SPEECH: Thank you very much to Michael. I have to say my first call after the Prime Minister rang me and offered me the current role was in fact to Michael Gannon. I didn’t realise how he dressed in his private time and he hasn’t taught me the secret handshake yet. But ever since…
E&OE… Topics: National Sport Plan; sport integrity tribunal; sports lottery; AFL; Essendon; Richmond Tigers FRANCIS LEACH: Greg Hunt is the Federal Minister for Sport, he’s been good enough to join us today. G’day Greg, how are you going? GREG HUNT: I am very well, thank you. FRANCIS LEACH: So where’s this proposal come from? GREG…