Tasmania has a new Minister taking over the Health portfolio, but this will be a meaningless step unless accompanied by a new approach
The Greens are proud to launch our draft Bill to decriminalise personal drug use
The Liberals’ war on drugs mentality is a manifest failure. What is required is a health-based response, informed by expert advice and evidence, not ideology.
On behalf of the Greens I was proud to release our community health plan. Investing in preventative health services keeps people healthier and out of hospitals.
After spending five years talking about the importance of health to Tasmanians, Labor appears to have abandoned their ‘top priority’.
There have been documented occasions where people in severe distress have been forced to wait in the emergency department for numbers of days.
It is a fundamental insight into the atomistic, individualistic responsibility that this minister puts onto a person taking them outside of their environment.
Minister Ferguson has refused to commit to continuing with the Liberals’ centerpiece election promise to make Tasmania the ‘Healthiest State’ by 2025.
The Greens’ Alternative Budget prioritises what Tasmanians most want, fixing the State’s health system - currently at breaking point.
The gradual withdrawal of Commonwealth health funding over the last few years exposes the dire state of Tasmania’s public health system.
