POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS – VICTORIA

Labor pledges $60m for new medi-tech hub

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Original article by Kate Hagan
The Age – Page: 4 : 3-Nov-14

Campaigning for the state election to be held on 29 November 2014, Victorian Opposition Leader Daniel Andrews has pledged that the Australian Labor Party would contribute $A60m to the cost of $A180m for a new biomedical engineering centre at St Vincent’s Hospital. The State Government has not specifically matched the promise. Peter Choong, director of orthopaedics at St Vincent’s Hospital, says the proposed Aikenhead Centre for Medical Discovery will allow for experts to co-operate across disciplines including engineering, medicine and biological sciences

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AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY, VICTORIA. DEPT OF HEALTH, ST VINCENT’S HOSPITAL (MELBOURNE) LIMITED, UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE, UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG, SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, VICTORIAN COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTRE LIMITED, OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN CANCER AND WELLNESS CENTRE, AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF THE PRIME MINISTER AND CABINET

Andrews makes pitch to parents

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Original article by Richard Willingham, Steve Lillebuen
The Age – Page: 4 : 27-Oct-14

The Australian Labor Party on 26 October 2014 staged its official campaign launch for the Victorian state election in November. Opposition Leader Daniel Andrews made increased spending on education a major plank in his platform, pledging $A1.3bn in total. Many of the measures consist of assistance payments to school students from low-income households. However $A320m will also be allocated to supporting and relaunching TAFE colleges. Meanwhile federal Labor leader Bill Shorten mocked Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s failure to campaign with Premier Denis Napthine in Victoria

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AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY, VICTORIA. DEPT OF PREMIER AND CABINET, AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF THE PRIME MINISTER AND CABINET, VICTORIA. DEPT OF TREASURY AND FINANCE, HOLMESGLEN INSTITUTE OF TAFE

Parties pledge to open new heart hospital in Clayton

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Original article by Kate Hagan, Julia Medew, Richard Willingham
The Age – Page: 12 : 10-Oct-14

Victorian Opposition Leader Dan Andrews says the Australian Labor Party will also build a new hospital that is an election campaign pledge of the State Government. Health Minister David Davis and Premier Denis Napthine have announced plans for a new specialist heart hospital occupying five levels at the Monash Medical Centre in Clayton. Under the Coalition, the funding mix will be $A70m from the Government and $A50m that Monash Health sources from philanthropists. The overall number of cardiac beds will rise by 57 to 100

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MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE, MONASH HEALTH, VICTORIA. DEPT OF HEALTH, VICTORIA. DEPT OF PREMIER AND CABINET, AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY, AUSTRALIAN NURSING AND MIDWIFERY FEDERATION, AUSTRALIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION (VICTORIA) LIMITED

Labor will pursue cannabis reform

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Original article by Henrietta Cook, Anna Whitelaw
The Age – Page: 3 : 25-Aug-14

Victorian Opposition leader Daniel Andrews has announced that the Australian Labor Party’s platform for the November 2014 state election will contain a pledge to reform current legislation that bans the use of cannabis for medical purposes. If elected, Labor will ask the Victorian Law Reform Commission for proposals on how to decriminalise the use of the drug in the area of pain relief. Tony Bartone, the Australian Medical Association’s state branch president, backs the push

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AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY, AUSTRALIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION (VICTORIA) LIMITED, VICTORIAN LAW REFORM COMMISSION

Fast-food fat labels loom as poll issue

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Original article by Henrietta Cook
The Age – Page: 2 : 18-Jul-14

The Cancer Council, Diabetes Australia, VicHealth and Deakin University have formed the Obesity Policy Coalition. It will lobby during the state election campaign in Victoria later in 2014, and wants the political parties to commit to a new requirement for fast food restaurants to advertise the kilojoule content of all items sold. Jane Martin, the group’s executive manager, notes that such a scheme will lead to consumers eating meals with 500 fewer kilojoules on average. Mandatory labels are already in force in South Australia, the Australian Capital Territory and New South Wales

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OBESITY POLICY COALITION, THE CANCER COUNCIL VICTORIA, DIABETES AUSTRALIA – VICTORIA, VICHEALTH, DEAKIN UNIVERSITY, VICTORIA. DEPT OF HUMAN SERVICES, AUSTRALIAN GREENS