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New Approach Needed from New Health MinisterTasmania has a new Minister taking over the Health portfolio, but this will be a meaningless step unless accompanied by a new approach Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP | Media Release | 26 Jul 2023 |
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Greens Release Draft Legislation to Decriminalise Personal Drug Use in TasmaniaThe Greens are proud to launch our draft Bill to decriminalise personal drug use Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP | Media Release | 2 Feb 2023 |
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Rockliff Should End the Liberal War on DrugsThe 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. Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP | Media Release | 30 Aug 2022 |
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Greens Release Plan to Invest in Community HealthOn 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. Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP | Media Release | 7 Apr 2021 |
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Labor Abandon Health as Paul Lennon's Grip TightensAfter spending five years talking about the importance of health to Tasmanians, Labor appears to have abandoned their ‘top priority’. Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP | Media Release | 3 Sep 2019 |
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Mental Health FundingThere have been documented occasions where people in severe distress have been forced to wait in the emergency department for numbers of days. Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP | Parliamentary Activity | 16 Oct 2018 |
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Preventative HealthIt is a fundamental insight into the atomistic, individualistic responsibility that this minister puts onto a person taking them outside of their environment. Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP | Parliamentary Activity | 19 Jun 2018 |
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Ferguson Abandons 'Best Health' Election CommitmentMinister Ferguson has refused to commit to continuing with the Liberals’ centerpiece election promise to make Tasmania the ‘Healthiest State’ by 2025. Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP | Media Release | 6 Jun 2017 |
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Extra $220M to Health in Greens' Alternative BudgetThe Greens’ Alternative Budget prioritises what Tasmanians most want, fixing the State’s health system - currently at breaking point. Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP | Media Release | 31 May 2017 |
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Tasmanian Health Forgotten in Federal BudgetThe gradual withdrawal of Commonwealth health funding over the last few years exposes the dire state of Tasmania’s public health system. Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP | Media Release | 10 May 2017 |
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State Liberals Must Save Rural Health ServicesFederal Assistant Minister for Rural Health, David Gillespie, clearly has no idea what will happen when critical rural health services are discontinued. Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP | Media Release | 5 Dec 2016 |
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Pill Testing Could Save Tasmanian LivesPolice Minister, Rene Hidding, once again showed Tasmanians he would rather continue a failed "war on drugs" than reduce the risk of drug deaths. Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP | Media Release | 25 Oct 2016 |
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Business Over Health, Ferguson Must Resign as MinisterHealth Minister, Michael Ferguson, has walked away from the government’s plan to take strong action to raise the legal age for smoking. Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP | Media Release | 29 Jul 2016 |
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State Budget: Address in ReplyThe Greens have discussed our energy strategy on numbers of occasions in this House since we tabled it early this year. Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP | Parliamentary Activity | 1 Jun 2016 |
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Evidence Based Solution Needed for Reducing Smoking RatesWe know smoking tobacco is the largest cause of preventable death and disease in Australia and it has an incredibly major impact on the health system. Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP | Parliamentary Activity | 15 Jun 2016 |
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Ideology in the Way of Preventative HealthMinister Ferguson has put his personal ideology in the way of preventive health measures in this year's Budget. Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP | Media Release | 6 Jun 2016 |
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Hidding Won't Commit to Keeping Our Young People SafeThe evidence shows pill testing will keep our young people safe from harmful drugs and it has the support of the Police Association. Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP | Parliamentary Activity | 1 Jun 2016 |
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Greens Deliver for Northern TasmaniaLiberal backbencher Sarah Courtney MP's claims that Greens have forgotten northern Tasmania in our Alternative Budget is rubbish. Andrea Dawkins | Media Release | 1 Jun 2016 |
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Liberals' Blind Refusal to Protect Young PeopleThe Police Minister, Rene Hidding, today refused out of hand to consider pill testing measures at festivals as a way of protecting young people from harm. Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP | Media Release | 1 Jun 2016 |
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Greens Alternative Budget Invests in Preventative HealthInstead of cutting the Health budget, and taking money out of emergency departments, the Greens would reinstate frontline health staff. Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP | Media Release | 31 May 2016 |
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Tasmanian Greens' Alternative BudgetWe recognise that genuine planning for the 21st century requires a long term vision and the courage to make bold decisions to drive change. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 31 May 2016 |
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Budget Lacking in Courage and Vision, Puts Environment LastBuilt on the mirage of a very short term surplus, the Liberals' third State Budget lacks both courage and vision. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 26 May 2016 |
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Ferguson Hiding on Scarlet Alliance FundingMichael Ferguson today claimed it was a Departmental decision to cut funding to Scarlet Alliance, and denied he had anything to do with it. Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP | Media Release | 25 May 2016 |
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Cut to Scarlet Alliance a National ShameThe Health Minister's decision to cut government funding to the Tasmanian Sex Worker Project is at odds with preventive health policy. Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP | Media Release | 19 May 2016 |
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World No Tobacco DayThe Tasmanian Greens have marked World No Tobacco Day to call for guaranteed funding for the state’s anti-smoking media campaign. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 31 May 2014 |
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Fund School Preventative Health ProgramsThe Tasmanian government must provide budget certainty to the Tasmanian School Canteen Association (TSCA), Family Food Patch and Move Well Eat Well. Nick Mckim | Media Release | 26 May 2014 |
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Federal Budget Fails Healthier Children SchemeThe highly successful ‘Move Well, Eat Well’ program being delivered in Tasmanian schools is another victim of the first Abbott Budget. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 16 May 2014 |