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Wednesday, June 18. 2008
Dawson St Childcare gets Capital Boost
Dawson Street Child Care Co-operative is amongst nine childcare providers in the Brunswick electorate that will share in $10.7 million in Brumby Government grants to buy equipment, expand surfaces, renovate and improve general amenities.Nine local services each received grants as part of the Brumby Government’s boost to the state’s early childhood services.
Dawson Street Child Care Co-operative would receive $100,000 to extend the toddlers room to increase capacity, and to install a new entry gate and pathway.
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Friday, June 6. 2008
Health Start for Primary Students
Brunswick North West Primary and Moreland Primary Schools will receive a healthy boost after receiving $6,000 each from the 'Go for your Life' Healthy Start Grants scheme.The funding will be used in individual schools for a variety of purposes such as upgrading existing canteen facilities, repairs to exercise tracks, bike sheds, provide re-asphalting, all-weather protection of outdoor play areas and kitchen gardens.
Thursday, May 8. 2008
Victorian Budget Delivers for Growth
Babies and young families, home buyers and services are the big winners in the 2008-09 State Budget, Carlo Carli, Member for Brunswick said today.“New figures released today show we are in the middle of a baby boom,” Mr. Carli said.
“Over 73,700 births recorded last year – the highest since 1971 and we are rolling out initiatives to make sure families have the services they need for their children.”
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Thursday, February 28. 2008
Opening date for new Women's Hospital now set in stone
The new world-class $250 million Royal Women’s Hospital is on schedule to open in June – and the date is now set in stone.
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Friday, September 21. 2007
8000 Nurses
The 8000th new nurse since 1999 has begun work in the Victorian public health system, a product of Australia’s most successful nurse recruitment and retention campaign and Labor's commitment to investing in services and people.
8061 extra nurses have joined the health system since 1999 (a 39 per cent increase), and nurse registration figures were up by 15.7 per cent (an increase of 12,850 from 69,794 in 1999 to 82,644 this year), compared to an increase of 10.8 per cent in NSW for the same period.
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Monday, July 2. 2007
Moving to a Smart Health System
In today's Age, Rob Moodie writes about the move towards a smart health system...
A good starting point would be to ensure we have a health system — one that actively creates good health from birth and maximises our health to the grave — not simply an illness system. Such a system needs to be smart, balanced, fair and simple.Federal Labor's new health policy moves in this direction. In Fresh Ideas, Future Economy Labor notes that...
The current health system is very good at providing acute and episodic care when people are sick, but it is not well equipped to meet the future challenge of the growing chronic disease burden.Labor proposes to initiate major health care reform by shifting the focus to preventative healthcare. Only by making this shift can we treat people fairly and manage the chronic disease burden
Thursday, November 2. 2006
Labor's Health Plan
More nurses and doctors
16,000 more hospital operations
New elective Surgery Centres
Major upgrades to suburban hospitals
Rebuilding the Children's and Eye and Ear Hospitals
More Ambulances and paramedics
This is Labor's Health Policy. Find out more
16,000 more hospital operations
New elective Surgery Centres
Major upgrades to suburban hospitals
Rebuilding the Children's and Eye and Ear Hospitals
More Ambulances and paramedics
This is Labor's Health Policy. Find out more
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