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12 April 2025 Posted by 

NORTH-WEST'S FUTURE ON THE LINE

We are building a stronger Medicare
MICHELLE ROWLAND
HAVE you ever had a pressing medical need that was not a hospital emergency, but couldn’t wait for your local GP?
 
Labor’s Medicare Urgent Care Clinics are the answer - providing fast healthcare for burns, cuts, infections, sprains, minor fractures and more.
 
They are walk-in, open early till late, and bulk billed.
 
As your local Member of Parliament, I have always fought to get essential, af-fordable health services - like an emergency department at the Rouse Hill Hospi-tal development.
 
A re-elected Albanese Labor Government will deliver a Medicare Urgent Care Clinic in our community - and all you will need is your Medicare card, not your credit card.
 
It will take pressure off the Blacktown Hospital and mean you and your loved ones will get care when you need it, without waiting hours in the ED.
 
Labor proudly built Medicare and we are making it stronger: slashing the cost of PBS medicines to $25, more bulk billing and 87 Medicare Urgent Care Clinics across Australia. North-West Sydney is next.
 
Peter Dutton was voted the worst Health Minister by Australian doctors and he tried to destroy Medicare. We won’t let him do it again.
 
He tried to end bulk billing and slashed $50B from public hospital budgets. He wanted to make patients pay a GP Tax to see their doctor.
 
Now his Liberal colleagues are trying to take credit for Labor’s Medicare Urgent Care Clinics. Liberal spokesperson for Western Sydney, Melissa McIntosh MP, recently re-announced a clinic for Green Valley in South West Sydney. 
 
What the Liberals fail to admit is Green Valley was already announced by Labor.
 
They had nine years in government and never opened a single Urgent Care Clinic, and have repeatedly labelled them as “wasteful spending”. How can you trust them to deliver a clinic for our community?
 
Only a re-elected Albanese Government can be trusted to deliver essential healthcare for the people of Western Sydney.
 
Michelle Rowland MP is the Federal Member for Greenway and Minister for Communications. If you need assistance with any Federal issue, you can contact Michelle by phone on 02 9671 4780 or by email at Michelle.Rowland.MP@aph.gov.au


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