Nicola Roxon
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Headspace may become mental health model...services. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Health Minister Nicola Roxon have been conducting health reform consultations in preparation for the government's health reform policy to be put to the states and territories in December. Ms Roxon... In this article: Nicola Roxon, Anxiety, University of NSW, Kevin Rudd, Melbourne, and Australia |
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Sydney Morning Herald - National | November 02, 2009
Health costs balloon on eve of reform talks
...made ''a mockery'' of Opposition claims that proposed changes to the rebate would result in an exodus of members from health funds, Ms Roxon said. ''If the Government is to invest in reforming Australia's health system, we have to...
In this article: Medicare, Australian Medical Association, Arthritis, PBS, and Australia
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The Australian | November 18, 2009
Cruises to defy schoolie order
...sidebar. Skip to end of sidebar. "The message couldn't be more important than over the coming weeks as students across Australia complete their exams and head to schoolies week celebrations," Ms Roxon said. "Changing the culture in Australia...
In this article: Carnival, Human Rights Commission, Pacific Sky, Kevin Rudd, and Australia
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Seattle Times | September 18, 2009
Australia to begin vaccinating against swine flu
...be delivered this year. Australia will follow President Barack Obama's lead by committing up to 10 percent of its vaccine to the World Health Organization for distribution in the Asia-Pacific region, Roxon said. But the vaccine eventually...
In this article: Australia, CSL Ltd, World Health Organization, Barack Obama, Argentina, South Africa, Chile, and New Zealand
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Sydney Morning Herald - National | November 04, 2009
Roxon back-pedals on nurses power plan
...nurses power plan Health Minister Nicola Roxon has avoided another showdown with Australia's doctors by back-pedalling on a plan to give nurse practitioners and midwives greater power to prescribe drugs and order tests. Federal Labor has...
In this article: Medicare, Cataract surgery, Australian Medical Association, PBS, and Australia
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New laws to help NZ doctors in Australia
...on Wednesday. Health Minister Nicola Roxon has introduced legislation which would see New Zealand citizens and permanent resident doctors entitled to Medicare benefits as soon as they started practising in Australia. Overseas-trained...
In this article: Medicare, Australia, and New Zealand
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New checks for bio-terror agent handlers
...has been introduced to parliament. Health Minister Nicola Roxon says the change will enhance Australia's capacity to secure biological agents of diseases such as anthrax, smallpox and the plague. They are known as security sensitive...
In this article: Attorney-General's Department, Smallpox, and Australia
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Nicola Louise Roxon (born 1 April 1967) is an Australian politician, and is the Minister for Health and Ageing. She has been a Labor member of the Australian House of Representatives since 1998, representing the Division of Gellibrand, in the inner-western suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria. She was born in Sydney, New South Wales, and was educated at the Methodist Ladies' College, Melbourne, at Kew and the University of Melbourne.
Roxon is the middle of three sisters and is also the niece of the late Australian journalist and Sydney Push member Lillian Roxon. Her paternal grandparents were Jewish and migrated from Poland to Australia in 1937. Anglicising the family name from Ropschitz to Roxon, her grandfather worked as a GP in Gympie and Brisbane. Her mother Lesley trained as a pharmacist, while her father Jack was a microbiologist. He was a strong influence in her life and she was devastated by his death from cancer when she was 10 years old. Roxon ultimately came to the view that "governments have got a role to make sure they can help people in circumstances they can't control - either through their health failing or an accident".
Between 1992 and 1994, Roxon was employed as a judge's associate to High Court Justice Mary Gaudron. She then became involved with the trade union movement, joining the National Union of Workers as an organiser. Roxon was also an industrial lawyer and senior associate with the law firm Maurice Blackburn and Co. from 1996-98.
- Birth Date:
- April 01, 1967
- Birthplace:
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Nationality:
- Australian
- University Attended:
- University of Melbourne
- Occupation:
- Lawyer
- Political party:
- Australian Labor Party
- Title:
- Minister for Health and Ageing
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