Senator Andrew Bartlett
Saturday, February 05, 2005
 
More Contrasting Reports - One Week On
After a very welcome and fairly long break from travel, I spent most of this week away - visiting Sydney, Adelaide, Baxter detention centre, Canberra and Bundaberg. I quickly realised/remembered how much harder it is to keep up with emails and tasks like posting to this blog while I’m on the road. I’ll put some other items up soon, but on arriving home I noticed something very similar to my last posting from the start of the week.

In the Courier-Mail of Friday 4th Feb, there is a story by Matthew Franklin titled “Labor Sticks to Medicare Gold”, which states:

Labor has renewed its commitment to its controversial Medicare Gold policy…. Julia Gillard said yesterday Labor would stick to a Medicare Gold-style solution to problems besetting the health system.

On the Nine News site of Friday 4th Feb is a story sourced from AAP headed “Gillard says Medicare Gold dropped”. It states

Labor has pulled the plug on Medicare Gold, the centrepiece of its unsuccessful election campaign, but undertaken to retain the key principles.

I don’t know for sure but it appears both these stories derived from the same set of comments made to reporters in Melbourne the day before.

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