| Publication: | The Sydney Morning Herald |
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| Date: | 27 October 2009 |
| Section: | Breaking News National |
Plans to establish a national preventative health agency has joined the list of federal government legislation the opposition wants deferred until next year.
Already, the coalition is seeking to delay draft laws setting up the carbon pollution reduction scheme (CPRS), a restructure of Telstra and a means-tested private health insurance rebate.
Now it wants the planned national preventative health agency deferred until after the government announces its response to a taskforce report.
"We can't just be setting up health bureaucracies for the sake of it," opposition health spokesman Peter Dutton told Sky News on Tuesday.
The coalition would support "absolutely" preventative health measures, but it wanted the government to reveal its priorities.
"So that the agency can have some direction and understand what the government has as its priority."
Health Minister Nicola Roxon says the opposition's position has "come out of the blue".
© 2009 AAP
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