The Hon Nicola Roxon MP

Recent Speaker

Minister for Health and Ageing.

November 22, 2011

11.30am - 1.30pm

"Why policy and politics matter to patients"

Presentation of the excellene in health journalism awards.

The Hon Nicola Roxon MP has been the Minister for Health and Ageing since the Labor Government was elected in November 2007.  

Minister Roxon has been a member of Federal Parliament since 1998, representing the Melbourne western suburbs seat of Gellibrand.

Before entering Parliament Minister Roxon was an associate to the nation’s first female High Court Justice, Mary Gaudron, and an industrial lawyer who acted in the high profile waterfront dispute.

Minister Roxon has a First Class Honours Law degree and Arts degree from Melbourne University, and graduated top of her law class in 1990.

Since becoming Health Minister, Nicola has been busy undertaking crucial reforms to build a better health and hospitals system for the future.

Nicola has presided over a 50% increase in health funding for the Nation’s Hospitals; a massive investment in workforce, including a commitment to double the number of GP training places; improving elective surgery capacity and throughput; investment in taking pressure of the Nation’s Emergency Departments and the largest single year investment in Preventative Health.