AUSTRALIANS from across the country are being asked by the National Rural Health Alliance to exercise their right to sign a petition to the Federal Government to ensure a healthier rural Australia.
The petition calls for a 10-year National Rural Health Strategy which ensures federal and state governments and territories make an agreement to ensure rural Australia receives better healthcare access.
Currently, rural people receive less access to health care and spend less on their health care per person than those who live in the cities.
Every Australian citizen is being called on to join with the National Rural Health Alliance and sign this petition to the House of Representatives.
It will let politicians know that Australia needs improved rural health care and ensure that every person, regardless of their location and postcode, has access to the quality care they deserve.
Nearly 7,000,000 Australians living and working outside of cities are being denied the basic human right to health care and wellbeing and are dying 12-to-16-years younger than their urban counterparts.
This petition underscores that rural health has been neglected in policy, budgets and priority settings for too long.
Susi Tegen, chief executive, National Rural Health Alliance
