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Health and care spending to ease rural growing pains

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Rural Australians will get better access to medical care, hundreds of extra doctors and higher wages for essential workers under a budget designed to bolster the booming regions.

Healthcare is a centrepiece of the Albanese government's regional budget, with $265.4 million over four years to expand general practitioner training and ease the doctor shortage.

That will open up 200 training places p...


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