An injection of money into cash-strapped community health care services is expected to cover most of the immediate extra costs from Covid-19 but anxiety over long-term funding remains.
More than $92 million will go into essential health services that financially suffered during Covid-19, as well as into testing labs and ventilators.
It is the first instalment of $59 billion worth of funding from the Covid-19 Recovery and Response Fund.
Eva Corlett reports.
