Lyndsay Connors explains how the government’s commitment to ‘freedom of choice’ has caused problems that have manifest themselves in the debate about values in schools and uniforms.
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Monthly Archives:: August 2005
Three words: structure, structure and structure
Joshua Gans draws parallels between Terminator 3 and the full sale of sale of Telstra as he explores the history of the telecommunications giant and outlines the structural changes that the government should take.
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Don’t look for simple fixes
Carol Gaston explains the problem with talking about reforming or fixing the health workforce: there is no such thing!
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Policy or Polyfilla? We need political leadership in Australia
Stephen Leeder discusses the Howard government move away from Medicare. As services previously paid for through Medicare move into the private domain, health care costs go up and equity of access goes down.
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More Prosperity for More Postcodes
Wayne Swan looks at income inequality in Australia under the current government and proposes a comprehnsive economic strategy that ‘creates wealth and ensures everyone has a stake in our prosperity’
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What Women Want – is a guarantee of no disadvantage
Marie Coleman explains the concerns that the National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW) have with the Federal Government’s proposed changes to the industrial relations system
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Not such a super idea
Ian McAuley writes, ‘we need to re-frame our public policy attention, away from the simple notion of more or less superannuation, and towards asking what policies may help us in matching income at our life stages with our needs at those stages’
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Health: Did you know?
…that Tony Abbott has recently mused about a Federal Government take-over of public hospitals? When Federal Governments have toyed with the idea of nationalising funding for hospital and medical services in the past, however, it has ended in bitter disputes with organised medicine – in particular, the Australian Medical Association (AMA). The issue is contentious partly because many doctors operate as private practitioners within the public hospital system.
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The Sex Discrimination Act 1984
Susan Ryan looks back on the campaign to introduce the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 and its success over the past 20 years.
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