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Take health governance out of politician's hands

John Menadue AO identifies a lack of political will as the essence of the problem for governments facing health care reform. The solution is governance reform that puts a permanent independent Australian Health Commission in charge of the hard decisions - like a Reserve Bank for health.


A promising start, but much more to be done

Ian McAuley has some views about what the Prime Minister did not say in his National Health and Hospitals Network announcement on 3 March 2010.


Your Local or mine?

Fiona Armstrong looks at the diverse meanings being given to the word 'local' in the current health debate, and explains the need for all health care services (not just hospitals) to be linked or integrated into regional health organisations.


Taking the pain out of patients' hip pockets

Jennifer Doggett puts the spotlight on a significant gap in the health reform debate - the growing proportion of health funding that comes directly from patient's pockets, as co-payments or out of pocket expenses.


What we failed to learn from the GFC

Ian McAuley draws our attention to a report that Chris Bowen, Minister for Financial Services, released in the sleepy season - the Johnson report on the finance sector


Coming Waves: the new environmental refugees

Simon Meyer looks at the failure of the international community to recognise the problem of climate change refugees


Where to from here on climate change...

The CPD team reflect on better processes for making complex climate change decisions.


Difficult, but not diabolical

Miriam Lyons, CPD's Executive Director, looks at the role of faith and visions of change in moving beyond our current impasse.


Cooperation, Community and Climate Change

Rob Salter reflects on the deeper implications of responding to climate change for the way we organise our society, in his new paper that explains why better relationships are the key to successful action on climate change


Time to prepare for the One Degree War

Paul Gilding, climate activist and writer revisits a paper he co-wrote with Jorgen Randers, shouting out above the drone of the day to day political negotiations that what we are facing is nothing short of a global emergency. He contends it's not too late (yet!) - if we have the political will to mobilise resources and human ingenuity - to keep temperatures below a 1oC rise by reducing CO2 concentrations below 350ppm.


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