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Market lessons from the financial crisis
The lesson of the global financial crisis is that freer markets work and are vital to address our current local challenges. At the heart of the...
Private health accounts may solve looming health crisis
In a society as wealthy as ours it's understandable that Australians support universal access to healthcare. But accepting this principle and the...
Medicare needs a shot in the arm
Structural reform of Australian healthcare financing can cut inequity and promote universal choice as well as universal service delivery. In a...
Plain packs pointless when smoke gets in our eyes
When the Rudd government's National Preventative Health Taskforce released a position paper on anti-tobacco measures, they titled it "Making...
Healthy living... in a nanny state
If there was one area of human existence which should be left to individual choice, you'd think it would be what we eat. So the National Preventive...
Plain packaging ploy likely to go up in smoke
Turning public debate from the failed emissions trading scheme to universally despised tobacco emissions is a media masterstroke from Kevin Rudd,...
Shuffling hospital deckchairs
Public hospitals will remain afflicted by the blurred accountabilities, buck- passing and unresponsive bureaucracy if the Federal Government's...
The blame game is all Canberra's fault
Kevin Rudd will take over the hospital system and everything will be dandy. That's the election pitch to voters in New South Wales, South...
Fat lot of good campaign against junk food is doing
The debate over obesity and public health is usually black and white. It's obvious who the bad guys are: junk food peddlers. But last year,...
Healthcare: bang for buck
There seems to be some 'confusion' about recent health spending. Kevin Rudd told a Q & A audience that the previous government 'took a billion...