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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...
GST sure to rise under Rudd's health takeover
Do we really want some Canberra bureaucrat determining how much should be spent on our wellbeing? WHILE Kevin Rudd acknowledged the "long-suffering...
Activist left's global agenda
The great divergence between classical liberals and their philosophical opponents has always been the primacy placed on freedom in people's lives...
Massachusetts' message
The US Democrats Senate election failure in their traditionally Massachusetts stronghold was a consequence of President Obama not listening to why...
More police on the beat the answer to drunks' violence
What have the NSW Police been drinking? An email from Chief Inspector Haberley to Sydney bottle shops asks that they take full-strength products...