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Australian health policy is a mess of state and federal confusion, myths about the negative consequences of choice and competition, and nanny state measures which aim to restrict individual behaviour. The Institute of Public Affairs examines health policy from the perspective of markets and competition, with the aim of rejuvinating debate about this vital sector.
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Fat chance scare tactics will trim us
In yesterday's Courier-Mail, a senior Queensland health bureaucrat proposed graphic health warning labels be put on sugary, fatty and salty foods...
An assault on diet
When the National Health and Medical Research Council released its official new dietary guidelines this week, they helpfully included a sample...
The puritanical public health movement
For eight weeks in 2011, four public health researchers - three from the Cancer Council, one from the University of Western Australia - watched 792...
Finding a focus for disability policy reform efforts
Over the past 12 months the Gillard government has attempted to improve its opinion poll ratings, in part by advocating policies to appeal to core...
Should packaged alcohol display health warnings?
Mandated alcohol warning labels don't work and perpetuate the government-sponsored drift away from individual choice and responsibility that fuels...
Private v public health care: no simple policy cure
Last week the ALP government achieved one of its goals - the private health insurance rebate will be means tested from July 1, 2012. For many this...
Publications
A roadmap to peace in the war on drugs
The war on drugs has been raging for decades. Tens of millions of lives have been lost or ruined. Because both the effect of the drugs and the effect of criminalisation have contributed to the toll, both prohibitionists and those for...
The Impact and Cost of Health Sector Regulation
Every Australian deserves the opportunity to access high quality health care services. Those services should improve quality of life while remaining affordable. Increasingly however, Australia's health system is bowing under the weight of a...
Preventative Health Taskforce Report - A Grab For Government Power Over Our Lives
The National Preventative Health Taskforce's report released today is a grab for more bureaucratic power, and a grab for more tax by government, said the Institute of Public Affairs, a free market think tank.
