By Mark Bahnisch on March 10, 2010
Tony Abbott’s performance in question time today, and the timing of his parental leave thought bubble more generally, suggest that his major imperative was to switch the topic of debate from health. That’s despite the Coalition running a very active [...]
Posted in Education, Government, Health, Industrial Relations, Media, Policy, Politics, Polls | Tagged Centre for Policy Development, Coalition, CPD, Fiona Armstrong, funding, health debate, health policy, hospitals, Ian McAuley, inside story, James Gillespie, Jennifer Doggett, john brumby, John Menadue, Kevin Rudd, Kristina Kenneally, Media, national curriculum, National Health and Hospitals Network, Nielsen Poll, parental leave, Politics, Polls, premiers, question time, states, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 8, 2010
We’ve had close to a week of public debate on Kevin Rudd’s health and hospitals plan, and today’s Nielsen poll shows resounding majorities among every demographic and voters of all parties for the proposition that the Commonwealth should take more [...]
Posted in Health, Polls | Tagged funding, Health, health and hospitals network, health policy, hospitals, Kevin Rudd, Nielsen Poll, Polls, public opinion, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 3, 2010
Kevin Rudd has released his health policy at the National Press Club. Essentially, it encompasses a phased takeover of responsibility for activity based hospital funding by the Commonwealth, with 30% of GST revenue to be diverted directly to hospitals. Funding [...]
Posted in Federal Elections, Government, Health, Politics | Tagged activity based funding, ALP, AMA, Coalition, Federal Election 2010, funding, health policy, health reform, healthcare, hospital boards, hospitals, Kevin Rudd, Labor, National Health and Hospitals Network, states, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 20, 2008
I think it was klaus k who once suggested on this blog that we should completely eschew the word “postmodernism”, so vacuous and meaningless has it become. That seems a proposal worth reviving when you read an astonishing take on [...]
Posted in Culture, Film, TV, Video etc, Politics | Tagged abc, Culture Wars, digital futures, funding, new media, News Limited columnists, postmodernism, public broadcasting, Radio National, Religion Report, Stephen Crittenden |
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