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By Guest Poster on August 17, 2010
During the election campaign, LP will be cross-posting selected items from the Centre for Policy Development’s discussion of policy issues, Thinking Points. Readers may also be interested in the CPD’s collection of policy ideas and priorities for the next term, [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, Health, Policy | Tagged Coalition, CPD, Federal Election 2010, general practice, health policy, healthcare, Jennifer Doggett, Thinking Points |
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 August 18, 2009
Reports that Barack Obama is prepared to concede the public option in the health care bill (with some perhaps vague hope that it might be reinserted in a conference between the House and Senate on reconciling inconsistent provisions) expose the [...]
Posted in Health, Medicine, Politics, Sociology, USA | Tagged American politics, barack obama, death panels, Democrats, health insurance, healthcare, ideology, life chances, public option, Robert Reich, social democracy, social inequality, Sociology, structural inequality, us congress |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 20, 2009
If you’re staying up to watch Barack Obama’s inauguration as 44th President of the United States of America, Crikey has a good guide to coverage and commentary on tv, live streaming, live blogging and twitter. Locally, Hoyden About Town is [...]
Posted in Afghanistan, Blogging, Economics, Film, TV, Video etc, Foreign policy, International, Iraq, Media, Middle East, Nationalism, Politics, The Web, USA | Tagged Afghanistan, America, Australia, barack obama, coverage, FDR, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, global financial crisis, global politics, healthcare, inaugural address, inauguration, Iraq, live blogging, Martin Luther King, Robert Gates, US alliance, us economy, US politics, War, world politics |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 2, 2009
As is traditional in Australia, the first day of the new year saw the release of cabinet records from thirty years ago at state and federal level. Incidentally, the underwhelming nature of what was revealed should put a big question [...]
Posted in Activism, Climate change, Economics, Energy, Environment, Government, Health, Howardia, Industrial Relations, International, Markets, Media, Policy, Poverty, Sociology, The Web, USA | Tagged barack obama, cabinet, Climate change, Employee Free Choice Act, healthcare, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Media, neoliberalism, new media, political economy, political sociology, Politics, predictions, press gallery, Rudd government, social democracy, social networking, unionism, us economy, US politics |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 27, 2008
I’m not sure if I’m the only one who found the juxtaposition on the news last night of discussion of global regulation at a meeting between Chinese and EU leaders and George W. Bush’s “free markets are great!” remarks rather [...]
Posted in China, Developing world, Economics, Europe, Foreign Elections, Health, International, Markets, Polls, Sociology | Tagged alan greenspan, Barack Obabama, Bretton Woods II, business cycles, Capitalism, Democrats, economic policy, Economics, efficient markets hypothesis, financial markets, George W. Bush, global financial crisis, GOP, healthcare, ideology, John McCain, John Quiggin, Keynesianism, neo-liberalism, regulation, socialism, Sociology, sociology of knowledge, taxes, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 |
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