The Roxon/Dutton health debate at the National Press Club
Nicola Roxon and Peter Dutton will be debating health at the National Press Club momentarily. I’ll be live tweeting here. Update: The debate is being live streamed here. Update: Roxon is very impressive, across the detail. The thing is that [...]
Tony Abbott's mental health policy gambit
The political lens has been focused squarely on the government, more or less since the budget way back in May, and the announcement of the RSPT. That’s continued to be the case over the last week with everyone parsing all [...]
Assessing Julia Gillard as PM
A couple of pollsters have been very quick to assess public support for Julia Gillard and Labor, after her unprecedented ascension to the Prime Ministership. Possum has all the details of the latest Galaxy and Nielsen polls, both showing a [...]
The politics of health: COAG and beyond
With the Council of Australian Governments meeting for a second successive day to deliberate on the federal government’s National Health and Hospitals Network plan, the usual suspects are proclaiming that there will be no deal, which will be a disaster [...]
The Great Health Debate: the reaction
LP commenters have recorded their thoughts on this thread, but it’s also worth a distinct post to link to reaction elsewhere to today’s National Press Club debate on health between Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott. Tim Dunlop has a great [...]
Doctor enrolments
It seems that a proposal to reward doctors for “enrolling” patients with higher care needs, such as young children and those with chronic diseases, has caused a bit of debate amongst the community of general practitioner community. The idea first [...]
Senate Economics Committee reports on Medicare Levy Surcharge Bills
Among the many bills the Coalition are committed to opposing in the new Senate is the legislation to change the threshold where a higher level of Medicare levy cuts in for those who don’t have private hospital insurance from 50k [...]
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