Larvatus Prodeo

While navigating the CPRS – sludge of a policy that it is – through the Senate will undoubtedly provide much of the political theatre this year, there are a number of other government reviews that will start to report back over the next few months. We’ll finally start to get some meat on the bones of the Rudd government’s policy agenda…a few months later than originally planned, but that’s hardly surprising.

For instance, the Defence White Paper, originally to report last year, is now scheduled to be released around April. If I recall correctly, there’s also a major health funding review due out soon. And the second-biggest of them all, the Henry taxation review, will roll on through 2009 (the biggest, in my view, was the CPRS). On top of that, the government will presumably respond to things like the Bradley higher education review, which reported recently.

I’d like to check with LP readers – what other major bits of policy (aside from the obvious major set-piece, the Budget) are coming over the next few months? And what kind of things might we expect in them? What should we be keeping an eye out for?