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 [...]
Brumby vs. Rudd (and sundry other premiers)
With the announcement of substantial funding for aged care closing the Commonwealth’s offer to the Premiers on health policy ahead of the COAG meeting next week, the National Health and Hospitals Network roadshow reaches the penultimate stage in the drama. [...]
Black Saturday: What are state governments good for?
The latest controversy to emerge from the inquiry into the Victorian bushfires revolves around Christine Nixon going off for dinner in the middle of the conflagration. The usual partisan football stuff, you might think. Guy Rundle disagrees. In a powerful [...]
SA and Tas state elections: The Monday after links post
There’s some good coverage of the South Australian and Tasmanian elections from Luke Walladge and Kate Crowley respectively at New Matilda today. In Inside Story, Brian Costar and Jennifer Curtin take a comprehensive look at the precedents for written agreements [...]
Where's the money coming from? …The Feds
The Fin Review today published a big feature article on the financial plight of the state governments. And yes, Virginia, they’re all in a bit of a hole, with Victoria possibly an exception depending on whether the VTC head’s claims [...]
Labor states on the nose!!!
I’ve written before about why I think that the “media narrative” masquerading as psephological analysis that there’s some sort of automatic fall in support for state Labor parties because of some putative desire among voters to have different parties governing [...]
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