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Publications

  1. FEATURE: One Disease at a Time: Eradicating Scabies in East Arnhem Land

    Sara Hudson | 20 Aug 2011 | POLICY Magazine

    Inspirational leadership can make a difference to Aboriginal health.

  2. FEATURE: The New Future of Old Age

    Peter W. Gallagher | 20 Aug 2011 | POLICY Magazine

    Science promises a longer and healthier old age.

  3. How! Not How Much: Medicare Spending and Health Resource Allocation in Australia

    Jeremy Sammut | 16 Mar 2011 | Policy Monographs

    This report traces the evolution of Australian health policy and its consequences across half a century. The public hospital... Read More...

  4. FEATURE: The Fog of Child Protection Politics

    Jeremy Sammut | 17 Jun 2010 | POLICY Magazine

    The federal government must see through the politics of child protection to ensure that states better protect vulnerable... Read More...

  5. FEATURE: GP Super Clinics—Has the Market Failed?

    Jim Butler | 17 Jun 2010 | POLICY Magazine

    There is no economic rationale for providing additional health care subsidises for GP Super Clinics.

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Opinion & Commentary

  1. Independent thinking for financing future

    Jeremy Sammut | 16 Feb 2012 | Hospital and AgedCare Magazine

    Health already devours over 10 per cent of GDP each year and 70% of health funding is funnelled through federal and state ... Read More

  2. Focus on 'prevention' abusing kids

    Jeremy Sammut | 09 Nov 2011 | On Line Opinion

    Despite increasing government spending on programs meant to prevent child abuse and entries into care, record numbers of ... Read More

  3. Myths, lies and adoption

    Jeremy Sammut | 08 Nov 2011 | The Geelong Advertiser

    IN 2009-10, 36,000 children were in out-of-home care in Australia and more than two-thirds had been there for at least two ... Read More

  4. There's no such thing as a free healthcare system

    Adam Creighton | 27 Aug 2011 | Sydney Morning Herald

    But when it comes to health, Australians spurn pragmatism and tear up the laws of economics. We shackle ourselves with a ... Read More

  5. Degrees of difference

    Sara Hudson | 22 Aug 2011 | Online Opinion

    Many people have taken umbrage at this arguing that having a separate form for some remote communities is an example of 'positive ... Read More

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Ideas@TheCentre

  1. The great Medicare swindle

    Jeremy Sammut | 20 Jan 2012

    Basic market disciplines are needed to control the cost of Medicare and prevent over-servicing....

  2. Overcoming a culture of low expectations

    Jessica Brown | 11 Nov 2011

    Given the right help, many people with very serious disabilities can work....

  3. The holy grail of welfare reform

    Jessica Brown | 07 Oct 2011

    We must reduce the number of people on the Disability Pension Scheme by helping them to find work....

  4. Plus ça change: O’Farrell government and NSW Health

    Jeremy Sammut | 09 Sep 2011

    The NSW government’s focus on management issues in health care ignores more complex, deep-set, and politically sensitive ...

  5. A win for Big Bureaucracy

    Adam Creighton | 15 Jul 2011

    The bewildering array of new programs accompanying the carbon tax betrays a win for Big Bureaucracy and a blithe disregard ...

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