Medicare needs a re-design: is the government up to it? Weekly Roundup
April 21, 2023
The case for boosting JobSeeker payments; Medicare needs a re-design: is the government up to it?; and how to cripple a country. Read on for the Weekly Roundup of links to articles, reports, podcasts and other media on current political and economic issues in public policy.
Bringing together university and vocational education. How universities have adopted the fast food business model. HECS-HELP its burden on graduates and its contribution to dumbing down learning. How one in twenty Australians gets by without having been to school. The moral and economic case for boosting JobSeeker payments.
How to cripple a country encourage it to stop investing. Dismal economic forecasts for 2023-24 the consequence of nine years of Coalition government, a pandemic, and a central bank on a crusade. Whos enjoying high profits at the expense of wages: its not only the miners. An atlas of wellbeing in Australia youre probably better off living in Hunters Hill than in Hungerford.
A collection of considered comments on the Voice and no, Barnaby, it isnt about race. Why the Animal Justice Party is on track to poll better than the Coalition. Opinion polls reveal the Coalition is leading Labor on many indicators, but theyre the wrong ones. Malcolm Turnbull warns Americans of a dangerous Australian in their country. How Chinese Australians see the political landscape.
Why the government is easing off on messages about Covid its about hybrid immunity. Medicare needs a re-design to cope with a changed pattern of disease: is the government up to it? How medical specialists have been using a business model borrowed from the old East Germany.
Why people end up in the slammer its about social determinants. Dani Rodrik on the public ideas that will take over from neoliberalism. The difficulties in thinking long term.
Remembering the Holocaust, 80 years after the Warsaw Uprising.
Ian McAuley
Ian McAuley is a retired lecturer in public finance at the University of Canberra. He can be contacted at “ian" at the domain “ianmcauley.com” .