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1.3KArticleFerguson and the great hospital funding trick
The Health Minister, Michael Ferguson, has announced the government is increasing hospital funding by $105 million It was, he said, an acknowledgment...
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1.3KArticleIt’s austerity. Let’s call it what it is …
This is what we know. The hospital system is being starved of money. Hundreds of millions of dollars in GST funding intended...
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Mental health: the poorest cousin
Nowhere in the health system has the budget-cutting been as severe as in mental health. And nowhere is that fact as poorly...
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1.2KEconomy
Why the Braddon pork barrel is a giant rort …
First published July 26 Many of the promised pork-barrelling payments in the Braddon by-election campaigns will end up being lost to the...
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1.1KCoroner & Legal
GST top-up to cost $80 billion …
*Pic: Image from here First published July 3 The cost to the federal budget of changing the GST system to equal-per-capita distribution,...
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1.1KCoroner & Legal
How safe is our GST?
*Pic: Image from here First published July 2 Once again, the Western Australian GST problem has proved too hard for the federal...
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1.2KCoroner & Legal
Low wages – and how the government keeps them there
First published June 27 Tasmania’s four main public sector unions have a new ally in their campaign for higher wages – the...
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1.7KCoroner & Legal
The (austere) golden age of Peter Gutwein
First published June 19 “I believe,” said Peter Gutwein in his budget speech, “that Tasmania is on the cusp of a golden...
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1.1KEconomy
The health message that has escaped both major parties …
Every year, Tasmania’s public hospitals need another 50 beds just to keep up with rising demand. But that basic reality seems to...
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1.0KCoroner & Legal
Liberal health pledge cooks the books
The Liberal Party has artificially inflated its election health package by over $200 million by including Commonwealth funding in its totals –...
