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919EconomyThe emergency in Emergency
First published March 4 Sometimes you wonder why they bother. If anyone still seriously believes the piffle on bed numbers from Health...
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830Economy
Unemployment: an exercise in spin …
Political spinners love statistics. So when the monthly unemployment data for December came out from the Bureau of Statistics, their little eyes...
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900Economy
When hospitals make patients sick …
Long ago ‒ 150 years or more ‒ it was noticed that pregnant women whose children were delivered by doctors were much...
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1.1KEconomy
The parallel worlds of public hospitals and Peter Gutwein …
*Pic: of Peter Gutwein, from his website Pic: of Michael Ferguson from his Facebook page It should, by now, be no news...
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1.0KEconomy
Bulk-billing rates crash
*Pic: Image from here Medicare bulk-billing rates for GP visits in Tasmania have dropped to their lowest level for five years, apparently...
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978Economy
Rolled on smokes: Blow to Ferguson authority
Tasmania’s health minister, Michael Ferguson (above, from his Facebook page), has been dealt a damaging setback by the cabinet, which refused to...
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943Economy
Can the Liberals change on health?
*Pic: of Malcolm Turnbull by Bob Burton. Well, at least he said it. Three days after a dismal election result, Malcolm Turnbull,...
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993Economy
STATE: How Hodgman, Gutwein and Ferguson lost the election …
*Pic: The Buck stops HERE … From Peter Gutwein’s Facebook page. Treasurer Gutwein and Premier Will Hodgman spruik the 2016 Budget …...
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973Economy
The destructive madness of hospital funding
*Pic: From Michael Ferguson’s Facebook page HERE The number of patients being treated in Tasmania’s public hospitals is set to fall for...
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968Economy
The AMA’s attack on Liberal policy …
The Tasmanian President of the Australian Medical Association, Acting Professor Tim Greenaway has launched an extraordinary attack on the Tasmanian Liberal Government’s...
