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839Economy$40 million to be wasted on another health review instead of surgery and nurses
Libs respond to Martyn Goddard’s TT article, That’s the way the money goes! The federal health bailout and its priorities State Health...
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908Economy
That’s the way the money goes! The federal health bailout and its priorities
Federal Health Minister Tanya Plibersek State Health Minister Michelle O’Byrne with Premier Lara Giddings. Michelle O’Byrne Pic: Rob Walls, http://robertwalls.wordpress.com/ The federal...
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1.2KEconomy
Why tobacco prohibition won’t work
The eighteenth amendment to the United States constitution came into force on 29 January 1920. The manufacture, sale, transportation import or export...
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803Economy
Health bailout surgery to start this month
The first elective-surgery operations funded by a federal health bailout package are expected to take place within a fortnight. The funding has...
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1.1KEconomy
The Cassandra syndrome: two economists and the coming financial crisis
Image: here Nouriel Roubini Those familiar with the arcana of classical mythology will recall the case of Cassandra, a prophetess doomed to...
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1.1KEconomy
Is prevention really better than cure? And how much does it cost?
The idea that prevention is necessarily better than cure long ago made its way from adage into the heart of health policy....
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806Economy
Another federal health plan falls apart
A new federal bureaucracy costing $27 million a year, set up to control public hospital funding, will be negated by competing federal...
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888Economy
Hospital budgets to be cut by new pricing scheme
Less than she would have hoped … Tasmanian Health Minister Michelle O’Byrne Tasmania’s public hospitals stand to lose up to $80.7 million...
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925Economy
How to save our hospitals
Pic of Health Minister Michelle O’Byrne, left and Premier Lara Giddings. Pic: Rob Walls, http://robertwalls.wordpress.com/ When politicians hand out grants worth hundreds...
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733Health
The federal health package: less than meets the eye
Pic: Rob Walls, http://robertwalls.wordpress.com/ The federal health package, negotiated between the Commonwealth government and the Denison independent, Andrew Wilkie, comes with an...
