Opinion & Commentary
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How the NSW Coalition should govern health
The focus of NSW health policy must be to reform the rigid public service monopoly model of public hospital care.... Read More
Privatise hospitals and allow local autonomy, says think tank
THE private sector should run hospitals and local health districts be allowed full control of their budgets to get spiralling health costs under control.... Read More
Report urges NSW hospital privatisations
Some hospitals need to be privatised and nurses and doctors should come under the control of health district managers, if NSW is to avoid a "financial catastrophe".... Read More
Costs of reform have to be shared
Disability care is too important to play politics with.... Read More
Poor education is letting Indigenous children down
NAPLAN results show that Queensland has made the greatest progress in reducing failure rates, followed by Western Australia, but even these states are far from achieving parity between Indigenous and non-Indigenous...... Read More
It just smelts your heart
No one seems to question why it's up to government to pick up the cheque to keep uncompetitive businesses running.... Read More
Why democracy is a victim of its own success
Is Gen Y blase towards elected government because democracy has prevailed over its ideological adversaries?... Read More
Review of indigenous literacy and numeracy 2008-2011
Queensland and Western Australia are the only states making progress on Indigenous education.... Read More
Hughes: Neither race nor distance
THE causes of high indigenous failure are poor teaching and discipline, write Helen and Mark Hughes.... Read More
'Indigenous-specific' programs are a $300m waste
Queensland and Western Australia are the only states making progress on indigenous education.... Read More
WA can do more in indigenous education
WA is on its way to reducing indigenous literacy and numeracy failure rates, which will increase opportunities for indigenous men and women to work in mining and other industries.... Read More
Unions could make a difference for workers if they canned the sloganism
Union outrage over Enterprise Migration Agreements reveals the damaging contradictions the union movement has employed in its battles over the last 20 years.... Read More
Disability employment: noble cause, failed policy
The National Disability Recruitment Coordinator program is the latest in a series of policy failures from the Government.... Read More
A return to the IR dark ages?
These are two significant problems within the Fair Work Act, but the story of industrial reform is not all doom and gloom. Last year, Peter Anderson from the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry...... Read More
Learning how West was won
A MAJOR feature of the new national school curriculum is the elevation of history to a core area every student must study. This restores it to what some see as its rightful place; every citizen of a democratic...... Read More
Sorry, Malcolm, Australia needs the US in the Asian century
Now is the time for our friendship with America to prosper and thrive.... Read More
Tighten the rules on welfare payments
There is more to welfare reform than amalgamating the benefits.... Read More
Child protection: generation lost by not being 'stolen'
It is incredibly simplistic and misleading to blame the serious problems many troubled children experience on the decision to take them into care.... Read More
Only migrant workers can fill the gap
Temporary, skilled migration is the only viable solution for the resources sector.... Read More
No easy solutions in Syria
There are no easy options in the Syria situation.... Read More