Ideas@ The Centre 16
Vol. 6 No. 16 (June, 2009)-
More Government Means Less Healthcare
| 05 Jun 2009This week the headlines announced that Australia’s ‘free’ health system was in danger of being replaced with a ‘US-style’ user pay system because out of control growth in the cost of the NSW public hospital system will drain the State’s coffers
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Reducing the longevity gap for Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders
| 05 Jun 2009The Australian Bureau of Statistics has announced that it has reduced the longevity ‘gap’ for Indigenous Australians from 17 years to 11.5 years for men and 9.7 for women
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The Folly of Criminalising Cartels
| 05 Jun 2009
The federal government has proposed a bill introduce a maximum jail term of 10 years for individuals found guilty of serious cartel conduct because it thinks that existing civil penalties alone cannot adequately deter cartel formation.
