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More Government Means Less Healthcare
Jeremy Sammut |
05 Jun 2009
This 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
The 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
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.