Publications
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All Health Publications
TARGET30: Reducing the burden for future generations
TARGET30 is a campaign promoting smaller government and cutting government spending to less than 30% of GDP in the next 10...
Saving Medicare But NOT As We Know It
High growth in health spending is the area of public expenditure that will unsustainably increase the size of government...
TARGET30 SNAPSHOT: Saving Medicare But NOT As We Know It
High growth in health spending is the area of public expenditure that will unsustainably increase the size of government...
Tax Welfare Churn and the Australian Welfare State
The welfare state currently consumes $316 billion a year; however, much of this spending is not targeted at those who need...
TARGET30 SNAPSHOT: Tax Welfare Churn and the Australian Welfare State
The welfare state currently consumes $316 billion a year; however, much of this spending is not targeted at those who need...
The Fraught Politics of Saying Sorry for Forced Adoption: Implications for Child Protection Policy in Australia
Many Australians will believe a national apology for forced adoption is overdue. But there is a danger that the apology will...
TARGET30: Towards smaller government and future prosperity
TARGET30 is a campaign promoting smaller government, supported by a series of research reports providing policy solutions...
TARGET30 SNAPSHOT: Towards smaller government and future prosperity
TARGET30 is a campaign promoting smaller government, supported by a series of research reports providing policy solutions...
How the NSW Coalition Should Govern Health: Strategies for Microeconomic Reform
In an ever-tightening fiscal environment, the focus of NSW health policy must be the microeconomic reform of the rigid, public...
FEATURE: One Disease at a Time: Eradicating Scabies in East Arnhem Land
Inspirational leadership can make a difference to Aboriginal health.
FEATURE: The New Future of Old Age
Science promises a longer and healthier old age.
How! Not How Much: Medicare Spending and Health Resource Allocation in Australia
This report traces the evolution of Australian health policy and its consequences across half a century. The public hospital...
FEATURE: The Fog of Child Protection Politics
The federal government must see through the politics of child protection to ensure that states better protect vulnerable...
FEATURE: GP Super Clinics—Has the Market Failed?
There is no economic rationale for providing additional health care subsidises for GP Super Clinics.
Healthy Stores, Healthy Communities: The Impact of Outback Stores on Remote Indigenous Australians
The federal government’s initiative to improve remote community stores is crowding out the competition and not delivering...
Like the Curate’s Egg: A Market-based Response and Alternative to the Bennett Report
The National Health and Hospital Reform Commission (NHHRC) has acknowledged the need to ensure health services are responsive...
The Past is the Future for Public Hospitals: An Insider’s Perspective on Hospital Administration
Drawing on his vast experience, Dr Graham explains why the only future for public hospitals is to reclaim the best features...
Why Public Hospitals Are Overcrowded: Ten Points for Policymakers
Despite the billions of taxpayer dollars poured into the public hospital system each year, public bed resources are only...
FEATURE: Medical Training: First Farce then Tragedy
We need to find a way to allow market signals, rather than central planning, to determine how many doctors we need.
Radical Surgery: The Only Cure for New South Wales Hospitals
Wolfgang Kasper argues that the hospital malaise can only be remedied by removing the central, bureaucratic control of hospitals...
A Streak of Hypocrisy: Reactions to the Global Financial Crisis and Generational Debt
Dr Jeremy Sammut says that ‘household savings have collapsed due to an unnecessary dependence on welfare handouts. A new...
FEATURE: Paying for Self-Medication in Australia
Whether pharmacy medicine rules protect patients or pharmacies is open to debate.
Harmacy: The Political Economy of Community Pharmacy in Australia
The regulatory environment that governs community pharmacy has created one of Australia’s most protected industries. It...
FEATURE: A High-Tax Future for Gen X and Y? Medicare and the intergenerational crisis
Younger generations will have to pay a high price for baby boomers' health care, but private health savings systems could...
The False Promise of GP Super Clinics Part 2: Coordinated Care
The report’s author Jeremy Sammut examines the evidence for the Rudd government’s plan to use GP Super Clinics to boost...
The False Promise of GP Super Clinics: Part 1: Preventive Care
Dr Jeremy Sammut examines the evidence for preventive care programs to help make the Medicare system sustainable, given the...
FEATURE: The Real Body Shop, part 2: Spare Parts
There is something morally unattractive about selling body parts, but the alternatives are worse.
FEATURE: The Real Body Shop, Part 1: Blood and Corpses
We should consider allowing the sale of blood and body parts.
The Coming Crisis of Medicare: What the Intergenerational Reports should say, but doesn’t, about health and ageing
The demographic and medical realities of the twenty-first century mean that Medicare can no longer provide every citizen...
The Organisation of Residential Aged Care for an Ageing Population
At the heart of this new paper is the re-assertion of the need for a system of accommodation bonds. Hogan reiterates that...
FEATURE: Australia's State of Health
Current health care funding policies are not serving patients' interests.
FEATURE: Doctors in the Waiting Room
Tanveer Ahmed and Nick Coatsworth diagnose the ills of medical training.
FEATURE: Does Australia's Health Insurance System Really Provide Insurance?
There is no way of funding health care so that people with private insurance do not pay twice.
FEATURE: A Cure for Health Care
A consumer empowerment model of health care provides the most feasible strategy out of the current health policy reform impasse.
BOOK REVIEW: Economics and Australian Health Policy
Economics and Australian Health Policy edited by Gavin Mooney and Richard Scotton (Allen & Unwin, 1998.)
Book Review: States of Health: Health and Illness in Australia
States of Health: Health and Illness in Australia (3rd Ed.) by Janet George and Alan Davis (Longman, 1998.)
FEATURE: Saving Australia's Health Care System: Nostrums or Cures?
How to bring the market back into health care.
FEATURE: The Self-Destruction of Private Health Insurance
Medicare and community rating undermine the private health funds.
CONTROVERSY: The Individual: A Suitable Case for Denationalisation
A discussion of euthanasia, following its legalisation in the Northern Territory and similar proposals for the ACT and NSW.
CONTROVERSY: Innocent Life and the Slippery Slope
The dangers of setting a precedent for the taking of life.
FEATURE: The 'Too Many Doctors' Myth
The Australian federal government's National Health Strategy Unit argues that Australia has too many GPs and that their numbers...
FEATURE: Difficulties of Dying
An examination of some of the ethical dilemmas that arise from the ability of modern medical technology to prolong life beyond...
BOOK REVIEW: Wood and Trees
Trends in Biomedical edited by Hiram Caton (Butterworths, 1990.)
FEATURE: The Health Effects of Smoking: Misreading The Evidence
Health promotion policies have popularised the view that smoking is a major cause of fatal disease. In the second of two...
FEATURE: The Lalonde Doctrine in Action: The Campaign Against Passive Smoking
In 1974 Marc Lalonde, Canada's Minister of National Health and Welfare, proposed that health promotion policy should ignore...
