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admin /3 March, 2010
Rudd’s hospital reform more radical than 1984 Medicare revamp
MARK METHERELL
March 3, 2010 – 1:04PM
The Prime Minister’s $30.9 billion overhaul to integrate Australia’s health system goes much further than his simple pledge before the last election to “fix” the public hospitals.
Kevin Rudd is proposing steps to integrate the health system in radical changes, of a scale that transcends Australia’s last big health revamp, Medicare, in 1984.
Not only is he proposing to radically change Australia’s heavy dependency on hospitals, he is also planning to establish a new “independent umpire” at arm’s lengths from government, to set “efficient national prices” of health services to be paid for by federal and state governments.
admin /3 March, 2010
Need for new coal-fired power plants based on a big lie The NSW government’s approval for two new giant fossil fuel powerstations is based on the big lie that they are needed to keep the lightson. They will drive up the state’s greenhouse gas emissions and destroyjobs in the renewable energy industry, according to Greens NSW Continue Reading →
admin /3 March, 2010
Subject: Rudd’s on the nose
Wednesday, 3 March 2010 / (Source Crikey)
Rudd’s on the nose
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Despite yesterday’s Newspoll showing that Kevin Rudd had yet to meet his “whacking day”, with all the recent talk about Kevin Rudd’s mea culpa and donning of the hair-shirt, there seems to be a definite shift against the Prime Minister in an election year.
Has the tide turned against Rudd?
admin /3 March, 2010
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd losing support in western Sydney EXCLUSIVE by Simon Benson From: The Daily Telegraph March 03, 2010 12:00AM That sinking feeling … Prime Minster Kevin Rudd. Source: The Daily Telegraph THE chance of Australia going to an early election has lessened, with internal Labor research exposing a negative shift in mood Continue Reading →
admin /3 March, 2010
Labor to axe drought relief
- Matthew Franklin, Chief Political Correspondent
- From: The Australian
- March 03, 2010 12:00AM
AGRICULTURE Minister Tony Burke will scrap taxpayer-funded subsidies for drought-affected farmers to meet interest payments on their bank debts as part of a shake-up of drought policy.
And Mr Burke has accused previous governments of using bogus quarantine claims as a cover for protectionism, insisting Australia must open itself to competition if it expects access to lucrative overseas markets.
Mr Burke made the comments in an aggressive speech in Canberra yesterday in which he expressed his desire to tackle the “holy grails” of agricultural policy, including drought aid.
“I cannot see any justification as to why a future drought policy should involve an interest rate subsidy,” Mr Burke told the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics in Canberra.
“I do not believe we are doing people a favour by continuing to have these policy settings for the next drought.”
While the opposition accused him of being out of touch, the National Farmers Federation last night expressed qualified support for banning interest rate subsidies, provided they were replaced by more effective assistance.
admin /2 March, 2010
More would install solar if power paid for: report
ADAM MORTON
March 2, 2010
THE cost of installing rooftop solar panels could be dramatically lowered by abolishing rebates and paying households a premium for all electricity generated at home, an economic analysis has found.
The analysis by consultants Access Economics, on behalf of the Electrical Trades Union, found a national gross feed-in-tariff would be a far cheaper way to boost uptake of rooftop solar panels than existing policies.
The union’s Victorian secretary Dean Mighell said twice as many solar units would have been installed if the $1 billion spent on rebates was funnelled into a premium subsidy.
