Issue 14 Index
It's Time™ is the online e-magazine of the Whitlam Institute.
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Our additions to the E-collection this edition include press conferences during Prime Minister Whitlam's visit to Indonesia and Papua New Guinea and the opening of the first session of the 28th Parliament.
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We are often told there is a trade-off between social values and efficiency. In his special address at the inaugural Whitlam Institute Health Forum, Jeff Richardson observes this is not necessarily the case. Achieving the wrong objectives is not efficient, he says. When we come to micro-economic evaluation many of the goals of social justice are difficult to debate because we do not have the vocabulary - and the lack of such a vocabulary is extremely coercive. Jeff's wide and deep exploration of Medicare policy follows.
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For the first time in 20 years, significant changes are being signalled for Medicare as the Federal Government pursues a fundamental restructure. Mary Foley comments on the proceedings of the Inaugural Whitlam Institute Health Forum as a leading Hospital administrator and shows us how the impact of technology has rendered the public vs private debate irrelevant.
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This month the Whitlam Institute launches its first online forum, providing community access to an open discussion of future directions for Australian health policy. Get the facts and have your say on health.
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Speaking at the inaugural Whitlam Institute Forum on Health, one of the fathers of Medicare, Professor Deeble, outlines the myths and lies about universal health cover. He calls for a Medicare review but concludes that in reality no other system could have coped with the explosion of costs of medical technology that we have experienced.
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The University of Western Sydney's Vice Chancellor, Professor Janice Reid AM, outlines the ambitions of the Whitlam Institute as a University Flagship for regional and community enagagement as well as a public educator on health and other issues critical to the people of the Greater West.
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