Issue 21 - Community debates open up (September 2004)
Issue 21 Index
It's Time™ is the online e-magazine of the Whitlam Institute.
Breaking the Commonwealth / State Impasse in Health
John Menadue calls on the Commonwealth and States to forge a Coalition of the Willing to overcome waste and buckpassing on the nationwide administration of Australia's health system.
Threats to Universal Health Care
Stephen Duckett writes that universality needs to be reinforced as an underlying principle of our health system. Value choices are becoming blurred in the political debates of the 21st century. The first step is to reinforce the absolute imperative for there to be no financial barriers to primary medical care.
New improved online health forum
Stephen Duckett writes that universality needs to be reinforced as an underlying principle of our health system. Value choices are becoming blurred in the political debates of the 21st century. The first step is to reinforce the absolute imperative for there to be no financial barriers to primary medical care.
Australia's health debate ignores the social causes of sickness
As we count down to the 2004 Whitlam Institute Forum on Health Inequalities a new history of Medicare by ANU academic, Gwendolyn Gray concludes that Australia's social environment is not seen as a health issue and preventive services that might improve population health are a dead issue. The evaluation of treatments is rarely discussed. The major casualty is the nation's health itself.
UWS history students launch research on 1975
Australian Labour History students at the University of Western Sydney have started researching the next tranche of Days of the Whitlam Government. More than 70 students will be adding more than 100 days to this website's exhibition on the Life of the Whitlam Government. Each day's report is a snapshot of political developments, media perspectives, social moods and historical judgements.
Work continues on uploading new material to the Prime Ministerial e-collectionIn september we added a series of recent letters and speeches made by Gough during the course of his continuing public life.
Students rush Gough at commemoration of Joint Sitting 1974
The Whitlam Institute launched its 2004-2005 schools program with a special exhibition on the anniversary of the 1974 Joint Sitting of Parliament. More than 200 high school students from all across Sydney were bussed into Parramatta Campus to hear Gough speak
