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Budget 2022: How is the government funding healthcare

WebMedical benefits are the fourth-most expensive expense program in the 2022-23 financial year, costing $31.2 million; pharmaceutical benefits are close behind at $18 million. The government has

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People with disability have outlined priorities — …

WebPeople with disability have spelled out 6 priorities — now politicians must act . People with disability are too often seen as problems to be solved, rather than the problem-solvers with agency

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'Jimflation' to 'Lucky Chalm': Press coverage of the 2024 …

WebThe 2024 federal budget is here, laying out the government’s plan for the nation for the next 12 months and beyond. Crikey has rounded up the headlines from across the media landscape. ABC News

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Underlying health conditions aren’t just an excuse for …

WebWhen announcing updates on COVID-19 deaths, authorities are quick to add a caveat: how many of those who died had an underlying health condition.

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Australia’s most vulnerable, the budget didn’t do nearly …

WebI, however, find this particular insult irksome. Genuine “middle-class welfare”, like universal child payments and pensions, for instance, can reduce inequality, administrative burden and

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Fiona Stanley: the secret to improving indigenous …

WebEmpowering indigenous Australians to take charge of their own healthcare proved more successful than epidemiologist and public health advocate Fiona Stanley ever imagined. She writes in the latest

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Guy Rundle: Why I'm picking a fight with the YIMBYs

WebPut more simply, it might be necessary to imagine an inner city in which higher, narrow towers are side by side with rows of terraces and shops, as the price of retaining those.

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The man behind the eyebrows: just who is Brendan …

WebAmber Schultz covered health and social affairs for Crikey.In 2022 she was awarded a Young Walkley Award for her on-the-ground coverage of the Ukrainian refugee crisis, and has been shortlisted

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Dutton's too scared of homeowners to REALLY go after …

WebThe opposition leader does imply there’ll be some sort of temporary worker restriction, because he keeps coming back to a vision of our workforce shortages being fixed by retirees returning to

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Crikey speaks to Al Jazeera staff living in fear after Israel's ban

Web‘The days of close-ups are over’: Al Jazeera staff tell Crikey of working under Israel’s ban 'We’ve been physically attacked and verbally abused,' one journalist said.

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Lifting the productivity of health workers and economists

WebIn the August data, the number of social care workers indeed fell back to 714,000 while residential care went back up to 188,000. But based on those numbers, labour productivity in social care

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Will artificial intelligence replace doctors’ ‘gut instincts’

WebOne Finnish hospital has launched a €7 billion project, set to be completed in 2028, which will engage robots to collect patient data typically reliant on human physical touch, from measuring

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Home care is the future of aged care, for better and for worse

WebHome care is more attractive to both the private sector and not-for-profits: according to the taskforce report, “69% of residential aged care providers made an operating loss in 2021–22, an

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Our weapons against the disease are kindness and quarantine

WebI am deeply scared of today’s self-indulgence. We have two weapons against this pandemic, age old weapons: kindness and quarantine. Use them hard and fast, and in two or three years a plague can

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Scott Morrison book review: scathing take on Plans For Your Good

WebMorrison may well yearn for his book, subtitled, “A Prime Minister’s Testimony of God’s Faithfulness”, to serve evangelical ends. Whether he likes it or not, though, Plans For Your Good

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Jill Gallagher: We need Aboriginal health in Aboriginal hands

WebJan 17, 2024. 39. Jill Gallagher, CEO of the Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (Image: Supplied) Despite the best intentions of many, a glaring life-expectancy gap

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COVID-19 and the elderly: lockdown brings its own devastating

WebThere is no doubt that lockdowns and social distancing are our best measures to stop the spread of COVID-19. But as neurologist Kate Ahmad has seen first hand, the loneliness and loss of

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David McBride opposed investigating soldiers who severed hands

WebSelf-described whistleblower and former Australian Defence Force lawyer David McBride, this week sentenced to five years and eight months jail for theft and sharing of secret documents, complained

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PwC helped restructure NSW Health then raked in $30m

WebJul 25, 2023. 26. The PwC Australia offices in Melbourne (Image: AAP/Joel Carrett) In 2011, NSW paid PwC $256,709 to help slim down and decentralise the Health Department. Since then, Crikey can

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2024 budget proves Albanese government losing touch with women

WebThe budget proves Labor is losing touch with women voters. Perhaps the people who aren't struggling to pay rent or put food on the table can donate their $300 energy bill rebate to a frontline

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Legalise it — vaping prohibition in Australia isn't working

WebFor what it’s worth: “a group of senior public health and drug researchers from Australia and overseas joined together to criticise the National Health and Medical Research Council “, the

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An educated guess about Peter Dutton's budget reply

WebDutton described the budget in an interview with ABC radio’s Sabra Lane on Wednesday as a “big taxing, big spending” one — and warned that inflation and interest rates would soar as a

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Quiet achievers: Australia’s female chief health officers finally take

WebKerry Chant Family. If you didn’t know who she was, you’d have to dig deeper to find out she is chief health officer of NSW, a fabulously educated woman who has been with the New South Wales

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Opioid enabler McKinsey gets to write the script on scripts

WebMcKinsey’s good fortune grows as Australia’s vaccine woes worsen. As the end of the financial year loomed, Deloitte was the overall winner in June, with $2.6 million in consulting contracts

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Mark Butler acts after 'concerning' revelations on Hillsong-linked …

WebHealth Minister Mark Butler is seeking an urgent briefing from health officials after a series of Crikey disclosures on the Morrison government’s funding of faith-based rehabilitation services

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Top doc Brendan Murphy expected to retire amid government …

WebProfessor Brendan Murphy is expected to retire from his role as health department secretary. The bushy-browed top doctor — the first doctor in more than 30 years to hold the political position

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Fair Work deputy says forced vaccination is 'medical apartheid'

WebVery few people are willing to say they are anti-vaccination per se, although there’s no law or moral code against being so.Vaccination is just a tool of public health. You can object to bike

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