HEALTH PRIORITIES – WHO GETS WHAT? Stone the crows! Ever-more medical research is just what doctors order, but which doctors? Despite the Senate knocking back the GP co-payment supposed to fund the $20bn Medical Research Future Fund, the government came good, starting the scheme last week, kicking in $1bn and promising to allocate $10m for [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 271 29 MAY 2015 The inaugural issue of “Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch” was published in April 1988 – over a year before the first edition of the ABC TV Media Watch program went to air. Since November 1997 “Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch” has been published as part [...]
Electric e-cars. It’s enough to drive a Crow to drink. Stone the crows! We are all set to stall. According to Infrastructure Australia, cities will stop as roads choke, with travel times increasing by 20 per cent on essential urban arteries in 15 years. The cost of congestion is already $13.7bn IA warns.[i] To deal [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 270 22 MAY 2015 The inaugural issue of “Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch” was published in April 1988 – over a year before the first edition of the ABC TV Media Watch program went to air. Since November 1997 “Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch” has been published as [...]
FEDS TO SPEND $5M TO ADVERTISE THE OBVIOUS – PARENTS SHOULD BE INTERESTED IN EDUCATION Stone the crows! The feds will spend $5m urging parents to ask their kids what they did at school. Buried in the budget is $5m for an advertising campaign to “raise awareness of the positive effect parental engagement has on [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 269 15 MAY 2015 The inaugural issue of “Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch” was published in April 1988 – over a year before the first edition of the ABC TV Media Watch program went to air. Since November 1997 “Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch” has been published as [...]
HEALTH SPENDING – AN INCURABLE COMPLAINT STONE the crows! Even if tomorrow’s budget prescribes spending cuts to deal with the deficit the prognosis will be poor because the country suffers from an incurable complaint – health spending. Short of super-humans living physically perfect lives in perpetuity there will always be diseases to cure and treatments [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 268 8 MAY 2015 The inaugural issue of “Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch” was published in April 1988 – over a year before the first edition of the ABC TV Media Watch program went to air. Since November 1997 “Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch” has been published as part [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 267 1 MAY 2015 The inaugural issue of “Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch” was published in April 1988 – over a year before the first edition of the ABC TV Media Watch program went to air. Since November 1997 “Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch” has been published as part [...]
NOT WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED STONE the crows! Health Minister Sussan Ley has commissioned a review of the 5500 services, (who knew!) on the Medicare Benefits Schedule.[i] Quite right, millions spent on tests here, a motza on procedures there and pretty soon you are talking about serious Medicare money. Adam Elsghaug and colleagues estimated in [...]
