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The erosion of Medicare

ECONOMY
Charles Maskell-Knight writes in Pearls and Irritations Large out-of-pocket costs for specialist consultations driven by inadequate indexations are undermining Medicare.   When Medicare was introduced in 1984 – replicating the key features of Medibank as it operated in 1975-76 – the policy intention was clear: access to health services by Australians should...
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Superannuation for houses is a bad policy

POLITICS
Katharine Murphy writes in The Guardian If the 2022 contest is between a bulldozer and a builder, it makes sense that the final act of the election be staged on a residential housing construction site. Back when Scott Morrison was being written off erroneously as a dead prime minister walking at...
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Make your vote count

ELECTIONS
First-past-the-post Elections that use a simple majority, or first-past-the-post, system elect a candidate who has received the most number of votes in a contest following a single count. This is regardless of whether or not the number of votes for the successful candidate represents a majority of the total amount...
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Morrison ramps up class war with intergenerational wealth shift — yet pitches at first-time buyers

ECONOMY
Bernard Keane writes in Crikey May 15, 2022 Scott Morrison has made senior homeowners the centre of the federal Liberal election launch, promising to allow homebuyers to raid their superannuation for home purchases and expanding access to superannuation tax concessions for wealthy seniors who sell their properties. In a recognition that...
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Yellow-bellied ‘moderates’

ELECTIONS
 Rachel Withers writes  in The MonthlyFor weeks now, the increasingly shrill “moderate” Liberals have been demanding to know who the teal independents would support in the event of a hung parliament. The demand is obviously ridiculous – declaring now who they would support would mean that they could no...
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Strawmen and slippery slopes: how to spot politicians tinkering with the truth

ELECTIONS
The Guardian's Susan McDonald writes As a magician’s audience suspends its disbelief, in Australia’s parliament you aren’t allowed to call someone a liar. But in the real world people say it out loud; they don’t trust politicians. That’s depressing, particularly in the middle of an election campaign when voters are...
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The track record of Peter Dutton’s incompetence

ELECTIONS
By Michael McKinley Failing up is a common phenomenon in many organisations – not least those concerned with national defence and security. It is too often revealed that some people have the knack of being dismal failures early on in their careers only to be subsequently promoted to even higher positions...
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Morrison ministers overrule advice on grants

ELECTIONS
New documents show four federal ministers overruled advice from their departments to award grants – largely in key Coalition seats. By The SaturdayPaper's Karen Middleton. Four federal ministers overruled their departments and funded grants in 2021 that they were advised should be rejected, including an unapproved addition to a swimming...
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Can a bulldozer vault out of this?

ELECTIONS
By Peter Hartcher SMH's political editor writes in The SMH The telltale came towards the end of Wednesday’s debate, when each of the two leaders was asked to name one redeeming feature of the other. Scott Morrison started well: ‘‘The thing about Anthony that I’ve always admired is that he’s never forgot...
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Alan Tudge, Scott Morrison and who knows what about Rachelle Miller’s reported $500,000 payout

ELECTIONS
Katharine Murphy The Guardian's Political editor writes One of the stranger stories in this campaign has been the travails of Alan Tudge – Schrödinger’s minister – a person both in and out of Scott Morrison’s cabinet. Also strange: what the government has said at various times about the events that...
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