In this book, Jeremy Sammut shows why the support of big business in that campaign could be just the beginning of corporate meddling in politically-contentious issues to come. Companies will become political players campaigning for 'systemic change' behind 'progressive' social, environmental, and economic causes if the Corporate Social Responsibility - CSR - activists operating inside Australia business get their way. The notion that corporations need a 'social license to operate' threatens to give business leaders a license to play politics on company time -- and with shareholders' money. But to ensure the business of business remains business and not politics, it is not enough simply to complain about the takeover of business by 'corporate lefties'.
The long-term unsustainability of Medicare due to the ageing of the Australian population and the rising cost of medical technology."--Provided by publisher.
This paper examines the policy challenges associated with the ageing of the Australian population through the prism of the global financial crisis. The paper observes that much of the commentary prompted by the financial crisis has featured a reaction against credit-driven consumption, the so-called "debt binge" that has plunged household savings into the red in recent years, and a shift in sentiment that favours traditional values such as thrift." --Executive summary p. vii.
Publisher's description: High growth in health spending is the area of public expenditure that will unsustainably increase the size of government in coming decades. This TARGET30 report outlines some practical policies that can help cut Medicare down to size. It also proposes &‘big bang' health reform involving the use of Health Savings Accounts to control long-term health costs.
Publisher's description: The research reports prepared for TARGET30 will focus on ways to ensure the efficient and effective delivery of crucial services that Australians require while curbing the uncontrolled growth of wasteful government spending. Although Australia is in an enviable economic position compared to the rest of the world, we still need to learn lessons from the fiscal and debt crises in big-spending, big-government countries and act now to ensure prosperity for future generations. TARGET30&—because a smaller government means a bigger future for us all. Simon Cowan is a Research Fellow in the Economics Program at The Centre for Independent Studies and specialises in government industry policy and regulation. Before joining the CIS, he practised corporate law and worked in the NSW government's industry division. Robert Carling is a Senior Fellow in the Economics Program at The Centre for Independent Studies. Peter Saunders is a Senior Fellow in the Social Foundations Program at The Centre for Independent Studies.
Why are the most vulnerable children in Australia abused and neglected in plain sight of the child welfare authorities supposed to protect them? The over-emphasis placed on 'family preservation' at almost all costs keeps exposing children to prolonged - and sometimes fatal - maltreatment by highly-damaged parents...who damage their children. When finally removed as a last resort, children are further damaged by highly unstable foster care and repeat breakdowns of family reunifications. The Madness of Australian Child Protection analyses the ideological, institutional and cultural factors that impede efforts to ensure priority is given to children's rights instead of the 'rights' of dysfunctional parents. In this passionate account of a flawed system, Sammut argues that the perpetual crisis besetting child protection regimes nation-wide will not end until the taboo on the use of adoption is broken.
Argues that Medicare is a wasteful system that encourages overuse and that major structural reform is needed if Australia is to have a health care sector that can cope with the approach ageing population "time bomb".
Examines the most important recommendations the Commission has devised to end the blame game, to take pressure off public hospitals, and to develop a so-called 'person-centred' health system that gives all Australians access to the 'right care in the right time and at the right place.'" - page 1.
The trilogy of essays in this collection describes the negative impact the bureaucratisation of the system has had on staff and patients in the last 30 years." - cover.
GP Super Clinics delivering coordinated chronic disease care are promoted as an effective method of addressing the major challenges facing the Australian health system in relation to ageing and chronic disease. This monograph examines the evidence which strongly suggests that Super Clinics will not, as has been promised, lower health costs or take the pressure off hospitals."--Provided by publisher.
Publisher's description: This monograph shows that the rising size, cost, and complexity of the out-of-home care system in Australia is directly linked to child protection failures. Children are entering care later and more damaged, and are spending longer in care due to the misguided emphasis placed on family preservation by child welfare agencies.
According to the Rudd's Government's preventive health policy, spending more taxpayers money on so-called preventive primary care will stem the obesity and lifestyle-related chronic disease epidemics, keep people well and out of hospital, and ensure the long-term sustainability of Medicare as the population ages into the 21st century. Evidence-based policy is the government's mantra. This policy monograph analyses the implications of the government's preventive health agenda which is centred around its GP Super Clinics policy and finds that the evidence does not support the claims that are frequently made about the long-run benefits of focusing more heavily on prevention."--Provided by publisher.
Argues that the current system of child protection services is failing those most in need, and a dramatic overhaul of the system is needed in every Australian state.
Publisher's description: Australia will face problems funding its public hospital and other publicly funded health services if cost increases continue at the current rate in the context of ever-increasing use and an ageing population. The challenges of sustainably financing the cost of health will be exacerbated by inefficiencies in the public hospital sector&—unless productivity improvements reduce the quantity of public resources consumed by public hospitals. This report identifies and discusses some of the major governance issues that impede public hospital performance and that can be revised within the existing Medicare framework via state government-initiated reforms, principally by adopting quasi market-based initiatives. Alternative governance arrangements for public hospitals can address existing management problems and also mimic the key factors that international studies show account for better management and superior hospital performance. The Foundation Trust hospital management and service provision model was introduced into the National Health Service (NHS) in England by the Blair Labor government. Foundation Trusts combine true managerial independence with genuine financial accountability. Trust hospital boards of directors and CEOs are responsible for managing the hospital's budget, setting the employment terms and conditions of staff, and overseeing all other operational matters. Adapting the Trust model to the Australian health system can improve the performance of public hospitals&—especially if &‘corporatisation' is complemented by a broader microeconomic reform agenda encompassing competitive pricing and selective privatisations. This would help control the escalating health expenditure and substantially contribute to the long-term sustainability of the health system as demand rises and population ages.
In an ever-tightening fiscal environment, the focus of NSW health policy must be the microeconomic reform of the rigid, public service monopoly model of public hospital care. The adoption of market or private sector methods, including greater involvement of private operators in the delivery of public health service, should be encouraged to enhance productivity and improve access to quality hospital services at the least cost." - publisher's website.
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