The current nursing dispute has its origins in the savage cuts to the health budget initiated by the first Kennett government in 1993-4, writes Tom Keating, a former senior Victorian health manager.
Kennett government
Kennett: Why NSW should be more like Victoria
Well, this won’t inflame the NSW-Vic tensions at all: former Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett says the answers to NSW’s economic woes lie in becoming more like Victoria. Lane-ways bars for all!
Government ads: a case of self-promotion because they can
Outrage over government-funded political advertising has been going on for years, yet all governments — state and federal, Labor and Coalition alike — keep doing it, and voters rarely make them pay any price for it.
Ruddock can’t kick the government habit
A common response when a government sees itself soon being in opposition is to make changes that they hope will hamstring their successors in government and provide some advantage to the opposition, writes Charles Richardson.
