Health reforms: all posturing and political theatreWhy couldn’t Victoria — a state with a strong track record of managing hospitals — continue to operate its health care system as normal as a trial? Why didn’t we embrace competitive federalism? asks Graeme Orr.
State premiers
Sheehan: Get ‘em in and spit ‘em out: the media churn of politics
Leadership speculation! Spill! New leader! Opinion Polls! Scandal! Rather than focusing on policies, Australian politics is an endless horse race with the media as jockey and lots of blood being spilt, writes Paul Sheehan.
Where do they find state politicians anyway?
It’s probably too much to ask for political courage and vision, writes Bernard Keane.
Fixing the Federation Part 1: Education
In the first instalment in an occasional series on federal-state relations, Associate Professor Tony Taylor , author of the original history curriculum draft commissioned by the former Howard government, looks at the impact “new federalism” could have on education:
