Our source is an authority on this subject, having been on both sides of the fence – as both the recipient of lobbying and as a lobbyist.
• Know what you stand for. Be clear on your messages and tailor them to “the man on the street”. Don’t speak with 20 tongues.
• Be realistic and know [...]
The Australian has quite a history of being not very nice about Crikey, most recently suggesting that our illustrious leader, Jonathan Green, is “not a real editor”. Not to be confused with an unreal editor, of course.
Croakey isn’t one for grudges. We’re avid readers of the health section of the Weekend Australian, as one of [...]
Ian McAuley, a Centre for Policy Development Fellow and lecturer in Public Sector Finance at the University of Canberra, wrote this piece in Crikey yesterday, examining why the private health insurance industry is campaigning against changes that are actually going to increase incentives for high income earners to hold private health insurance.
He concluded that the [...]
Before jetting off to a new job in Canada a few months ago (read more about this aspect here and here), health reformer Stephen Duckett took time out to reflect on his experiences from the trenches at both the state and national level.
As CEO of Queensland Health’s Centre for Healthcare Improvement, he helped drive changes [...]
After wading through the waffle of the latest National Mental Health Policy, Australian Doctor’s political editor Paul Smith is less than impressed.
Below is an edited version of his column first published in Australian Doctor. He raises some pointed questions for Rudd and Roxon:
AROUND the office of Australian Doctor you often hear the phrase “dull [...]
Dr Alex Wodak, President of the Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation, recently filed this Crikey report (complete with photo) about a new advertising campaign on London buses advising that “nice people take drugs”. Now he has this update:
After only a few days, Release, a drugs and humans rights charity, was told by advertising regulators that [...]
The surgeon who everyone loves to read – Atul Gawande – has an article on health care costs in the latest New Yorker that is said to have become required reading for US President Obama’s staff. In lucid and entertaining style, he makes a careful argument that more medicine does not necessarily equate [...]
This excellent article from the Washington Post begins thus:
It’s the doctors, stupid.
If we really want to fix America’s overpriced and under-performing health-care system, what really matters is changing the ways doctors practice medicine, individually and collectively.
The article looks at what’s needed to achieve health reform in the US, but many of its arguments are equally [...]
Moves are afoot to tighten regulation of the complementary health sector. University of Queensland researcher Jon Wardle examines why this is particularly important for the many Australians who attend naturopaths:
This week the Steering Committee for the Australian Register of Naturopaths and Herbalists has formally called for submissions as part of its process to set up [...]
Health bureaucracies and their public affairs units, ministerial staffers and health service managers make a powerful effort to stop people who work within the public health system from engaging in public debate.
On one hand, this is understandable – if everyone was hitting the headlines, complaining about the lack of resourcing to their particular area, then [...]
