Tag Archives: poverty

Remember the big picture: Prof Stephen Leeder on the budget

May 12, 2009 – 8:48 pm

Professor Stephen Leeder, director of the Menzies Centre for Health Policy at the University of Sydney, is first off the Croakey blocks with a budget response:
The budget is a responsible response to the discombobulated global financial environment.
The good things for health include an increase in the pensions (given that poverty is a health hazard), [...]

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Will we act on global poverty, climate change and the rest?

November 25, 2008 – 11:25 am

Professor Stephen Leeder, director of The Australian Health Policy Institute, responds to a recent Crikey article by Fran Baum and colleagues calling for international action on global poverty:
“It was said of the Australian cricket team during several of the ill-fated Ashes series in the 1980s that repeatedly it ‘seized defeat from the jaws of victory’. [...]

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