The Guardian • privatisation
Study reveals shocking decline in life expectancy in the US
The United States life expectancy fell by more than a year, from 78.8 years to 77.3 years, during the first half of 2020.
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Issue #2036
Commodification of health care
Since its introduction in 1984, Australia’s national health insurance scheme, Medicare, has been under constant attack from the privateers. Medicare is an anathema to their...
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Issue #2036
DINGO
More than a thousand refugees and their supporters rallied outside Parliament House in Canberra on 29th November to demand permanent visas for refugees. Priya Nadesalingam,...
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Issue #2035
The problems of privatisation and why publicly-owned services matter
The ACTU does a good job of explaining issues to the converted. However, they should use some excellent scientific studies to inform the public of...
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Issue #2036
Build the fightback
Decades of privatisations, job cuts and wage suppression and more recently the cuts masked by measures taken during the COVID-19 pandemic, have taken a huge...
Read moreIdeology before health
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the failures of capitalism and its neoliberal policies.
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Issue #2078
Another step towards Medicare privatisation
The public health system is in crisis. Bulk billing GPs are hard to find and non-existent in some regional and rural areas. In fact, some...
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Issue #2050
For-profit health in the trolley
In the language of privatisation, Sydney’s public trains call the millions who use the system daily, not commuters, but “customers.” Now, with Woolworths, the giant...
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Issue #2073
DINGO
Karl Marx exposed the real meaning of “free trade” in 1848. “What is free trade under the present condition of society?” he asked. “It is...
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Issue #2066
Revolving doors of greed
The public sector and parliamentary corridors are infested with personnel from private enterprise, and not just the Big Four accounting/consultancy firms. They weave in and...
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Issue #2069
Qantas: Robber Baron
As the stench around Qantas grows stronger, CEO Allan Joyce has made a hasty retreat, abruptly resigning on 5th September, his $10.8 million pay-out firmly...
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Issue #2066
Privatisation of government
The PwC/Tax Office scandal has brought to the fore some of the serious issues that arise when government functions are contracted out to the private,...
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Issue #2079
Let’s hang up
Is your phone okay? This jokey casual question became an urgent one this month as over ten million Optus customers lost phone coverage, and ‘outage’...
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