The Guardian • public health
“No More Tax Cuts For The Rich”
Dear Editor, Your editorial “No More Tax Cuts For The Rich” (Guardian – 17th October) is very apt, and unfortunately very well positioned, placed as...
Read moreDistractions
Under the cloak of the global pandemic, the US military-industrial complex is gleefully organising another war to rescue capitalism. The propaganda machine has certainly made...
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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...
Read moreAustralians “shielded” from systemic problems during pandemic
Alexander Michaels is a Scientific Officer for Laverty Pathology and says that people are aware of problems in the health system but not to the full extent.
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Issue #2018
Public sector health services workers make a stand – WA
As part of the campaign by public sector workers in Western Australia, members of the Health Services Union and United Workers Union – the two...
Read moreThe challenge of dealing with COVID-19
In the world of the 24-hour news cycle, we are being bombarded with information overload. The mass media move from picking at one warped point...
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Issue #2002
A matter of life or death
On 31st March, thousands of nurses and midwives took strike action across NSW, with many walking off the job for 24-hours from 7 AM, over...
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Issue #2036
Dealing with a disability and the NDIS process
Our grandson was placed with us when he was a baby. He was a victim of crime and is now living with an acquired brain...
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Issue #2029
Anti-poverty protest – Adelaide
Poverty is about people struggling, and becoming sick, less employable and ultimately homeless, especially if survival on “jobseeker” is involved. These were the stories of...
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Issue #2002
Fight for public health and workplace safety rally – Melbourne
CPA Victorian Branch comrades marched to and attended the Fight for Public Health and Workplace Safety rally on Saturday 19th March at Melbourne’s State Library....
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Issue #2031
DINGO
The wholesale theft from Optus and Medibank of the personal information of their customers by hackers brings forth a quote from Karl Marx: “Finally, there...
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Issue #2028
A big short: Australia’s manufactured skills shortage
The National Skills Commission has revealed in its 2022 Skills Priority List Key Finding Report, that 286 occupations were dealing with shortages at a national...
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Issue #2032
A peace & peoples’ budget
Annual budgets are a mirror held up to the class divide. The income and expenditure sides of the budget come down to priorities. The budget...
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Issue #2014
DINGO
While the Prime Minister was talking trade deals with the European Commission, who should pop up but Simon Crean, former ACTU President and erstwhile leader...
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Issue #2022
DINGO
In a sign of widespread frustration, nurses and that midwives in NSW took 24-hour strike action on the 1st September over their demands for safe...
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Issue #2028
Bed block
“We are not excelling, we are drowning.” This is the headline of the NSW branch of the Australian Paramedics Association’s (APA) submission to the NSW...
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Issue #2063
DINGO
The union movement extended its thoughts to the loved ones of the food delivery rider who tragically lost his life in Sydney last week working...
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Issue #2064
GREEN NOTES
Over 900 health professionals from across the country have signed a joint letter speaking out against fracking the Beetaloo Basin and the Middle Arm gas...
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Issue #2011
State budget opportunity for health care reform
In this month’s state budget, United Workers Union is calling on the Queensland Government to increase funding to the health sector to urgently address issues...
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Issue #2016
Fund public health
Hospitals and their staff are at breaking point as the wave of BA.4/BA.5 COVID-19 sub-strains and flu send hospitalisations to breaking point. GPs across Australia...
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Issue #2047
US maternal death rate highest in developed world
According to a recent report by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) maternal mortality rose by 40 per cent at the height...
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Issue #2049
DINGO
The latest Australian Institute of Health and Welfare report into mesothelioma was released today. Mesothelioma is an aggressive form of cancer in the mesothelium –...
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Issue #2043
Privatisation inquiry call
The Sydney public hospital now controlled in the Cayman Islands is not subject to penalties for healthcare failures. Michael West reports on calls for a...
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Issue #2028
Health care is a human right
Reports of emergency patients waiting up to thirty-six hours or more to be off-loaded from ambulances at public hospital emergency departments (EDs) are indicative of...
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Issue #2030
Medicare under attack
An investigation by the ABC, and the Nine newspapers Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, claims that $8 billion (approximately thirty per cent) of Medicare’s...
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Issue #2066
DINGO
Gambling harm is profound. It is not just financial, it is also social. It impacts mental health, leads to other health issues, and too often...
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Issue #2006
VOTE THEM OUT
The Coalition Morrison government has got to go. On Saturday 21st May vote them out! The Communist Party of Australia rejects the undemocratic electoral system...
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Issue #2014
Workers across New South Wales fight for their rights!
Over the last two weeks, intense industrial action has been taken against the Perrottet government. Having held a mass meeting at Sydney’s Town Hall, The...
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Issue #2025
Good planets are hard to find
La Niña event is under way for the third year in a row according to the Bureau of Meteorology. The Pacific, including Australia, can expect...
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Issue #2065
DINGO
Some readers might remember the Michael Moore show Sicko about the US for-profit health system, where he campaigned for a patient to have a life-saving...
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Issue #2041
US Health Care – A failure at every level
In Michigan, a man falling off his bicycle had obvious injuries and I offered to drive him to a public hospital for treatment. He refused,...
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Issue #2049
NO to AUKUS! – YES to Medicare!
Medicare as a public health insurance scheme offering universal access to bulkbilling, and funded through central revenue is becoming a distant memory. GPs are fully...
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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 #2041
Medicare plan – BULK PROFITS
For anyone looking for solutions to the Medicare crisis, the Albanese government’s Strengthening Medicare Taskforce Report raises more questions than it answers. It is full...
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Issue #2050
Fight back!
May Day is just eight days away from the federal budget. All we hear from Treasurer Jim Chalmers are attempts to soften up the electorate...
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Issue #2057
NOT FOR PROFIT!
The aged care system is in crisis. Successive governments have seen old people as a “problem” that costs ever-increasing amounts of money. Once someone is...
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