The Federal Government has announced that it will list new hepatitis C drugs on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS). The move means that 230,000 hep C sufferers will get access to the new treatment which has a success rate of over 90% with few side effects. Access in Australia will be obtained for the standard PBS co-payment of […]
The Misleading Mals
In all likelihood Mal Brough has misled parliament. Just as significantly Mal Turnbull must know this. Mal Brough has made two directly contradictory statements. When Brough was asked on ’60 Minutes’ whether he had requested James Ashby to procure Peter Slipper’s diary for him, he answered “Yes I did”. When Mark Dreyfus asked Brough the same question in parliament, Brough answered simply “No”. […]
Paris Climate Conference, Progess Traps and Easter Island
The 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference will be held in Paris, from November 30 to December 11. It will be the 21st yearly session of the Conference of the Parties to the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the 11th session of the Meeting of the Parties to the 1997 Kyoto […]
Moral Contradictions- Alberici Pins Dutton
Both major parties now routinely argue that off-shore processing is morally justified on the basis of the need to create disincentives for asylum seekers risking death at sea. Others argue that it should be up to asylum seekers themselves to decide whether the risks of sea travel with people smugglers outweigh the risks, of staying put, […]
Bowen opposes GST on fresh food but does not support excise on unhealthy foods
Addressing the AFR Tax Reform summit Chris Bowen has cited the diabetes and obesity epidemic as a reason for not broadening the base of the GST to include fresh food. “We’ve got a diabetes and obesity epidemic in Australia. My electorate is the epicentre of it, we have the highest diabetes rates I metropolitan Australia. […]
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