General
End neo-liberal experiment: gutting of bureaucracy led to vaccine and aged care failures
The complete shemozzle that has been the vaccination rollout is a timely reminder that the federal Department of Health has neither the expertise nor the experience to deliver services at this scale.
It is not as though we weren’t warned. As Bernard Keane has documented, a 2018 audit of the Health Department’s administration of the Indigenous Australians’ Health Program was riddled with problems and four years late in delivering its objectives. Its tender process for a National Cancer Screening Register was heavily criticised in 2017. Its implementation of the National Ice Action Strategy came under fire in 2019.
Yet despite these abject, public and repeated failures, one of the aged care royal commissioners has recommended…
-
General7 hours agoCoroner to examine treatment of woman who died three days after surgery performed by former Queensland premier’s partner
-
Business6 hours agoWhy Antipa, Cettire, Magnetic Resources, and Steadfast shares are pushing higher
-
General10 hours agoAlbanese beats drum on economy as trade clouds gather
-
Noosa News9 hours agoSurgeon partner of former premier to testify over his patient’s death