Jeremy Sammut

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Do not damage and disturb: on child protection failures and the pressure on out of home care in Australia

This monograph argues that the rising size, cost, and complexity of the out-of-home care system in Australia is directly linked to child protection failures

OOHC not working for at-risk kids

Australia's out of home care (OOHC) system is not run in the best interests of vulnerable children, argues Jeremy Sammut in The Drum Unleashed

How! Not how much: Medicare spending and health resource allocation in Australia

The public hospital ‘crisis,’ a political nightmare for all Australian governments, is a legacy of the health policy upheavals of the 1970s and early 1980s, which culminated with the start of Medicare in 1984

No quick fix: three essays on the future of the Australian public hospital system

Describing the negative impact the bureaucratisation of the hospital system has had on staff and patients in the last 30 years, these essays argue for the reestablishment of local hospital boards

Like the curate's egg: a market-based response and alternative to the Bennett Report

Instead of centrally planning the future of Australian health care as recommended by the National Health and Hospital Reform Commission, the federal government should establish a national health voucher system and let choice, competition, and patient need determine the right supply of health services required in an ageing Australia

Why public hospitals are overcrowded: ten points for policymakers

The three-hundred page reform ‘blue print’ from the

Fatally flawed: the child protection crisis in Australia

It is not underfunding or an overwhelming workload that has caused child protection services to fail the vulnerable children they exist to protect, it is the failure to investigate reports and remove children in danger, argues this report

A streak of hypocrisy: reactions to the global financial crisis and generational debt

This paper examines the policy challenges associated with the ageing of the Australian population through the prism of the global financial crisis

A high-tax future for Gen X and Y? Medicare and the intergenerational crisis

This paper argues that as the proportion of elderly people in Australia doubles over the next forty years, growth in federal health spending will create serious budgetary problems

The false promise of GP super clinics, part 2: coordinated care

This paper argues that the Rudd government's $220 million GP Super Clinics and preventive health policy threatens to accentuate, not alleviate, Medicare's unsustainabilty

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Copyright Law Inquiry
10 February 2012

The Attorney-General, the Hon Nicola Roxon MP, has announced the appointment of Professor Jill McKeough as Commissioner in charge of the ALRC’s Inquiry into Copyright Law.

Default Superannuation Funds in Modern Awards: new inquiry
07 February 2012
The Productivity Commission has been asked to report within 8 months on Default Superannuation Funds in Modern Awards. The inquiry covers the design of criteria for the selection and ongoing assessment of superannuation funds for nomination as default funds in modern awards.
Summer 2012 issue of Quarterly Access released
13 January 2012

The Summer 2012 issue of Quarterly Access examines the recent East Asia Summit, bilateral alliances in the Asia Pacific, the future of Timor-Leste, women's participation in peace processes and more.

Read QA online: http://www.aiia.asn.au/qa/qa-vol4-issue1

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