Angela Pratt provides links to information and key resources on avian influenza and the potential for an avian influenza pandemic, including general information on avian influenza; information about Australia and international preparations for an avian influenza pandemic; information on Australian research on influenza; commentary in the public domain on avian influenza and the prospects of...

Accusations about cost-shifting are a constant in debates about the Australian healthcare system. in this research note Luke Buckmaster and Angela Pratt provide an overview of the health cost-shifting debate in Australia. They examine the complex division of responsibilities for health care, discuss areas in which cost-shifting is said to occur, and highlight how both...

This Research Note explores these issues by discussing the market for hospital care, and the available evidence on the relationship between private health insurance and public hospital waiting lists.

Much of the recent debate on abortion in Australia has focused on the question of how many abortions take place in Australia each year. Angela Pratt, Amanda Biggs and Luke Buckmaster discuss the existing statistics on abortion in Australia, their limitations for accurately quantifying how many abortions take place each year, and some options for...

This paper discussed a range of issues raised by the government's announcement in April 2004 that it would abolish the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, and the Labor opposition's announcement a few weeks earlier that it would do likewise in government. They provide a brief history of the administration of Indigenous affairs before ATSIC...