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If states and territories agreed to share the cost of foundational supports in December, why are they baulking now?
Ahead of Thursday’s release of the review into NDIS, the states have agreed to provide more and expanded services for people with disability in exchange for an extension of the GST top-up.
National Cabinet is meeting today to discuss hospital funding, and the interconnected issues of NDIS reform and GST allocation. But how are hospitals actually funded? And what’s GST got to do with it?
After months of stalling, the Greens agreed to pass the legislation through the Senate this week, despite the government refusing to give ground on its demand for controls on rents.
How can the concept of ‘evidence-based practice’ be applied to individualised disability support?
The National Cabinet was formed to develop a rapid response to COVID among federal, state and territory governments. But can it be adapted to function into the future?
The Strengthening Medicare Taskforce report is light on detail but lays out clear directions and includes big reforms. However, change won’t be easy.
National Cabinet has removed the isolation requirements for those who test positive to COVID-19.
So far in 2022, more than 12,000 Australians have died with COVID, six times the number of deaths in the previous two years.
Anthony Albanese beats his drum about transparency but has rejected calls for more light to be shed on national cabinet meetings
It would be a wasted opportunity if our political leaders came back again in six months without a long-term plan about how to fund and improve the system.
University of Canberra Professorial Fellow Michelle Grattan and Director of the Institute for Governance & Policy Analysis, Dr Lain Dare discuss the week in politics.
Word from The Hill: Bowen says “bumpy” time ahead on power, but you can keep the heater on
Michelle Grattan discusses politics with politics + society editor, Amanda Dunn
This is a proportional response to managing risk at this stage of the pandemic, with so many of us vaccinated and receiving boosters. However, we need to monitor these changes.
Even minor reductions in COVID transmission rates due to early isolation would justify the additional costs associated with the policy.
National cabinet, like COAG before it, had early success that then dissolved into discord. It will survive the pandemic - but the question is whether it will be effective.
The problem with the plan to relax restrictions at 70% and 80% vaccination rates is it’s based on modelling that’s now obsolete.
In an open democracy, there is no rationale for withholding information about National Cabinet’s decisions or any documents these decisions are based on.
The national plan is not set in stone. States will make their own decisions about complying with it - including on border closures.
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