The federal government caps the number of home care packages it provides. When demand exceeds supply, waiting times blow out.
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Most parties are promising more funding for the government drug-buying agency. But two likely coalition partners are suggesting a new – and possibly risky – approach to medicines procurement.
Governments spend billions of dollars every year to encourage us to take up private cover. But our research shows this does little to reduce pressure on the public system.
People on the general waiting list can wait a decade to be housed. Even those on the priority list may wait years. Asked how the wait affects them, their responses reveal devastating impacts.
A review of government services has found that autistic people are being failed in health, education, employment, poverty and housing.
Why are some of the problems with housing stress and homelessness worse in New South Wales than in other states?
A serious disability is one of the most common reasons people apply for social housing. The long wait for a suitable home just adds to the daily challenges they face.
The COVID-19 pandemic gives us a chance to improve our elective surgery system when it restarts.
Helping tenants find work supposedly creates a pathway into private rental housing, freeing up social housing for others. Private rental costs and the situations of many tenants make that unrealistic.
Australians are waiting too long for elective surgery, dental care and treatment for mental health. It’s no wonder health is a vote-changer.
Reports often talk about surgery wait times, but the time to actually see the specialist for the first time is the hidden waitlist.
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Alan Morris is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor, Institute for Public Policy and Governance, University of Technology Sydney
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Research Fellow (Housing and Homelessness) at the Centre for Social Impact, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Lincoln
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Research Fellow & Deputy Director, HACRU, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Health Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Emeritus Professor of Public Health, La Trobe University
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Senior Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Housing Research and Policy, and Associate Director, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Health Economics, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Senior Lecturer in Public Health and Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellow, Swansea University
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PhD Candidate, Cardiff University
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Postdoctoral research fellow, Flinders University
