Keywords: Health Care Bill
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ENVIRONMENT
- Tim Thwaites
- 07 July 2006
Like most organisms, human beings are most comfortable in their own neighbourhood.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Peter Browne
- 04 July 2006
A remarkably peaceful change of government in Kenya could significantly improve the lives of refugees in the country’s remote camps. But Australia and other western countries must play a part.
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AUSTRALIA
- Anthony Ham, Kath O’Connor, Bruce Duncan, Clive Shepherd
- 01 July 2006
Any excuse, Privatise or perish, Clear and present danger, Keep left unless undertaking
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AUSTRALIA
- Francis Sullivan
- 26 June 2006
The Howard government wants a different Medicare: one where people who can, pay more to visit a doctor. The government is grappling with a complex economic issue, but should not dismiss the social benefits that Medicare delivers to the very sick and less well off.
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AUSTRALIA
Commonwealth cousins Australia and Canada are headed toward distinctly different futures
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AUSTRALIA
- Jack Waterford
- 13 June 2006
If I were Tony Abbott, I would be carefully listening to doctors’ whinges about medical insurance.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Moira Rayner
- 12 June 2006
Moira Rayner reviews Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Living History.
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AUSTRALIA
An ageing population may be the downfall of the Western empire
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 29 April 2006
Over the last year a major chasm has opened between decisions of Australia’s High Court and those of the UK House of Lords and the US Supreme Court regarding issues of national security such as the long-term mandatory detention of stateless asylum seekers.
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AUSTRALIA
- Jack Waterford
- 25 April 2006
The largesse in the Budget shouldn’t have proven a surprise, even if conventional wisdom is that budgets following elections are the ones in which governments make tough decisions.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Robert Kennedy
- 24 April 2006
The environmental lessons learned by those who live along the Hudson River in New York can be applied to cleaning up our own rivers in Australia.
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