The Policy Post

  Does Albanese lead a reformist government? Or not? He can leave taxes alone, or he can change Australia. Not both.

  Private hospitals: will they be there for you – or not? The system is broken. Hospitals are closing, patients turned away. It doesn’t have to be this way.

  The Public Service: back in from the cold The Albanese government has begun to rebuild Australia’s shattered Public Service. The government’s fate depends on it – but there’s much still to do.

  The time-bomb under every state budget. Australia’s public hospitals cost too much and achieve too little. Soaring costs threaten to drown state finances while abandoning patients. But it doesn’t have to be like this.