Care: the essay
This essay is the third of three starting with my essay on the Evaluator General in two parts followed by an essay responding to the Productivity Commission's inquiry into competition...
Care
Part One Note: this post has been superseded by the full essay. A couple of days ago I came upon care ethics via Virginia Held's book The...
Health care in pets and humans: the more things change …
Looks quite interesting Is American Pet Health Care (Also) Uniquely Inefficient? by Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein, Atul Gupta - #22669 (AG HC PE) Abstract: We...
Would the High Court uphold sections 18C and 18D of the RDA on constitutional grounds?
Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act (Cth) is a perennial favourite topic for right wing politicians, and conservative pundit Andrew Bolt has never stopped...
Politics and solving problems
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqihQNBRsKc Here's a skilful pitch for government dollars. Why shouldn't online appointments with medical health people be funded under Medicare. Why indeed? It's all slickly done as you'd expect...
Open government: Such, such were the joys
A quick placeholder for something more substantial hopefully soon. Have a look at this ridiculous letter in response to a request to see a copy of the...
Could sortition help against corruption, part II
In part 1, I looked at whether it made sense to have random individuals inserted into parliament, or to let policies be decided by juries...