COP 30 has recently concluded. It has as its theme mutirao, the Brazilian word for ‘collective efforts’. The final document forming what is known as the Belem Political Package was entitled Global Mutirão: Uniting humanity in a global mobilization against climate change. The Paris Agreement temperature goal of holding the increase in the global average [...]
These Bills were introduced into Parliament by the Government during the last sitting week: Aged Care (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2024 Health Legislation Amendment (Modernising My Health Record—Sharing by Default) Bill 2024 Migration Amendment (Prohibiting Items in Immigration Detention Facilities) Bill 2024 Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Bill 2024 Surveillance Legislation (Confirmation [...]
The Liberal-National Coalition is seeking a third consecutive term of government at the upcoming election. It was a term book ended by bushfires and floods, with the first worldwide pandemic in a century thrown in together with a deteriorating global security climate. This is how some of the main promises from 2019 fared. Climate The [...]
Governance This second article on the Aged Care Royal Commission[1] discusses the governance structures for the aged care sector canvassed in the Commission’s report. The Commissioners differed on the issue. Commissioner Briggs’ model was a ‘stewardship’ model vesting governance responsibilities with with the Federal Department of Health and Aged Care: One presumes that a ‘stewardship’ [...]
The Council on Federal Financial Relations (CFFR) has a lot of heavy lifting to do under the new National Federation reform structure. Not only does it have to revise and rationalise National Partnership Agreements, it is at the front and centre of taxation and regulatory reform. In relation to deregulation, as it happens there is [...]
This is the second of two articles discussing some of the subject areas being addressed by the Morrison Government. Theme 5 - Retirement income review How Australians fund retirement, whether through programmed increases in the superannuation guarantee or the ability to use negative gearing to invest in housing was obviously one of the defining issues [...]