Who broke the Liberal Party? Paul Kelly Interesting that the comments are preemptively turned off for this particular @news.abc.net.au #insiders video ... #auspol youtu.be/4vMe0y8kDN0?...

Paul Kelly on the decade that broke the Liberal Party | Insiders On Background

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Australia is rich, but dumb, and only getting dumber. Investment in research and development has fallen to just 1.69% of GDP, well below the OECD average of 2.7%. That gap affects our capacity to deliver improvements in healthcare.

Great example of #eHTA using the Step Up canvas toolkits to support decisions to develop a new hospital service www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

"the [#cohealth] report’s conclusion holds object lessons for the hospital system, where over $100bn of our taxes is spent annually. Funding matters but money doesn’t buy responsive management and good governance. Or culture, communication and integrity." www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

It’s common to hear there’s ‘no money’ in healthcare. But sometimes it’s management that’s lacking | Ranjana Srivastava

A report into Melbourne’s Cohealth showed systemic problems were left unaddressed for a decade, while ideas from clinicians went ignored

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"There’s scope to be substantially more ambitious”, says the Australian Productivity Commission. Their idea of statutory independence for the Office of Impact Analysis is a great one. More from last year's economic roundtable is still needed. www.afr.com/policy/econo...

‘No one wants to be the heartless bastard’: PC tells Labor to get bolder

Productivity Commission boss Danielle Wood wants Jim Chalmers to be “more ambitious”, and says politicians feel pressured by society’s zero tolerance for risk.

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Past governments announced policies, consulted, finalised the details and then forecast the impact on revenue in the budget. Despite what they claim, Labor has done it back-to-front. Chalmers has already baked the revenue into the budget and is belatedly consulting. www.afr.com//policy/tax-...

Labor’s tax rush is all about politics, not economics

Some of the criticisms of Labor’s changes are valid, while some claims are wildly exaggerated. The government should take the time to fix the package.

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The technical tools for commissioning and decommissioning exist, but health systems rarely have the political cover, analytical capacity, or leadership to use them at scale. blogs.bmj.com/bmjleader/20... #NHS #healtheconomics

Strategic commissioning: will the fifth attempt finally work? By Andi Orlowski – The official blog of BMJ Leader

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"Jim Chalmers and Anthony Albanese have once again let the political tail wag the policy dog. It’s not so much that the politics drives the policy. The politics is the policy. Some pain is being imposed on older Australians, and for what?" - @profholden.bsky.social www.afr.com/politics/fed...

Sorry Jim, $5 a week for workers won’t create intergenerational equity

A government with a massive parliamentary majority, an opposition in disarray and no election imminent. And this is the budget they came up with.

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Karl Claxton, @york.ac.uk #HealthEconomist & @nicecomms.bsky.social member, together with @sallygainsbury.bsky.social of @nuffieldtrust.org.uk, explain the true costs of the US/UK trade deal on pharmaceuticals. UK policies have a global impact #NHS #UKpol @bmj.com open.spotify.com/episode/4ACo...

The US UK trade deal will cost the NHS billions, and only serve to increase pharma profits

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"Smoking hopeium" is not a credible strategy. Yesterday, Bullock acknowledged that government cost-of-living relief “makes it harder to dampen demand”. She should have said this loudly years ago. More candour & less kowtowing is needed for fiscal policy reform. www.afr.com/policy/econo...

A rate rise was inevitable. The real story is how the RBA got there

The Reserve Bank deliberately deprived itself of the ability to respond to a major external shock. Its high-wire act required everything to go just right.

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Quick #auspol reminder that Australia is not a high taxing country. We may tax the wrong things at high amounts, but not much overall. If we taxed at the medium OECD rate, we'd have an extra $80-100 Billion (B!) a year to invest in things #ausbudget Stats c/- @lukeslawomirski.bsky.social

“We now have one of the most segregated education systems in the OECD,” writes Jane Caro in Rich Kid Poor Kid: The battle for public education. Read the full extract: https://theaus.in/4thfkci Preorder Rich Kid Poor Kid via the Australia Institute Press online store: https://theaus.in/4dqPTzd

Unis in AUS face non-funding of research; empty classes; a collapse of public trust; and over-regulation. This new article by @profholden.bsky.social discusses how "to flourish, universities must move past mediocrity and return to core academic values" www.afr.com/policy/healt... #auspol #HigherEd

From a chance meeting to a Harvard PhD: Can university magic survive?

One semester at one Australian university opened doors I never knew existed. But universities today face existential threats.

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The poor prospects for student contribution reform. My article in The Conversation. theconversation.com/50-000-arts-...

$50,000 arts degrees look set to stay, despite a new bill trying to slash uni fees

Only the federal government can fix the problems created by the Job-ready Graduates scheme. Ahead of the budget on May 12, it shows no interest in doing that.

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Australia's budget doesn't have a spending problem, but a revenue problem - a structural deficit. Unlike the Rudd/Gillard era, it seems there's sufficient support to sustainably fund services through resource wealth. But it requires political courage and nous. thepoint.com.au/news/260428-... #auspol

“Tax gas or face a revolt”: Albanese under pressure after gas export tax reportedly shelved

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi will visit Australia next week as reports emerge that Anthony Albanese has abandoned plans for a gas export tax as to avoid upsetting key trading partners. The v...

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How the ABC lost $ billions in revenues to the BBC on Bluey, is an "Australian Story" of how the lucky country manages innovation. Inventions and resources are controlled by the comfortable. We'll bet on the horses and houses, but not our own IP. youtu.be/n5Pnkay8D5M

How Australia Lost Bluey

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Soldier Boy by John Rutter is perhaps the perfect song for #ANZAC day. youtu.be/oHMQ14s-duE?... #auspol

Tom Gilligan | Soldier Boy | Fiddler Man (Gents Universitair Koor)

YouTube video by Gents Universitair Koor

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@profholden.bsky.social on the scourge of “choose your own counterfactual” discourse. He notes Albo’s own standard of no soundbites & “actually answering questions” is gone. Yet perhaps Holden’s remedy of greater economic honesty is itself infeasible in #auspol as it is. www.afr.com/politics/fed...

How Albanese and Chalmers keep gaslighting us on fuelling inflation

The prime minister is enabling a treasurer who relentlessly, and it must be said very effectively, whitewashes what the government is actually doing.

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@cjmccabe.bsky.social on the US’s Most Favoured Nation pricing, and how the new focus on ex-US markets might affect Health Technology Assessment --> open.substack.com/pub/christop... I do wonder, though, whether associated but arbitrary increases to threshold prices make it all just performative.

Most Favoured Health Technology Assessment

Reading Sean Sullivan and colleagues’ excellent explainer of the USA’s Most Favoured Nation pricing, I was struck by the degree to which the US has decided to base drug pricing on a basket of countries which make extensive use of health technology assessment and the Quality Adjusted Life Year.

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There’s an uglier truth beneath “innovation reform”. #Auspol don’t just underinvest in research, they undermine it: restricted data access, blocked linkages, shifting rules. We're hamstrung by NIMBY-type resistance to any innovation that might demand local change. theconversation.com/australia-wa...

Australia was once a world leader in innovation. A new report shows the system is now ‘broken’

Australia spends less on research and development than most of the developed world, and our productivity growth is the lowest in decades.

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The mistake is to assume that the statement: "the effect on you of this treatment will certainly differ from its effect averaged over others", justifies the policy: "I am going to ignore the considerable evidence from others & just back my best hunch about you" errorstatistics.com/2018/01/30/s...

S. Senn: Evidence Based or Person-centred? A Statistical debate (Guest Post)

Stephen Senn Head of  Competence Center for Methodology and Statistics (CCMS) Luxembourg Institute of Health Twitter @stephensenn Evidence Based or Person-centred? A statistical debate It was heari…

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More on the inside story behind the dead FOI bill from @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social michaelwest.com.au/legislative-...

Legislative harakiri. A rare win for transparency as FOI bill dead - Michael West

The Government's attempt to limit transparency has been killed off. Widely condemned, the death of the FOI amendment bill is a good thing

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Andrew Partington@arpartington.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The great news for today: that the Albanese Government pulled its “friendless” Freedom of Information Amendment Bill. Read @thepointau.bsky.social's "3 reasons to be glad the Government's FOI changes have been scrapped" --> thepoint.com.au/explainers/2... #auspol

Andy Briggs & Francis Ruiz unpack the UK government’s (non-)response to opposition over proposals allowing ministers to direct @nicecomms.bsky.social on its cost-effectiveness threshold. open.substack.com/pub/occamres... #healtheconomics #qaly #economicevaluation #HTA

Policy Pantomime: The Consultation That Wasn't

They Asked. We Answered. They Proceeded Regardless.

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The great news for today: that the Albanese Government pulled its “friendless” Freedom of Information Amendment Bill. Read @thepointau.bsky.social's "3 reasons to be glad the Government's FOI changes have been scrapped" --> thepoint.com.au/explainers/2... #auspol

Have registered and looking forward to this. The title makes it sound quite definitive, but it should be quite a debate.

Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER)@icer-review.bsky.social · 5mo ago

On March 11th, the Health Economics Methods Advisory Group (HEMA) will release its inaugural report: “Defining appropriate benefits for economic evaluation of health care technologies.” HEMA will also host a webinar on the topic on March 23rd. Register now: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The imperiled peer review system @carlbergstrom.com @plosbiology.org journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... open-access

#SNL might actually be onto something: "Medcast - the doctor's appointment that feels like a podcast" youtu.be/jfsEgZAtMyc?...

Medcast - SNL

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It is possible to combine #realist and #economicevaluation approaches. This can generate better evidence in the evaluation of complex interventions. Few evaluations have explicitly combined the two approaches. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #healtheconomics #healthpolicy #HTA

Bringing together realist and economic approaches in the evaluation of health and social care interventions: a scoping review of theoretical, methodological and practical implications

In the evaluation of complex interventions, economic evaluations aim to determine the relative cost-effectiveness of interventions but generate little…

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Hopeful stuff from @mattbevan.bsky.social on how badly we’ve historically misread p(doom) — the true likelihood of catastrophe. Though if #ifyourelistening is too successful with this message, we might all lose the very fear that helps prevent the worst 😅 youtu.be/I9VKeKGao9M?... #auspol

Doomsday Clock Gets Closer to Midnight | Black Swans 4 | If You're Listening

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Some folks think about the Roman Empire. I think about Australia’s low economic complexity every day. Too much wealth from land/commodities, not enough capability-building. Mining booms inflate costs and squash all other pursuits --> classic #DutchDisease. #auspol

Rex Patrick@mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Australia’s economic complexity ranking is at a low. @albomp.bsky.social’s response - cut CSIRO staff by 300 - 350🤦‍♂️. Plenty of money for opulent projects like #AUKUS to fill foreign wallets, not so much money for our future prosperity. #auspol