John Menadue | The Pacific Solution didn’t work before and it won’t work now
One-liners derived from focus groups and dog-whistling don’t add up to an acceptable refugee policy. But that is what the Coalition offers. ‘Stop the boats … turn them back to Indonesia … take the...
Private Health Insurance: High in cost and low in equity | OCCASIONAL PAPER
Government proposals to apply a means test to private health insurance subsidies have re-ignited the debate about the role of private insurance. Download the new CPD discussion paper ‘Private Health Insurance: High in cost...
John Menadue | Fraser and Whitlam’s fruitful rivalry
Fred Daly, the irrepressible ALP Member for Grayndler whose first campaign slogan was ‘Give us this day our Daly Fred’, once said that today’s political enemies may turn out to be friends tomorrow. Who...
John Menadue | Navigating the Refugee Fact Free Zone
John Menadue, a CPD Director and formerly Secretary of the Department of Immigration in the Fraser Government (1980 – 1983), offers a roadmap for those seeking the facts amidst the the heated debate about refugees...
John Menadue | Trampling on Human Rights is Expensive
Asylum seekers continue to suffer because of poll driven policies and their fate remains an enormous political problem for Australia. John Menadue adds up how expensive trampling on human rights really is. They find that...
John Menadue’s sizzling critique of the media
The Centre for Policy Development’s founder, John Menadue was at the New News Conference in Melbourne recently. While there was much talk of how digital media is revolutionising the way we create and interact...
We Are A Much Better Country Than This
Where are our community leaders — and not just our political leaders — when asylum seekers and refugees, the most vulnerable people on earth, are subject to such misinformation, prejudice, vilification and exploitation in...
Playing the Populist Card Again
John Menadue deplores the exploitation of our fear of the foreigner for political purposes and describes how, despite some progress in Australia’s treatment of refugees in recent years, the case for the humanitarian treatment...
Take health governance out of politician’s hands
John Menadue AO identifies a lack of political will as the essence of the problem for governments facing health care reform. The solution is governance reform that puts a permanent independent Australian Health Commission...
Health Reform, Governance and Political Will: Governance is about how power is managed
John Menadue AO identifies a lack of political will as the essence of the problem for governments facing health care reform. The solution is governance reform that puts a permanent independent Australian Health Commission...