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John Menadue

Medicare must be patient and not provider centred

When it was established in 1974, Medicare funded the way health services were delivered at that time. That delivery system has not been changed much at all since then. After fifty years the way we deliver health care needs substantial reform and updating. Our health delivery system is in a mess. (more…)

Jan 7, 2023
AUKUS: a collection of views not found in our Washington dominated media

AUKUS: signed and sealed by the Liberal government when it joined the pact in September 2021, the spoils of which have been delivered by the Labor Government in March 2023. The Labor Government and Australia will pay a heavy price for what is being done in our name. We are being humiliated by our own government. (more…)

Jan 5, 2023
Best of 2022: China has neither the intent nor the capability to attack us

We are being led in our anti-China hysteria by the United States which is not concerned that China will attack us, or even the United States, but is concerned that its world hegemony is being challenged. (more…)

Jan 2, 2023
Best of 2022: Defence Strategic Review – Read all about it

According to the terms of reference Defence Security Review is now required to ensure that Defence has the right capabilities that are postured to meet the growing strategic challenges that Australia and its partner countries will face in the world in coming years. (more…)

Dec 31, 2022
Best of 2022: If I were the Minister for Health

I would progressively wind back and eliminate the $14b pa taxpayer subsidy for Private Health Insurance and use that very large sum to fund the inclusion of dental care within Medicare and increase the funding to the states for expanded specialist services in outpatient clinics at public hospitals. (more…)

Dec 30, 2022
A night with the Vice Chancellors – the export of education services. A repost from June 19, 2015

In 2015, education services earned an export income for Australia of over $16 b. p.a. Those export services were expected to increase to $31 b. p.a. by 2020 from about 600,000 overseas students. Education was our fourth largest export behind iron ore, coal and natural gas. It is our major services export, ahead of tourism. (more…)

Dec 30, 2022
“I learned that powerful people trample on institutions and conventions” when it suits: Podcast ABC ‘The Eleventh’, February/March 2020

After November 11 1975, I came to the conclusion that even a Governor General, some High Court Judges and a powerful media proprietor were not honourable and trustworthy. (more…)

Dec 29, 2022
Best of 2022: The major parties refuse to tackle the lobbying scourge. Can the Teals and the Greens save the day?

The major obstacle to lobbying reform is that for members of parliament, their staff and senior officials, lobbying provides a very lucrative income when they leave parliament, the military or the public service. So they refuse to act on the lobbying scourge. (more…)

Dec 28, 2022
Violence at home and abroad is as American as cherry pie.

We could get into a war with China is if we continue to act as a proxy or deputy sheriff for the US in the region. Despite the media hysteria, China is not a military threat to Australia or the US. (more…)

Dec 27, 2022
John Menadue. Why I am still a Catholic: A repost from July 7, 2017

Cardinal John Henry Newman once said that there is nothing as ugly as the Catholic Church yet nothing as beautiful. It is hard to see that beauty at this moment. With sexual abuse it is time for sackcloth and ashes. Mysogyny is wall to wall. But I will hang on. (more…)

Dec 24, 2022
Medicare reform must not just be about more money to do the same things the same way

Medicare must now focus on how health services are delivered.

When it was established in 1974, Medicare funded the way health services were delivered at that time. That delivery system has not been changed much at all since then. After fifty years the way we deliver health care needs substantial reform and updating. Our health delivery system is in a mess. (more…)

Dec 8, 2022
The National Party has deserted country people on climate change, NBN, health services, and now the Voice

Farmers are the main sufferers from climate change- droughts, fires heavy rainfall and floods. The National Party has failed farmers and country people on numerous fronts. It has sold out to the miners. (more…)

Dec 3, 2022
Whitlam was elected fifty years ago today: Medibank/Medicare was conceived five years before that

On a bleak Melbourne midwinter night in 1967, Medicare was conceived. The election of the Whitlam Government on December 2 ,1972 gave impetus to what was to come. Medicare was finally launched in 1975. (more…)

Dec 2, 2022
Defence Strategic Review – Read all about it

According to the terms of reference Defence Security Review is now required to ensure that Defence has the right capabilities that are postured to meet the growing strategic challenges that Australia and its partner countries will face in the world in coming years. (more…)

Nov 26, 2022
Xi and Albanese: Can we again seize the opportunity?

The meeting between President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Albanese could result in an overdue improvement in relations between our two countries. But real improvements will take time and a lot of goodwill. Will Richard Marles be a stumbling block?? (more…)

Nov 18, 2022
China has neither the intent nor the capability to attack us

We are being led in our anti-China hysteria by the United States which is not concerned that China will attack us, or even the United States, but is concerned that its world hegemony is being challenged. (more…)

Nov 11, 2022
Nord Stream: Europe’s self destruction

Unless you are given to parlour games that never end, it is nearly impossible to avoid concluding that the U.S. was either directly responsible for the Nord Stream I and II sabotage or supervised those who were. (more…)

Nov 7, 2022
The $530 billion junk infrastructure scandal – What the PM can do – Part 2 of 2

Sydney and Melbourne’s ‘big infrastructure build’ will soon prove Australia’s ‘big bust’. Our Prime Minister cannot aid and abet this madness. (more…)

Nov 4, 2022
Exposed: Sydney, Melbourne’s $530 billion junk infrastructure scandal – Part 1 of 2

Sydney and Melbourne’s ‘big infrastructure build’ will soon prove Australia’s ‘big bust’. Our Prime Minister must not aid and abet this madness. (more…)

Nov 3, 2022
Four Corners: Australia becomes US nuclear spear carrier in Asia

Four Corners last night showed how Australia is becoming ‘a proxy’ or is it ‘a patsy’ for the US in a possible conflict with China. Our actions invite a Chinese response. Sometimes I wonder why the Chinese bother about a reset in relations when we behave so foolishly at the behest of the US. China is not a threat to Australia but our ‘dangerous ally’ keeps goading China to provoke a war. (more…)

Nov 1, 2022
The Pentagon builds a network in our Department of Defence amidst media silence

It is more than inter-operability and inter-changeability with the US military. Anthony Albanese and Richard Marles need to break up the American network in our Department of Defence that the Washington Post has exposed. (more…)

Oct 29, 2022
Retired US generals, admirals take top jobs with Saudi crown prince, other foreign governments

More than 500 retired U.S. military personnel — including scores of generals and admirals — have taken lucrative jobs since 2015 working for foreign governments, mostly in countries known for human rights abuses and political repression, according to a Washington Post investigation. (more…)

Oct 28, 2022
Always opposing the last war but not the current one: notes from the edge of the narrative matrix

Those who hate Russia the most are the ones who embody everything they claim to hate about it: they’re all pro-war, pro-censorship, pro-propaganda, pro-trolling operations, and support Ukraine in banning political parties and opposition media. They are what they claim to hate. (more…)

Oct 27, 2022
Extraordinary intervention by Jeffrey Sachs at the Athens Democracy Forum!!!

Watch Professor Jeffrey Sachs describe the US as “the most violent country in the world” and then get shockingly shut down at the Athens Democracy Forum. (more…)

Oct 26, 2022
Gas export tax would help to fix Australia’s energy crisis, says Dr Ken Henry

The dire state of Australia’s domestic electricity market, and our lack of investment in renewables, has been a mess of our own making, former Treasury secretary Ken Henry has said. (more…)

Oct 24, 2022
The profoundly stupid narrative that nuclear brinkmanship is safety and de-escalation is danger

Of all the face-meltingly stupid narratives that have been circulated about the US proxy war in Ukraine, the dumbest so far has got to be the forthcoming budget should be judged principally in terms of how well it sets us up to solve these fundamental fiscal problems facing the nation. (more…)

Oct 23, 2022
Will the QUAD go the same way as SEATO and just become irrelevant?

After the election, Prime Minister Albanese hightailed it to Japan for a QUAD meeting with Jo Biden, Narendra Modi and Fumio Kishida to join them in anti-Chinese posturing. (more…)

Oct 21, 2022
Australia needs an honest conversation about tax and budgets – and Jim Chalmers is ready to talk

Jim Chalmers is a wily operator. Ahead of delivering his first budget next Tuesday, he has given himself room to do the things a treasurer needs to do. (more…)

Oct 21, 2022
How the US military/business complex works. Jobs in Saudi for the Generals

“The government fought us for two years to keep these records a secret,” said one Washington Post journalist. “We sued, and won.” (more…)

Oct 21, 2022
Paul Keating has warned us that ‘our strategic sovereignty is being outsourced to another country, the US’

‘Worried about Australian sovereignty? Don’t bother, it’s gone.’ (more…)

Oct 19, 2022

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