Voyeuristic are the parties on all sides making monkey and horror-show out of those issues that help build capacity or make truly wise.

The economic health debate is not a two party narrow headline. It is however a case of stolen agenda's with clock-work antic's and regurgitated words.

Meanwhile, it is an experience of 'One more Day, One more Meal to Find'. for many.

The mess between income resources for Newstart, Mental Health and Disabilities, Indigenous CDEP calls for return , and the demands made through new promises on election policies made for Elder Australians, Refugee's being all among the concerns for marginalized groups goes beyond slogan making in the media. It requires a good hard look at a whole of "Government, Community and Business" approach and turning the "Lens back on Community". Next to affordable housing, economic determination is the most neglected area of government when it comes to health determination and building linkages that enhance the action of "civic wellbeing". Provisions and their affordability strikes at the heart of the matter when it comes to the authenticity of government initiatives and calls for a revisit to both development principals and the 1978  UN Health Declaration Alma Ata. [Specifically descriptors 3 & 5.] The emphasis is that income is among the pivotal factors necessary to meet the basic needs of citizens however income, which is the next step across the board in the disadvantaged forums is treated with apathy resulting from a lack of capacity when it comes to the stigma and discrimination projected and therefore blocking the advocation of "opportunity" within the service providing sectors. All arguments are circular while the disadvantaged minority groups are pitted against each others, each claiming to be "left-out" each calling for reform yet each forced into significant degrees of dislocation as a result of policy funding breakdowns due to the lack of robust scrutiny and actual evidence based on the intelligence gathered and discussed across all platforms of community.

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Alma-Ata Revisited: In 1978 "Health for All" was a social and political goal. In Brisbane during 2005 with the endorsement of the "Community Engagement" UN Declaration many of us hoped that a two-way communication process with Governments and Community driven Service providers at all levels would be affirmed. Breathless we continue repeating ourselves as a yo-yo's, bobbing up and down forced to return consistently to the pop-up loop, where the knot is held around the finger of both power and funding abuse.

The top-down approach wins all rounds while the lateral linkages stand wane across the horizontal domains, left to warding perceptive stigma and insult as sloganeering tokenism's.

Over-washed are the voices of need as they remain stolen in the mix of reproductive clinical bureaucratic dominant cultures of poor provisional allocations and a-typical non-binding disconnective service. Re-argued is the economic cost of administrative denial, where instead the unleashed needs could benefit, if we based reform on a new economic health prevention paradigm. No matter where we look in life, be it the activity assets of value attained for those who were once on the CDEP program, or where we consider the causual elements of social breakdown, it comes back to health arguments of opportunity, income - civic health and inclusion. We deprive our economy by skirting around the issues that strike at the heart of ecological changes we must make at all levels of society. It is the courage to act inside a pro-active framework that demands we stand for a "Political will to Act". Just look at the policies written by governments and service providers. Who owns them? Is it the people or the gatekeepers of bureaucratic determinants of a square matrix. The argument within this silo is the only thing circular.

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What is forgotten is that this is an "in principle agreement" which means that everyone thinks that health reform is a good idea. It is at best a starting point for negotiation.

If Julia Gillard had come away with an "in principle agreement" for world peace she would have had two historic reforms in a week.

The healthy reform debacle dribbles on while the current system labors under insufficient funding and resources.
As a Queenslaner what also strikes me as odd is that we used to have a free hospital system funded by the Golden Casket, now we have a second rate health system with little or no funding and guess what? no Golden Casket, I think the 530 million Beattie sold our little treasure for would have done wonders for our ailing health system.
Wake up Australia and Vote 1 -Andrew Laming for Prime Minister

I shudder at the thought of the ignorance in the electorate that involves public funding. Rather than have the majority of funding go to the designated services, the bulk goes to consultants & bureaucrats. Until figures are leaked we'll never really know. I hope there is an australian equivalent of Wikileaks that publishes some of those figures.
I fully support good pay for professionals but there has to be some limit imposition as there is for ordinary Australians. Many of you wouldn't be able to close their gob in surprise if you could see how much money Teachers & Consultants get. Nurses, Police & Doctors cop crap & deserve much of what they get. Compare a new teacher's salary to the $35,000, -a young Pilot gets then you'll hopefully see the discrepancy.

Good Post individual. "consultants & bureaucrats". This buzz spin culture sucks the goodwill out of any policy funded plan. High price, little accountability.

On the Nurses, Teachers, Police , Doctors comparison, notice these sectors always advocate for themselves and rarely for the plight of the citizens they serve, less you consider "they" [whom they call us] as the only perception used to interpret the identity of our common citizenship and wellbeing.

Government services, NGO's.... All looking and acting like one government. Gatekeepers in roles that feed their needs regardless of their role objectives. It is like they have learnt to speak the community language but fail to understand the actions necessary to meet the words.

We, the ordinary citizens appear to be at the beginning again. Work done is being undone. Old policies revisited as if the wheel needs to start squeaking all over again. There is a disconnect. It is that the links and real inputs from community are shrinking.

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