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Labor's health and policy reform compromise : Comments

By Andrew Laming, published 21/6/2012

With modern Labor, for every ten bureaucracies they establish or enlarge, an eleventh is thrown in with steak knives. Problem is, nothing is ever free.

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I'm not sure one can agree with all this patently partisan article? However, the Author does make some valid points.
Q'ld Labour reportedly closed around a thousand hospital beds and created a wages debacle they are still trying to fix?
All done in the name of centralised administration and correlation; or, fixing what wasn't broken?
There's more to creating jobs than hiring a few thousand extra bureaucrats to mind or prop up the hopelessly incompetent; or, cover up seemingly endemic corruption?
The like of which added as much as 30% to the school halls roll out?
Yes, we did need to stimulate the economy, and the main thing from an economists point of view, was just to get the money out there?
The problem with Labour's (s)ex-union officials, staffers, lawyers and housewives? Is that they very likely have very little relevant business or real world experience and therefore, are totally reliant on advice.
Sometimes this advice seems to emanate from, [self serving, yes minister,] power hungry, empire building autocrats? [Rudd was once the senior public servant in Q'ld.]
We do need to get back to the things that worked, like regional boards, made up of largely unpaid volunteer semi retired or retired and very competent professionals; i.e., former bank managers, lawyers, business leaders and so on!
There's plenty out there and bored to death with their current retired/semi retired status; and, loaded to the gunwales, with very relevant experience?
To give labour it dues, we do has the strongest economy in the developed world! But, a change to an economic illiterate, quote unquote, might turn it into a pale shadow of the Greek economy?
There are things we can and ought to do, like genuine tax reform, which would almost immediately reduce the public service, by 20,000?
However, I don't see any appetite for genuine reform on either side of politics!
Rhrosty.
Posted by Rhrosty, Thursday, 21 June 2012 11:24:54 AM
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Bed ratios go something like this;

10 bureaucrats per hospital bed
4-6 patients per nurse.

So 40-60 bureaucrats equals one nurse.
Posted by JamesH, Thursday, 21 June 2012 2:02:10 PM
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I propose a simple formula: whenever the number of departmental committees, councils, authorities and tribunals times the number of annual restructurings exceeds the number of people receiving benefits, said department should be abolished and replaced by two contractors and a truck.

NSW Health must be well over its limit by now.
Posted by Jon J, Thursday, 21 June 2012 4:47:39 PM
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