![Illustration: Joe Benke](/web/20161003165858im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/p/i/s/w/image.related.landscape.120x80.gpoqze.png/1467349121893.jpg)
Who's the best friend Medicare ever had?
Bulk billing is smarter than widely realised.
Peter Martin is the Economics Editor for The Age.
Bulk billing is smarter than widely realised.
We tell ourselves we are compassionate to the people and creatures in our care. But that's not true.
Every so often elections matter. The last one mattered big-time for carbon emissions.
Labor ought to consider reversioning the old 1980's AIDS slogan: "I like sex, but I'm not prepared to die for it."
Antibiotics have improved health and brought down the cost of staying alive, but now they are losing their power, writes Peter Martin.
Leading authors concerned about cuts to copyright don't seem to have done their homework.
The tally of costings released at the end of a campaign almost always adds up and always puts the budget slightly ahead.
The next time a well-heeled retiree complains to me about the budget's superannuation changes and "retrospectivity"...
Some private schools get more from the government than public schools, and that's seriously wrong.
Private schools get more from the government than public schools, and that's seriously wrong.
Search pagination
Save articles for later.
Subscribe for unlimited access to news. Login to save articles.
Return to the homepage by clicking on the site logo.