• BUDGET 2008-09 Mid Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook 

      Russell, Lesley
      Published 2008-01-01
      The Charter of Budget Honesty Act 1998 requires the Treasurer to publicly release and table a Mid-year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) report by the end of January in each year, or within 6 months after the last budget, ...
      Open Access
      Report, Technical
    • POVERTY, CLIMATE CHANGE AND HEALTH IN PACIFIC ISLAND COUNTRIES 

      Russell, Lesley
      Published 2009-04-01
      This paper does not aim to present policies and strategies that might be adopted by Australia and the US, separately and together, to address the environmental and health problems that confront Pacific Island countries. ...
      Open Access
      Report, Technical
    • Closing the Gap on Indigenous Disadvantage: Progress towards this important goal 

      Russell, Lesley; Wenham, Sarah
      Published 2010-07-01
      In the early days of his Prime Ministership, Kevin Rudd committed to ‘closing the gap’ on Indigenous disadvantage. Time is ticking in terms of the self imposed timeframe on several of these targets. It’s not clear how ...
      Open Access
      Report, Technical
    • Scorecard on Government Health Commitments 

      Russell, Lesley; Beaton, Angela
      Published 2009-07-01
      While the Rudd Government has delivered on quite a few of its pre-election commitments, obesity and dental health are two of the stand-out issues yet to be addressed in any depth. Australia is one of the most overweight ...
      Open Access
      Report, Technical
    • Mental health provisions in the 2011-12 budget 

      Russell, Lesley
      Published 2011-05-01
      For health policy analysts who have attempted to follow the way that federal funds are spent on mental health services over the years and the success or otherwise of these investments, this task has become increasingly ...
      Open Access
      Report, Technical