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    Uh, surely it's not hard to realise that Abbott's not exactly a secular guy. Furthermore, while health minister the stuff he did with say, RU486 was just ridiculous. The essential thing about Abbott is that he's very good at alienating more or less urban voters (like myself). It's probably a calculation on the Coalitions part, given that urban seats are usually either safe Labor seats (like my seat, Sydney) or safe Coalition seats because of the affluence of the area (e.g. Wentworth) that will vote Liberal anyway even if basically nobody likes Abbott for his social doctrines etc. The voters that count for the coalition are suburban voters in North-West Sydney, for whom issues like religion are actually very important.

    Kevin's health care plan is silly and won't work. More federal funding of health is a good idea, but I don't feel like anything is going to be fixed. The transferal of power from area health services and the like to "community hospital boards" is going to end up badly given that any transferal of power away from doctors and nurses generally does, and in reality all it will do is create a new mountain of bureaucracy.

    Half the problem with health in NSW is just the sheer inefficiencies of the bureaucratic system. So we have say Royal North Shore hospital along its doctors, patients and nurses, then we have the board that manages RNS, then you have a "committee of excellence" to manage the board, then you have the AHS administration, then you have more "committees of excellence" to manage the AHS, then you have the state government bureaucracy and that's all worse again. If you look up the list of bodies under say the Sydney South-West AHS, you see a ridiculous number of committees that do nothing but manage committees. Under any federalisation of health, that bureaucracy really won't go away, rather it'll be renamed and relabelled. The AHS's will become National Area Health Services, and the like, or be fragmented into local area health services.
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    The only organisation more evil then Nintendo is 4Kids Censortainment after all, so it all makes sense. :)
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    The names of the 5th Gen games have been announced, but since the names are Black and White several people seem to think that's somehow racist.
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