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Abolishing NHS England sounds like a tidy fix. But the legal changes buried in the health bill could make the NHS more vulnerable than ever.
The Infrastructure Fund’s architecture undermines the expectation of full autonomy from political and executive meddling.
Rather than selling off land to private developers, the government has better options. A policy from the 1990s provides a guide.
Failing water, power, sanitation and security services in South Africa are spurring households and communities to do it themselves.
It was not pregnancy itself, but resource constraints, that kept Malawian girls from school during and after the pandemic.
The ACT Party leader believes government assets should provide a return or be sold. But a majority of New Zealanders are consistently opposed to more privatisation.
Regulator Ofwat has slapped big fines on water companies, including Thames Water, for sewage pollution offences – will they make a difference?
Critics dismissed the proposal as a last-ditch effort to win votes ahead of Queensland’s state election in October. But public opinion on how the government should get involved in markets may be shifting.
The water regulator has issued a record £168m fine to Thames, Yorkshire and Northumbrian Water for a ‘catalogue of failure’ regarding illegal sewage discharges – with more fines expected to follow.
The election of the Lange-Douglas government on July 14, 1984, was the moment the old New Zealand gave way to a new New Zealand. Its historic influence is still felt in most areas of life today.
Bans on water company boss bonuses, but no overhaul of Britain’s creaking (and leaking) water industry.
Solutions driven by the private sector are only for those who can pay, and also end up driving public priorities.
People are increasingly being asked to pay for services they could once access as part of the NHS for free.
Our review shows that evidence to support further privatisation of healthcare services is weak.
Argentine society is responding strongly to Javier Milei’s radical policies.
Sending human ashes and personal mementoes to the Moon is now possible, but it opens up a maze of legal and ethical conundrums.
The government has released a review of the employment services system. The scathing indictment has found the current system doesn’t serve the interests of jobseekers or employers.
The slow disappearance of cash has advantages, but it can also exclude the most vulnerable from socio-economic activity. It’s also a privatisation that deteriorates the symbolic dimensions of money.
Despite its vagueness, the RET has become central to the contemporary ANC. It is destined to remain a powerful bloc within the party, and a constant constraint on Ramaphosa leadership.
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Lecturer, Public Sector Finance, University of Canberra
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Researcher in Transport Policy and Governance, UCL
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Professor, Discipline of Political Economy, University of Sydney
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