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Financial Fraud In The Private Health Insurance Sector In Australia: Perspectives From The Industry, Kathryn Flynn
Financial Fraud In The Private Health Insurance Sector In Australia: Perspectives From The Industry, Kathryn Flynn
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
Purpose - While financial fraud against the private health insurance sector in Australia has commonalities to other countries with similar health systems, in Australia fraud against the industry has garnered unique characteristics. The purpose of this article is to shed light on these features, especially the fraught relationship between the private health funds and the public health insurance agency, Medicare and the problematic impact of the Privacy Act on fraud detection and financial recovery. Design/methodology/approach – A qualitative methodological approach was used and interviews were conducted with fraud managers from Australia’s largest private health insurance funds and experts in fields …
Three Tax Alternatives To Restore Sovereignty To Australias States, Gregory C. Melleuish
Three Tax Alternatives To Restore Sovereignty To Australias States, Gregory C. Melleuish
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
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Unclear About Fairness, Australia's Major Parties Focus On Expediency, Gregory C. Melleuish
Unclear About Fairness, Australia's Major Parties Focus On Expediency, Gregory C. Melleuish
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
Both of Australia’s major parties have variously used “fairness” to describe key policies and in their election pitches. Labor leader Bill Shorten emphasised the concept in Sunday’s first leaders’ debate, while Treasurer Scott Morrison said the superannuation changes announced in the May budget were done in the name of fairness.
Indefinite Detention Of People With Cognitive And Psychiatric Impairment In Australia Submission 59, Linda Roslyn Steele
Indefinite Detention Of People With Cognitive And Psychiatric Impairment In Australia Submission 59, Linda Roslyn Steele
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Pinkwashing The Past: Gay Rights, Military History And The Sidelining Of Protest In Australia, Tanja Dreher
Pinkwashing The Past: Gay Rights, Military History And The Sidelining Of Protest In Australia, Tanja Dreher
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
This paper explores the implications of the militarisation of Australian history and the dilemmas of increasing public support for same-sex marriage in Australia at a time of renewed assaults on Indigenous rights, austerity measures and the silencing of dissent. The paper analyses the celebratory rhetoric which increasingly typifies both marriage equality campaigns and the commemoration of Australia's First World War or 'Anzac' history in popular media and public debate. Against the confluence between ongoing debates on same-sex marriage and the 'Anzac myth', I highlight four key challenges: the silencing of dissent; forgetting of the Frontier Wars; untold stories of civil …