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Australia’s New Health Crisis - Too Many Doctors
It is taken as axiomatic within Australia’s health bureaucracy that there is a shortage of General Practitioners (GPs). This view is incorrect. As a result of measures to encourage the employment of International Medical Graduates (IMGs) and to expand the number of domestic medical graduates, Australia is now awash with doctors. This shows up in statistics indicating a sharp improvement in the ratio of doctors to population throughout Australia and record high levels of bulk billing for GP services. There are many consequences for General Practice in Australia and for the doctors seeking to enter the profession. Among these, there are thousands of IMGs in Australia who are finding it difficult to obtain permanent positions in the medical workforce. The report details how and why this situation has been allowed to develop and what needs to be done to correct it.
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Immigration and the Resources Boom Mark 2
A new research report from the Centre for Population and Urban Research at Monash University challenges many of the assumptions underpinning the arguments for continued high levels of immigration.
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