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...humid morning in Brisbane three days later, Latham embraced his mentor and Medicare's founder, former Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, before unveiling the party's trump card, Medicare Gold, a massive extension of Medicare to give free hospital care to people over 75. Adding extra childcare support and pension reform to his growing list of sweeteners, it was one of Latham's high points, and his audience left bolstered - "I feel proud to be a Labor supporter again," said teacher Robin Boyne. Latham's other key message that day was simple: "I'm ready to lead...
...wasn't until the 1960s that Prime Minister Robert Menzies began sending a little public money the way of independent schools as one-off grants for new labs and libraries; in the 1970s Latham's mentor, Gough Whitlam, courting the Catholic vote, introduced recurrent funding to independent schools based on need. Without fanfare, the Howard government since 1996 has become an increasingly generous backer of private education, with a funding formula that pivots on the socioeconomic status of the students' district of residence and takes no account of a school's facilities or fees. Still, when funding from all levels...
...bottom, a traditional, pragmatic class warrior with a narrow worldview forged and bolted down in Sydney's western suburbs. He's an incremental man, modern and responsive, with a compelling history, energy and ambition. If he wins on Oct. 9, will he go the way of his political mentor Whitlam, who crashed in glorious catastrophe? The times don't beckon that kind of mad adventurism, in spite of Latham's "crazy-brave" persona among pundits. "Bite-sized changes in policy are more desirable (and certainly more believable) than big-bang social theories that turn the system upside down," Latham once...
...bright young academic answering a summons, met the head of the Australian Labor Party to discuss Deeble's pet topic. In the home of a Labor parliamentarian, Deeble was calm as he spoke on the notion of a universal health insurance system with the imposing Opposition leader, Gough Whitlam. "Why should I have been nervous?" Deeble, 73, says now. "I knew more about the subject than he did." Whitlam liked what he heard and asked Deeble and colleague Dick Scotton to put something in writing. Within a year their scribblings were Labor policy, and seven years later, in July...
...party that wants to make G.P. visits free has to convince doctors not to charge more than the government reimburses them: $A25.70 for a consultation of 15 min. or less. Labor under Mark Latham, a Whitlam prot?g?, has pledged to give doctors an extra $A5 for each bulk-billed consultation, plus monthly bonuses if they reach certain targets. Latham has affirmed Labor's "rock-solid determination" to lift the proportion of consultations that are bulk billed from 70% to 80%. Last week he made an additional pledge to make more visits to specialists free as part of a $A1 billion...