Disability care was a worthy area for policy action, but whether the expectations of improved support and services for individuals raised in the relevant legislation can be met and sustained operationally or financially is questionable.
Health and aged care needed more hard work to provide good policy solutions for the long term.
The Australia in the Asian Century white paper proved a dismal failure characterised by rhetoric, relabelling, aspiration and little substance.
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To these failures we could add tax reform, or rather the lack of it, so discreetly ignored by Gillard.
If the Labor Party wants to understand why it lost and how it could do better next time, it needs to get past the mythmaking for political purposes and seriously review its policy legacy.
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