With so many design faults, the Mersey Hospital takeover will have engine failure before it leaves the garage, write Jennifer Doggett and Edwina Burns.

We have prepared 5 simple fact sheets to outline where health policy is currently at - and where the major parties are promising to take it after Saturday's election.

Eva Cox takes the child care rebate for a spin and finds it wanting.

Labor's pledge to keeping pumping valuable education dollars into the Coalition's wasteful SES funding scheme is bad policy, writes Lyndsay Connors.

The home savings accounts proposed by Labor and the Coalition will be expensive to maintain and won't have much impact on housing affordability, write Ben Eltham and Anna Tweeddale.

Both major parties are selling balance and flexibility, but there's not much under the bonnet, writes Mark Bahnisch

Why keep two technical training systems on the road when neither is worthy of a pink slip, asks Ben Eltham.

Both sides are refusing to acknowledge that we will soon be faced with some very difficult strategic foreign policy challenges, writes Ben Eltham in Online Opinion.

Debate in this election campaign has confused the basic task of balancing the national chequebook with the far more important and complex challenge of sound economic management, argues Ian McAuley.

CPD fellow Fred Argy, author of 'Australia's Fiscal Striaghtjacket', discussed the downside of tax cuts on ABC Radio, November 15.