Chronic shortages of Australian trained doctors available for work in hospitals, regional general practices and some speciality areas such as emergency have prompted increased employment of overseas trained doctors (OTDs) on temporary visas. The numbers of permanent resident OTDs employed in...

The Australian Medical Association (AMA) and the Coalition Government are in dispute over General Practitioner (GP) fees. The AMA has a case that these should be increased. However, this article shows that there is still a serious maldistribution of GPs in Australia which favours metropolitan...