Apr 2, 2026 · 41 min · 15 segments
This week Chanticleer columnists James Thomson and Anthony Macdonald zoom out to pull together the threads behind an incredible first quarter of the year, they predict the big headlines you’ll be…
Anthony MacdonaldHost
James ThomsonHost
On Monday, The AFR hosted its second annual healthcare summit, and it's a fascinating time for the sector.
We're all getting older and sicker in this country, and yet our private hospitals are struggling.
Complaints about private health insurance are through the roof, and the share market darling of the healthcare sector, CSL, is in the doghouse.
It's probably the most unique sector that we cover, I reckon, from a summit.
Yeah, and the politicians are much more interested in things like surgery wait times, the number of surgeons that get through the College of Physicians, you know, and the politics of it all than they are, you know, cost to capital, return on investment, or even attracting investment in general, which is, you know, stuff that we're normally thinking about.
And it's funny, outside of the investor panel, like, no one really spoke about the investment side of things.
You know, Nick Coatsworth, who listeners might remember was the deputy chief medical officer during COVID-
On Monday, The AFR hosted its second annual healthcare summit, and it's a fascinating time for the sector.
We're all getting older and sicker in this country, and yet our private hospitals are struggling.
Complaints about private health insurance are through the roof, and the share market darling of the healthcare sector, CSL, is in the doghouse.
It's probably the most unique sector that we cover, I reckon, from a summit.
Yeah, and the politicians are much more interested in things like surgery wait times, the number of surgeons that get through the College of Physicians, you know, and the politics of it all than they are, you know, cost to capital, return on investment, or even attracting investment in general, which is, you know, stuff that we're normally thinking about.
And it's funny, outside of the investor panel, like, no one really spoke about the investment side of things.
You know, Nick Coatsworth, who listeners might remember was the deputy chief medical officer during COVID-
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