7301MED Health Policy And Planning

The commercial usage of wildlife in Australian boundary remains the marginal concern for the local arguments on environmental issues. Part 13 A of the environmental safeguards and conversation of Biodiversity Act 1999 offers Australia's response to its restriction to Save  Australian species of wild fauna and flora. These policies are key issues against the presence of local wild dogs that move around in public places. In this aspect, the managers of the park are increasingly worried about the risk of disease that is being caused to the Koalas of the countries. It is evident that dogs are the most social carnivores that are most abundant in numbers (McAlpine et al., 2006). Therefore, the predatory nature of dogs can kill Koalas in the different location and can influence social, economic.

Evaluating the social influence of wild dogs, the social impact assessment board has taken the decision to put a ban on dogs. In this context, they have set out several methods to evaluate and recognise the positive and negative consequences of the issue followed by decisive interventions, government policies and regards to saving koalas.

 The first policy on dogs that could be used to safeguard kolas is by putting the stringent council on local dogs in the location where Koala habitat is present.

Second, it could be the new advisory council of koala commission that considers new incentives for the householders to soften the control on dogs.

State government can offer the incentive like discount rates, for restoring the habitats of Koala friendly places in Australia.

The two models of agenda settings are public agenda model and policy agenda model. These two models help to demonstrate the priority by which individuals respond to salient factors within the society. It is the relationship between these models that Forms the base Of the agenda-setting theory. The health promotion agenda model helps address the domains of health issues through the setup of agendas that turn into actions taken by the policymakers. Therefore, the construction of the models gives rise to media, policy and public agendas with an incorporation of duties of health learning, planning of health issues (McIntyre & Hobbs, 1999). The agenda model in the health issue is to put a ban on domestic dogs and street wild dogs to save the habitat for koalas.

The policymakers have built a decision-making model to decide over the policy of banning dogs or to save koalas. They have set a public agenda saying that household that is staying close to koala habitat could be offered with incentives in the form of discount rates for protecting habitats. On the contrary, this public agenda could break the policy agenda by banning the suburbs that are inclusive of grants and discounts on their rates. It is evident that people in large-scale areas prefer to have dogs and cats. So banning dogs for saving koala will become an exploitation of policy agenda for protecting public agenda. Therefore, the government is now looking forward to developing the strategy of public and policy agenda for the development of Koala council of advisory to offer successful outcome.

The two most influential groups while setting an agenda are the group of public and the group of media who influences the policymakers to promote the policy in their own way. Public and the media are the groups that play the role of power dimension in this agenda setting.  It is often the fact when local community members are not aware of the serious issues they are going through within the community. In this course of time, it is necessary to spread awareness to obtain support from the community the forward the issue to the local group of agenda.

However, spreading awareness on the issue and involving public, policymakers and media is not an easy issue depending on the steps that have to be followed. Here is when the power comes when the issue is distributed amongst the public through the source of media (Ratzan, 2001).  Stephen Luke has signified the term power in relation to dimensions.  In this context, power has been seen from the perspective of corporate power that is associated with the growing issue and discourse within the contemporary world. On the contrary, the one-dimensional view of power is known as the pluralist view of power that is generally used by the public. The argument of the plural view of dimensional power states that the group's power can be deduced by looking at the prevalence of their decision making. Therefore, it is the role of decision making that offers powers to the agenda set two of the four influential groups that were outlined in the speaker’s model in setting an agenda setters.

The Australian citizen allows the government to participate in several things such as stakeholder engagement, media relations and engaging in public servants for the wellbeing of the society. In this context, the Australian citizens have different levels of government that any community member may approach in case of needs. However, therefore, political theories that put forward the argument saying that it is the collection of economic and political elitist that influences the government is the distribution of power. The elitist viewpoint sheds down the fact that citizens have the power over government where no other has influence. On the contrary, the pluralist opinion is that political power is dependent on competing for the interest of the groups that communicate the interest in the government.  

According to the theory, citizens want to get engaged with the government to access benefits. According to elite they use their power to benefit from the government to get necessary positions in the politics for attending the requirements of the public citizens, according to the pluralist point of it is the community members with shared interest that makes on decision for the shared distribution of power mitigate the issues in the society (Tichy, Tushman & Fombrun, 1979). These specific groups are the environmental supervisors, unions, and media players that compete with one another in case of necessary issue. Therefore, it can be said that the government is an independent reflection where society takes part to solve their personal issues by distributing the share of power by pluralist theory.