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23 July 1999 |
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NewsNurses Change Tack on Public Health Campaign
Nurses from around the country will personally target any politician who supports the imposition of user-pay principles in the public health system.
Meeting in Sydney this week, delegates from the Australian Nursing Federation resolved to scrutinise all Members of Parliament for their public comments on health care and Medicare. "Anyone making comments designed to undermine Australia's universal, free public health system will be identified and their seat put on a target list," ANF federal secretary Jill Iliffe says. "Traditional campaigning methods such as letter-boxing, advertising and media events will be used to swing votes against those politicans or candidates." The decision marks a move away from general campaigning in support of Medicare to a concerted attack on those who would undermine it. The move comes as State Premiers called on the federal government to ask the Productivity Commission to inquire into the national health system. Nurses Back Injecting Rooms Meanwhile NSW nurses have voted overwhelmingly in support of harm minimisation responses to drug and alcohol. A staggering 90 per cent of delegates at the NSW Nurses Association State Conference voted in favour of a response which includes: - support for the decriminalisation of drugs such as heroin. - support for the establishment of safe injecting rooms. - the expansion of public methadone treatment services; and - the appointment of a drug and alcohol liaison nurse in every NSW hospital and health facility. NSW Nurses general secretary Sam Moait says working health professionals want to see the focus shifted from simple criminal justice solutions.
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   Interview: An Economic WetDr Christopher Sheil on economic rationalism and the 1997-98 water failures in Adelaide and Sydney. Unions: The Stench from the SouthIn 1997 the entire Adelaide metropolitan area was drenched in foul, sulphorous, sewerage odours, emanating from the Bolivar waste water treatment plant. Environment: Trading into TroubleSeattle, USA, is shaping up as demonstrator mecca in the lead up to World Trade Organisation talks. History: Eveliegh Rail ReunionFormer workers and their families from the historic Eveleigh Railway Workshops in inner-Sydney are holding a picnic reunion and folk music festival on the site on Sunday, August 29. International: Bosses Use Armed Gangs to Break Russian PicketOn 9 July 1999, eighty masked, uniformed gunmen accompanied by the local prosecutor and other officials tried to storm the Vyborg Pulp and Paper Mill, under occupation by workers for the past eighteen months. Satire: New Refugee Crisis: Journalists Flee Peace ZoneThe camps are once again full in the Albanian border town of Gruntiez. Review: 10 Reasonably Interesting Moments in Film Cultural theorist Snag Cleaver flies off the handle again..
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