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Learning to Trust
2003 marks the twentieth anniversary of the first case of HIV-AIDS in Australia. Working from an extensive array of documents and interviews with key participants, Australia's response to the epidemic is examined to establish why it has been one of the most effective responses in the world.
Terminal Decline
'This book is my attempt to find the truth about health care in Australia today; what decisions were made in the 1970s and 1980s that have resulted in the system in which I work; and who made those decisions' After the success of MAKING THE CUT, in which he described his work as a surgeon, and THE PATIENT, in which he wrote about the life of a m...
Movement, Knowledge, Emotion
This book is about community activism around HIV/AIDS in Australia. It looks at the role that the gay community played in the social, medical and political response to the virus. Drawing conclusions about the cultural impact of social movements, the author argues that AIDS activism contributed to improving social attitudes towards gay men and lesbians in Australia, while also challenging some entrenched cultural patterns of the Australian medical system, allowing greater scope for non-medical intervention into the domain of health and illness. The book documents an important chapter in the history of public health in Australia and explores how HIV/AIDS came to be a defining issue in the history of gay and lesbian rights in Australia.
Power Plays
For more than forty years, Laurie Oakes has reported on politicians and politics, the ruthless drive for power, the emotion and cold calculation, the wheeling and dealing, the backstabbing and the brawling, the triumphs and the failures and the betrayals. His weekly columns since 1987 (mostly in The Bulletin and now in the Daily Telegraph and th...
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