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Andrew Gunn

Alf Liebhold

Tracy Schrader

Theo van Lieshout

 

Editorial Advisory Panel

David Atkinson

Peter Lake

David Paul

Stefania Siedlecky

Carol Zarkesh

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Contents:

1   Editorial: Health Effects of the Iraq War

 

 

 Down the Gurgler? Howard Dangles Medicare Overboard (Part 1)

Tracy Schrader

 

8   National Medicare Alliance: Position Statement on Bulk-Billing for GPs

 

 

9   Reflections on Bulk-Billing

Alf Liebhold

 

10   Medicare Under Threat

Con Costa

 

12   Health Implications of the Proposed Free Trade Agreement between Australia and the United States

 

 

15   Medical Professionals and the Politics of Detention

Louise Newman

 

16   Book Review: Boy Overboard

Mitchell Smith
   

17   Animal-to-human transplants and public health: Who pays, and with what?

Toshi Knell

 

20   The ‘Safety & Wholesomeness’ of Irradiated Food – WHO would you believe?

Anna Barnes

 

24   News and Notes from the Media

 

 

28   Flashback! 1983) Politics, Power and Health: From Medibank to Medicare

George Palmer

 

 

Consultant Editorial Board:

Prof. Gavin Andrews, Prof. Max Kamien, Prof. Charles Kerr, Prof. Beverley Raphael, Dr. John Ward, Prof. Ian Webster

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