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Volume 180 - Issue 1

Australian healthcare reform: in need of political courage and champions

Author:  Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (1): 47-48. || doi: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2004.tb05788.x
Published online: 5 January 2004
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Martin B Van Der Weyden

Editor, The Medical Journal of Australia, Locked Bag 3030, Strawberry Hills, NSW 2012. editorialATampco.com.au

In reply: Fate (or God) moves in both mysterious and wondrous ways. Maybe the manoeuvring and machinations of our health ministers in the consummation of the 2003–2008 Australian Health Care Agreements are worthy of:

If you have a little ditty
You would like to expose,
Send it to the Journal
We’ll publish your witty prose.

All I can say is that the faux pas in the production process shows that, despite its high technology, it is still a human process. To err is human, so let’s not make a very public faux pas all consuming.

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  • Martin B Van Der Weyden1
  • 1. The Medical Journal of Australia, Locked Bag 3030, Strawberry Hills, NSW 2012.

Correspondence: editorial@ampco.com.au

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