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An Activist Health Minister In A Conservative Government

EDITOR’S NOTE: Rapid turnover is one of the persistent features of Australia’s ministers of health and family affairs. Michael Wooldridge, a physician, has broken that pattern by holding the ministerial post since 1996. He has not achieved his extended tenure by avoiding controversy. An elected member of Parliament whose political instincts are more liberal than the conservative government he serves in, Wooldridge has seen both controversy and achievement during his stewardship. Most recently, Wooldridge provoked sharp criticism leveled by the Australian Medical Association, the political opposition, and other interests when he reconstituted the government’s Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee and appointed . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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