MS 8915 - Papers of Greg Weir
Volume Number 18: A.I.D.S. - General 1986

File Note 1986.01.01

The following section of this archive is not indexed in the same detail as other sections of the archive. It is divided into two sections:

  • First - that which deals with the Queensland AIDS Committee.
  • Second - collections of other material filed according to the months in which they were published. These collections consist mainly of newspaper clippings, ministerial press releases, and some parliamentary hansards.
Doc. No: 1 - 18
        Guidelines        1986.01.01
        From: World Health Organisation          
        To:   Regional Office for Europe
        Guidelines for AIDS in Europe


Doc. No: 2 - 18
        Minutes        1986.02.18
        From: Secretary  Queensland AIDS Committee        
        Executive Meeting:  Items include:  a) Australian 
        Federation of AIDS Organisations;  b) Letter to
        Minister (Federal);  c) AIDS Action Council Townsville;  
        d)  Financial Statement;  e) Gold Coast Branch; 
        Treasurer's Report;  f)  Liaison with Executive - 
        "As a means of improving  communication, the president
        proposed to circulate, on a weekly basis, a briefing
        letter outlining current activities.";   g) Philosophy 
        of QAC;  h) Advertising Campaign;


Doc. No: 3 - 18
        Newsletter        1986.02.28
        From: President  Queensland AIDS Committee        
        To: Executive  Queensland AIDS Council
        Content includes:  a) Visit by members of the Executive 
        to Sydney;  b) Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations
        meeting;  c) Gold Coast Branch;  d) Budget estimates;  
        e) 'Buddies';  f) Meeting of Health Workers;  g) South 
        East Queensland Youth Accommodation Collective;
        h) Uniting Church Social Service Committee;  
        i) Queensland Conference of Social Workers; j) Office 
        News;  k) Jottings.


Doc. No: 4 - 18
        Letter        1986.03.02
        From: Lord A  "Australia You're Standing In It Pty. Ltd"        
        To: Secretary  Queensland AIDS Committee
        "Following telephone conversation with GW, I am writing 
        on behalf of Stephen Blackburn and Mary Kenneally to 
        formally express their interest in being involved in a
        campaign for the Queensland AIDS Committee in their 
        characters of 'Tim and Debbie'....   As everything is 
        still in a very embryonic state; I will look forward 
        to receiving your reply and we'll take it from there."
        (See file note following document dated 1986.03.17)


Doc. No: 5 - 18
        Newsletter        1986.03.14
        From: President  Queensland AIDS Committee        
        To: Executive  Queensland AIDS Committee
        Items include:  a) Special Meeting;   b) Office News;  
        c) Benefit Night;  d) Budget;  e) Registration of 
        Charitable organisation;  f) Radio Campaign, 'Tim and 
        Debbie have agreed to a series of radio advertisements 
        for QAC."


Doc. No: 6 - 18
        Letter        1986.03.17
        From: Lord A  "Australia You're Standing In It  Pty. Ltd."        
        To: Weir G  Queensland AIDS Committee
        "Today I received a letter from Mr Rutkin of the Qld Aids
        committee; and I'm afraid the letter contained points that 
        will have to be cleared up immediately."


File Note        1986.03.17
        From: Weir G          
        A most disappointing outcome as I saw humour as a good 
        and effective vehicle in an AIDS education campaign. 
        Much better than the use of fear.  This concept was 
        in stark contrast to that taken by the Grim Reapers AIDS 
        campaign of 1987.  'Tim and Debbie' were very popular 
        comic characters who appealed to young and sexually active
        people.

        This failure underlined the structural difficulty within 
        the Queensland AIDS Committee.  I was unaware of any 
        developments following my initial contact with Lord, 
        then this surprising letter was sent to me.  No discussion
        or approach involving me took place, therefore receiving 
        this letter was somewhat of a shock.  QAC was painfully
        embryonic and haphazard. 

        I took no further action on this campaign, as my very 
        frequent interstate would not allow me to oversee the 
        development as much as would appear to be necessary.


Doc. No: 7 - 18
        Minutes        1986.03.20
        From: Secretary  Queensland AIDS Committee        
        Items include: a) President's Report;  b) Co-ordinator's 
        Report;  c) Queensland AIDS Committee Gold Coast Branch; 
        d) Equipment;  e) Condom Distribution Program;  f) 1986-87
        Draft Budget;  g) Operation Vampire (project held in 
        conjunction with Queensland Health Department);  
        h) Accommodation for AIDS Patients.


Doc. No: 8 - 18
        Newsletter        1986.03.26
        From: President  Queensland AIDS Committee        
        To: Executive  Queensland AIDS Committee
        "If ANYONE, executive members and trustees alike; is 
        willing to assist with the enormous volume of paperwork 
        entailed in the above, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE signal now." 
       (Oh yes)


Doc. No: 9 - 18
        Newsletter        1986.04.11
        From: President  Queensland AIDS Committee        
        To: Executive  Queensland AIDS Committee


Doc. No: 10 - 18
        Minutes        1986.04.19
        From: Executive  Australian Federation of AIDS 
        Organisations        
        Second meeting of the executive.  Organisational and 
        policy maters.


Doc. No: 11 - 18
        Memo        1986.04.23
        From: Weir G  Senator Georges' Office        
        Media inquiry regarding AIDS story in Cairns.


Doc. No: 12 - 18
        Newsletter        1986.06.01
        From:   Queensland AIDS Committee        
        "Duck News" Issue Number 8. Items include: a) "Report 
        from Our Co-ordinator; b) Executive Reports; c) HTLV-III 
        Antibody Testing; d) Jottings from my Diary; e)  
        Perspective - The Virus and the Immune System; f) Operation 
        Vampire;  g) Toye de Wilde;  h) Hove you tested positive?;
        i)  Safe sex shopping basket.  Copies "Duck News" have been 
        lodge with the National Library.


Doc. No: 13 - 18
        Media Release        1986.06.02
        From: Weir G  Queensland AIDS Committee        
        To: News Editors  Media
        Draft Only - "Seminar on AIDS to be held on the Sunshine 
        Coast."


Doc. No: 14 - 18
        Minutes        1986.07.15
        From: Secretary  Queensland AIDS Committee        
        Executive Meeting. Items include: a) Townsville Branch;  
        b) Political liaison; c) Fundraising; d) Operation 
        Vampire; e) NACAIDS Services Sub-Committee; f) Social Work 
        student placement; g) Time management; h) Co-ordinator's 
        Report; i) Brisbane Meeting of Australian Association of
        AIDS Organisations Executive;  j) AIDS information survey;  
        k) QAC Direction.


Doc. No: 15 - 18
        Agenda        1986.07.29
        From: Secretary  Queensland AIDS Committee        
        Executive Meeting.  Documents include agenda, reports 
        and summaries of items to be discussed.


Doc. No: 16 - 18
        Budget        1986.07.29
        From: Treasurer  Queensland AIDS Committee        
        "General costs involved in management and co-ordination 
        of program for Brisbane, Gold Coast and Townsville."


Doc. No: 17 - 18
        Press Article        1986.07.31
        From: Media  Courier Mail        
        "Vampire' tries to pin down AIDS cases.  Many of Brisbane's 
        estimated 50,000 homosexuals apparently are ignoring the 
        risk of contracting acquired immune deficiency syndrome..."


Doc. No: 18 - 18
        Ordinance        1986.08.14
        From: Minister of State  Federal Cabinet        
        "Australian Capital Territory Blood Donation (Acquired 
        Immune Deficiency Syndrome) (Amendment) Ordinance 1986.


Doc. No: 19 - 18
        Memorandum        1986.08.25
        From: Secretary  Queensland AIDS Committee        
        To: Members  Queensland AIDS Committee
        Notification to Annual General Meeting


Doc. No: 20 - 18
        Attachments        1986.08.25
        From: Secretary  Queensland AIDS Committee        
        To: Members  Queensland AIDS
        Attachments to notification of meeting.  Items include: 
        Agenda for Annual General Meeting; President's Report; 
        Audited Statement; Membership renewal forms and proposed 
        constitutional changes.


Doc. No: 21 - 18
        Newsletter        1986.09.01
        From:   Queensland AIDS Committee         
        "Duck News" 


Doc. No: 22 - 18
        Job description        1986.10.07
        From: Co-ordinator  Queensland AIDS Committee        
        To: Executive  Queensland AIDS Committee
        " On 16.09.86 (p,4 item 5) it was decided that all executive 
        members should be circulated with information on the 
        priorities of the co-ordinator as decided at the meeting 
        on 26.8.86" Contains was in contemporary terms is referred
        to as a mission statement for the co-ordinator. (More 
        accurately a 'mission impossible statement' for the 
        co-ordinator).  


Doc. No: 23 - 18
        Report        1986.10.07
        From: Co-ordinator  Queensland AIDS Committee        
        To: Executive  Queensland AIDS Committee
        Items include: a) Direct Services; b) Volunteers; c) 3rd 
        Volunteer Training Program;  d) Rosters;  e) Community 
        Education.


Doc. No: 24 - 18
        Test        1986.10.07
        From: MacHamish M  Queensland AIDS Committee        
        Evaluation of people who attended training on AIDS 
        information session.


Doc. No: 24A - 18
        Paper        1986.11.01
        From: Clinical Subcommittee  ACON  (NSW        
        Safe Sex Guidelines:  Draft Number 3.


Doc. No: 24B - 18
        Response        1986.11.01
        From:   Queensland AIDS Committee        
        To: Clinical Subcommittee  ACON (NSW)
        "Safe Sex Guidelines - contribution to discussion."  
        This is a response by the Committee to the paper prepared
        by ACON (NSW) 1986.11.01


Doc. No: 25 - 18
        Collection        1986.01.01
        Media and other documents on AIDS for January 1986. Titles 
        of documents: AIDS School Lessons (NSW); AIDS death rate 
        in US climbing to 51pc;  Life insurers to quiz applicants
        on AIDS;  Seminar will explain AIDS; Insurers move over 
        AIDS risk.


Doc. No: 26 - 18
        Collection        1986.02.01
        Media and other documents on AIDS for February 1986. 
        Titles of documents: Major changes to National Advisory 
        Committee (Press Release);  Can heterosexual sex sustain 
        an epidemic?;  AIDS committee splits into three;  AIDS: 
        How you can't get it;  Monkey virus jumps into calculations;
        AIDS mosquito theory swatted;  Sweden orders detention for
        some AIDS carriers;  Advanced AIDS is less infectious;
        Parliamentary Liaison Group on AIDS, Federal (Media
        Release);  Federal Grant for Australian Federation of AIDS 
        Organisations (Media Release);  Theatre goes through an 
        AIDS stage;  AIDS ward bursting at the seams (NSW); 
        Federal Funding for the Australian Association for Adolescent
        health (Media Release);  Condom radio ads get the go-ahead; 
        One more cross to bear in the tragedy of AIDS; Letters to 
        the Editor (NSW);  Cry of AIDS scared of rapists;  Hospital
        offers beds for AIDS patients (NSW);  AIDS screening not
        foolproof - scientists;  Delay in use of promising AIDS drug.  


Doc. No: 27 - 18
        Collection        1986.03.01
        Media and other documents on AIDS for March 1986.  Titles 
        of documents:  Gays reshape their lifestyle (San Fransico 
        gays);  New evidence on AIDS found (USA);  AIDS linked to 
        women, says research (USA);  Faulty tests gave AIDS baby 
        a false clearance (NSW);  Minister endorses telemovie on 
        AIDS  (Media Release); Suspicion of doctors, prostitutes 
        (Letter NSW);  New Secretary for National Advisory 
        Committee on AIDS (Media Release);  AIDS boy ken hoped to 
        see his brother (NSW); Nurses seek worker AIDS laws 
        (Queensland);  Father of AIDS victim to sue Red Cross
        (NSW);  'Effective' AIDS treatment years away: professor.


Doc. No: 28 - 18
        Collection        1986.04.01
        Media and other documents on AIDS for April 1986.  Titles 
        of documents:  A snip and splice to deactivate AIDS;  
        AIDS test breakthrough exists researchers (date uncertain);
        Funding of Minority Groups (Qld Hansard)


Doc. No: 29 - 18
        Collection        1986.05.01
        Media and other documents on AIDS for May 1986.  Titles 
        of documents:  Action on AIDS is most praiseworthy (Letter 
        on QAC);  Intravenous drug users a big AIDS risk, says 
        Carswell;  Talks on AIDS patent off (USA);  Progress on
        AIDS blood research;  Don't let AIDS carriers out, psychiatric 
        nurses say (NSW);  AIDS what now (Advertisement);  Liz 
        (Taylor) AIDS plea;  AIDS and lifestyle changes (USA); Arduous
        slog in fight on AIDS;  Greatest cause of death in New York;
        Killer stalking State- Bisexual male is a factor (Queensland);
        Emerging facts offer some hope;  Misconceptions abounds; Local
        drug habits reduce the risks;  Public need to face AIDS facts 
        (USA);  Science baffled by AIDS;  Gamma globulin source of 
        relief;  AIDS - A need for greater understanding (Media
        Release);  Lawyer says law has role in halting AIDS; 
        Computer to answer AIDS quiz;  AIDS kills 106 Aussies;  
        AIDS virus breakthrough;  AIDS virus grown in animal cells;
        AIDS fight 'being hindered by loss of public interest'; 
        Nurses oppose mass AIDS test (NSW letter to the Editor); 
        Robbery by AIDS;  AIDS kills 500 in Uganda;  Streetwize comic 
        on AIDS, to help educate adolescents (Media Release);  
        Scientists make new AIDS gene discovery (London);  Progress 
        in AIDS research;  Progress in AIDS research (USA);  AIDS rock
        hope;  AIDS group plans memorial park for victims (Queensland); 
        AIDS groups clash over sex claims (Victorian AIDS Council and 
        National AIDS Task Force);  Strengthen stand on AIDS, expert 
        urges;  AIDS scare led to killing, court told;  AIDS patients 
        face threat of TB;  Positive test on AIDS drug;  AIDS 
        prevention effort 'too small' (USA);  Council bans condom 
        man (NSW);  First AIDS blood transfer case dies;  AIDS 
        transfusion test case to go on (NSW). 


Doc. No: 30 - 18
        Collection        1986.06.01
        Media and other documents on AIDS for June 1986.  Titles 
        of documents: AIDS Legislation - Turning up the heat? 
        (Article by Justice M Kirby);  Concern about AIDS antibody
        testing (Press Release, National Advisory Committee on 
        AIDS);  Concern at delay in AIDS hearing (NSW);  MPs to
        tackle AIDS strategy; Victorian death brings AIDS toll to
        107;  AIDS victim sparks prison tests (Queensland);
        Prisoners isolated after AIDS diagnosis;  Rock Hudson 
        was 'master of illusion';  Union fears AIDS effect on 
        Prisons (Queensland);  Strict ambulance guidelines for
        Canberra AIDS sufferers;  An industry sensitive about AIDS 
        (Fashion USA);  Union fears AIDS effect on prisons (Queensland); 
        Doctors report first case of child infecting mother with 
        AIDS virus;  Union fears AIDS effect on prison AIDS sufferer 
        Eve turns her back on a bitter life in NSW;  Up to 2 million
        Africans may carry AIDS;  After the haircut;  Buses carry 
        AIDS warning (Canberra);  Bus advertising not approved 
        (Canberra) (Media Release);  Call to isolate AIDS sufferers 
        (Canberra);  AIDS awareness campaign to begin with booklet
        in 'Reader's Digest';  AIDS groups seeks home in suburbs 
        (Vic);  AIDS education project under way (Queensland); 
        Cains criticises bus AIDS ads (Canberra);  Stricken Rock 
        (Hudson) sexually active;  Contradictory AIDS advice 
        (Professional Association of Classroom Teachers of the ACT);
        Justice Department backs sacking AIDS victims;  Spreading 
        alarm about AIDS (USA);  100,000  suffering AIDS: doctor 
        (World Health Organisation); Hope as AIDS patient regains 
        his immunity (Paris);  Launch of AIDS health report to the 
        nation (Media Release);  Health Authority, AIDS Council 
        split on campaign (Canberra);  AIDS cases doubling every 
        nine months;  Lack of interest in AIDS seminar (Gold Coast,
        Queensland)


Doc. No: 31 - 18
        Collection        1986.
        Media and other documents on AIDS for July 1986.  Titles of 
        documents:  AIDS toll outstripping UK by 40pc: expert;  
        Overseas praise for AIDS clinic (NSW);  Researchers piece
        together how AIDS attacks human cells;  Accuracy of AIDS 
        screening queried (USA);  Second Edition of AIDS media kit
        (Media Release - Federal Health Minister;  Major Grant for 
        AIDS Film (Media Release Federal Minister for Health);  
        Education Project Grant for ACT drug users (Media Release, 
        Federal Health Minister);  AIDS death toll stands at 111; 
        Grant for AIDS TV film;  How AIDS changed America;  AIDS 
        boy wins (USA);  Special Report - One Against the Plague 
        (USA); AIDS tests in ACT giving 'false positives'; Zambia
        is facing AIDS 'disaster';  Burt blasts AIDS rumour; 
        Major AIDS Congress (Media Release, Federal Health Minister 


Doc. No: 32 - 18
        Collection        1986.08.01
        Media and other documents on AIDS for August 1986.  Titles 
        of documents:  Bathers warned of AIDS risk;  AIDS is 
        turning Uganda off sex;  School accepts AIDS girl Eve (New 
        Zealand);  Chance of AIDS vaccine;  The AIDS professor's 
        thankless task (Pennington, NACAIDS);  Church 'has duty 
        to help AIDS victims' (Queensland);  AIDS finds vaccine 
        hope;  AIDS test kits are big business in Singapore;  
        'Role models' plan to boost the struggle against AIDS;  
        Role model sought to push AIDS prevention;  Churchman brings 
        caring not condemnation, to the victims of AIDS (Victoria);
        AIDS figures are up by 40 percent as six people die 
        (Queensland);  Prisoners has AIDS Parliament told (Queensland); 
        Warning on AIDS spread (London);  Lee; the AIDS victim who 
        has finally found a friend (NSW);  Puzzle of the long-term
        survivors (USA);  Denmark - Addicts get help to escape AIDS;
        Exclusive - What every family should know about AIDS;  New 
        AIDS threat to travellers (West Africa);  Joint press release
        from the Federal Health Minister, Neal Blewett, and Ms Ita 
        Buttrose, chairwoman of the National Advisory Committee; 
        AIDS expert warns of new form is worse threat; AIDS Report 
        in very high demand (Media Release);  Blood banks move on
        new AIDS risk;  AIDS out of control in Africa;  AIDS out 
        of control in Africa: Professor;  Tens of thousands exposed
        to AIDS by end of the year;  West Urges to support AIDS
        fight;  Health Minister scorns doctors on Aids (Britain);
        AIDS setback amid disputes;  Nancy (Reagan) in AIDS jolt 
        - make-up man dead (USA);  Doctor wants tattoos as AIDS 
        alert (Germany);  'Nazi' brand for AIDS sufferers;  Greeting 
        cards;  Phantom AIDS a nuisance to clinics (Britain);  More 
        return to the gay saunas, with caution (NSW);  Health 
        information budget information - The Fight Against AIDS 
        (Federal);  Doctors warn of cancer 'cures' (Queensland);
        Cancer patients may risk AIDS;  AIDS mutant poses problem for
        researchers;  Teachers told of AIDS risk in schoolroom 
        experiment (Victoria);  Star footballer's 'hideous disease';  
        Infected insects may transmit AIDS virus (Africa);  US 
        football hero admits to AIDS;  AIDS meddler stirs the 
        politics of fear (USA);  AIDS hypodermic jabs infect nurse 
        (USA);  AIDS: extremists call for quarantine (USA).


Doc. No: 33 - 18
        Compilation        1986.10.01
        From: Media Committee  Queensland AIDS Committee        
        "Report and Press".  Various press articles and documents 
        cover the period October and November 1986.  The items 
        include: AIDS battlers need State finance, Qld. (Letter);  
        AIDS adviser quits in policy clash (Federal);  Campaign 
        aims at heterexual AIDS (Queensland Health Department); 
        AIDS kills 22 people in Queensland and comment by Minister;  
        Gays rate worse than thieves (Queensland);  AIDS Campaign 
        to Alert Teens (Queensland Health Department);  AIDS and 
        Aborigines (Editorial NSW);  AIDS to sweep heterosexuals 
        says Pennington;   AIDS group accused of disregarding 
        medical advice (Federal);  Pennington resigns over 
        'disagreements';  AIDS boss: nation is now at risk;  Grimes 
        calls for free needles in AIDS fight (Federal);  Syringe 
        service for drug addicts;  Letters to the editor (AIDS 
        education and prisons);  Pennington 'jeopardised AIDS work';
        AIDS expert needled by claims;  Compulsory AIDS test favoured 
        by 61 per cent;  Pennington resigns from AIDS body over 
        advice to Aborigines;  AIDS education funds diverted to
        capital works;  Health body begins global campaign to combat 
        AIDS;  The money to be made from the AIDS epidemic;  Media
        spotlight takes AIDS fears into homes of wary Britons; 
        $44 plan to combat AIDS (Britain);  Britain quickens the 
        fight on AIDS;  At the morgue, you can get away with murder; 
        AIDS man's last wish may never be fulfilled; Does Redleaf
        Pool have dreaded AIDS? (NSW);  AIDS breakthrough spurs 
        vaccine hopes; AIDS is big news for condom manufacturers;  
        Nonsense on AIDS (USA);  Play it safe and still have fun;
        Warning on new strain of AIDS virus (USA);  Third AIDS
        virus escapes blood test;  Condoms or self control;  
        Condoms made from gloves, seminar told (NSW prisons); 
        Bias against gays increasing;  Wanted urgently: the Dutch
        AIDS plan (Letter);  Sperm stock dumped in new AIDS scare 
        (Britain);  AIDS funds increased to $2.3 billion a year
        (World Health Organisation);   Full-blown AIDS may be 
        sparked by smoking;  Concern over heterosexual speak of
        AIDS;   AIDS from a kidney donor (Britain);  $44 war on 
        Aids (Britain); Libel sum for AIDS researcher; Warning AIDS 
        strain (USA);  AIDS variant undetected by blood tests;  
        Virus in brain a complication in AIDS treatment;  Concern
        and confusion;Bad time to test the electorate's sexual 
        tolerance;  Voters 'not ready' for homosexual MPs;  Voters 
        don't go for gay MPs;  Health and beauty;  The complete 
        Queensland cabinet.


Doc. No: 34 - 18
        File Note        1986.10.01
        From: Weir G          
        These media kits produced by the QAC Media Committee 
        were designed to keep the Queensland AIDS Committee 
        executive aware of the various political and topical 
        developments occurring in the mainstream press.  This
        was of particular importance given the political campaign
        being run by the media committee at this time (Refer to 
        other section on the campaign for AIDS Education for 
        'at risk groups' in this archive during this period. 
        Some of the documents contained in the archive on the
        AIDS education campaign are also contained within these 
        compilations.)


Doc. No: 35 - 18
        Compilation        1986.11.01
        From: Media Committee  Queensland AIDS Committee        
        "Report and Press".  Various press articles and documents 
        cover the period October and November 1986.  The items 
        include: Campaign letters (Queensland AIDS Committee);
        Stars send letters on AIDS to Minister (Queensland); 
        Queensland Government 'helps spread of AIDS';  AIDS 
        claims denied (Queensland);  Austin (Queensland Health
        Minister) cautiously aims for the top;  Second National 
        Conference on AIDS (Media Release);  AIDS Press Conference 
        (Media Release);  National AIDS Education Campaign 
        (Advertisement);  $300,000 in AIDS money not used;  Stars 
        raise $1 million in fight to beat AIDS isolation proposal;
        Time to unite over AIDS (international conference);  War
        against AIDS (editorial);  AIDS cases double yearly, says
        Blewett (Federal);  Media is blamed over AIDS distortions;
        Prisons may be screened for drugs;  Education 'can stop AIDS';
        Gays told AIDS testing irrelevant;  Developing world faces 
        devastation: World Health Organisation expert;  AIDS hopes
        fading: Professor;  Aborigines warned of AIDS dangers;
        Aboriginal customs an AIDS risk;  AIDS alert for blacks; 
        AIDS fear prompts recall of blood products;  Legal delays
        over AIDS vaccine tests;  Australian candidates sought for
        anti-AIDS drug tests;  Drug trial aims to halt AIDS at first 
        stage;  Sydney researchers to test AIDS drug;  Fighting off 
        a killer called Slim;  The big business virus;  Circumcision
        may help prevent AIDS;  How the butt of jokes became basis 
        for tragedy;  AIDS epidemic threatens millions in Africa: 
        report;  Millions in Africa carry AIDS: doctors; AIDS virus 
        'made in US laboratory;  AIDS question (Letter);  Hudson 
        denied AIDS diagnosis;  Young feel guilty about sex: survey;
        Homosexual practices unacceptable: Vatican; New Vatican 
        guidelines on homosexuality. 


Doc. No: 36 - 18
        Compilation        1986.11.01
        From: Media Committee  Queensland AIDS Committee        
        "Report and Press".  Various press articles and documents 
        cover the period September, October and November 1986. 
        Most material deals with campaign by the media committee
        to get more state government assistance in prevention programs
        (See separate archive listing on this campaign).   The items 
        include: List of media releases for previous three months;
        AIDS fight; Joh attacked on AIDS fight inadequacy;  Joh 
        asked for AIDS cash support;  Qld no longer number two AIDS
        state;  Austin says AIDS spread is 'nonsense'; State AIDS 
        funding under attack;  AIDS group condemns state government;
        Austin attacks gays over AIDS;  Government blasted for AIDS 
        stance;  AIDS: the second act of tragedy (Editorial); AIDS 
        ignored by Austin;  Austin fears southern gay AIDS rumour;  
        Doctor blasts State AIDS effort;   "Impeccable medical 
        sources;  Volunteers fight AIDS;  Information on AIDS 
        (Letter);  Call for AIDS Education; AIDS group seeks Govt
        support;  AIDS- talk by no action (letters);  More anger 
        over AIDS (letters); Queensland slams 'safe sex' manual; 
        AIDS group fight AUSTIN;  AIDS group bid to fight Qld's 
        stance;  AIDS supported by stars;  Attackers bashed gays 
        over AIDS;  Upsurge in gay bashing by gangs;  AIDS letter
        plea;  AIDS battlers need state finance (letter);  Queensland
        Government 'helps spread of AIDS';  AIDS claims denied; 
        Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (Senate Hansard);  
        Prejudice against homosexuals (letters);  Next Not-so-naughty
        nineties?;  Government slammed for failure to act on AIDS 
        education;  Help for AIDS fight The program is the first
        indication the Government at last is taking notice;  AIDS 
        'main priority' for Minister;  AIDS body presses Queensland
        to reverse policy;  Government slammed for failure to act 
        on AIDS education;  State Government blamed for AIDS death;
        aids TAKES 23% of health budget;  AIDS is now a general
        threat - sex education (editorial);  A sacred cow gets the
        boot;  Anger is high AIDS death in Queensland;  Race to 
        survive;  Ahern sets goals for state's health (Queensland
        Minister for Health);  AIDS fear on at least 20 Queensland 
        women.  
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