MS 8915 - Papers of Greg Weir
Volume Number 20: A.I.D.S. - General 1987

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.

For further information relating to AIDS in this year refer to the other section concerning the ascendancy of Mr Mike Ahern from Minister for Health to Premier of Queensland.

Section One - Queensland AIDS Committee

Doc. No: 1 - 20
        Letter and attachments        1987.01.22
        From: Weir G  QAC        
        To: Walker J  Media Committee, NACAIDS
        Collection of documents on the evaluation of the Australian 
        Federation of AIDS Organisation's "A Media Worker's Guide 
        to AIDS" Second Addition.   Documents include:  a) Letter 
        to Janine Walker (1987.01.22);   b) Evaluation of AFOA media 
        kit by Media-Sub-Committee;   c) Selection of memos in 
        relation to the evaluation;   d) copy of "Getting it Right 
        - a Media Worker's Guide to AIDS;   e)  very rough drafting 
        notes on media-subcommittee's approach to Community Education.


Doc. No: 2 - 20
        Meeting Papers        1987.02.14
        From: Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations        
        To: Delegates  AFAO National Committee Meeting
        A large collection of meeting papers from the fifth meeting 
        of the Committee.  The following is just partial listing 
        of the vast amount of material being dealt with by the
        committee at this meeting.  Papers include: Agenda;  
        Committee members; Background paper on development of 
        National Advisory Committee on AIDS; Role of National
        AFAO National Office; Material relating to Aids Trust
        of Australia; National AIDS funding program 1986/87;
        Media Release (Major survey of services for people with
        AIDS); Territory and state AIDS Council Budgets 1986/87; 
        National Education Program; Central Australia AIDS Council;
        National Liaison Officer; International Conferences;  
        Policy formation flow chart for the Commonwealth Department 
        of Health; Australian Council for Overseas Aid Sub-Committee 
        funding proposal AIDS in Africa; Final report of the 
        NACAIDS Working Group on Counselling and Antibody Testing;
        Request from John Ballard (ACT); Care of a person with AIDS
        at Home (National Advisory Committee on AIDS); Report on
        Ethics in Epidemiological Research (National Health and 
        Medical Research Council); AIDS Council of New South Wales 
        (ACON) Report; Emergency Allocation to Queensland AIDS 
        Council; Victorian AIDS Council Report; Media Spokesperson's 
        Report; Safe sex guidelines- contribution to discussion;   
        AIDS Council ACT report; Northern Territory AIDS Council; 
        West Australia AIDS Council Report; Report on the National 
        Advisory Committee on AIDS;   Aids Council of New South 
        Wales Legal Working Group - Carer's Pension;  AIDS Council
        of South Australia Report;   


Doc. No: 3 - 20
        Letter        1987.04.21
        From: Duckett M  Commonwealth Department of Health        
        To: Weir G  
        "I would like to mention again how much I appreciate the
        trouble you go to in sending me information.  I look forward 
        to talking to you again soon..."



Doc. No: 4 - 20
        Media Release        1987.04.27
        From: Australian Episcopal Conference  Australian Catholic
        Bishops        
        To: News Editors  Media
        "The AIDS Crisis: A message to the Australian People."


Doc. No: 5 - 20
        Policy        1987.05.22
        From: Executive Officer  Australian Education of AIDS 
        Organisations        
        To: Member Organisations  Australian Federation of AIDS 
        Organisations
        "Draft Australian Federation Project Policy"


Doc. No: 6 - 20
        Budget        1987.06.31
        From: Treasurer  Queensland AIDS Council        
        "Queensland AIDS Council proposed Budget 1987-88."  
        Contains explanation of State and Federal funding 
        arrangements and detailed expenditure breakdowns of the 
        various projects of the committee.


Doc. No: 7 - 20
        Collection        1987.10.21
        From: Weir G          
        Example of some of the work on AIDS funding done for
        Queensland Opposition's Community Services spokesperson,
        Anne Warner, regarding Queensland Government funding for
        AIDS services.  Items include two press articles "MLAs 
        shown condom in the battle over AIDS" Courier Mail and 
        "Figures show 'one in 170 have AIDS" (Gold Coast Bulletin 
        1987.10.21); Media Release Queensland Young Labor;


Doc. No: 8 - 20
        Newsletter        1987.12.01
        From:   Queensland AIDS Council        
        "Duck News" .  Items include:   'Gay Servicemen die too' 
        (Reprint from Australian Financial Review 6th November 1987); 
        Perspective - you to can stop AIDS;   QuAC officer profile;  
        Fair well from the Students (Social Work);  'Drowned Flowers'
        Review (Brisbane play);   Mothers support group;  Joys of
        safe sex;  International news;   Put that condom on! 
       (A guide);   National AIDS bulletin;   Feeling incomplete 
       (a list of back issues of Duck News);   December diary;   
       Brunswick Street II ; list of distribution outlets.

Section Two - Press Clippings from 1987.

Doc. No: 9 - 20
        Report        1987.01.20
        From: Media Committee  Queensland AIDS Council        
        To: Executive  QAC
        Collection of Press articles. Items include:  Government 
        in first meeting with AIDS committee (Queensland);  Ahern
        meets with AIDS group;  Letter from Minister to Senator 
        Zaharov - "Careful consideration will continue to be given 
        to the involvement by my Department in assistance to or 
        funding for voluntary agencies";   AIDS delegation visits
        Africa (Media Release);   AIDS toll to reach 3000 by 1990; 
        More funds needed for AIDS fight, doctors say;   We can do 
        better in fighting AIDS (Editorial);   Contraceptive kills 
        AIDS virus, says Paris institute;   Condoms studied as ally 
        in AIDS battle;   AIDS: how it affects everyone;   A question
        of rights;  Still far more questions than answers (treatment);   
        The expensive search for a breakthrough;   AIDS grip on 
        nation tightens;   Australia world leader in AIDS fight:
        Buttrose;   AIDS spoils tourism (Africa);   AIDS victim sues
        (USA);   Death comes in three stages;   AIDS- the only 
        alternative (Pharmacy Guild of Australia);   The party's over
        in gay San Francisco;   Permissive society pays the price;   
        AIDS: the fear spreads (feature article);  Royal 'AIDS victim';
        A palace divided over all the Queen's queen;   AIDS threat 
        man held for sentence.


Doc. No: 10 - 20
        Report        1987.02.25
        From: Media Committee Queensland AIDS Committee        
        To: Executive Queensland AIDS Committee
        Collection of mostly press articles. Items include: AIDS 
        and artificial insemination; AIDS battle cash needed 
        (editorial); Australian facing the high cost of AIDS;   
        Married women high AIDS risk, says report; Bisexual AIDS 
        'threat to Qld women'; AIDS babies 'just a mater of time' 
        (Queensland AIDS); Prison AIDS legal teaser (Queensland 
        Controller of Prisons); Ansell loses ad agent in AIDS row; 
        Immigration bans entry for AIDS suffers; AIDS (Senate Hansard);
        Homosexual 'rights' campaign falls flat on its face; pidemic 
        carries a $750 million price tag; Queenslanders chosen to 
        test new AIDS drug; Belke junior a symbol of new man...;
        What they did in Canberra; One victim's fight back to fitness;  
        An exhibition of promise - but the artist's absent; $10,000 
        a year for AZY, a drug derived from sperm of herring; 
        Tragedy could have been prevented (Fred Nile); Mardi Gras 
        revels in dance to life; AIDS fears cause blood bank shares 
        to soar; AIDS risk in eating monkeys; Peking links a rise 
        in sex diseases to tourists; Job protection for AIDS victims 
        wins a round (USA); Forward to the past - revolution in 
        retreat; AIDS 'murder' (Munich); A real look at gays; A look 
        at AIDS in New York (theatre review); AIDS - a plea for 
        compassion in one act (theatre review); AIDS around to world 
        (statistics); Pleasure parks plan to provide screen hostesses 
        for sex services; Free needles for drug addicts (NSW); AIDS 
        comment upsets advertising agency; AIDS from skin (Britain); 
        Gay media; Ita's page - Defeating AIDS is everyone's 
        responsibility; Researchers seek $20 million for AIDS study
        in Britain; Now is time to practice safe sex; As the deadly 
        virus spreads, so does the confusion (questions and answers 
        on AIDS); Why undertakers count on a boom in business;  
        Black humour about AIDS (television program review); Kevin's 
        sentence - three years alone, then death.


Doc. No: 11 - 20
        Report        1987.03.06
        From: Media Committee  Queensland AIDS Committee        
        To: Executive  Queensland AIDS Committee
        Collection of Press items.  This volume is incomplete,
        but remaining items include:   Parlours, condoms, schools 
        in AIDS study (Queensland);  Massage parlour licensing 
        plan to fight AIDS: Ahern (Queensland);   Legal move on 
        brothels - Nationals back bid to beat AIDS (Queensland);
        Ahern to head cabinet committee on AIDS;  No to condom 
        parlour plans - Joh firm in stand on AIDS (Queensland);
        Gun cautious on sex program -dilemma for Nats - Ahern 
        (Queensland);  


Doc. No: 12 - 20
        Report        1987.04.01
        From: Media Committee  Queensland AIDS Committee        
        To: Executive  Queensland AIDS Committee
        Four volumes of media articles published in the month 
        of the national launch of the "Grim Reaper" publicity 
        campaign by the Federal Government. (Many articles)


Doc. No: 13 - 20
        Compilation        1987.08.31
        From: Weir G  Senator Burns Office        
        To: Executive QAC and others  
        Press and parliamentary hansard extracts.  Items include:
        Condom vending machines (Queensland Parliament); Joh and 
        Dell had a fatal bond (Queensland); AIDS: no open slather 
        for insurers (AIDS Council of New South Wales; Scientists 
        to discuss AIDS and the tropics; Grieving widower demands 
        Joh re-thinks AIDS approach (Queensland); Out of touch with 
        the '80s; The grim results (National Advisory Committee on 
        AIDS; AIDS?  No fear,says king of swingers (USA); Pope to 
        meet AIDS patient US (Religion); Coast ponders lavatory 
        guards to halt illicit sex; Toilet gays raised ticklish 
        problem; AIDS deal falls through for MRI; Vigilante claim 
        upsets karate kids; Needle exchange program is vital, says
        Buttrose; AZT may arrest AIDS advance; The sensitive, 
        sensible hand selling of safe sex; and is really nigh - 
        for the permissive society; Apology; Language problems 
        (Comedy); Great moments in feminism (humour); What they 
        did in Brisbane; Even nice girls risk from AIDS: doctor; 
        Doctor urges IVF for lesbians; Brother defy death threat,
        boycott; Attack by victim's husband illogical- Powell 
        (Queensland); AIDS man fears mandatory tests inevitable 
        (Queensland); Lindsey hits Queensland AIDS policy; AIDS 
        office 'desperate' for help; Lawyer says applicants can 
        be tested for AIDS; Soviet in new AIDS clampdown; School 
        condoms fear (Queensland); AIDS: Public Health Act could 
        cope (NSW); AIDS fatal to all says researcher (Queensland);
        Condom machines still 'out' (Queensland); Safer-sex campaigns 
        bring results (National Advisory Committee on AIDS); Condoms 
        machines backed - Queenslanders in massive Yes; AIDS health 
        man bitter (Queensland); Political freebies (Norway); Court 
        ruling gives chance of early release to Hurrey; No AIDS victim 
        in jail: Lewis (Queensland); Drug Act allows addicts' 
        needles (Queensland) AIDS infection treatment raises hopes 
        (USA); Plants may hold AIDS cure key;   Doctor urges chemical 
        showers to beat AIDS; School sex book row (Victoria); Love sex, 
        hate condoms Britain; Are dolphins the AIDS victims of the
        sea? Tree holds AIDS fight promise, says scientist;   


Doc. No: 14 - 20
        Compilation        1987.09.08
        From: Weir G  Senator Burns's Office        
        To: Executive QAC and others  
        Press Article. Titles include: Cartoon - 'On our selection' 
        (Queensland); AIDS strikes 12 more victims as deaths 
        increase by 1 in August (Queensland); Christmas gifts 
        (humour); Kids with AIDS; AIDS mutates five times faster 
        than the flu virus, say genetic scientists; Man v Machine - 
        condoms (Editorial Queensland); National Party MLA backs 
        silent Ahern (Queensland); Burst condoms lead to death (NSW);
        Police tear out uni condom machine (Queensland); Man shoots 
        himself over 'sex abuse'; Ahern great pretender on AIDS issue: 
        Labor; Students plan national fight on condom machines 
        (Queensland); Condom has poor history (Letter); Backlash on 
        Joh condom ruling; The reasons for Sir Joh's ban (Editorial);
        Insurance and AIDS (Letter National Advisory Committee on
        AIDS); No bases unless US 'cares for AIDS victims 
        (Philippines); AIDS toll: 319 dead of 583 cases;  Cartoon 
        (Condom vending machine Queensland); Peace fleet fears AIDS 
        sailors; Cartoon (Queensland condom machine); Cartoon 
        (Queensland condom machines - 'A day in the life of a 
        Queensland cop); Cartoon (Queensland condom machines);  
        Miracle cures (humour); Gays fear blackmail in law change 
        (NSW); Cartoon (Queensland police corruption); Police raid 
        Townsville university, but condom machines have gone;  
        Job to cost National five seats: Liberals; Condom honesty
        tins legal; Job forces Ahern to toe party line; Long wait on 
        AIDS program results (Queensland); Safe sex parties 
        (Queensland); Police seize condom sales machines (Queensland); 
        Sir Job is incensed at the public support which is gathering
        for Mr Ahern; Ahern leads John in radio poll; Cartoon  
        (The exorcist - condoms Queensland); State caned on condom 
        stance (Queensland); Queue lengthens for AIDS testing 
        (Queensland); Cartoon (first condoms of spring); Cartoon 
        ('Condoms cause sex!); Students foil raid by police 
        (Queensland); Clerics Query Job condom ruling; Queensland 
        tops teenage mothers list; Brisbane trees link to AIDS drug;
        Job refuses to rule out MP sackings; AIDS family flees after 
        fire (USA); Women denies molesting students; Singer's comments 
        could be INXS; The withdrawal method upsets Job's own men 
        (Queensland); What Job asked Elizabeth (Queensland); New AIDS 
        test; Sir Job and condom culture (Queensland - NSW Editorial);
        Naive view on AIDS (letter NSW); Family life (humour);   
        Condoms put cap on Cabinet disunity (Queensland); AIDS family 
        home tourched (USA); Student plan legal action after police 
        raid machines (Queensland); Singer's critical comments 'in 
        excess of the law'; To Arcadia the enemy was AIDS, not the 
        Ray boys who had it (USA); What they did in Brisbane 
        (Queensland); Queensland police remove condom machines;  NSW 
        runs out of AIDS drug; AIDS date set (USA); No sex please, 
        we're scared (Television review); The cant of Sir Job 
        (Queensland - Canberra Editorial); Study finds AIDS genetic 
        code mutates five times faster than influenza; Police seize 
        campus condom machines; What they did in Canberra (humour);   
        Gays change;  Lean and hungry National eye on a weakened 
        Premier;   


Doc. No:  15 - 20
        Compilation        1987.09.16
        From: Weir G  Senator Burns' Office        
        To: Executive (QAC) and others  
        Parliamentary Hansard and press articles. Items include:   
        Availability of Condoms (Parliament Queensland); Show love 
        to AIDS victims, says Pope (religion); 'No proof' mosquitoes 
        transmit AIDS virus; Fake AIDS documents (Indonesia);   
        Plasma treatment tried on AIDS patients; Shared needles spread 
        AIDS to heterosexuals (USA); Heterosexual AIDS comes to 
        Britain; Research avoids question on 'vaccine'; There's no 
        business quite like the AIDS business; US plans massive trial 
        of AZT; People with AIDS tests moral climate; New AIDS 
        committee (Britain); Battle against AIDS the big winner;  
        $20 million program for AIDS fight (Federal Budget); aids 
        CASES PASS 1,000 (Britain); AIDS victims refuse the death 
        warrant; Increasing life expectancy means growing role for 
        euthanasia (Germany); Servicemen might find AIDS test plan 
        'offensive' (Federal Government);  Police seeks AIDS tests
        (Queensland);  Services will see AIDS test as 'Offensive' 
        (Defence); Queensland - Job's condom win could be pyrrhic 
        victory;  The AIDS sufferer and liability at law (Overseas);
        12 teenagers test positive for AIDS (NSW); AIDS fears: US 
        destroyer refused berth in Costa Rica; Pope coy on AiDS 
        'punishment' question (religion); Airborne AIDS linked to 
        infected lab worker; When a libido languishes desire drops 
        in disarray; Condoms ban begs question (Letters Queensland);
        AIDS virus 'came from space dust'; ALP fears flows in free 
        syringe plan; What Erik thinks they did in space; Causes of 
        death in NSW 1985; Angry leads new wave of fighters against 
        AIDS (Entertainment); US visit cancelled after AIDS scare;   
        Airborne virus theory on laboratory worker; Teenagers infected 
        after sex, drug use; AIDS Taskforce statement on the dangers 
        of the spread of AIDS to health care workers; Working conditions;
        Why the Pope won't see Miami vice; AIDS symposium by satellite; 
        AIDS risk from visiting US servicemen could be one in 1000;   
        Human relations; Porn MP hits Bible studies; Students switch 
        sex habits; Two cartoon on condoms in Queensland.


Doc. No:  16 - 20
        Collection        1987.09.22
        From: Weir G  Senator Burns' Office        
        To: Executive QAC and others  
        "AIDS Budget '87 Edition.  Contents include: Commonwealth 
        Funding for AIDS 1987-88. Also newspaper items - Doctors in 
        meeting over AIDS teaching; AIDS doubles each 10 months; On 
        love drugs and sex; Blewett tips 3,000 to have AIDS by 1991 
        (Federal Government); 66 per cent jump in Government spending 
        on AIDS fight; AIDS in the Pacific; Ten-fold rise of AIDS in 
        old syringes this year (NSW); A husband in 25 has had gay sex, 
        expert says; AIDS care could cost $100 million by 1990;  
        Drug trials offer hope in battle against AIDS; Ahern action 
        on dirty needles (Queensland); Sex survey spotlights those 
        deadly double lives; God loves you, Pope tells AIDS sufferers 
        (religion); Protest as Pontiff meets AIDS group; AIDS 
        video features radio star; Toilet seats and God blamed 
        for spread of killer virus; Infected needles found in AIDS 
        study; AIDS to cost us $100m a year; Scientists finds fault 
        in AIDS screening kit; Pentridge warder refuse contact with 
        positive man (Prisons Victoria); All Cubans to be tested for 
        AIDS; AIDS task force leader predicts drug shortage; Private 
        blood bank begins beef testing; Facing up to double standards;
        Pope facing row over AIDS victims' audience (Religion);  
        Patrol to stop gays (Queensland).


Doc. No:  17- 20
        Compilation        1987.09.31
        From: Weir G  Senator Burns' Office        
        To: Executive QAC and others  
        "Press and Hansard - AIDS", and headings include: AIDS funding 
        arrangements (Federal hansard);   AIDS video for schools
        (Queensland); West Australia to legalise prostitution; For 
        AIDS ads, there's life beyond the Grim Reaper; Thailand to 
        repatriate convicts with AIDS; Drug Misuse Bill (Queensland 
        hansard); Condoms - all sizes and strawberry; Health funding 
        gets just a little healthier; Kids get AIDS teaching films 
        (Queensland); Kids get AIDS teaching films;   Chaplain hits 
        treatment of AIDS (Victoria); Businessmen asked to dig deep 
        for AIDS (Victoria); AIDS 'to hit every family' (Victoria);   
        Second phase of AIDS campaign; AIDS expert's grim deadline;
        AIDS virus discovery could lead to vaccine; Liz (Taylor) awes 
        Congress (USA); Porn crackdown could cause upsurge in sex 
        crimes (New Zealand);   AIDS hope springs from egg yolk;      


Doc. No:  18 - 20
        Compilation        1987.10.15
        From: Weir G  Senator Burns' Office        
        To: Executive QAC and others  
        'Press and Hansard AIDS' and headings include: Experts unveil 
        new AIDS shock; Non-Gay AIDS soars (Queensland); AIDS 
        counselling/ euthanasia -crusade for life (Queensland 
        Advertisement); Vibrator show was in bad taste, magistrate 
        tell venue compere (Queensland); Thousands given all-clear 
        on AIDS too early -study; Test migrants:AMA; Big rise in 
        number in 'non-gays' with AIDS; Industry fights to stem 
        AIDS claims (insurance); AIDS insurance payout to reach 
        $1 billion; Group plans credit union to cater for 
        homosexuals; Jailhouse romances (humour USA); AIDS the 
        wost is still to come unless... (feature article); Fruits 
        and vegetables (humour USA) AIDS and gay youth - Attitudes 
        and lifestyle modification in young male homosexuals;   
        Sex-change priest poses a problem for the Vatican;   
        Sex-crazed visitors; Why I'll test for AIDS without 
        consent: doctor; Duncan charge farcical after 15 years 
        - QC (South Australia); AIDS now a fact of SGIO life 
        (Queensland); Immigrants face AIDS checks (New Zealand);   
        Insurance pays $4 million on AIDS-related deaths; The 
        AIDS epidemic - where are we going?; The costs of 
        hospital-based medical are care for patient with the AIDS.   
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