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.
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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