Page 1259 - Week 04 - Thursday, 21 April 1994
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I consider that it would be more advantageous for the Assembly to be given earlier advice than that, and five sitting days within which the Minister is required to table a directive once it is given to the Australian International Hotel School would be much more appropriate. Obviously, it is a venture that the Assembly has a keen interest in, and a five-sitting day period in which the Minister for Education and Training would table a directive is, I believe, much more sensible.
The final amendment to clause 6 is an amendment recommended by the Assembly's Scrutiny of Bills and Subordinate Legislation Committee and clarifies any possible misunderstanding with regard to the words "Institute" and "Institution". I commend the amendments to the Assembly.
Amendments agreed to.
Bill, as a whole, as amended, agreed to.
Bill, as amended, agreed to.
ADJOURNMENT
Motion (by Ms Follett) proposed:
That the Assembly do now adjourn.
Cancer Treatment
MR STEVENSON (8.11): Little has changed since the forebears of the AMA hierarchy were promoting the bleeding of patients to let the evil out and decrying any alternative medical treatments. The AMA editorial was prejudiced, unscientific and culpably misleading. I read the reply to it by Jenny Burke of Independent Medical Research, which the editor of the Medical Journal of Australia refused to publish:
Your editorial, "On eye of newt and bone of shark" is both fallacious and facetious. It is typical of the type of response from prejudiced minds to the dissemination of new and different knowledge. (Unfortunately, this type of response to new paradigms in treatment is traditional in the medical profession.)
An example of the prejudicial thinking of orthodox practitioners is to ignore the toxic and often fatal side effects of their own allopathic treatment and procedures, and instead to wax lyrical over the markedly less severe side effects of other therapeutic procedures.
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