contacts for the Australian reveiw into Homeopathy

[Pauline Ashford]

In reply to Maria who asked for contacts to write to re the government review into Homeopathy
Homeopathic Review by NHMRC (National Health and Medical Research Council

Email ComplementaryMedicine@nhmrc.gov.au

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https://www.nhmrc.gov.au/your-health/co ... -medicines

URL for the info re the Homeopathy review and committee (the list I posted) and public consultation etc
The following is on these web page (URL above) ask them how much of this $75 million has been given for Homeopathic research!!! NONE!!!

Nearly the entire amount has gone to drug companies for research into supplements!! Virtually none of it has gone directly to CAM for useful research to back our modalities?

Funding scientific research

Since 2001, NHMRC has provided more than $75 million in funding for rigorous scientific research into complementary medicine and alternative therapies.

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If you use the NHMRC email above please make sure you cc to the politicians below

As it will likely just be LOST otherwise.
Australia Federal Minister for Health Tanya Plibersek

PO Box 6022 House of Representatives Parliament House Canberra ACT 2600 Tel: (02) 6277 7220 Fax: (02) 6273 4146

Email: Minister.Plibersek@health.gov.au

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Minister for mental health and Aging Mark Butler

Suite MG48 Parliament House Canberra ACT 2600 Tel: (02) 6277 7280 Fax: (02) 6273 4138

email: ministerbutler@health.gov.au
WE have an election in September – we need to play out our hands before then !!
Would be good if any of you can get press coverage in your countries to have articles appear out of our country that point out they are doing a major position statement review without any Homeopathic representation on the committees etc and with ‘experts’ that have no expertise in Homeopathy!!!
Regards Pauline
Pauline Ashford

Maleny Homeopathy

Homeopathy, Dorn spinal and headache treatment,

Lymphatic drainage massage, Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), Reiki

130 Ansell Rd, Witta, QLD 4552

Ph 07.54944101

paulineashford@dodo.com.au

www.malenyhomeopathy.com

Hrs Mon 12-9pm, Tues & Thurs 9-5
From: Maria Bohle [mailto:mtbohle@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, 2 March 2013 11:04 PM
To: minutus@yahoogroups.com; paulineashford@dodo.com.au
Subject: Re: [Minutus] Re: A Letter From Fran Sheffield
Pauline, you have given us some good information. Perhaps if the homeopathic community world wide sent out some letters?
You said: "Homeopathy Working committee of which there is not one Homeopath involved in even the discussions and nor will they let our Australian Register of Homeopaths even have representation in any committee that may present information to this working committee which is an off shoot of the National Health and Medical Research Council NHMRC and is headed also by the CMO. "
That is shameful who can we write letters to? Let's let Australia know the world is watching them! Please give us good info who to write to and who are the layers above these decision makers.
Our homeopathic community is coming together (slowly, but it is happening) with the European Standards for Education, etc. If we do not work together we will indeed continue Hahnemann's legacy of persecution.
warmly, Maria
We are all fighting for our existence here in Australia – firstly Fran and this spurious claim – God help you if you question vaccination in this country. And now that they have managed to link the vaccination debate with homeopathy through Fran I am sure that they are rubbing their hands together with glee – trounce the two at the same time!!
Secondly we are fighting the push here to remove up to 30 alternative therapies Homeopathy being one, from the list of allowable rebate claims from PRIVATE Health insurers (to be decided by our Chief Medical Officer CMO alone – some democracy ay) and thirdly the pointes attack against Homeoathy which comes after – supposedly about safety and efficacy – but actually a witch hunt – it will be decided by the ‘Homeopathy Working committee of which there is not one Homeopath involved in even the discussions and nor will they let our Australian Register of Homeopaths even have representation in any committee that may present information to this working committee which is an off shoot of the National Health and Medical Research Council NHMRC and is headed also by the CMO. The NHMRC had a preliminary paper – leaked a year or so ago in which they were out to declare Homeopathy ‘unethical’ this fight still rages
The professional associations of most of our Alternative and Complementary therapies here have just made submissions re research etc to the CMO

- Round one!! I believe the decisions have been made already and we cannot get media time here – except to trounce people like Fran (and Meryl Dorey)who stand to try and at least put alternative research out there for people to read.
It is an election year here in September – so I hope to try and get Getup or one of those groups to take on this cause and circumvent the media control here but seems that this is going to be problematic also – but there are some other avenues that I am considering taking – however to stick your neck out – beings with it more than just the fear of hate campaigns and threats – look at the AVN (Australian Vaccination Network) site to see a little of what they have been and are going through. The latest being they are not allowed to use the AVN name now as it is ‘misleading to the public’ and they are ‘only putting one side of the debate’ – hmmm funny I thought that was what our government was doing?? Id laugh if it were not so serious!!
Anyway pray for us all this year but particularly Fran at the moment and yes we may need finds to fight this – we are not a big country nor a big population so they just make sure that they can bankrupt you in the courts before you can get heard and gag the media so you cant get heard to get support. We will have to do it through social media – so I am suddenly face with having to look at facebook etc which I never wanted to enter in order to find a way through this.
Regards Pauline
Pauline Ashford

Maleny Homeopathy

Homeopathy, Dorn spinal and headache treatment,

Lymphatic drainage massage, Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), Reiki

130 Ansell Rd, Witta, QLD 4552

Ph 07.54944101

paulineashford@dodo.com.au

www.malenyhomeopathy.com

Hrs Mon 12-9pm, Tues & Thurs 9-5