Aiming to reclaim respect
WOMEN - and men who likewise want to condemn sexual violence - get out your big banner and your sense of activism. Reclaim the Night is on this week and if you'd like to join those around the nation marching to demand safety from the fear and reality of sexual violence, head to Garema Place on Friday. This year is the 33rd of Reclaim the Night in Australia and in light of the recent scandals at the Australian Defence Force Academy and the potential risks that new technology poses to young people, the ACT Women's Services Network is using the event to launch Summer of Respect, a string of events and public awareness initiatives (for details, see the Summer of Respect Facebook page). Reclaim the Night runs from 6.30pm-8.30pm in the heart of Civic and will feature speakers, food, music and an interactive art installation. There will be a tree of stories from survivors of sexual violence. You can write a message of support to add to the tree. Halfway through the evening the march will take place. As Canberra-based Women's Centre for Health Matters social research officer Angela Carnovale puts it, when the event began in the late '70s, it was more of a protest to have streets safe for women. ''Now we know [sexual violence] is much more likely to occur in the home, so it's as much about raising awareness of the reality of sexual violence and the fact it affects so many women in the community.'' Unlike SlutWalk, there's no dress requirement for Reclaim the Night, which is a family oriented event. Organisers hope to see a few hundred people turn up on the night.Daisy by any other name
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This year is the 33rd of Reclaim the Night in Australia and in light of the recent scandals at the Australian Defence Force Academy and the potential risks that new technology poses to young people, the ACT Women's Services Network is using the event
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Physician assistants: an update on the policy, politics and state-of ...
Earlier this year, Croakey ran a series of articles examining the potential for physician assistants to expand the capacity of health services in underserved areas, particularly rural and remote Australia.
In the article below, Sharon Barnwell and Allan Forde provide an update – and a reminder that if you know someone who might be a candidate for PA training, applications are now open for the James Cook University course…
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Despite some setbacks, momentum is gathering for the physician assistant role
By Sharon Barnwell and Allan Forde
Last time we wrote for this blog, we talked about the reasons James Cook University decided to implement a physician assistant (PA) program.
JCU had embraced the potential for an alternative to the one-doctor rural town and was pushing ahead developing the program, recruiting PAs from the United States and regularly consulting PA educational institutions and Queensland Health.
Spirits were high, with the University of Queensland’s first cohort almost completing their course and other universities considering implementing a similar course.
Queensland and South Australia had both run independently evaluated pilot programs, which were found to have more than reasonable potential.
Since then, however, the outlook in Australia for PAs has been less than clear – the University of Queensland’s program will be dismantling their course after the second cohort graduates in June 2012, and the PA model appears a political casualty in Queensland and South Australia, partially due to entrenched opposition from a few powerful organisations fearful of change.
It may seem that physician assistants have become the irrelevant victims of a negative media campaign even before they’ve gotten off the ground… But JCU does not buy this and continues to move forward in the development of a PA course.