Ian Rankin interviewed by James Waites in the Australian response to AIDS oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 3965892
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Rankin, Ian, 1966-, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Written permission is required for research, personal copies and public use for 10 years from the date of the interview.
- Description:
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- 2007
- 3 sound files (ca. 228 min.)
- Series:
- Australian response to AIDS oral history project.
- Summary:
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Ian Rankin, President of the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations speaks about his upbringing; attending Sydney University, studying Economics; the early days of AIDS; gay-related immune deficiency (GRID); working for the Commonwealth Employment Service (1986?); Australian Clerical Officers Association (ACOA); Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU); work-based politics (1991-92); his involvement in social advocacy and activism; AZT trials; standing as ALP candidate; relocating to Canberra; Dr Peter Rowland; local HIV services; peer support groups; leaving the Public service; his professional HIV involvement; position as Convenor of People Living With HIV/AIDS-ACT (PLWHA-ACT) and President of AIDS Action Council-ACT; becoming President of National Association of PLWHA; the arrival of highly active anti-retroviral therapies; combination therapies; Fusion inhibitors; his early involvement in HIV community sector activity; Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations (AFAO) delegate; the AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACTUP) model.
Rankin discusses the Howard government; Australian partnership model; policies relating to drug injecting; AIDS Match Funding Programme and Medicare AIDS Programme; from 1996, Public Health Outcomes Funding Agreement (PHOFA) merges with other programmes; HIV community sector over past 10 years, reduced resources while an increasing HIV+ population; Welfare to Work; co-payment of prescription drugs; the need for a chronic illness card; the Disability Support Pension (DSP); Canberra's first mobile needle exchange; peer-based projects; AIDS Action Council, PLWHA-ACT; his involvement in AIDS Action; the Doctors Reform Society; the changes in approach to education over past decade; drug use in Canberra; challenges resulting from success of Australian response; reduction of death rates; how the infection rate is rising; heterosexual stream; the proximity of PNG epidemic; Australia in the future global context.
- Notes:
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- Part of a project undertaken jointly by the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisation and the National Library of Australia focussing on the social and political response in Australia to AIDS.
- Recorded on March 31, 2007 at Dickson, A.C.T.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (9 p.) and uncorrected transcript (typescript, 85 leaves)
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