Vetaffairs / Department of Veterans' Affairs, [1984]-

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(October 1994)
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Vetaffairs  

NEWSPAPER FOR THE VETERAN COMMUNITY  

OCTOBER 1994  

INSIDE THIS ISSUE  

• The Repatriation Medical Authority How It Works .... Page  

• Agent Orange, cancer link Page  

• Rimau campaign remembers as heroes re-united Page  

• Bougainville VCs Page  

•Philippines Liberation Medal Page  

• Slouch hat adopted for Rwanda UN force Page 7,  

Greenslopes Repat sold to private buyer  

Ramsay Health Care will assume control of  

operations of Greenslopes Repatriation Gen-  

eral Hospital on January next year the  

same day that the Repatriation Private Pa-  

tient Scheme (RPPS) comes into operation  

for the 67,000 entitled Queensland veterans  

and war widows.  

The decision to transfer the operations of  

Greenslopes to private enterprise was taken  

after extensive consultations with veterans and  

major ex-service organisations and follows  

similar transfer of Perth’s major repatriation  

hospital, Hollywood, to Ramsay in February this  

year after the company’s successful tender.  

The Minister for Veterans’ Affairs, Con Sciacca,  

stressed that the Commonwealth through the  

Repatriation Commission and the Department  

of Veterans’ Affairs would continue to be  

responsible for the health care of veterans and  

war widows.  

“As veterans and war widows grow older they  

need wider options for local treatment. Under  

the RPPS they will be able to go to their local  

public hospital or to Greenslopes without the  

need for their doctor to contact the Department  

of Veterans’ Affairs,” he said.  

Individual access to specialist medical practi-  

tioners will also be easier under the scheme.  

According to Paul Ramsay, chairman of the company,  

veterans can expect continued priority access to the  

high quality treatment available at Greenslopes.  

Areas marked for upgrading in planned $8 million  

building and refurbishment program include the Aged  

Mr Paul Ramsay (left), with repat patient Arch  

Keeling and the Minister for Veterans' Affairs,  

Con Sciacca.  

and Extended Care Department and the Psychiatric  

Unit, construction of new consulting rooms, improve-  

ments to certain specialised services such as the Stroke  

Unit, and to the main ward block and outpatient  

facilities. As well, 400 car parking spaces will be  

provided for patients.  

Mr Ramsay has made commitment to maintain  

the Chapel and the Peace Grove and the arrange-  

ment under which ex-service organisations can  

use rooms in the hospital for meetings.  

The new owner has also undertaken to maintain  

the present high standards of service in orthopae-  

dic surgery, general medicine, general surgery  

and urological surgery, and has plans to maintain  

teaching and research links with the University of  

Queensland.  

Eric Kay, President of the Queensland Branch of  

the RSL, has welcomed “the secure future” for  

Greenslopes. Speaking at ceremony at which  

the sale was announced, he said the veteran  

community recognised that the health care needs  

of older veterans and war widows were chang-  

ing.  

Mr Kay added that the RSL would continue to  

work with other ex-service organisations, with  

Legacy and the War Widows’ Guild, to ensure  

that the RPPS worked in the best interests of  

Queensland veterans and war widows.  

An explanatory brochure on the new health ar-  

rangements will be mailed to all Repatriation  

beneficiaries in Queensland in December. The  

Department of Veterans’ Affairs will also con-  

tact local medical officers to provide them with  

relevant information.  

‘WEARY’ WILL STAND FOR ALL WHO SERVED  

‘Weary’ Dunlop once said  

“the best memorial of all is  

in the hearts of men His  

life of dedication and self-  

sacrifice ensured his place in  

many, many thousands of  

hearts.  

Now Melbourne sculptor,  

Peter Corlett, has been cho-  

sen to mirror the qualities of  

“this wise and saintly man”,  

as Sir Ninian Stephen de-  

scribed Dunlop, in bronze.  

Corlett’s maquette was  

chosen from six finalists in  

national competition run by  

the ‘Weary’ Dunlop Statue  

Committee. It was the only  

design that depicted him in  

lounge suit.  

“I have chosen to represent  

the complete man in singu-  

lar and profound way delib-  

erately avoiding an obvious  

theatrical and/or sentimental  

depiction of only one period  

or aspect of his great life,”  

Corlett said referring to  

Dunlop’s work in Changi  

and on the Burma- Thailand  

Railway.  

“The sculpture stands with  

typical ‘Weary’ posture, hat  

in hand, in gesture of hum-  

ble friendliness, rich red  

poppy of remembrance in  

his buttonhole.”  

Corlett first met Sir Edward  

in 1990 and decided there  

and then that one day he  

would sculpt him. Just two  

months before Sir Edward  

died, Corlett dined with him.  

“I believe it was ‘Weary’  

Dunlop ’ mature psyche that  

made him stand so tall, that  

made him the leader and hero,  

the wise man, the archetype  

and mould that other men  

and women may wish to emu-  

late.  

“My intention is to make an  

apparently simple, full stand-  

ing figure, posthumous por-  

trait, ‘Weary’ Dunlop in  

late, complete life, an articu-  

late, expressive representa-  

tion showing his humility,  

courage, compassion, gen-  

erosity and determination,”  

Corleltt said.  

The chairman of the statue  

committee, Peter Nixon, said  

other designs had focused  

more on Sir Edward as the  

heroic doctor dedicating him-  

self to his fellow prisoners in  

the Japanese POW camps.  

“But he spent the rest of his  

life dedicating himself to his  

fellow man,” Mr Nixon said.  

Two statues, which will be  

about one and quarter times  

life size, will be erected one  

in Melbourne’s St Kilda  

Road, opposite the former  

Prince Henry’s Hospital, and  

the other at site as yet to be  

determined in Canberra  

where another work by  

Corlett Simpson and his  

donkey stands.  

Corlett sees corollary be-  

tween the two works “Just  

as Simpson and his donkey  

was truly representative fig-  

ure for all who fought and  

died at Gallipoli, the  

statue of this humble  

man will honour all  

who served in the  

Asia-Pacific region  

• Continued on  

page  

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