New Ministers won't start their jobs with clean slates

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This week Julia Gillard made her cabinet reshuffle and the government’s political spin masters will want the reshuffle to be yesterday’s news by now because governments want Cabinet reshuffles to be the opportunities for them to shed old problems like a snake shed’s it’s old skin.

They want to leave the problems that previous Ministers faced in the past and to move on with new policies and renewed agendas, just in time for the next election.

It is a common tactic and one many governments use at least once in their already amazingly short terms but unfortunately it doesn’t mean the problems get resolved if the new Minister doesn’t address them.

I’ve been talking for months about some major problems the previous Health Minister faced regarding a document the NHMRC published reviewing the science on Naltrexone Implants that has been condemned by scientists worldwide as inaccurate and should not only be withdrawn but should be the subject of a public inquiry.

The government will want this issue to go away with the change of Minister.

But it isn’t like they actually resolved the problem of why the NHMRC got it so badly wrong or corrected the publication.

see http://turnitupmike.blogspot.com/2011/12/naltrexone-getting-government-to-come.html
&http://turnitupmike.blogspot.com/2011/10/government-advisory-body-still-refusing.html

Do we just forget the past and let a new Minister start over with a clean slate?

Turn It Up
I’m Michael Robinson

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Naltrexone - getting the government to come clean on policy.

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In October I raised an issue in this segment about Australia’s peak health advisory body, The National Health Medical Research Council.

The NHMRC are supposed to be a completely independent scientific body.  Their role to advise the Federal Government but have been caught out doing the political bidding of lobby groups.

In this particular document they review Naltrexone implants, the long term medication delivery type developed by Dr George O’neill in Perth and used to help addicts overcome their addictions.

They refer to studies by Professor Hulse where Hulse concludes that the Naltrexone implants studies are scientifically significant and therefore safe in saving lives.

The NHMRC changed the scientist’s own words and in their document basically state that Hulse found the implants to be not significant and not safe.

They have allowed the NHMRC to get away with publishing public advice documents that contains incorrect information.  It will not only cost lives, but it sends a big signal that the advice the government is getting from the NHMRC is not independent on any view.

With a document that important and lives on the line you’d think the government would at least withdrawn it from the website while they hold an inquiry … wouldn’t they?

Turn It Up
I’m Michael Robinson

For more information on this issue refer to my previous post

http://turnitupmike.blogspot.com/2011/10/government-advisory-body-still-refusing.html

http://turnitupmike.blogspot.com/search/label/Naltrexone%20Implants

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