MS Employment report links

From:
http://www.msra.org.au/plans-prevention-and-cure-ms-promise-reduction-national-budget

to view a copy of the report:
http://www.msra.org.au/files/msra/docs/Economic%20Impact%20of%20MS%20in%202010%20Full%20Report.pdf

Media Coverage

• ABC Rural - 2/11/2011  - [click for link]http://www.abc.net.au/rural/news/content/201111/s3354049.htm?site=canberra&section=news
• The Hon Jenny Macklin MP media release - 2/11/2011 - [click for link] http://www.jennymacklin.fahcsia.gov.au/mediareleases/2011/Pages/eco_impact_ms_021111.aspx
  
• Medical Search - 3/11/2011 - [click for link]   http://www.medicalsearch.com.au/News/MS-prevention-plan-promises-reduction-to-national-budget-55741
  
• Invest in Australia - 2/11/2011 [click for link] http://www.investinaustralia.com/news/new-report-highlights-economic-impact-multiple-sclerosis-34c5
  

two links

http://www.abc.net.au/rural/news/content/201111/s3354049.htm?site=canberra&section=news
and
http://freilich.anu.edu.au/events/herbert-valmae-freilich-foundation-annual-lecture-bigotry-and-intolerance-2011

I was interviewed on ABC local radio last week (3rd November 2011). An interesting experience! While there were questions about my employment history, the rural reporter was more interested in the effect that living in the country had on my access to health services. I have been thinking about it ever since! While I did not see a GP very much at all in my thirties, I might have done if I had been in town and not just hiding away in depression and in the country!

on the other hand, even now, I think the main effect of being out here in Burra is an unwillingness to travel into town to go to a gym or other exercise.

ALSO

last week I finally got to a Freilich Foundation annual lecture. Raimond Gaita was talking about Gay marriage. He had ideas that made me think much more than ever before. I do need to read the transcript (if it becomes available) to be more careful of the wording.

enjoy both of these links!