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| STOP MAI |
Authorised
by the STOP-MAI Campaign Coalition (WA) Affiliated
with the Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network (AFTInet) |
How world's citizens can work together to
correct governments' globalisation blundersThe former Labor Health Minister Dr Doug Everingham will fly to Perth from Brisbane this week to address a public forum on globalisation issues. The session will be at 2 pm on Saturday, 27 July, at the MUA function room at 2 Kwong Alley, North Fremantle.
With a distinguished career of over 50 years in public life, Dr Everingham is not yet ready to cease his campaigning on issues of democracy and justice. He is currently the Australian coordinator of the International Simultaneous Policy (SP) movement spanning many countries.
SP offers answers to the global dilemma in which major political parties are paralysed into a market and corporate-friendly position from which they cannot escape.
Dr Everingham will explain how the SP network is empowering citizens to exert a forceful influence on public policy through coordinated lobbying and electoral tactics.
Saturday's meeting will be attended by up to 100, including public-sector professionals, educators and representatives of non-government organizations and trade unions.
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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE--Dr Doug Everingham (Phone 07 3376 7763)
Dr Doug Everingham has practised in Australia and England as a hospital and family doctor and registrar in psychiatry and has contributed articles to the journal Medicine and War on the role of health professionals and others in seeking social sanity and global peace..
He has chaired several major peace conferences and joined organizations promoting proportional representation and other democratizing reforms. He also advocates democratic world federation to administer enforceable international law.
As Whitlam's Minister for Health, 1972-75, he introduced many community health programs in cooperation with every State government, and became Regional Vice-President (West Pacific) at the 1975 World Health Assembly, Geneva.
In 1982 he was Australasian delegate to International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War, and Parliamentary Adviser to the Australian UN Delegation where he spoke on apartheid. From 1998 to 2000, Doug was a member of the National Consultative Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament, meeting yearly for the Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade.
Dr Everingham is currently the Australian co-ordinator for the International Simultaneous Policy Organization.
For information on Simultaneous Policy, visit website http://www.simpol.org
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