Ross Duffin interviewed by James Waites in the Australian response to AIDS oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 4702717
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Duffin, Ross, 1956-, interviewee
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- Written permission required for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 2009
- 4 sound files (ca. 309 min.)
- Series:
- Australian response to AIDS oral history project.
- Summary:
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Ross Duffin speaks about being in the USA when HIV (GRID) (Gay Related Immune Deficiency) was discovered; the Gay Parade in San Francisco; his childhood and family background; his education; Monash University, enrolling in Medicine which he later abandons; Gay student group; the sacking of the Whitlam government; Malcolm Fraser and Medicare; moving to Canberra; ANU (Australian National University); the first Sydney Mardi Gras; attending the National Homosexual Conference; organised crime in Sydney Gay venues; Police Vice Squad; Blood Bank and the Gay community; Gay journalists; the epidemics progress from diagnosis in early 1984-5 to the many deaths between 1990-96; the impact of arrival of testing for HIV virus (1983-84); the impact of first 'home-grown' infection; the origins of ACON (AIDS Council of NSW); being elected onto ACON Committee in 1985; his employment whilst involved in volunteer activism; HIV Support Project Work as an ACON educator with background in activism not health promotion; the debate over 'content' for safe sex campaigns; Local and Federal-level discussions; the first National HIV/AIDS Strategy.
Duffin discusses the notification laws in NSW; media campaigns; his results and testing HIV+; the Grim Reaper campaign; Gay & Lesbian Counselling Service; the Rudd government; Gay Liberation House; The Hobart Conference; Sydney Star Observer; ACTUP (AIDS Coaliton to Unleash Power); duties as First Treatments Officer and the first medications trial (AZT); his involvement in ACTUP; the 'Camp' generation before activism; ANCARD (Aust National Council on AIDS and Related Diseases); the Fifth (last) National AIDS Conference; the origins of Positive Life then PWA (People with AIDS); creation of the magazine 'Talkabout'; finding ways to manage life and work; making sense of new treatments and their impact on life choices; a need to focus on new generation of young people and let them control their own epidemic; his personal experience of ageing; returning to work part-time; working on a book on HIV and ageing; the sector at large in 2009; how public health taken over for community health; the possibility of a renewed epidemic; HIV changing and shifting; meeting with newly diagnosed in workshops, the very different needs from support groups in earlier days.
- Notes:
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- Recorded on 19-23 September 2009 at Surry Hills, N.S.W.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (9 p.) and uncorrected transcript (typescript, 206 leaves)
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Educators
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Australian response to AIDS oral history project.
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