Dennis Altman interviewed by Heather Rusden for the Australian response to AIDS oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 647977
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Altman, Dennis, 1943-, interviewee
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- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1993 July 7
- 2 tape reels (ca. 91 min.) : 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, stereo ; 10 in.
- Series:
- Australian response to AIDS oral history project.
- Summary:
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Dennis Altman, former member of the Australian National Council on AIDS and member of the Victorian AIDS Council, speaks of the Australian gay scene, pre-AIDS; Gay Mardi Gras; first awareness of AIDS as a disease; Blewett San Francisco visit, 1985; American influences on Australian AIDS response; Australian political situation at beginning of epidemic; community organisations; AIDS & the media; Australian response to the disease; needle exchange; AIDS White Paper; HIV testing issue; effect of AIDS on his life; safe sex practice; dealing with sickness, deaths; his involvement with VAC & AFAO; prevention education; Grim Reaper campaign; gay participation in AIDS debate; ANCA & AIDS policy making process; Howe; AIDS bureaucracy; AIDS funding; Australia's international AIDS program; factionalisation; empowerment of gay community.
- Notes:
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- Part of a project undertaken jointly by the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations and the National Library of Australia focussing on the social and political response in Australia to AIDS.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
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- Timed transcript available.
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This belongs to the Australian response to AIDS oral history project.
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