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Veterans Affairs committee Mr. Chairman, thank you very much indeed. It's a great pleasure and a great honour to be here today. I've appeared before various parliamentary committees in Ottawa, and that is a reflection I think of the policy closeness that exists between Canada and Australia as places to gov
June 3rd, 2008Committee meeting
His Excellency William Fisher
Veterans Affairs committee It's about 95¢.
June 3rd, 2008Committee meeting
William Fisher
Veterans Affairs committee On the state-federal division on health, in the Australian constitution, health was one of the issues given to states, but in the interim one hundred or so years, the federal government has become more and more active in health. In fact, now large quantities of the health portfol
June 3rd, 2008Committee meeting
William Fisher
Veterans Affairs committee On the shortage of doctors, of course, there's always a shortage of doctors in the general sense, but it's more of a regional issue I think than an overall issue. It's very hard to get medical practitioners to rural and isolated areas. It's really easy to get doctors at Surfers P
June 3rd, 2008Committee meeting
William Fisher
Veterans Affairs committee Let me preface by saying that I'm not a great expert on this. Secondly, I think you'd get a different answer from each state from what you'd get from the federal level. The principle, of course, is that the total funding does not alter. How it's delivered is an organizational
June 3rd, 2008Committee meeting
William Fisher
Veterans Affairs committee The new government in Australia has taken the initiative to have a meeting with all the state premiers, which is part of the normal process, and the main purpose of that has been to look at ways of improving the function of the federal system. The prime minister and the premiers
June 3rd, 2008Committee meeting
William Fisher
Veterans Affairs committee Yes. The returned servicemen's associations are strong, although, of course, declining because the population components for returned servicemen are declining. Therefore, the government itself has taken over a lot of the responsibility for work with schools. It's a very strong
June 3rd, 2008Committee meeting
William Fisher
Veterans Affairs committee It's not students. It's just individuals, but they're mainly young people. No, the federal government doesn't. That said, schools will make trips, so there is perhaps assistance for different people who want it. You might be able to elaborate on that. Could you?
June 3rd, 2008Committee meeting
William Fisher
Veterans Affairs committee Could I just add to that? That's just Gallipoli, and as Adam said, Gallipoli has become rather a political subject in Australia because of the requirement that the Turks are obliged to receive this huge number of Australians at dawn every April 25. It doesn't just happen, so we h
June 3rd, 2008Committee meeting
William Fisher
Veterans Affairs committee I'll see what I can do.
June 3rd, 2008Committee meeting
William Fisher
Veterans Affairs committee I'll ask my Turkish colleague if he has a copy of that, which I think he does.
June 3rd, 2008Committee meeting
William Fisher
Veterans Affairs committee My military attaché will answer you.
June 3rd, 2008Committee meeting
His Excellency William Fisher
Veterans Affairs committee I do not know either, but I will enquire, if you wish me to do so. I don't know whether we have figures such as these.
June 3rd, 2008Committee meeting
His Excellency William Fisher