{"id":848,"date":"2017-10-19T12:50:43","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T03:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/southgate-institute-news\/?p=848"},"modified":"2017-10-19T15:34:35","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T06:04:35","slug":"after-work-after-life-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/southgate-institute-news\/2017\/10\/19\/after-work-after-life-after-all\/","title":{"rendered":"After Work, After Life After All"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nPictured with Prof Baum are:
\nFront: the hon Chris Sumner, the hon John Cornwall, the hon Anne Levy
\nBack: (left to right) Mike Duigan, the hon Kym Mayes, the hon Lynn Arnold<\/em><\/p>\n

On Friday 13th October Professor Fran Baum <\/a>launched former South Australian Health Minister the Hon Dr John Cornwall\u2019s <\/a>political memoir After Work, After Life After All. In her speech she reflected on the fact that along with his Federal counterpart the Hon Neal Blewett<\/a>, Dr, Cornwall was one of the few health ministers internationally who really understood the social determinants of health and had been able to act on them. She also commented that his period as health minister produced a remarkable list of achievements including: effective hospital reform, establishment of a network of women\u2019s health centres, expansion of the community health centre network, formation of the State\u2019s first Aboriginal community controlled health service (Nganampa Health Service ), our first Youth Health Service ground-breaking anti-tobacco legislation, reform of mental health services, the Healthy Cities initiative in Noarlunga and funded community health research. <\/p>\n

Professor Baum noted that Cornwall\u2019s memoir tells of a time in politics when values and a commitment to social justice were amply evident. Cornwall said of the Dunstan era in the book \u201cThere was a spirit of generosity abroad as the government set about bringing progressive social reform and community services to SA\u201d. He concludes by bemoaning the meanness in contemporary politics \u2013 to asylum seekers, continued poverty, corruption of Gonski, and the division of Australians in to \u201clifters and leaners\u201d and the \u201ctaxed and taxed nots\u201d. Cornwall notes that the surge of wealth \u201cshould have been the basis for a visionary social contract between government and the electorate\u201d. Professor Baum launched the book with the following words \u201cJohn your book demonstrates that your self-confessed impatience, impetuousness, and irascibility combined with a passion for the values of fairness and social democracy proved the basis for one of the most impressive terms of a health minister globally in the last 100 years. You showed what a social health policy means in practice and fought vested interests who would get in the way of our health like the tobacco industry and other corporations and organised medicine \u2013 and the health of South Australians is better for this\u201d.
\nFurther details of the book are available at https:\/\/afterworkafterplay.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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