John Gyorki   6/04/2018 6:47:26 AM

Please give me a bit more on the description of the job.

Dr Bernadette Mackay   6/04/2018 7:40:25 AM

While books, plays, museums and multiple other forms of communication relay the horror of the extermination of the Jews in the past, our government quietly,cruelly and so very deceptively continues it's brutality and evil destruction of the mental and physical health of incarcerated refugees.Thank you for again highlighting the truth

newsGP   6/04/2018 8:43:52 AM

Thanks for your comment, John. More information can be found at www.apsjobs.gov.au/SearchedNoticesView.aspx?Notices=10717855:1&mn=SESSearch

Bin Shi   6/04/2018 9:17:13 AM

I am a GP, I have general registration with AHPRA, I have Australian citizenship. I live in Melbourne. I am going to apply for RACGP fellowship exam. What are the doctor’s job requirements ? I would like to get more information about this position.

Mai Maddisson   6/04/2018 9:37:14 AM

I have two comments
1. Many of the past refugees (2 large cohorts-- the World War 2 group, and the Vietnam conflict group) who have assimilated over the decades are now married into families of Australian descent and there maybe doctor relatives who have shared a dossier of experience with someone who nominally seems to have no refugee life insights nor a visible medical degree. An ongoing communication with such doctors is far more valuable than the mere letters MB.BS.
2. The uglier part. I am one of the Post WW 2 cohort who repeatedly put up their hand to be helpful over the latter decades to be told by my colleagues basically "bu--er off”, “What would you know”. I arrived here as a seven year old in 1949.
The disillusionment took me further afield to become involved in the Children in War Studies based overseas. I was warmly welcomed by them and have presented at their conferences, written papers and have three published books which live in one of our RACGP libraries, two also in the National and my state library and in several academic institutions in Europe. I am still in contact with the group who like me, are aging.
Among one of my projects was the effecting ten years ago, of a reunion of the kids who had lived in the same camp as I had. We reflected on how things had been for us and how we saw that half century of life: Among the conclusions that short-term gain can effect long term loss, paraphrased -act in haste and repent at leisure. We remain in contact by e-mail.
Oz had a goldmine of material and a willing person putting up their hand and shunned that hand. There are many of my cohort who I feel sure would have been more than willing to lend a hand of relevant experience had the attitude not been "What would you know".
If the medical powers that be tell their willing and experienced colleagues to 'bug--r off' how long are those colleagues expected to hang around wanting to help.
Likewise, many of my comments in blogs have never reached publication in the provided spaces.
It sounds to me more like there is a form of segregation happening within our own ranks.

Mai Maddisson   6/04/2018 12:35:22 PM

Dr MacKay.
I read your comments with utter disbelief. How can you possibly compare the CONTRIVED brutality of the Reich, which had its beginnings in the mid-1930s. Through my eyes what you have written is truly degrading for those who endured the Holocaust events: There is NO comparison.
I have a right to make that comment as I spent the first 8.5 years of my life in a war zone and in the refugee/DP camps. Compared with the Jewish experience life in refugee camps is a picnic. Have you ever visited the Dachau camp which has been refurbished for those who want the true facts? I vaguely recall the history of my toddlerhood and vague imagery of possible camps, and have visited Dachau to clarify my imagery of the past.
And I have a right to speak because I am an accident of the German troop march and have done lots of reading into both destinies. My heart still bleeds for what the Jewish people endured and regret that my forefathers were part of that ugly event.
The kids from the camps! Among my friends from the camps are Emeritus Professors in many disciplines: Many of them look back on the time as making them more resourceful and grateful for what they finally were to access.
Please Dr Mackay do be careful to consider the plight of those who truly have something to grieve. This lot of refugees, like my lot did not have a cosy existence, and this lot have not known desperate hunger, but our lots are/were trivial to that of the Jewish people.
Please don’t emotionally capitalise on that ugly event again.

Dr. A Q Aslam   21/05/2018 10:44:06 AM

I am a GP, working in Adelaide.
Had FRACGP in 2006.
Speak English, Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi
Please let me know more about job, overseas trained doctor and worked in Africa for 7-8 years.