In this edition, Charles MacKenzie speaks about the retirement last week of Ita Buttrose as chair of the tax payer funded Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and reveals why Australians never got to find out about their nations deadliest medical scandal HIV & HepC contaminated blood.

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Ita print ad from 1985 where she lied about Haemophilia treatments being ‘purified’
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Ita Buttrose's time as Chair of the National Advisory Committee on AIDS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDIO-AJN2_0

The Australian Red Cross Lifeblood advertised for blood donors in sexually explicit gay publications such as the Sydney Star during the AIDS crisis https://www.infectedbloodaustralia.com/art5

1989 Haemophilia treatments not sterilised against deadly virus Hepatitis C.
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Ita Buttrose + Bill Bowtell A friendship forged through crisis
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/yours-queerly/ita-buttrose-bill-bowtell-a-friendship-forged-through-crisis/103490902

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