http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/graham-brown/ Graham holds a PhD in Public Health and is currently the Director of the WA Centre for Health Promotion Research at Curtin University. Graham is involved in a number of HIV-related policy and research committees at state and national levels, and is the current President of the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations. Graham undertakes health promotion training, research and evaluation in collaboration with a range of community based and government organisations, as well as teaches health promotion planning, evaluation, policy and research courses in the School of Public Health at Curtin University. en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Why-cant-Australia-accept-migrants-with-HIV/ A new front in the immigration debate opened up in the last week as the media grabbed hold of proposed changes to migration law to deliver a sensationalist warning of alleged “loop-holes” that will supposedly lead to an influx of chronically ill foreign workers. The alarmist reporting on efforts to engage the community in tackling the complex issue of migration policy for people with disability is disappointing on several levels - particularly as there were serious factual errors underpinning the arguments. Suggestions that the Government had widened a “loop-hole” and “loosened” its grip on migration policy for migrants with HIV and cancer not only played to political fear-mongering that Australia has lost control of its migration policy, it also negatively stereotyped people with disability as non-taxpayers who constitute a drain on society and the economy. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Graham Brown) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Why-cant-Australia-accept-migrants-with-HIV/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Why-cant-Australia-accept-migrants-with-HIV/#item2299 Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:55:39 +0000 Graham Brown | Author bios | The Punch