Report from Australia

Desley Hegney

doi:10.14574/ojrnhc.v7i2.133

Vol. 7 No. 2 (2007)

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Report from Australia

Desley Hegney

Desley Hegney
The University of Western Australia

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Abstract

In the last few weeks, we have changed our Federal government and now Prime Minister Kevin Rudd from the Labour Party is our new leader. Labour have been out of power for about 11 years. The swing against the government was greatest in Queensland (where Kevin Rudd lives).

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Author Biography

Desley Hegney

Head, Discipline of Nursing

School of Population Health

and Professor and Chair of Nursing Research, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth