Australian Senator advocating for PWME

[Kyla]

Thought the Aussie patients might be interested to see this video.
It seems you have a passionate and well informed advocate in your corner.

I don't know much (anything) about Australian politics so I won't try to put this in context.
Any Australians know the context of this video or any info on this Senator and his involvement with ME?

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/697585569845489664

 

[ukxmrv]

He needs to tackle those grant to Hickie and Llloyd though.

 

[GreyOwl]

Thanks for posting Kyla.

 

[AndyPandy]

He is a Greens Senator. I don't know the background to his interest in helping us other than he is working closely with Emerge which is an ME/CFS patient support and advocacy group.

 

[alex3619]

I think this might be the second thread on this. Or I have read it before somewhere else.

 

[alex3619]

Senator Ludlam is at least asking questions. I hope he stays in communication with the Griffith NCNED researchers.

 

[Skippa]

Good to know all your politicians aren't backwards bogans

 

[Snow Leopard]

Good to know all your politicians aren't backwards bogans

Only some of them are.

I was going to post pics... But I thought better of it.

 

[Woolie]

Good to know all your politicians aren't backwards bogans

Haha, what an Aussie word!

 

[Snow Leopard]

Haha, what an Aussie word!

I heard your Kiwi friends all think you're a bogan too!

 

[Woolie]

What kiwi friends, @Snow Leopard?

But in all honesty, I don't really like the term. Its heavily laden with class stereotypes (a bit like the UK word chavs).
So I say - let's take the word "bogan" from the gutters and use it with pride!

Je suis Bogan!

 

[medfeb]

I wish we had congressional leaders in the U.S. asking the kinds of questions that Ludlum was asking. I thought he was excellent

 

[alex3619]

A lot of the questions were taken on notice, which means they will reply to them later. I look forward to what they have to say.

 

[AndyPandy]

For anyone who is interested, Senator Ludlam is appearing on Kitchen Cabinet next week on ABC TV Thursday night at 8pm.

For those who haven't seen it, Kitchen Cabinet is a program where political reporter Annabel Crabb conducts "soft" interviews with politicians over a meal in their homes.

I'm interested in finding out more about this politician who has been championing our cause.

 

[John Mac]

I think this link has a video of Scott Ludlam that might be an update of the earlier videos, not sure of the dates.

http://outdonews.com/news/1102375/mecfs-research-funding

 

[Hilary]

Scott Ludlam looks as though he's being admirably persistent - and homing in on the issues that make a difference. In the earlier video he very accurately observed that far too many people have been getting by on 'bugger all'..

 

[Woolie]

'bugger all'

Translation: nothing