As When Humanitarians Kill gathers momentum, Charles and Lyn uncover a disturbing truth: two official inquiries into Australia’s tainted blood disaster, the 1991 HIV inquiry and the 2004 hepatitis C inquiry, were quietly derailed. In this episode, they reveal how a small number of well placed gatecrashers intervened, sabotaging accountability and denying victims justice.
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‘An alliance of bias timeline’
of government funded Hepatitis C groups discriminating against infected blood victims: Before and during the Senate Affairs ReferencesCommittee into hepatitis C and blood supply in Australia 2004 https://ddd792de-b24d-47fe-8177-91b7438b0894.usrfiles.com/ugd/ddd792_4ac055e13e0e43df9787d08f8f345c8f.pdf
Inquiry crasher Stuart Loveday of Hepatitis NSW lecturing tainted blood victims.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZbIu5Rh7zg
Professor Arthur Bloom
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-68624798
1990 Australian Red Cross telling blood donors found to have the deadly virus hepatitis C that they my continue to donate blood for a process known as ‘plasma fractionation’ which is how haemophilia treatments were made.
https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ddd792_6c6046b9c92240f2b3df0c08d4e3db91~mv2.jpg
Charles MacKenzie’s submission to the Senate inquiry into hepatitis C and the Australian blood supply that he forced in 2004
https://www.infectedbloodaustralia.com/_files/ugd/efbdad_895236b193ec408791159e72c47fc122.pdf
A former manager of the Hepatitis Council whistleblows about discrimination against tainted blood victims here
https://www.infectedbloodaustralia.com/_files/ugd/efbdad_b647814ebfa54607a31265ff034aed61.pdf
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