Modernising the National Health and Medical Research Council

Van Der Weyden, Martin B

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2005.tb07077.x

The NHMRC is at a fork in the road — which route will the government take?

When the then Commonwealth Minister for Health, William (Billy) Hughes defined the role of the newly formed National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) in 1936, he noted that:1

The Medical Journal of Australia, Sydney, NSW.

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