Merle Thornton by Merle Thornton

Author:Merle Thornton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2020-03-18T00:00:00+00:00

Apparently the Dalkon string potentially introduced harmful bacteria into the uterus. My doctor had recommended I use the Dalkon Shield for two years, though I used it for four – this was still before much of the controversy was known. Thankfully I was able to remove it myself without any difficulty.

The University of Queensland

Brisbane was hot and steamy. It was a state capital with a population of just over half a million people and it had one university. Many of its residents were suspicious of interlopers who came from the ‘south’, so it took a little time for us to become properly acclimatised.

Soon after Neil started at the University of Queensland in 1960 he made friends with Marxist economics lecturer Bruce McFarlane. At the time Bruce had been bequeathed a research grant from a bank to explore policy in the electricity production industry in Australia. After my failed sales job, Bruce took me on as a research assistant. I was thrilled – thrilled to be using my brain and once again to be on a university campus!

I began the project knowing nothing about power production per se, and economics was a subject in which I had no qualifications. But many years later, Humphrey McQueen mentioned the stir this very report caused:

A thousand miles to the south, the irrigators around Coleambally burnt Bruce in effigy after his report for the Commonwealth Bank on the economic efficiencies of the Snowy Mountains Scheme gave high marks to electricity production but a bad fail for the provision of water to keep Santamaria peasants voting for the DLP.

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