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Health Law
This guide contains links to Internet resources and
documents in the area of federal health law, as well as
providing links to other guides and directories which
contain material on State and Territory and overseas law.
More detailed guides are also provided for topics of
current interest to the federal Parliament.
- Australia.
Parliament. House of Representatives. Standing Committee on Health and
Ageing
Examines health legislation and related issues
- Australia.
Parliament. Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs
Examines health legislation and related issues.
- Australian College of Legal
Medicine
- Australian and
New Zealand Institute of Health, Law & Ethics (ANZIHLE)
An independent, national organisation active in exploring the legal
and ethical aspects of health care and promotion.
- Australian
Medical Association. Policy page
- Australian Radiation Protection
and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA)
Includes information relating to the 2001 National
Competition Policy review of radiation protection legislation
- Department of Health and Ageing
- National Health and Medical Research
Council (NHMRC)
Established by the National Health and Medical Research Council Act
1992, the NHMRC, amongst other things, considers ethical issues relating
to health.
- NHMRC
Licensing Committee: oversees the Research Involving Human Embryos
Act 2002 and the Prohibition of Human Cloning Act 2002, including
the review of the Acts.
- Australian Safety and Compensation
Council (ASCC)
Also known as WorkSafe Australia . Includes texts of national standards,
model regulations and national codes of practice
- Office of the Gene Technology Regulator (PGTR)
Established by the Gene Technology Act 2000, the regulator
oversees the national scheme to regulate genetically modified organisms
(GMOs).
- Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA)
Regulates medicines and medical devices in Australia.
- Australia New Zealand Therapeutic
Products Authority (Joint Australia-New Zealand
regulatory scheme for therapeutic products, currently on hold)
- University of Sydney. Centre for
Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine
- University of Tasmania and
University of Melbourne. Centre for Law and Genetics
For further items, search the Parlinfo
database and select Library for journal articles, books and library publications,
and Media for newspaper articles and media releases. Although full-text
searchable, for copyright reasons some material on Parlinfo may be available
only to those using the Parliament House computer network
- Australian
Health Care Agreements
Signed in September 2003, these agreements govern Commonwealth funding
of state and territory public hospital services until 30 June 2008.
- Fourth
Community Pharmacy Agreement
Signed on 16 November 2005, and covering the period 1 December 2005
to 30 June 2010, this Agreement sets out in particular the remuneration
that pharmacists will receive for dispensing Pharmaceutical Benefits
Scheme medicines.
- Embryology
legal issues (University of New South Wales)
Covers human rights, reproductive technologies, fertility, abortion, gene manipulation, quarantine.
Law firm bulletins
Government and parliamentary reports etc
2008
2007
2006
2005
- Reports
of the Legislation Review Committee on the Prohibition of Human
Cloning Act 2002 and the Research Involving Human Embryos
Act 2002 (Lockhart Review Committee)
- Government
Response to Australian Law Reform Commission/Australian Health
Ethics Committee Report
Essentially yours: the protection of human genetic information
in Australia
2004
- Genes and ingenuity: gene patenting and human health (Australian Law Reform Commission, Report no. 99: examines intellectual property rights over genes and genetics and related technologies, particularly the impact they have on human health issues.
- Agreement with New Zealand concerning the establishment of a Joint Scheme for the Regulation of Therapeutic Products (Australia. Parliament. Joint Standing Committee on Treaties): Chapter 2 of report on Treaties tabled 30 March 2004, 5 August 2004: comprehensive examination of the treaty; recommends its ratification.
- Medicare Plus: the future for Medicare? (Senate Select Committee on
Medicare): inquiry into three key elements of the Government’s revised Medicare package, ‘Medicare Plus’.
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Medicines regulation and the TGA (Therapeutic Goods
Administration)
A general introduction to the regulatory process
for medicines in Australia
2003
2002
2001
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Human cloning: scientific, ethical and regulatory
aspects of human cloning and stem cell research
(House of
Representatives Standing Committee on Legal and
Constitutional Affairs) [Andrews Report]
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Medicine, technology and the law
Special issue of the Sydney Law Review.
Contents: Regulating Risk Society; Stigmata
Cases, Scientific Citizenship & Biomedical
Diplomacy / Cloning for Human Reproduction: One
American Perspective / The Australian Medical
Biotechnology Industry and Access to Intellectual
Property: Issues for Patent Law Development /
Medico-Legal Issues In Sport: The View From The
Grandstand / New Challenges for Old Laws? The
Development of E-Health in Australia / Human
Rights in the Age of Technology: Can Law Rein in
the Medical Juggernaut?
2000
1999
1998
1997
1996
1995
1991
Food Law
Australia
Overseas
Canada
European Union
New Zealand
United Kingdom
- Food Law (UK)
University of Reading lecture notes and other material covering UK and
European Union law. Has comprehensive links to UK and European food
law sites
United States
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