The current move by COAG promoting national registration, if implemented in its proposed form will lead to nationalization of medicine, and thus indeed of our profession. Whenever bureaucrats speak of quality and productivity they mean control.

Many of us would like to see the same requirement for registration uniform throughout Australia but I am sure none of us would like to see this implemented at the cost of our professional independence.

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