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Australia: a career in cancer promotion?
simonchapman@health.usyd.edu.au
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Last year protests by staff and students at the University of Sydney saw the university senate vote to not endorse the chancellors appointment of former state premier and current BAT Australia chair Nick Greiner to an advisory position in political science at the university. As if to rub salt into Greiners public humiliation, the university then advised BAT that they were no longer welcome to set up a stand at the annual student careers fair and extol the virtues of working for a tobacco company"You get to do lots of great stuff like talking to government and the media," one student was told by a gushing BAT staffer.
Website checks this March saw BAT poised to woo students at three other Sydney university careers fairs. Alerts to staff and student bodies saw swift action. The University of Western Sydney reversed its decision to allow BAT to participate within hours of
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