Ruth & Dennis Sharkey

To those who put in so much energy into the meetings around the country - on behalf of the industry as a whole, Dennis and I want to say a hearty well done! To us it was a bit of a deja vu as we were part of an earlier group who stepped up for the consumer’s right to freedom of choice of a health care practitioner. I must admit, when I saw so many at the meeting, and found that they have some idea of what the industry is facing, I thought I may be preaching to the converted.

You may or may not be aware but there are currently heavy forces at work to discredit the use of homoeopathy in all forms and at the highest levels. A major new documentary is starting to screen across the country - Just One Drop - to answer the fradulent claims made by specific 'focus groups'. Having Leisa Goddard and her team to support the Australian Homoeopathic Association is the best thing for the industry, as I said in a comment to Samantha Bullock from the Natural Med

Now that I am in the last quarter of my current existence – always assuming I reach 100 – I feel able to reflect on what might have been. At high school archaeology really appealed, then the attention was drawn to investigative journalism, and there is a vague regret over never learning to play the piano. Looking at my career one could say I have achieved my goals. The first two choices involved digging into the unknown, which I’ve done and uncovered many secrets, while the c