General Practitioners   of Australia

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The History of General Practice in Australia



This section of the website aims to collate a history of general practice in Australia. It has been broken down into chapters relating to different periods of history. Each chapter is then broken down into decades. One aim is to be able to give a clear picture of what it was like to be a general practitioner at any point in Australian history and hence the biographies of doctors in various eras.

Background
The status of medicine before British settlement.
Aboriginal medicine.
The first European doctor in Australia (1629).
Colonial Times
From British settlement until Federation in 1901.
Early Federation
1901 to 1950.
Australian War Memorial. The Efffects of WW1 on General Practice
The Spanish Flu
The Efffects of WW2 on General Practice
Post-War
1950 to 1999.

Millenial
Year 2000+.
Biographies
References





 
 
Background
Colonial Times
Early Federation
Post-War
2000 Onwards
References