"Beth Wilson" was a senior Australian public servant. She held the position of Victoria's Health Services Commissioner between 1997 and 2012. Before that, she worked as the President of Victoria's Mental Health Review Board.[http://www.health.vic.gov.au/hsc/downloads/beth_wilson_bio.pdf Beth Wilson] She is a well known public speaker, and conducts over 100 speeches and lectures each year. She made headlines in 2007 when she revealed her personal experience with abortion, and urged Victorian MPs to remove abortion from the Crimes Act.[http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/health-chief-tells-of-abortion-experience/2007/08/17/1186857774689.html Health chief tells of abortion experience - National - theage.com.au]

Wilson left school at the age of 15, unable to support herself financially. For several years, she worked in factories. She eventually began night school at RMIT studying science, and then managed to gain entrance to Monash University as a mature age student. She graduated in 1977 with a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws.[http://www.alumni.rmit.edu.au/fame/fame_profile.asp?id=306 Alumni]

In 2003, Wilson was awarded a Centenary Medal for her contribution to Australian health,[http://www.monash.edu.au/alumni/prominent-alumni/beth-wilson.html Beth Wilson - Prominent Monash Alumna] and holds an honorary doctorate from RMIT University/RMIT.

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It takes scarce dollars away from more effective programs that could help people stay out of trouble with drugs. It's a huge privacy invasion for not much gain.

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One of our best managers, her second language is English. We needed her to get better at English to be able to leave her alone in the restaurant. I heard somebody compliment her today on her English.

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There are a lot of liberty issues. I'm not sure these things are going to make us any safer and they have the potential to infringe on civil liberties.

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One thing about the race itself is that it's totally unpredictable and that's why it's so fun to watch.

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It's very irresponsible of legislators to invite costly litigation on something that they spent hard earned taxpayer dollars on just a few days ago.

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This is the first study we've done with (the program). So it was a learning process, and because of it, we kept the study very simplistic this time.

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