READ what authorities say about Cook’s Vision for Australia’s health
From a public health perspective, Prof Ian Ring (JCU)
‘If only we had more modern-day health administrators of the calibre of Dr Cecil Cook!
From an epidemic management perspective, Prof Ian Ring (JCU) suggests:
‘COVID-19 parallels a hero of public health, Dr Cecil Cook, in the polio pandemic in 1948 and the national poliomyelitis vaccination campaign (1952-62).’
From a public policy perspective Dr Hal Colebatch (UNSW)suggests:
… there is much to learn from those experience[d] in the practice of policy [in] this biography of an Australian policy pioneer, Cecil Cook.’
From a political science perspective, Dr Hal Colebatch (UNSW) writes:
‘Cook saw the health of the Aboriginal people as reflecting education, employment, housing, hygiene and the management of the self ’.
From a Northern Territory medical perspective, Dr Jo Wright (NT Health) wrote:
‘I found the account of Cecil Cook’s career very readable and interesting, with Barry’s writing style both accessible and engaging.
From an Australian history perspective, former Judge of the Supreme Court of Western Australia, and son of the former Minister for the Interior, the Hon Paul M.C. Hasluck, Nicholas Hasluck AO comments:
‘Your book establishes that here was a professional fully committed to improving the lives and opportunities of those he encountered.’
Australian military historian Dr Ian Willis AO, comments:
Cook was a true enigma, the Chief Protector of Aborigines who argued in 1933 [to] end protection – he called it a policy of euthanasia.