Homosexual Proposals

Three remits for Winter Council of NZUSA are to be discussed at the first meeting of the SRC on Friday,

The first of two proposals for National Commission is that NZUSA become a corporate member of the Homosexual Law Reform Society.

The accompanying documentation states that if NZUSA accepts that the law relating to homosexual acts between consenting adults in private should be reformed, the most practical way of helping to bring about this reform would be to join the society.

"This society does not seek moral approval of homosexual acts, nor does it advocate any change of the law other than that specifically relating to homosexual acts between consenting adult males in private," the report says.

The second remit is that in view of the "current serious shortage of general practitioners, the Government be urged to take the following steps:

"In order to case the short-term situation, the Government implement a revised assisted immigration scheme to attract doctors from overseas developed countries, such a scheme to be on similar lines to that operated for professional workers immigrating to Australia.

"That in order to solve the problem long term, the Government either extend the training facilities or set up a third medical school in the Wellington area, and in either case continue to keep a watch on the staffing situation for GP's in order to continue expansion as required."

The third remit for International Commission asks the Government to "restrict the immigration of professional workers into New Zealand from developing countries so as to avoid undue strain on the resources of developing countries."