Scott Bowman has his policy ducks in a row – politics follows

Charles Darwin U is pleased indeed that the budget funds medical students to train in remote communities, but laments there are none in the Northern Territory.

“It’s quite strange and remarkable that the NT, which is six times the size of the UK and has unique and pressing medical challenges, is the only state or territory with no Commonwealth-funded medical places in the country,” VC Scott Bowman says.

It’s another step in his carefully choreographed campaign for a CDU medical school, which started last year, (CMM October 5 2021).

Since then Professor Bowman has made appointments, announced advisors  and created structures to demonstrate CDU is ready to run a medical school. And he is now starting to mount the arguments as to why it not only can happen but must.

Except his timing is out – he wants it to open in 2023 but a CDU med school would make a great ministerial announcement for the 2025 election.