FED: States should ban boxing: AMA

AAP General News (Australia)
04-29-2001
FED: States should ban boxing: AMA

The Australian Medical Association says the states should support a call from the federal
health minister to ban boxing.

Health Minister MICHAEL WOOLDRIDGE says he wants to see all male and female boxing
banned by State and Territory governments.

The call follows the death of a Queensland fighter after a bout in Melbourne on April
6, and a fight in New Zealand which left a Perth woman in a coma.

AMA federal president KERRYN PHELPS says it's going to be an uphill battle to ban boxing,
but they have to start somewhere.

Dr PHELPS says the International Olympic Committee and the Commonwealth Games Committee
should remove boxing as a medal sport.

And she says that internationally, there needs to be some acknowledgement that there's
no way of making boxing safe.

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