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This paper examines the evolution of expenditure budgeting in Australia, at both the federal or commonwealth and state levels. The paper begins with a brief constitutional and fiscal overview, goes on to examine the evolution of expenditure budgeting at the commonwealth level over the 1970s, continues with a discussion of innovations in expenditure budgeting at the state level in the late 1970s, and concludes with a comparative assessment of the state of expenditure budgeting in Australia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes the history of a psychotherapy group for HIV-positive veterans and service members on active military duty at a Veterans Administration clinic in Oakland, California, during the first decade of the epidemic. The author discusses the difficulties encountered working within a homophobic and AIDS phobic system, and the strategies used to make that work possible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]