Health Promotion Dreaming: 6th Eberhard Wenzel Memorial Oration

Abstract

The Eberhard Wenzel Memorial Oration was established in honour of the memory of Eberhard Wenzel (1950-2001), an inspiring Australian advocate for health promotion for more than 20 years. The oration has become an annual event in conferences held by the Australian Health Promotion Association for the past seven years. Just before he died, Eberhard was nominated for an award and the following is a quote from the nomination: ?Eberhard has maintained the best public health website in the world and has supported, through his email list, communications between many different parts of the public health community around the world. He has sifted and sorted through a drift of chaff and sieved out the critical and relevant and passed it on through multiple mixed networks. He has editorialised with insight, kindness and the occasional blowtorch. Eberhard has contributed to warmer, firmer, closer forms of solidarity between different members of the human family, in particular, through his work with indigenous people. His work is characterised by a passion for justice and a fair go and intolerance for hypocrisy and guile.?