A front-page photograph in the Brisbane Courier-Mail (March 22, 2005) featured federal Health Minister Tony Abbott smiling alongside Brisbane scientist Professor Alan Mackay-Sim, while looking at lab results at Griffith University.The headline of the story was dealing with another “test” and well-publicised details of Mr Abbott’s personal life, but the purpose of his trip to Brisbane on that occasion had to do with a discovery that will have a direct and beneficial impact on numerous families, b…
