Liz Rickman
Co-Convener of the International Issues and Human Rights Sub-Committee, Chair of the Climate Subcommittee, Australian Lesbian Medical Association
Australian, living in Sydney Australia
Liz is an Integrative Medico, with an interest in environmental illness. She has worked with environmental groups from the 70’s with Paddlers for Peace and with Greenpeace, as ship’s medic/activist with involvement in actions including North Sea Oil drilling, oil dumping in the Baltic, leading to imprisonment with other Greenpeace activists, nationwide protests and legislation changes. She was also involved in the early days of the first feminist women’s health centre in Australia and one of the founding members of the Australian Lesbian Medical Association, and part of the 7 year struggle for ALMA to gain special consultative status with ECOSOC.
