Leading Australian doctors and clinical researchers set new priorities.

The Medical Journal of Australia, Sydney, NSW. Ruth M Armstrong, BMed, Deputy Editor; Helen M Randall, BSc, DipOT, Senior Assistant Editor; Martin B Van Der Weyden, MD, FRACP, FRCPA, Editor. Reprints will not be available from the authors. Correspondence: Dr Ruth M Armstrong, The Medical Journal of Australia, Locked Bag 3030, Strawberry Hills, NSW 2012. [email protected] The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025729X 5 July 2004 181 1 14-18 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2004 www.mja.com.au The research enterprise – 90th anniversary resourced [by conventional conservative funding bodies], developed as it will yield dividends.” In true editorial spirit, each contributor was asked question in less than 100 words, and to “think outsid The replies cam in th ck and fast and we can’t pu full here. However, a number of themes emerged, wit have grouped excerpts from contributors’ responses. ve loo E n for nonagenarians, anniversaries are an opportunity for king forward as well as looking back. Wondering what sort of articles the MJA might be publishing in the near future, and what might be the areas of focus and challenge for the medical profession, we asked over 40 of Australian medicine’s current opinion leaders: “. . . what area in your discipline is not currently researched or not but ought to be