Then, late last month, King Mohammed VI, without consulting his ministers, called his country's ambassador home from Madrid "for consultations", and called off a summit scheduled for December.
"We realised our consultations were becoming longer and more complex," Smith says in the presentation.
However, herbal practitioners don't need a licence to supply medicines that they create on their own premises following one-to-one consultations, as long as they don't contain banned substances.
Today we have started consultations with the NUJ with the aim of opening up an initial voluntary redundancy scheme.
Yes, there have been consultations, meetings, engagement – the trouble is, opponents say, frequently hamfisted enough to make things worse.
But how can residents know that the reported results of the consultations are fair?
Diplomats said Brahimi would first visit Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Egypt, all regional diplomatic heavyweights, for consultations before heading to Damascus.
I identified that GP consultations were one of the gatekeepers to the hospital referral.
A plan to slash the rebate for short consultations by $20 was also binned in January.
That so many local papers have recently reported school redundancy consultations is bleak, but unsurprising.
Australians will lose access to free visits to see a doctor as the Abbott government pushes ahead with plans to introduce a new $7 fee for GP consultations and increase prices for medicines.
