tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23306506665411154972024-03-18T10:07:31.878+11:00ABC News WatchAn eye on ABC NEWS: Keeping the bastards who keep the bastards honest - honest.Marc Hendrickxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13764038599250494228noreply@blogger.comBlogger894125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330650666541115497.post-26579619766939719022023-07-24T12:28:00.001+10:002023-07-24T12:28:09.553+10:007.5 Billion year event is unfolding in the AntarcticHardly watch ABC news these days but this headline caught my eye on their homepage...<div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>"A once in every 7.5 billion year event is unfolding in the Antarctic"</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg-TTHFrv-Tpioe0selGk0lqY9_YbnYMWzTjfmYnAJGXFVn1ABkXi0Ew4OjvspdTiA3rPG9JG48fLxuroP7bPxuqqBDMcH7l7HTW86G3W0Kfi6xUrc_pXniMXNQJ0F_TAcMaIpp4tmCEt5kZaDESrUoBdus7Grms_BC5BDJZS0_O7_7pxr53En5IfdpA/s455/75billion.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="347" data-original-width="455" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg-TTHFrv-Tpioe0selGk0lqY9_YbnYMWzTjfmYnAJGXFVn1ABkXi0Ew4OjvspdTiA3rPG9JG48fLxuroP7bPxuqqBDMcH7l7HTW86G3W0Kfi6xUrc_pXniMXNQJ0F_TAcMaIpp4tmCEt5kZaDESrUoBdus7Grms_BC5BDJZS0_O7_7pxr53En5IfdpA/s320/75billion.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">ABC lead it's readers to believe an event is unfolding that is older than age the age of the solar system. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div><br /></div>Marc Hendrickxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13764038599250494228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330650666541115497.post-26960178711129967882021-06-16T10:02:00.004+10:002021-07-13T10:29:27.704+10:00Stuffed Emu part 2: a recipe for a hoaxWe have sent the following complaint to ABC for determination...<div><br /></div><div><div>It seems the academic world has finally caught up with Bruce Pascoe's hoax. In light of the publication of </div><div><a href="https://www.mup.com.au/books/farmers-or-hunter-gatherers-paperback-softback">Farmers or Hunter-gatherers? The Dark Emu Debate</a> By Academics Peter Sutton and Keryn Walshe,</div><div>can ABC please review its determination of my earlier complaint <a href="http://abcnewswatch.blogspot.com/2020/05/stuffed-emu-how-abc-education-fails-to.html" target="_blank">C19899-20</a>?</div><div><br /></div><div>I would find it hard for ABC now to justify retention and promotion of any Bruce Pascoe references in the presence of such damning criticism, especially for educational purposes. </div><div><br /></div><div>To quote Peter Sutton from a recent <a href="https://www.theage.com.au/national/debunking-dark-emu-did-the-publishing-phenomenon-get-it-wrong-20210507-p57pyl.html" target="_blank">article in The Age</a>: <i>"He (Sutton) was “disappointed” that in attempting to describe Aboriginal land use, Pascoe ignored the importance of spiritual tradition and ritual. He (Sutton) was “stunned” that the book was “riddled with errors of fact, selective quotations, selective use of evidence, and exaggeration of weak evidence”, including the suggestion Aboriginal people have occupied Australia for 120,000 years. And he (Sutton) was “outraged” that school curricula were being changed to conform with the Dark Emu narrative, embracing Pascoe’s descriptions of an early agricultural society."</i></div><div><br /></div><div>In its determination, of <a href="http://abcnewswatch.blogspot.com/2020/05/stuffed-emu-how-abc-education-fails-to.html" target="_blank">C19899-20</a> ABC state: <i>"Audience and Consumer Affairs are satisfied that Dark Emu is a credible and appropriate subject for an ABC Education resource"</i>. In light of the new book that debunks Pascoe's work, does ABC Audience and Consumer Affairs still stand by its finding?</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1317092540.rsc.cdn77.org/BBPUPocEHTIJbpqYvFPMmUHctr4=/400x0/https://melbourne-university-publishing.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/3b2/4bf/e68/3b24bfe6837cc2f0230a4db79c1a28b4321f1d38/farmers-or-hunter-gatherers-paperback-softback20210616-4-6pdcwo.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="612" data-original-width="400" src="https://1317092540.rsc.cdn77.org/BBPUPocEHTIJbpqYvFPMmUHctr4=/400x0/https://melbourne-university-publishing.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/3b2/4bf/e68/3b24bfe6837cc2f0230a4db79c1a28b4321f1d38/farmers-or-hunter-gatherers-paperback-softback20210616-4-6pdcwo.jpeg" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Waiting for a reply..... </div><div><br /></div><div>13/7/2021 ABC reply:</div><div><br /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px;">Dear Mr Hendrickx<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px;"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px;">Thank you for your email.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="m_5916344520510462746m5441624035105443118msoplaintext" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;">Your correspondence has been considered by Audience and Consumer Affairs, a unit which is separate to and independent of program making areas within the ABC. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; letter-spacing: -0.25pt;">Our role is to review and, where appropriate, investigate complaints alleging that ABC content has breached the ABC’s editorial standards:</span> <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://edpols.abc.net.au/policies/&source=gmail&ust=1626221982965000&usg=AFQjCNHlTLARykUCcno01-if8ubFQ3VjTA" href="https://edpols.abc.net.au/policies/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://edpols.abc.net.au/<wbr></wbr>policies/</a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; letter-spacing: -0.25pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p class="m_5916344520510462746m5441624035105443118msoplaintext" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; letter-spacing: -0.25pt;">Please note that Audience and Consumer Affairs did not, as you suggest, make a ‘determination’ or ‘finding’ with regard to your complaint C19899-20; we declined to investigate. We remain satisfied that the response to you on 1 May 2020 was reasonable and accurate. Once again, you seem to have the expectation that Audience and </span><span style="color: black;">Consumer Affairs will make a determination on the accuracy of Bruce Pascoe’s book Dark Emu. That is not our role.</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="m_5916344520510462746m5441624035105443118msoplaintext" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;">However, I have brought your email to the attention of ABC Education, who have provided the following:</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="m_5916344520510462746m5441624035105443118msoplaintext" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm;"><i><span style="color: black;">“ABC Education is reviewing the contents of the new book (Farmers or Hunter Gatherers? The Dark Emu Debate) as we do regularly with all our resources to ensure they remain relevant and useful additions to the Australian Curriculum. We are aware that some people don’t agree with Bruce Pascoe’s interpretations of historical sources and encourage people to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of all historical sources.”</span><u></u><u></u></i></p><p class="m_5916344520510462746m5441624035105443118msoplaintext" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;">Please be assured that your comments are noted.</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="m_5916344520510462746m5441624035105443118msoplaintext" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;">Yours sincerely</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="m_5916344520510462746xxxmsonormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;">Denise Musto<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="m_5916344520510462746xxxmsonormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;">Investigations Manager</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="m_5916344520510462746xxxmsonormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;">Audience and Consumer Affairs</span></p></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>Marc Hendrickxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13764038599250494228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330650666541115497.post-81034544060727631852021-05-15T09:56:00.012+10:002021-05-17T13:09:35.474+10:00Deceptive site ahead!I opened this <a href="http://abcnewswatch.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">blog </a>and my <a href="http://righttoclimb.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">right to climb</a> blog this morning and got this odd message:<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNMXjDsc9nhijhHEcJo1Qk4qM9CmY7WOQsu8Yz0YP8vPB92UQT7QFVg9m54DvydhTZszQNoy95hWnEEOr6-0czzyZ0fsKuYtgudJBCt4tDs32MdcDqz5LT17kLIYZEMD3HlXTRV-KHjBw/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="323" data-original-width="955" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNMXjDsc9nhijhHEcJo1Qk4qM9CmY7WOQsu8Yz0YP8vPB92UQT7QFVg9m54DvydhTZszQNoy95hWnEEOr6-0czzyZ0fsKuYtgudJBCt4tDs32MdcDqz5LT17kLIYZEMD3HlXTRV-KHjBw/w640-h216/image.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Seems I must have upset someone. I have requested Google's minion's review this ridiculous warning. The only things you will find at either blog are facts and truths that it seems some would rather remain buried. Fortunately, it was fairly quickly corrected after we requested a review. </div><br /></div>Marc Hendrickxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13764038599250494228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330650666541115497.post-35949821367259580722021-02-19T09:48:00.003+11:002021-02-20T17:24:50.509+11:00ABC reporting misrepresents facts about Mt Warning Closure<div><b>UPDATED SBS report is worse! see below</b></div><div><b>Update 20/2/2021 Correction to misleading headine requested</b></div><div><br /></div>On February I <a href="http://righttoclimb.blogspot.com/2021/02/foi-bombshell-permanent-ban-on-mt.html">made a press announcement</a> about the release of documents obtained through FOI/GIPA from the National Parks and Wildlife Service about the closure of the Mt Warning/Wollumbin National Park and its famous summit walk. The documents were posted to my <a href="http://righttoclimb.blogspot.com/2021/02/foi-bombshell-permanent-ban-on-mt.html">Right to Climb blog.</a> <div>On 17 February I was interviewed by ABC North Coast Radio's Bruce MacKenzie about the documents. </div><div>I felt it was a good interview I got to talk about the main findings of the release that revealed the following:</div><div><div>•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>A "Final Wollumbin Closure Event" planned for 25 November 2022 and show NPWS have NO intention of re-opening the park to the public before that time. It’s clear the permanent closure has been planned for many years.</div><div>•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Public information released about the safety issues on the Mountain by National Parks has a critical mistake. The Service have claimed there are "extreme" and "catastrophic" risks on the mountain from landslides and other hazards but the FOI documents show these are in error and these hazards are assigned a "medium" risk in Parks own safety assessment. For the hazards listed the risk is similar to other Grade 4-5 bushwalks in the state that are currently open. </div><div>•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The medium risk conflicts with a slope stability assessment completed by geotechnical experts in 2018 that found risks to visitors from possible landslides and rockfalls in the park are very low, effectively lower than traveling anywhere by train in Australia. </div><div>•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Consultations NPWS have had with Aboriginal groups have not included or considered and paid respect to the diverse range of indigenous opinions, about Mt Warning some of which actually encourage climbing. NPWS have an obligation under the National Parks Act to take the views of owners into account. The area of Mt Warning is the traditional area of the Ngarakwal/Nganduwal peoples. - not the Bundjalung who are a merger or various other northern NSW tribal groups. In an interview in 2007 before she died Ngaraakwal elder and Mount Warning custodian Marlene Boyd. Stated <b>"I do not oppose the public climbing of Mt Warning - how can the public experience the spiritual significance of this land if they do not climb the summit and witness creation!"</b> What a wonderful inspirational message that is! It is such a joyous affirmation of the awe and wonder we all experience when we connect with nature and the natural world, and it is outrageous that her views have been ignored by NPWS.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Once again I made the mistake of not making my own recording. </b>But I have requested a copy from the journalist involved and will post it here when (if) I receive it. </div><div><br /></div><div>ABC North Coast Radio provided radio coverage about the pending permanent ban on the park on the Breakfast show on the morning of the 18th of February. I was listening via the internet and recorded what was broadcast (you can listen to it <a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-256364995/abc-north-coast-17-feb-2021">HERE</a>). The interview was truncated about halfway through just prior to my mention of the views of Ngaraakwal/Nganduwal elder and Mount Warning custodian Marlene Boyd. I called the talkback switch and was told by ABC's producer that it was cut because ABC were unable to obtain an interview with local Bundjalung elders. </div><div><br /></div><div>Marlene's views are highly important because they demonstrate conclusively there are a range of Aboriginal views about the summit walk. NPWS are obligated to take these views into account in accordance with the Act.</div><div><br /></div><div>Mt Warning is being closed because NSW NPWS have not properly consulted with the Aboriginal Group recognized as the custodian of the central part of the caldera. Instead for many years, it has promulgated the<a href="http://righttoclimb.blogspot.com/2021/01/mount-warning-aboriginal-claims-about_14.html" target="_blank"> false narrative </a>of the so-called Bundjalung Nation and ignored and discriminated against the views of elders like the late Marlene Boyd. FOI documents reveal her views have not been considered. Instead of exposing NPWS for their failure to meet its obligations under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974 No 80 section 30K, ABC censored the views of this amazing woman who according to her brother <i><a href="http://righttoclimb.blogspot.com/2021/02/mount-warning-aboriginal-claims-about.html" target="_blank">"died of a stress induced heart attack fighting these scandals."</a> (Nice going ABC!)</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div>If that was not bad enough, in its <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-18/wollumbin-national-park-mount-warning-closure-could-be-permanent/13167728" target="_blank">online report </a>about the FOI documents ABC failed to mention the clear errors in NPWS risk information (see graphic below) and it further insulted the memory of Marlene Boyd by discriminating against her and only mentioning the views of the Bundjalung Nation. </div><div><br /></div><div>The consequence of the poor reporting is that ABC, like NPWS have misrepresented the facts about Mt Warning and in doing so have misled the public about the diversity of Aboriginal opinions about the summit walk and insulted the memory of a strong Indigenous woman. Shame on the ABC! They have also mislead the public about the true nature of safety issues on the summit in not providing coverage for my findings in their online report. </div><div><br /></div><div>ABC has breached elements of its editorial policy namely:4 Impartiality and diversity of perspectives</div><div><br /></div><div>It has only provided the Bundjalung view about the climb and not reported that there are a diversity of Aboriginal perspectives including some that are supportive of public access to Mt Warning's summit. </div><div><br /></div><div>ABC has not reported on the errors in NPWS risk assessment. </div><div><br /></div><div>In my complaint I have requested ABC correct its online report to:</div><div>1. include the views of Marlene Boyd to provide balance to the Aboriginal opinions reported about the summit climb. </div><div>2. Indicate NPWS have made an error in providing safety information about the park.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJJBuMvnOWo9ebxxUkiNjqN33bJxH10Uk4gQGN4x21JBrXmUBlQ3223bIoT2J4lKx8INfL79qFWQhnBkDhSuhsFvdps2xfRTvKXppsX-VYRVJDinFyPHCHPZrCiLfpO901o47T4de1CaU/s1833/Mt+warning+-+risk-exposure+confusion.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1128" data-original-width="1833" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJJBuMvnOWo9ebxxUkiNjqN33bJxH10Uk4gQGN4x21JBrXmUBlQ3223bIoT2J4lKx8INfL79qFWQhnBkDhSuhsFvdps2xfRTvKXppsX-VYRVJDinFyPHCHPZrCiLfpO901o47T4de1CaU/w400-h246/Mt+warning+-+risk-exposure+confusion.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>NPWS erroneous risk assessment</i></div><br /><div>No doubt ABC's complaints unit will ignore this clear failure and sweep it under the sand like it normally does. Will update when I get a reply.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Update 2 20/2/2021 </b>This correction to ABC's misleading headline requested.</div><div><div>Further to my complaint Reference Number C3345-21 please note a factual error that requires correction. The headline reads "Wollumbin National Park summit, formerly known as Mount Warning, could be closed permanently"</div><div><br /></div><div>The name "Mount Warning" is still current. The feature is dual named. </div><div>refer to NSW Geographic names board:</div><div><br /></div><div>https://proposals.gnb.nsw.gov.au/public/geonames/caffbc27-34bf-4479-8d09-5266f2709bef</div><div><br /></div><div>Please amend the headline and article to reflect the name Mt Warning is still in current use. </div></div><div><br /></div><div>From NSW government <a href="https://gazette.legislation.nsw.gov.au/so/download.w3p?id=Gaz_Gazette%20Split%202006_2006-9.pdf" target="_blank">Gazette 20/2/2006</a></div><div>GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES ACT 1966
PURSUANT to the provisions of section 10 of the
Geographical Names Act 1966, the Geographical Names
Board has this day assigned the names “Mount Warning” and
“Wollumbin” as dual names for a mountain situated about
6 km W by N of the town of Uki and approximately 14 km
WSW of Murwillumbah which has been previously named
and known as “Mount Warning”.
<b>Both names will be entered into the Geographical
Names Register as dual names and neither name will have
precedence over the other.
</b>The position and extents for this feature is recorded and
shown within the Geographical Names Register of New South
Wales. This information can be accessed through the Boards
Web Site at www.lpi.nsw.gov.au/geog/.
WARWICK WATKINS,
Chairperson</div><div><br /></div><div>UPDATE <a href="https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/2021/02/18/wollumbin-could-permanently-close-climbers-documents-reveal" target="_blank">SBS </a>have also had a go at misinforming the public. I fired off a complaint this afternoon....</div><div><br /></div><div><p>I made a press announcement about the release of documents obtained through FOI/GIPA from the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service about the closure of the Mt Warning/Wollumbin National Park and its famous summit walk. The documents were posted to my Right to Climb blog. The post may be accessed via this link: http://righttoclimb.blogspot.com/2021/02/foi-bombshell-permanent-ban-on-mt.html<br />The main findings of the release included:<br />• A "Final Wollumbin Closure Event" planned for 25 November 2022 and show NPWS have NO intention of re-opening the park to the public before that time. It’s clear the permanent closure has been planned for many years.<br />• Public information released about the safety issues on the Mountain by National Parks has a critical mistake. The Service have claimed there are "extreme" and "catastrophic" risks on the mountain from landslides and other hazards but the FOI documents show these are in error and these hazards are assigned a "medium" risk in Parks own safety assessment. For the hazards listed the risk is similar to other Grade 4-5 bushwalks in the state that are currently open. <br />• The medium risk conflicts with a slope stability assessment completed by geotechnical experts in 2018 that found risks to visitors from possible landslides and rockfalls in the park are very low, effectively lower than traveling anywhere by train in Australia. <br />• Consultations NPWS have had with Aboriginal groups have not included or considered and paid respect to the diverse range of indigenous opinions, about Mt Warning some of which actually encourage climbing. NPWS have an obligation under the National Parks Act to take the views of owners into account. The area of Mt Warning is the traditional area of the Ngarakwal/Nganduwal peoples. - not the Bundjalung who are a merger or various other northern NSW tribal groups. In an interview in 2007 before she died Ngaraakwal elder and Mount Warning custodian Marlene Boyd. Stated "I do not oppose the public climbing of Mt Warning - how can the public experience the spiritual significance of this land if they do not climb the summit and witness creation!" What a wonderful inspirational message that is! It is such a joyous affirmation of the awe and wonder we all experience when we connect with nature and the natural world, and it is outrageous that her views have been ignored by NPWS.</p>
<p>These points were listed in press release sent to SBS news. </p>
<p>On 18 FEB 2021 - 10:50AM SBS posted the following story to its website: Wollumbin could permanently close to climbers, documents reveal, by Reporter Shaman Shad</p>
<p>https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/2021/02/18/wollumbin-could-permanently-close-climbers-documents-reveal</p>
<p>SBS's report is heavily one sided, unbalanced, lacks a diversity of views, and fails to cover major parts of the story related to NPWS' erroneous safety message and most shamefully censors the views of a deceased Aboriginal woman.</p>
<p>The report fails to mention and effectively censors the views of the Late Marlene Boyd. Marlene was Marlene was a Ngaraakwal elder and Mount Warning custodian. In a 2007 interview quoted in the press release she stated: "I do not oppose the public climbing of Mt Warning - how can the public experience the spiritual significance of this land if they do not climb the summit and witness creation!" It is to ABC'S great shame that they censored her voice and only provided one viewpoint about Aboriginal perspectives about the Mt Warning summit walk. The reporter would have been well and truly aware of Marlene's views as they were included in the press release </p>
<p>The report also fails to cover the errors in NPWS' safety classification.</p>
<p>The report fails to correctly mention the source of the documents and fails to accurately acknowledge the "Right To Climb blog".</p>
<p>This is perhaps one of the worst pieces of journalism I have seen and I have been reading and contributing to the press for 40 years. </p>
<p>The absence of any mention of the views of Marlene Boyd is a total disgrace. I do not know why your reporter has decided to discriminate against the legitimate views of a dead Aboriginal woman. If there was a Walkley for poor reporting she has won it.</p>
<p>To rectify the issue:</p>
<ul>
<li>SBS to apologize to the family of Marlene Boyd</li>
<li>Correct the news story by including Marlene's wonderful message "I do not oppose the public climbing of Mt Warning - how can the public experience the spiritual significance of this land if they do not climb the summit and witness creation!"</li>
<li>Accurately report on the errors NPWS have made in classifying hazards in the park. </li></ul></div>Marc Hendrickxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13764038599250494228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330650666541115497.post-14022150991243025612021-01-09T10:45:00.000+11:002021-01-09T10:45:06.993+11:00SBS climbing story was rubbishSBS are as bad as ABC when it comes to bias misrepresentation and poor appreciation of the facts. Last year they ran a pile of utter rubbish, poorly researched piece of propaganda about rock climbing at Nowra. Our complaint was a little too late to be considered.<div><br /></div><div>Here's the reply:</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2e2f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Dear Marc</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #2b2e2f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #2b2e2f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2e2f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Your recent complaint to SBS (ticket number: 136495) does not fulfil the requirements of a code complaint under the SBS Codes of Practice.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #2b2e2f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #2b2e2f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2e2f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">According to Code 9 (Comments and Complaints About SBS Content), code complaints must be received within 6 weeks of the date of broadcast/publication of the relevant SBS content. Your complaint was received more than 6 weeks after The Point report that concerned you was broadcast and published on 29 October 2020.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #2b2e2f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #2b2e2f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2e2f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">As a result, your complaint will not be formally investigated on this occasion.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #2b2e2f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #2b2e2f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2e2f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">A copy of your concerns has been passed on to the relevant SBS division as feedback for their information.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #2b2e2f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #2b2e2f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2e2f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Thank you for making your concerns known to us.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #2b2e2f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><div style="background-color: white; color: #2b2e2f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 22px; margin: 15px 0px;">Yours sincerely<br />Alison Angles<br />Researcher for the SBS Ombudsman</p></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #3e3f3c; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">Here's the Australian Climbing Association of NSW reply to SBS's error-laden story....</span><br /><div><br /></div>This statement aims to correct factual errors in the SBS NITV story and inform the wider climbing community about what work is being done to maintain respectful access to this climbing area. It should be being sold as a good news story but that is not the angle that SBS NITV decided to take.<br /><br />Six weeks prior to this story being published we were informed by climbers at Thompson’s Point that SBS NITV had been filming a story there. These climbers were alarmed at the ambush style interviews and the questions being asked of them without context. We approached SBS NITV immediately as we felt it likely from the nature of questioning that climbers were being unwillingly co-opted into a trope of ignorant climbers damaging Aboriginal culture and the environment. We were concerned that SBS NITV would not provide fair and balanced reporting. We provided information to counteract this image. This information has been totally ignored. We shall be making a formal complaint to the SBS ombudsman, and to the media regulatory body, ACMA.<br />Read the rest via this <a href="https://acansw.wordpress.com/2020/10/31/in-reply-to-sbs-nitvs-story-about-thompsons-point-climbing/comment-page-1/">LINK </a>and please send a complaint to ACMA and your local member if in NSW. </div></div>Marc Hendrickxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13764038599250494228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330650666541115497.post-59049591615484833242020-05-28T09:17:00.001+10:002020-05-28T09:17:49.769+10:00Stuffed emu: how ABC education fails to educate<h2 style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Peter O'Brien has an excellent article on Quadrant (<a href="https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/opinion-post/bruce-pascoes-whoppers-in-a-class-of-their-own/">Bruce Pascoe’s Whoppers: In a Class of Their Own</a>) dealing with ABC Education's deeply flawed web presentation featuring Bruce Pascoe and his book Dark Emu. Peter mentions the addition of a note on that page that reads: </div>
<i>Note also that since 2019, Pascoe’s work has been evaluated differently by some people, who don’t agree with his interpretations of historical sources. This resource contains excerpts from the original texts and scientific evidence that Bruce draws on. We encourage you to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of all historical sources.</i><div>
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ABC have a statutory responsibility under their <a href="http://about.abc.net.au/how-the-abc-is-run/what-guides-us/abc-editorial-standards/">charter and editorial policies</a> to ensure their output is impartial and reflects a diversity of views. The aim being to <i>"equip audiences to make up their own minds"</i>.<br />
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On a number of topics ABC has <a href="http://abcnewswatch.blogspot.com/">demonstrably failed</a> to live up to this principle and the message is less about providing the public with a range of views so they are able to judge for themselves and more about the ABC preaching their own views and their own opinions regardless of the facts and evidence. The tale of the stuffed emu outlined below is another example of that failure. This time it involves a site developed by ABC education that promotes one man's point of view about Australian history while ignoring errors in that view and failing to provide an alternate perspective supported by the historical evidence.<br />
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Bruce Pascoe is a writer and claims to be an Aboriginal man with links to a number of Aboriginal communities. His <a href="https://youtu.be/MeUN8SLSORk">claims of Aboriginal heritage</a> have been <a href="https://www.heraldsun.com.au/blogs/andrew-bolt/timeline-how-bruce-pascoe-became-aboriginal-or-not/news-story/7752a670bd176873e8a6094d35a5711c">challenged by members of those communities</a> and a <a href="https://australianhistory972829073.wordpress.com/2019/10/23/bruce-pascoe-how-aboriginal-is-he/">genological study</a> was unable to find any evidence of Pascoe's Aboriginal past. He has thus far failed to provide any answers to the serious questions raised about his claims. In a letter (see below) published by the Koori Mail on 20 April 2011 Pascoe himself highlighted issues with non-Aboriginal writers entering literary prizes reserved for Aboriginal writers without sufficient proof of identity. He indicated that even a <i>"statutory declaration was not sufficient proof of identity"</i>. We leave readers to make up their own minds about the strength of Pascoe's claims and the morality of his receipt of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Pascoe#Awards">various writing awards</a> and other prizes reserved for people with Aboriginal heritage.</div>
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In 2014 Pascoe published <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Emu_(book)" style="font-style: italic;">Dark Emu: Black seeds: agriculture or accident?</a><i>. </i>The book is essentially Pascoe's interpretation of early explorer's accounts of interactions with Aboriginal peoples. Pascoe believes his version of those accounts provides evidence that Aboriginal people should not be viewed as Hunter-Gatherers but as settled farmers who used sophisticated agricultural methods. </div>
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The book won a number of awards most notably in context with the information above, the NSW Premier's Literary Awards: Book of the Year and the Indigenous Writers' Prize, but it took some time for Pascoe's views to be challenged. It took a while for someone to check those historical sources but when they did they found Pascoe's interpretation of the explorer's journals to be deeply flawed. The most comprehensive challenge came in late 2019 from writer Peter O'Brien who published <a href="https://quadrant.org.au/product/bitter-harvest/">"Bitter Harvest: The illusion of Aboriginal agriculture in Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu"</a>. The book is described thus:</div>
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<i>"Bitter Harvest is a comprehensive appraisal of Bruce Pascoe’s book Dark Emu. Pascoe postulates that, rather than being a nomadic hunter-gatherer society, Australian Aborigines were actually sedentary agriculturalists with ‘skills superior to those of the white colonisers who took their land and despoiled it’. Dark Emu has enjoyed extraordinary public and critical acclaim, winning Premier’s literary awards in New South Wales and named Book of the Year. Professor Marcia Langton called it ‘the most important book on Australia’. Its ideas have already been taken up in school texts and the ABC is producing a documentary series about it.</i></div>
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<i>But nothing in Dark Emu justifies its success. Bitter Harvest is a forensic but highly readable examination which reveals that Bruce Pascoe omits, distorts or mischaracterises important information to such an extent that, as purported history, Dark Emu is worthless. Even worse, it promotes a divisive, victim-based agenda that pits one Australian against another."</i></div>
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In May 2019 ABC education released a "<a href="https://education.abc.net.au/home#!/digibook/3122184/bruce-pascoe-aboriginal-agriculture-technology-and-ingenuity">digibook</a>" featuring Bruce Pascoe discussing concepts from his book. The "digibook" is intended for use by schools and is directed at school children studying Australian History. The digibook draws heavily from Dark Emu. Like much of ABC's content the site went largely unnoticed until late 2019 when media drew attention to extensive criticism of Pascoe's work. </div>
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Having read both Dark Emu and Bitter Harvest and looked over ABC Education's Digibook we were concerned children viewing the page would be critically misinformed and on 13 November 2019 we raised a complaint to the ABC about the content and failure to follow ABC editorial guidelines with respect to factual content and diversity of views: </div>
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<i>Comments: ABC education are promoting the work of Bruce Pascoe's "Dark Emu" but there appear to be significant factual errors in Pascoe's past and his story that would result in the intended school age audience being critically misinformed. Revelations about Bruce Pascoe's ancestry on the <a href="https://youtu.be/MeUN8SLSORk">Bolt Report 12/11/2019</a> cast doubt on Pascoe's claimed Aboriginal ancestry which has a major bearing on claims he makes in the videos and his credibility as an indigenous writer. Fact checking of Pascoe's book "Dark Emu" from various sources including by writer Peter O’Brien in his book <a href="https://quadrant.org.au/product/bitter-harvest/">"Bitter Harvest: The illusion of Aboriginal agriculture in Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu", by Quadrant Books</a> need to be considered by ABC and properly addressed. O'Brien writes: “Almost every significant claim that Pascoe makes that is sourced, turns out to be either false or misrepresented. As purported history, Dark Emu is worthless. Even worse, it promotes a divisive, victim-based agenda that pits one Australian against another.”</i></div>
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response; it is general in nature and does not identify or reference any
specific aspects of the ABC content to support the view that there are
inaccuracies and omissions. Should you wish to resubmit your complaint, please indicate which editorial standards (</span><a href="https://edpols.abc.net.au/policies/"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">https://edpols.abc.net.au/policies/</span></a><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">) you believe to be relevant to your complaint, and why you
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Thank you for your complaint regarding the ABC Education resource <i>Bruce Pascoe: Aboriginal agriculture, technology and ingenuity.</i> I apologise for the delay in responding.<u></u><u></u></div>
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Aboriginal agriculture, technology and ingenuity<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Errors, misrepresentations and omissions<o:p></o:p></div>
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Text from ABC education site in numbered italics and issues
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Summary<o:p></o:p></div>
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The ABC Education website <b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "abcsans" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Bruce Pascoe: Aboriginal agriculture, technology
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breaches ABC’s editorial code for:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Accuracy<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Includes errors of fact and false and misleading information<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Impartiality and
diversity of perspectives<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Does not provide for facts presented by experts that
demonstrate Pascoe is in error. This is particularly egregious considering the
presentation is for school children. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Recommendations<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Remove site from ABC Education, or provide room for
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<b>Specific issues<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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The section below provides commentary on the text of the
website detailed specific issues. It is broken down into chapters on the
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Prologue<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "abcsans" , serif; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 107%;">1. Bruce examined the journals of the early explorers and
found evidence of a complex civilisation that was using sophisticated
technologies to live, farm and manage the land.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Pascoe’s book has been thoroughly debunked by Peter
O’Brien’s Bitter Harvest and the Dark Emu exposed website. His work also called
into question by prominent academics and other writers. Students using the ABC
education website should be informed of the controversy concerning Pascoe’s
book. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Bitter Harvest: The
illusion of Aboriginal agriculture in Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Bitter Harvest is a comprehensive appraisal of Bruce
Pascoe’s book Dark Emu. Pascoe postulates that, rather than being a
nomadic hunter-gatherer society, Australian Aborigines were actually sedentary
agriculturalists with ‘skills superior to those of the white colonisers who
took their land and despoiled it’. Dark Emu has enjoyed extraordinary
public and critical acclaim, winning Premier’s literary awards in New South
Wales and named Book of the Year. Professor Marcia Langton called it ‘the most
important book on Australia’. Its ideas have already been taken up in school
texts and the ABC is producing a documentary series about it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But nothing in Dark Emu justifies its
success. Bitter Harvest is a forensic but highly readable examination
which reveals that Bruce Pascoe omits, distorts or mischaracterises important
information to such an extent that, as purported history, Dark Emu is
worthless. Even worse, it promotes a divisive, victim-based agenda that pits
one Australian against another<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Dark Emu exposed<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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When we first read Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu, we were
captivated by his story. Many of our friends had read it too and said they felt
good about the “fact” that the Australian Aborigines were not “just” a
hunter-gatherer society when the British settled Australia in 1788, but they
were in fact, as the Judges of the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards claimed
“..liv[ing] sophisticated lives…[in an]
Aboriginal democracy [that] created ‘the 'Great Australian Peace’ on a
continent which was extensively farmed, skilfully managed and deeply loved.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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However, a little digging into the “evidence” presented by
Mr Pascoe has deflated our enthusiasm and the more we dig, the more
disappointed we become. When it comes to Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny, we
all know they are not “true”, but it is nice to promote the narrative, as it is
all in a good cause and a delight to our children. However for adults, the
accuracy of history is important and historical facts should not be fabricated,
bent or manipulated to serve ideological ends, or to satisfy the needs of a
“virtue-signalling” readership. <o:p></o:p></div>
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As we upload our reviews and critiques in blog-posts over
the coming months, let the reader decide as to whether Mr Pascoe :<o:p></o:p></div>
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“…puts forward a compelling argument for a reconsideration
of the hunter gatherer label for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians…[where]
the evidence insists that Aboriginal people right across the continent were
using domesticated plants, sowing, harvesting, irrigating and storing -
behaviours inconsistent with the hunter-gatherer tag.” - from Dark Emu dust
jacket blurb;<o:p></o:p></div>
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“They [the Australian Aborigines] are, of course, nomads —
hunters and foragers who grow nothing, build nothing, and stay nowhere long. They
make almost no physical mark on the environment…They move about, carrying their
scant possessions, in small bands of anything from ten to sixty persons…Their
tools and crafts, meagre — pitiably meagre — though they are, have nonetheless
been good enough to let them win the battle for survival, and to win it
comfortably at that. With no pottery, no knowledge of metals, no wheel, no
domestication of animals, no agriculture, they have still been able to people
the entire continent…”<o:p></o:p></div>
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- W.E.H. Stanner, The Dreaming & Other Essays, Black Inc
Agenda, 2010, p 64,65 & 70 - (our emphasis)<o:p></o:p></div>
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The site is edited by Roger Karge and, as of December 2019,
has around 30 independent researchers. Unfortunately, in the current climate in
which we live, most of our researchers need to operate under pseudonyms to
protect their careers. Some work within academia, or government departments,
that are strongly Progressive Left and, needless to say, any criticism of Mr
Pascoe and his book Dark Emu is likely to lead to their ostracisation!<o:p></o:p></div>
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We are independent and all the work by our contributors is
on an unpaid, voluntary basis and we do not receive any outside funding. We are
not aligned with, or funded by, the Herald Sun, The Australian or Quadrant
magazine, but we greatly appreciate their interest in our project and their
reporting on it from time to time.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Taking sides over
‘Dark Emu’<br />
How the history wars avoid debate and reason<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.themonthly.com.au/blog/russell-marks/2020/05/2020/1580868886/taking-sides-over-dark-emu">https://www.themonthly.com.au/blog/russell-marks/2020/05/2020/1580868886/taking-sides-over-dark-emu</a></span><b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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But throughout Dark Emu, Pascoe regularly exaggerates
and embellishes. One example: he quotes Thomas Mitchell’s description of large,
circular, chimneyed huts Mitchell observed near Mount Arapiles, in western
Victoria, on July 26, 1836, but leaves out the words “which were of a very
different construction from those of the aborigines in general”. Pascoe adds
his own commentary: Mitchell “recorded his astonishment at the size of the
villages”; he “counts the houses, and estimates a population of over one
thousand”; and “the evidence is everywhere that they have used the place for a
very long time”. But in his own journal, Mitchell doesn’t express astonishment,
he doesn’t count and he doesn’t estimate a population size. Nor does he present
any evidence that would support a conclusion about longevity of residence.
Granville Stapylton, Mitchell’s second-in-command, recorded seeing one hut
“capable of containing at least 40 persons and of very superior construction”
on July 26. Pascoe includes this, but not the rest of Stapylton’s sentence:
“and appearantly the work of A White Man it is A known fact that A runaway
Convict has been for years amongst these tribes.” That could be a reference to
the well-known escapee William Buckley (who was found by John Batman the
previous July), or it could be a racist myth. The point is that Pascoe simply
left it out.<o:p></o:p></div>
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By themselves, examples like these split hairs. But they’re
all the way through Dark Emu. Together, such selective quoting creates an
impression of societies with a sturdiness, permanence, sedentarism and
technical sophistication that’s not supported by the source material. In
speeches and interviews Pascoe is known to reach even further. And far too
often Pascoe relies on secondary sources, including those obviously pushing
ideological barrows.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.themonthly.com.au/node/199671">RUSSELL MARKS</a></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "abcsans" , serif; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 107%;">2. Researchers continue to discover new evidence of the
earliest human occupation of Australia. A </span></i><span class="MsoHyperlink"><i><span style="background: white; border: none 1.0pt; color: #551a8b; font-family: "abcsans" , serif; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 107%; padding: 0cm;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/postcolonial-blog/2019/mar/11/a-big-jump-people-might-have-lived-in-australia-twice-as-long-as-we-thought"><span style="color: #551a8b;">recent scientific study</span></a></span></i></span><i><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "abcsans" , serif; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 107%;"> in
south-west Victoria suggests Aboriginal Australians may have been living on the
continent for 120,000 years.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "abcsans" , serif; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 107%;">The study in question is highly
speculative and has not been independently confirmed. It is not an appropriate
remark for an education site without further commentary of the surrounding
issues and should eb removed or amended to reflcet current consensus ie about
50,000 years. </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://theconversation.com/when-did-aboriginal-people-first-arrive-in-australia-100830">https://theconversation.com/when-did-aboriginal-people-first-arrive-in-australia-100830</a></span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "abcsans" , serif; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 107%;"> If humans were in Australia 120000 years a significant part
of current understanding of pre-historical movement of humans out of Africa
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<i><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "abcsans" , serif; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 107%;">3. we learn about the vast agricultural fields, ingenious
aquaculture systems, sophisticated use of fire and successful industries that
existed in Australia prior to colonisation.</span></i></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "abcsans" , serif; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 107%;">As detailed in Bitter Harvest
and elsewhere Pascoe’s claims are distortions, misrepresentations and
exaggerations. The ABC education site requires significant room for alternate
view points and discussion of areas where Pascoe claims do not stack up. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "abcsans" , serif; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 107%;">4. “Bruce Pascoe is a Yuin, Bunurong and Tasmanian man.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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has Aboriginal ancestry he has not been able to demonstrate this or provide
firm evidence through documentation. An independent genealogical study has
found no aboriginal ancestors in Pascoe’s past (See </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://australianhistory972829073.wordpress.com/2019/10/23/bruce-pascoe-how-aboriginal-is-he/">https://australianhistory972829073.wordpress.com/2019/10/23/bruce-pascoe-how-aboriginal-is-he/</a></span>
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members of the Yuin, Bunurong and Tasmanian Aboriginal communities see </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.heraldsun.com.au/blogs/andrew-bolt/aboriginal-groups-declare-bruce-pascoe-isnt-aboriginal/news-story/090376ffe8a87a70da3be1f21be1d2d6">https://www.heraldsun.com.au/blogs/andrew-bolt/aboriginal-groups-declare-bruce-pascoe-isnt-aboriginal/news-story/090376ffe8a87a70da3be1f21be1d2d6</a></span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "abcsans" , serif; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 107%;">. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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aboriginal heritage should be removed from ABC websites until his claims are
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Chapter 1 Pascoe’s addresses the ABC audience as though he is aboriginal, but
he isn’t. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "abcsans" , serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;">5. “They weren't Stone Age people.” <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "abcsans" , serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;">They were in fact stone age
people. </span>The Stone Age was a broad prehistoric period during which stone
was widely used to make implements with an edge, a point, or a percussion
surface. The period lasted roughly 3.4 million years and ended between 8700 BCE
and 2000 BCE with the advent of metalworking. <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Age">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Age</a></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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claims. </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.heraldsun.com.au/blogs/andrew-bolt/aboriginal-groups-declare-bruce-pascoe-isnt-aboriginal/news-story/090376ffe8a87a70da3be1f21be1d2d6">https://www.heraldsun.com.au/blogs/andrew-bolt/aboriginal-groups-declare-bruce-pascoe-isnt-aboriginal/news-story/090376ffe8a87a70da3be1f21be1d2d6</a></span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "abcsans" , serif; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 107%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "abcsans" , serif; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 107%;">7. </span><i><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "abcsans" , serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;">I read that Sir Thomas Mitchell rode through
nine miles of stooped grain and that grain grew higher than the saddle on his
horse. The country was that rich. But the Aboriginal people had harvested nine
miles of that and stooped it, stacked it into sheaves right across the country.</span></i><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "abcsans" , serif; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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This is a complete fabrication and misrepresentation of what
Mitchel saw and wrote. What Mitchell actually said in his 1848 Journal of an
Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia, on page 90 (1969 reprint),
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“Dry heaps of this grass, that had been pulled expressly for
the purpose of gathering the seed, lay along our path for many miles. I counted
nine miles along the river, in which we rode through this grass only, reaching
to our saddle-girths, and the same grass seemed to grow back from the river, at
least as far as the eye could reach through a very open forest. I had never
seen such rich natural pasturage in any other part of New South Wales.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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So, Mitchell records that he rode through nine miles of
rich, natural pasturage (grass) standing up to his horse’s saddle-girth (that
is, not fields of human cultivation, but just tall, wild grass fields), with
some dry, pulled grass laying in heaps along the way; he did NOT appear to ride
through a continuous “nine miles of stooked grain”.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mr Pascoe also seems to incorrectly cite this in Dark Emu as
being from Mitchell’s other cited journal, Three Expeditions into the Interior
of Eastern Australia, when in fact we found it in Mitchell’s 1848, Journal of
an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia, on page 90 (1969
reprint).<o:p></o:p></div>
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actually wrote. There was not 9 miles of stooped or stooked grain. <o:p></o:p></div>
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people had been growing yam on in Western Australia. They'd been so deeply
tilled.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="background: #f8f8f8; color: #444444; font-family: "minion-pro" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">What Mr Pascoe <strong>doesn’t tell the reader</strong>
however, is that he has lifted this isolated section from the brilliantly
detailed work of Gerritsen, and <strong>totally
omitted</strong> any reference to the crucial paragraphs before, and
after, this section. These paragraphs detail Gerritsen’s theory that Dutch
survivors from the Batavia shipwreck and mutiny landed on the West Australian
mainland and befriended the local aboriginal tribe, the Nhanda, inter-married
with them, and introduced them to the cultivation of the Asian yam variety that
the Dutch were most probably carrying as supplies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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suggestions by Gerritsen that Dutch survivors introduced Yam cultivation. <o:p></o:p></div>
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9.<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "abcsans" , serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;"> <i>In Australia, they went out of their way to prove that Aboriginal
people weren't human<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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unsupported by any factual evidence- remove. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "abcsans" , serif; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 107%;">Claims about earliest bread are
unsupported. In fact grinding stones have been identified from three
Palaeolithic sites across Europe. If Pascoe can speculate that Aborigines baked
bread one the basis of the grindstones then we can make the same assumption of
other stone age peoples. <i>Recently the
starch grains were identified on 30,000 year old grinding stones from three
Palaeolithic sites across Europe: Bilancino II in Italy, Kostenki 16 in Russia,
and Pavlov VI in the Czech Republic. The starch includes Brachypodium grass and
Typha, commonly known as bulrush.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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other Palaeolithic grindstone locations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "abcsans" , serif; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 107%;">10. Pascoe with the help off
ABC Education editorial staff misrepresent an encounter between Charles Sturt
and a group of natives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "abcsans" , serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">BRUCE
PASCOE: One of the really, um, interesting stories that I came across was that
Charles Sturt, who was one of the more kindly explorers in the country - that
is, he didn't kill anyone, uh, but his brother was pegging out all the land, so
they were still avaricious, they were still greedy for land... But Sturt was
dying. Uh, he had scurvy. All his party had scurvy. The horses were so weak,
they couldn't ride them anymore. And they climbed a sand dune. They'd been
climbing them for weeks. They climbed one last sand dune and 400 Aboriginal
people hailed them.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "abcsans" , serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">VOICEOVER:
And on gaining the summit were hailed with a deafening shout by 3 or 400
natives... I had never before come so suddenly upon so large a party. Had these
people been of an unfriendly temper, we could not by any possibility have
escaped them.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "abcsans" , serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">BRUCE
PASCOE: And as the men staggered down the sand dune... And Sturt said they
couldn't have stopped themselves from going down that hill, because the
momentum was carrying them, and that if those Aboriginal people were in any way
aggressive, they were dead.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "abcsans" , serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">VOICEOVER:
Several of them brought us large troughs of water, and when we had taken a
little, held them up for our horses to drink; an instance of nerve that is very
remarkable.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "abcsans" , serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">BRUCE
PASCOE: Now, they'd never seen a horse and, yet, they recognised the horse as
a...another animal.....a sentient being, and they gave water to that creature
because they knew the horse needed water. That was an act of kindness that
Sturt recognised.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "abcsans" , serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">VOICEOVER:
Placing the troughs they carried against their breast, have allowed the horses
to drink, with their noses almost touching them... They likewise offered us
some roasted ducks, and some cake.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "abcsans" , serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">BRUCE
PASCOE: Roast duck...and cake. Roast duck and cake in the desert? Well, it
wasn't a desert for those people. They were harvesting that desert and they
were living a really good life and they had a village of houses and they
offered Sturt a new house they'd built.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "abcsans" , serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">VOICEOVER:
They pointed to a large new hut and told us we could sleep there. I had already
determined to remain, and on my intimating this to the natives they appeared
highly delighted. When the natives saw us quietly seated they came over, and
brought a quantity of sticks for us to make a fire, wood being extremely
scarce.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "abcsans" , serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">BRUCE
PASCOE: Firewood. They gave him more bread. They looked after him as you would
look after a visitor to your house.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "abcsans" , serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">VOICEOVER:
At sunset all the natives left us, and went to their own encampment; nor did
one approach us afterwards, but they sat up to a late hour at their own camp,
the women being employed beating the seed for cakes, between two stones. The
whole encampment with the long line of fires, looked exceedingly pretty, and
the dusky figures of the natives standing by them or moving from one hut to the
other, had the effect of a fine scene in a play.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "abcsans" , serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">BRUCE
PASCOE: It's a great moment in Australian history because the...the humanity of
the moment cannot be mistaken. The humanity of the moment - to give water to a
creature you've never seen and to give water to another human in need. It's a
great moment in history.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "abcsans" , serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Peter
O’Brien outlines the facts about the encounter in Bitter Harvest: Pages 82-92 copies provided to ABC. The alternate view by O’Brien should be reproduced to provide balance to the
presentation.</span></b></div>
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Marc Hendrickxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13764038599250494228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330650666541115497.post-23260718899750975832020-05-01T14:52:00.006+10:002020-05-04T16:41:47.174+10:00Covid19 Fail: models vs realityOn April 7 the Federal government <a href="https://www.health.gov.au/news/modelling-how-covid-19-could-affect-australia">released </a>its epidemiological modelling of the Covid19 outbreak in Australia. The models were used to justify strict quarantine and isolation measures enforced by Federal and State governments that will see Australia experience its worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. ABC has thus far failed to provide any meaningful coverage of the models and their failure to match reality.<br />
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The rationale behind the government's "flatten the curve" strategy was to enforce strict physical distancing measures to ensure enough ICU beds were available to handle the caseload.<br />
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Under the government's model peak ICU demand with strict Level 3-4 Quarantine + isolation + social distancing measures in place was predicted to occur in week 43 (see graph below) which would be well into November with nearly 5000 ICU beds required, about double our capacity.<br />
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It seems reality played out quite differently.<br />
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The first case of Covid19 was reported in Australia on 25 January and around 14 weeks later it seems the "curve" has been well and truly flattened with only a handful of cases now reported daily. We never reached more than 5% of ICU bed capacity with maximum daily use being around 100 beds way back in week 10 prior to the effect of level 3-4 measures being felt and the release of the Government's epidemiological modelling. The pandemic for us is well and truly over and we now face the social and economic consequences of a completely disproportionate response. Handling of the Covid19 pandemic by Australian Governments at all levels has been perhaps the worst example of Risk Management in history.<br />
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The ABC costs us well over $1 billion annually, we could fund 15000 nurses for that figure, yet somehow it lacks the integrity to take the government to task over models that were effectively disproven on the day they were released.<br />
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Data sources:<br />
ICU bed use from April 5 via Dep Health infographic series https://www.health.gov.au/resources/collections/coronavirus-covid-19-at-a-glance-infographic-collectioninfographic_3.pdf <br />
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Total number of ICU beds: https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2020/surge-capacity-australian-intensive-care-units-associated-covid-19-admissions<br />
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More model fails:<br />
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From: <a href="https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/flattening-the-curve-to-help-australia-s-hospitals-prepare">https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/flattening-the-curve-to-help-australia-s-hospitals-prepare</a><br />
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And...<br />
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From: <a href="https://theconversation.com/coronavirus-modelling-shows-the-government-is-getting-the-balance-right-if-our-aim-is-to-flatten-the-curve-134040">https://theconversation.com/coronavirus-modelling-shows-the-government-is-getting-the-balance-right-if-our-aim-is-to-flatten-the-curve-134040</a></div>
Marc Hendrickxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13764038599250494228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330650666541115497.post-51641221102163476362020-03-05T07:33:00.002+11:002020-03-05T07:33:55.841+11:00Missing News: RIP Freeman Dyson<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeman_Dyson">Freeman Dyson</a> passed away last week (28 Feb). One of the world's greatest thinkers in physics. He was outspoken on many issues. On climate change he was completely unconvinced it was a major problem. He <a href="http://www.thegwpf.org/content/uploads/2015/10/benefits1.pdf">wrote </a>recently:<br />
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<i>To any unprejudiced person reading this account, the facts should be obvious: that the non-climatic effects of carbon dioxide as a sustainer of wildlife and crop plants are enormously beneficial, that the possibly harmful climatic effects of carbon dioxide have been greatly exaggerated, and that the benefits clearly outweigh the possible damage.</i><br />
<i>I consider myself an unprejudiced person and to me these facts are obvious. But the same facts are not obvious to the majority of scientists and politicians who consider carbon dioxide to be evil and dangerous. The people who are supposed to be experts and who claim to understand the science are precisely the people who are blind to the evidence. </i><br />
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ABC failed to report his passing. The taint of the ideological spin coming from Ultimo so great that the passing of one of our best and brightest goes unnoticed because of his scientific scepticism. Utterly shameful!<br />
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RIP FREEMAN DYSON, your equations and words live on.<br />
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<b>Dyson's Awards</b><br />
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Fellow of the Royal Society">FRS</a> (1952)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-frs_3-0" style="font-size: 9.856px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeman_Dyson#cite_note-frs-3" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[3]</a></sup></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dannie_Heineman_Prize_for_Mathematical_Physics" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics">Heineman Prize</a> (1965)</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_Medal" style="background: none; color: #0b0080;" title="">Lorentz Medal</a> (1966)</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_Medal" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Hughes Medal">Hughes Medal</a> (1968)</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Prize" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Harvey Prize">Harvey Prize</a> (1977)</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_Prize_in_Physics" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Wolf Prize in Physics">Wolf Prize</a> (1981)</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Gemant_Award" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Andrew Gemant Award">Andrew Gemant Award</a> (1988)</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matteucci_Medal" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Matteucci Medal">Matteucci Medal</a> (1989)</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oersted_Medal" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Oersted Medal">Oersted Medal</a> (1991)</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Fermi_Award" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Enrico Fermi Award">Enrico Fermi Award</a> (1993)</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Templeton_Prize" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Templeton Prize">Templeton Prize</a> (2000)</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomeranchuk_Prize" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Pomeranchuk Prize">Pomeranchuk Prize</a> (2003)</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Poincar%C3%A9_Prize" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Henri Poincaré Prize">Henri Poincaré Prize</a> (2012)</li>
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Marc Hendrickxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13764038599250494228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330650666541115497.post-61541064781075408552020-02-05T10:02:00.002+11:002020-02-05T12:29:31.658+11:00OZ media spectrum - ABC sits in the looney left quadrant<b>Survey finds ABC sit at Looney left, low-quality end of Oz media spectrum.</b><br />
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<i>ABC News and current affairs heavily weighted towards the looney left</i></div>
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An independent survey of media consumers has confirmed suspicions that ABC has a strong left-wing political bias. Oz Media watchers were requested to rank various Australian news sources on their perception of quality and right or left-wing political bias. The unsurprising results found a strong left bias among Oz media outlets overall. The Australian Newspaper was ranked highest for quality, while SkyNEWS returned a neutral bias ranking. <br />
ABC news programs were perceived to have a very strong left-wing bias with its main news and current affairs outlets falling into the Looney left side of the political spectrum. This must be of concern for ABC's chairperson Ita Buttross who has stated previously the organisation might have issues with bias, despite having a charter that is supposed to ensure it is apolitical.Marc Hendrickxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13764038599250494228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330650666541115497.post-44187182203278097392020-02-01T09:22:00.002+11:002020-02-01T09:22:46.697+11:00The bias marches on... and on.Gerard Henderson's column in today's Weekend Australian highlights the fact ABC is firmly stuck in trolley tracks of left-wing bias and nothing looks like shifting it back to the centre. Worth a read as usual....<br />
<a href="https://www.theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/abcs-leading-journos-out-of-touch-with-australias-key-issues/news-story/1ff4bdd5d453cb129460837f8c0042aa"><br /></a>
<a href="https://www.theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/abcs-leading-journos-out-of-touch-with-australias-key-issues/news-story/1ff4bdd5d453cb129460837f8c0042aa">ABC’s leading journos out of touch with Australia’s key issues</a><br />
GERARD HENDERSON<br />
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It is just four months since the ABC’s mission to Bankstown in southwest Sydney. Led by ABC chairwoman Ita Buttrose and managing director David Anderson, dozens of the ABC family headed to the outer suburbs for a planning workshop aimed at making content that was more relevant to average Australians than what had previously been on offer. That’s how ABC management described the mission at the time.<br />
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Gaven Morris (ABC director news, analysis and investigations) told Nine Entertainment newspapers there were “some parts of the community that we don’t serve as well as we could”. This implied the taxpayer-funded public broadcaster was in search of the “quiet Australians” to whom Scott Morrison had referred to immediately after the May 18 election last year.<br />
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The Coalition’s victory had stunned many journalists, but none more so than the ABC’s key political commentators — virtually all of whom got the result wrong. So certain was 7.30 political correspondent Laura Tingle that she told 7.30 presenter Leigh Sales on the eve of the election the Labor Party “will” win and dismissed the possibility of a Coalition victory with a laugh.<br />
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It is not clear what, if anything, the ABC learned from the mission to Bankstown of recent memory. Maybe only that it is a long way from its head office in the inner-Sydney suburb of Ultimo. Certainly the ABC is just as much a conservative-free zone as it ever was — perhaps even more so.<br />
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<b>Subscription required to read the rest</b>Marc Hendrickxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13764038599250494228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330650666541115497.post-60106582249954465712020-01-29T12:02:00.000+11:002020-01-29T12:28:22.374+11:00Lacking of inquiry: Where are the Bushfire Experts?ABC continue their deranged crusade in all things climate <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-29/urgent-need-for-deep-cuts-to-australias-greenhouse-gas/11907838">uncritically spruiking a letter</a> on the recent Bushfire crisis <a href="https://laureatebushfiresclimate.wordpress.com/">from 80 academics</a>. members of the "group of Australian Research Council (ARC) Laureate Fellows". The list includes many esteemed academics from a range of fields oddly enough including anthropologists, economists, psychologists, lawyers and astronomers etc, but we could only find two, just two, on the list that appeared to have any expertise in Bushfire Science (highlighted below). Surely if you want to link Climate Change and the Bushfires then you would ask a credible voice. <a href="https://www.theaustralian.com.au/science/scientists-petition-on-climate-crisis-blocked-over-fake-signatories/news-story/eb7b2647890516320363863b8dd1caee">Recent expert lists on climate change have included the likes of Professor Mickey Mouse and Professor Dumbledore.</a> At least Mickey has fire fighting experience and we wonder why he was left off the list this time!<br />
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<i>At least Mickey and his team have fire fighting experience!</i></div>
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The overwhelming opinion of Bushfire experts has been that while Climate Change has had an influence the major problem this summer is in the area of Forest management and drought, and <em style="background-color: white; color: #302226; font-family: Candara, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><strong><a href="http://joannenova.com.au/2019/08/prof-andy-pitman-admits-droughts-are-not-worse-and-not-linked-to-climate-change/">“…as far as the climate scientists know there is no link between climate change and drought.”</a></strong></em><br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6RrgBrb6R8">Here's CSIRO's David Packham </a>explaining the issue... <i>Former CSIRO scientist David Packham has urged the government to do more to combat the “most important” factor contributing to the current bushfire crisis - the build up of very dry fuel" </i><br />
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Bushfire Expert Roger Underwood writing in Quadrant: <a href="http://an%20inferno%20of%20incompetence%20and%20obfuscation/">An Inferno of Incompetence and Obfuscation</a> "<i>I reject the ‘blame it on climate change” position because it has two killer flaws: firstly, it ignores fuels, which are the main contributor to uncontrollable fires during a drought; secondly, it provides no practical solutions to the immediate problem. Both of these factors render the climate change argument utterly unsustainable, indeed ridiculous."</i><br />
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Once again ABC fails to ask any questions when it comes to climate change and its audience are left in the dark.<br />
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List of Laureates and areas of expertise below.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Matthew England, Climate Change
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large-scale physical oceanography, ocean modelling, and climate processes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">George Zhao, School of Chemical
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Michael Bird, College of Science and
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terrestrial carbon cycle, biochar, geoarchaeology and understanding the
trajectory of past and future environmental change in the tropics.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Professor Tamara Davis is a
cosmologist interested in investigating new fundamental physics, such as the
properties of dark energy and dark matter and the mass of the neutrino<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mark Westoby, Dept of Biological
Sciences, Macquarie University<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> PhD (Wildlife Ecology)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Eelco J. Rohling, Research School of
Earth Sciences, ANU<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">High-resolution investigation of
ocean/climate changes during the Neogene, and in particular the Quaternary,
to determine the nature, timing and magnitude of natural climate
variability. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Lesley Head, School of Geography,
University of Melbourne<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I am a geographer whose research
examines human-environment relations, both conceptual and material<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Chris Turney, Chronos 14Carbon-Cycle
Facility, UNSW Sydney<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">To do something positive about
climate change, I helped set up CarbonScape, a clean-tech company using
microwave technology to make green products (carbonscape.com).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Trevor Lithgow, Centre to Impact
AMR, Monash University<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Uncovering clues to new disease
control strategies<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Paul Mulvaney, School of Chemistry,
University of Melbourne<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">current interests include the
optical properties of single quantum dots, surface plasmon spectroscopy of
single metal particles, nanocrystal based electronics, nanomechanics and
solar energy conversion<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Zheng-Xiang Li, School of Earth and
Planetary Sciences, Curtin University<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">research interests are mainly in
regional to global tectonics and paleogeography, paleomagnetism, and
geodynamics.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Peter Hodgson, Institute for
Frontier Materials, Deakin University <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">research includes steel processing
and the development of new alloys<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Philip Boyd, Institute for Marine
and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Madeleine JH van Oppen, School of
BioSciences, University of Melbourne<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ecological geneticist with an
interest in microbial symbioses and climate change adaptation of reef corals<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Lisa Kewley, Research School for
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Warwick Anderson, Department of
History and Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Chennupati Jagadish, AC, Research
School of Physics, Australian National University<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Distinguished Professor and Head of
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Sue O’Connor, College of Asia and
the Pacific, Australian National University<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Areas of expertise<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Aboriginal And Torres Strait
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Pacific Islands (Excl. New Zealand)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Ronald Rapee, Centre for Emotional
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Professor of Psychology<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Jolanda Jetten, School of Psychology,
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Doctor in
Psychology, University of Amsterdam<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Richard G. Roberts, School of Earth,
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Katherine Demuth, Centre for
Language Sciences, Macquarie University<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Gottfried Otting, Research School of
Chemistry, Australian National University<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">PhD (biomolecular NMR)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">John Dryzek, Centre for Deliberative
Democracy and Global Governance, University of Canberra<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">RESEARCH INTERESTS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Democratic Theory, Democratization,
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Belinda Medlyn, Hawkesbury Institute
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">My research focuses on how plants,
especially forests, respond to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide and
climate change.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Adrienne Stone, Melbourne Law
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Primary Interest<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Free Speech Law<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Ben Andrews, Mathematical Sciences
Institute, Australian National University<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Research interests<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Differential geometry: I am
interested in many areas of differential geometry, including<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">geometry of curves, surfaces and
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Riemannian geometry; effects of
local curvature conditions on global geometry and topology;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">geodesics, minimal surfaces, and
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Stuart Wyithe, School of Physics,
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Astrophysics<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Leann Tilley, Department of
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research in the areas of cell biology and drug development related to the
malaria parasite,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Geoffrey McFadden, School of
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Origin Of Plastids<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Matthew Bailes, ARC Centre of
Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery, Swinburne University of
Technology<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">His research mainly concerns
developing instrumentation for time domain astrophysics and using it for
pulsar and Fast Radio Burst discovery<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">John Quiggin, School of Economics,
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">research economist and as a commentator
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Bernard Degnan, Centre for Marine
Science, University of Queensland<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Research Interests<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Genomes, Development & Evolution<br />
1. Origin of animal complexity<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">2. Marine biology and biotechnology<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">3. Genomics and evolution of
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Jon Barnett, School of Geography,
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">political geographer whose research
investigates the impacts of and responses to environmental change on social
systems in the Asia-Pacific region.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Martin Asplund, Research School of
Astronomy & Astrophysics, Australian National University<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Stellar astrophysics, origin of the
elements, formation and evolution of the Milky Way, the first stars, Big Bang
nucleosynthesis and the cosmological lithium problems<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Ivan Marusic, Melbourne School of
Engineering, University of Melbourne<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">He is known for his work on
turbulence at high Reynolds number, using both theoretical and experimental
approaches. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Edward Holmes, School of Life &
Environmental Sciences and School of Medical Sciences, University of Sydney<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">known for his work on the evolution
and emergence of infectious diseases,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Kate Smith-Miles, School of
Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I'm interested in most branches of
applied mathematics, but especially optimisation, pattern recognition, and
modelling of complex systems.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Current projects include developing
new methodologies for objective assessment of algorithm performance;
generating new test instances for various classes of optimisation problems;
improved scheduling algorithms; and expensive black-box optimisation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Justin Marshall, Queensland Brain Institute,
University of Queensland<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Marshall's principle aim is to
understand how other animals perceive their environment<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Peter Goodyear, Sydney School of
Education & Social Work, The University of Sydney<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#collapseprofileresearchinterest"><span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Research interests</span></a><span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Learning sciences; psychology of
education<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Learning technologies and new media<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Learning, cognition and motivation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Research on teaching and learning<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Learning and teaching in higher
education<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Lindenmayer, Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian
National University<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Ecology050104<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: lime; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-highlight: lime;">Forest fire management<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Alexandra Aikhenvald, Language and
Culture Research Centre, James Cook University<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> prolific body of research that
included Berber languages of North Africa and Hebrew but focused on tropical
languages, predominantly those of Amazonia, the Papuan languages of New
Guinea and Aboriginal Australia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">David Bellwood, College of Science
and Engineering, James Cook University<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">research interests encompass the
evolution and ecology of reef fishes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Glenda Sluga, Laureate Research
Program in International HIstory, THe University of Sydney<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">published widely on the cultural
history of international relations, internationalism, the history of European
nationalisms, sovereignty, identity, immigration and gender history.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Enrico Valdinoci, Department of
Mathematics and Statistics, University of Western Australia<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Enrico's research interests mainly
focus on partial differential equations, nonlocal equations, calculus of
variations, and dynamical systems.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Michelle Coote, Research School of
Chemistry, Australian National University<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">published extensively in the fields
of polymer chemistry, radical chemistry and computational quantum chemistry<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Jennifer L Martin AC, University of
Wollongong <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">renowned protein crystallographer
and structural biologist.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Ian Reid FTSE, University of
Adelaide<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">His research interests include
robotic and active vision, visual tracking, SLAM, human motion capture and
intelligent visual surveillance<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Hilary Charlesworth, College of Asia
and the Pacific, Australian National University and Melbourne Law School<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Theory and practice of international
law; law and society; feminist legal theory; human rights law at
international, national and local levels; peacebuilding; and justice and
democracy after conflict<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Bostjan Kobe, School of Chemistry
and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Structural biology of infection and
immunity<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Peter Visscher, The University of
Queensland<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">research focuses on understanding
individual differences betweeen people in traits that are important for
health outcomes and ageing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Terry Hughes, ARC Centre of
Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">coral reef ecosystems<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: lime; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-highlight: lime;">William
F. Laurance FAA, Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability
Science, James Cook University<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: lime; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-highlight: lime;">His
research focuses on the impacts of intensive land-uses, such as habitat
fragmentation, logging, hunting and wildfires, on tropical forests and their
biodiversity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: lime; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-highlight: lime;">Wildfires<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Kaarin Anstey, School of Psychology,
University of New South Wales<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">research interests include dementia
risk assessment and risk reduction, late-life development and ageing, mental
health in older adults, and older drivers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 126.0pt;" valign="top" width="168"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Hugh Possingham, School of
Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">His research projects are in the
field of decision theory in conservation biology<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, ARC Centre for
Excellence for Coral Reef Studies & School of Biological Sciences, The
University of Queensland<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, is a biologist specialising
in coral reefs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Jamie Rossjohn FAA, Biomedicine
Discovery Institute, Monash University<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Professor Jamie Rossjohn's research
is centered on an understanding immunity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">David Studdert, Stanford Law School,
Stanford University<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">David M. Studdert is a leading
expert in the fields of health law and empirical legal research. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Maria Forsyth FAA, Institute for
Frontier Materials, Deakin University<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Associate Director<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">DEAKIN UNIVERSITY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">SYNTHETIC ENERGY SYSTEMS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Peter Taylor, ARC Centre of
Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers, University of
Melbourne<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">PhD in Applied Mathematics<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Michael Tobar, ARC Centre of
Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics, Department of
Physics, University of Western Australia <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Professor Michael Tobar is a leading
researcher in precision and quantum limited measurement and testing
fundamental physics<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Jason Mattingley, Queensland Brain
Institute & School of Psychology, The University of Queensland<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">PhD in Psychology<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Rose Amal, School of Chemical
Engineering, UNSW Sydney<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Professor Rose Amal is recognised as
a pioneer and leading authority in the fields of fine particle technology,
photocatalysis and functional nanomaterials <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Marilyn Fleer, Conceptual PlayLab
for STEM education, Faculty of Education, Monash University, Melbourne<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The Conceptual PlayWorld is a model
of intentional teaching that Monash Professor Marilyn Fleer developed based
on extensive research and experience working with young children and how they
form concepts in science, technology and engineering.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Matthew Spriggs, College of Arts and
Social Sciences, The ANU<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">“research interests are areally the
archaeiology of Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands, and also
Cornish Studies.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Joy Damousi, SHAPS, University of Melbourne
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Her current research includes war,
trauma and post-war Greek migration to Australia; sound and the two world
wars; and child refugees and war.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Dan Li, Department of Chemical
Engineering, The University of Melbourne<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Research interests<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Colloidal processing of advanced
materials<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Electrochemical energy materials and
devices (e.g. supercapacitors, batteries and fuel cells)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Flexible electronics<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Graphene-based materials and related
atomically thin materials<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Materials systems engineering<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nanoionics and nanofluidics<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">New ion separation technologies such
as capacitive deionization<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Julian Gale, School of Molecular and
Life Sciences, Curtin University<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Research interests include the
nucleation and crystal growth of minerals, nanoporous frameworks, materials
for energy storage and conversion, and molecular crystals of relevance to
pharmaceutical application.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 126.0pt;" valign="top" width="168"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mark Finnane, Griffith Criminology
Institute and School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences, Griffith
University<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">His research in Australia and
Ireland has focussed on the history of mental hospitals, prisons, punishment,
policing and the criminal law<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Lorraine Mazerolle, School of Social
Science, University of Queensland<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">research interests are in
experimental criminology, policing, drug law enforcement, regulatory crime
control, and crime prevention<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 126.0pt;" valign="top" width="168"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Alex Haslam, School of Psychology,
University of Queensland<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">His research focuses on the study of
group and identity processes in organizational, social, and clinical
contexts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Barry Pogson, ARC Centre of
Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, Australian National University<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Director of the ARC Centre of
Excellence in Plant Energy Biology<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Michael Fuhrer, ARC Centre of
Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies, Monash University<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Michael's research explores novel
two-dimensional materials such as graphene<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Zhiguo Yuan AM FTSE, Advanced Water
Management Centre, The University of Queensland<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">PhD degree in aeronautical
engineering <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Lianzhou Wang, School of Chemical
Engineering and Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology,
the University of Queensland<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Director of Nanomaterials
Centre <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Barry Brook, ARC Centre of
Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, University of Tasmania<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ecologist interested in conservation
biology and global change<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Paul S.C. Tacon, Griffith Centre for
Social and Cultural Research, Griffith University, Queensland<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Rock Art Research and Professor of
Anthropology and Archaeology<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Update complaint issued: </b><br />
ABC report on a letter signed by 80 academics that links the recent bushfire crisis with climate change. The list only includes two academics with expertise in bushfires and includes many non-scientists. There is no coverage for alternate views by recognised Bushfire experts such as David Packham or Roger Underwood.<br />
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Report breaches ABC editorial guidelines:<br />
2. Accuracy - the link between climate change and droughts is contested.<br />
4. Diversity of perspectives. The subject of the letter merited obtaining the opinion of actual experts (like Packham and Underwood).<br />
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The report also lacks journalistic integrity in not being sceptical of the claims made or who they are made by. What relevance, for instance, does inclusion of the opinion of non-bushfire experts have? I'm waiting on the reporter's breathtaking report on the opinions of the Nail painting industry on the relationship between bushfires and climate, they have as much relevant expertise as many on the list.<br />
<br />Marc Hendrickxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13764038599250494228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330650666541115497.post-51834867456172436742020-01-28T13:29:00.000+11:002020-01-28T13:45:41.812+11:00ABC NEWS PRODUCTIVITY - MODELS INDICATE ZERO NEWS OUTPUT BY 2021<h2 style="text-align: center;">
EXCLUSIVE SPECIAL REPORT</h2>
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Updating our ABC Productivity Report for 2019. </div>
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THE RESULTS ARE SHOCKING!</h3>
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<span style="color: red;">RECORD LOW PRODUCTIVITY in 2019 </span></h3>
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<span style="color: red;">ALARMING DECLINE IN NEWS OUTPUT</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">ZERO OUTPUT FORECAST in 2021!</span></h3>
The ABC NEWS WATCH productivity survey examines ABC's total news output for the month of June as recorded in the <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/archive/" target="_blank">ABC's online news archive</a> and compares this to total ABC NEWS staff numbers taken from its annual report. The result is a measure of the productivity of ABC's NEWS division.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><b style="color: #474b4e; line-height: 18px;">ABC NEWS PRODUCTIVITY SURVEY </b></b><b>RESULTS for 2003-2019</b></span></span></h3>
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<b><b style="color: #474b4e; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">NEWS STORIES POSTED EACH JUNE 2003-2019</b></b></h4>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc6sXH_zgQNw73-f-mwVMLhcGk808YImIFMZrJo0Avda5rXlY-OZlN8dEXSseiZOqPsUj6ztrgy3zbtdsz1fAbf-U1L8foCnJR4LYpDkaxHbtcwLKIvAIvVJO-F97EmCA4b3rNLpDpwjs/s1600/total+articles+archive.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1041" data-original-width="1600" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc6sXH_zgQNw73-f-mwVMLhcGk808YImIFMZrJo0Avda5rXlY-OZlN8dEXSseiZOqPsUj6ztrgy3zbtdsz1fAbf-U1L8foCnJR4LYpDkaxHbtcwLKIvAIvVJO-F97EmCA4b3rNLpDpwjs/s400/total+articles+archive.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">ABC News output continues to decline</td></tr>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b>Year </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b>Total Stories</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">2003 7230</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">2004 6920</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">2005 6899</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">2006 6995</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">2007 7988</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">2008 8894</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">2009 7134</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">2010 6666</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">2011 5908</span><br /><span style="color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">2012 6091</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">2013 7754</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">2014 7801</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">2015 7624 </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">2016 6597</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">2017 5195</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">2018 4010</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">2019 2948</span></span></b><br />
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<b style="color: #474b4e; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: small;">Productivity</span><i><span style="font-size: small;">: </span>2019 record low productivity! Just 2.3 stories per staff member per month.</i></b><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDFSNNJlu5ccFfcu4DcQQ7r0J3aqlc5N7FJdS3w_kDggpuHlHXfptvnr-aX2VgEyEa4wNCe802FcwcZzRdwGAqESJnwCEB4F8WocRAoLMjKxxmGUC4b-uWQ0VQ4O_pvXAbY3btl4MaqSU/s1600/prod+forecast.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="773" height="247" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDFSNNJlu5ccFfcu4DcQQ7r0J3aqlc5N7FJdS3w_kDggpuHlHXfptvnr-aX2VgEyEa4wNCe802FcwcZzRdwGAqESJnwCEB4F8WocRAoLMjKxxmGUC4b-uWQ0VQ4O_pvXAbY3btl4MaqSU/s400/prod+forecast.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">2004 9.4</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">2005 9.1</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">2006 9.1</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">2007 9.5</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">2008 10.3</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">2009 7.8</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">2010 7.1</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">2011 6.1</span><br />
<span style="color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">2012 8.1</span><br />
<span style="color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">2013 7.7</span><br />
<span style="color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">2014 7.4</span><br />
<span style="color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">2015 5.3</span><br />
<span style="color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">2016 4.8</span><br />
<span style="color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">2017 3.9</span><br />
<span style="color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">2018 3.0</span><br />
<span style="color: #474b4e; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">2019 2.3</span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOokC5thRx6hRHM_oRWeG-mxf805PUWsTpMyGYnD9K97pYFsi9EzMRG-1H33g3vJHdg-sl7gsZ10XGrQuoum60IQ6Ov7EyjoRQoG3J_MKS5SHBzNSZw1Vy_P-C7istdJVeMqanUiMvlE8/s1600/stories+vs+staff.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="696" data-original-width="841" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOokC5thRx6hRHM_oRWeG-mxf805PUWsTpMyGYnD9K97pYFsi9EzMRG-1H33g3vJHdg-sl7gsZ10XGrQuoum60IQ6Ov7EyjoRQoG3J_MKS5SHBzNSZw1Vy_P-C7istdJVeMqanUiMvlE8/s320/stories+vs+staff.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>ABC News Archive stories and Total News Staff 2003-2019.<br />Alarming decline!</b></td></tr>
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<b><br /> </b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Analysis</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Productivity of ABC news as measured by output recorded in its News Archive and total staffing continues its exponential slide. Staff output now about one fifth of what it was in 2008. At current rates we expect ZERO output in early 2021. </span></div>
Marc Hendrickxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13764038599250494228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330650666541115497.post-59967005819855420092020-01-22T09:47:00.001+11:002020-04-30T16:15:56.040+10:00It's our ABC Series 2!<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;">
<b>It’s our ABC Season 2!</b></div>
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In what’s been described as “<i>Great news for reality TV fans</i>”, the ABC today announced there would be a new season of the award-winning reality program <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2014/10/abc-show-wed-like-see/&source=gmail&ust=1579665099581000&usg=AFQjCNHwaVhkN0yfGMof9eyCKIHw8PCi8Q" href="https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2014/10/abc-show-wed-like-see/" rel="noreferrer" style="color: #0563c1;" target="_blank">It’s our ABC</a>. Chair Ita Buttrose said the ground breaking show provided an open window into the daily workings of the national broadcaster and gave the public a genuine insight into how the ABC lives up to its charter. Buttrose stated: “<i>it’s difficult to see how anyone could label the ABC biased in any way after watching it</i>”. Managing Director David Anderson said the long awaited new season, airing on ABC TV later in 2020, would be one of three Australian television series selected for the 70th Bejingale, one of the world’s largest and most-distinguished public film festivals. The other two being “<i>Tony! Tony! Tony!</i>” the ABC’s much loved docudrama about its humble news presenter Tony Jones, and “<i><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://iview.abc.net.au/show/get-krack-n/series/2/video/CO1715V008S00&source=gmail&ust=1579665099581000&usg=AFQjCNEdEitgch5CG9lh5jxGxktxjDu8Rw" href="https://iview.abc.net.au/show/get-krack-n/series/2/video/CO1715V008S00" rel="noreferrer" style="color: #0563c1;" target="_blank">Just burn it all to the ground</a></i>” an entertaining, light hearted playful comedy from ABC’s Indigenous Unit. Anderson said “<i>The ABC is proud to fly our flag, all three of them, for outstanding Australian content at this year’s Bejing International Film Festival. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2014/10/abc-show-wed-like-see/&source=gmail&ust=1579665099581000&usg=AFQjCNHwaVhkN0yfGMof9eyCKIHw8PCi8Q" href="https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2014/10/abc-show-wed-like-see/" rel="noreferrer" style="color: #0563c1;" target="_blank">It’s our ABC</a></i> <i>exemplifies the ABC’s commitment to distinctive Australian stories that resonate around the world. This recognition also celebrates the high calibre of our homegrown talent, on and off camera, that make these shows possible.</i>”</div>
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Season 2 will feature the following entertaining episodes:</div>
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<b>Episode 1 WRONG TRUMPET</b></div>
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Frustrated that no media outlet has ever found proof that US President Donald Trump is corrupt, ABC’s investigative news unit decide to send a reporter in undercover to get the dirt they know exists. Following facial reconstructive surgery ABC’s US correspondent Donor Cuffy changes his name to Fart Vanderlay and is accepted into the White House Internship Program gaining access to Trump’s offices. We follow “Fart” as he makes new connections and gets closer to locating the evidence he and the ABC know exists.</div>
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Looking over the outdated computer he has been assigned Cuffy discovers some suspicious video files buried deep on the hard drive and immediately reports on twitter that he has found something that might be worthwhile. ABC news staff are so confident it’s the dirt they are looking for and without further checking the files they decide to interrupt an episode of Four Corners and cast Cuffy’s report live to air. In exultant tones ABC veteran Sarah Ferguson describes the situation. <i>“We interrupt this important Four Corners Report on the abuse of Lobsters in South Australia to bring breaking news about US President Donald Trump. For the past 6 weeks our US correspondent Donor Cuffy has been secretly working in the Whitehouse and just now he has found damning evidence of the President’s culpability. Donor play the tapes.” </i>On screen a blue cloth passes in front of the camera and some seconds later the words <i>“Ohh Monica”</i> are distinctly heard. The screen suddenly goes black, and a blank faced Sarah Ferguson states, <i>“We are now taking you back now to our programmed report. Fatima el Baksheesh-Namatjira investigates animal abuse in our crustacean fisheries”.</i></div>
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Trump is so impressed with the report Fart Vanderlay is offered a permanent job on the White House media staff.</div>
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<b>Episode 2 The Conservative</b></div>
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According to ABC’s Chair of Human Enterprise Learning and Leadership the ABC has the most diverse staff profile of any media organisation on the planet. Among its 5000 or so staff there is even a conservative! This episode spends a week in the life of ABC’s conservative reporter Fanny Blacksmith. Her oddball political allegiances became known after results of a confidential staff personality survey were leaked by the staff elected board member.</div>
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It’s the 2019 federal election and after four of its senior presenters and the weather man leave to run as Greens candidates conservative voting Blacksmith gets her chance and is asked to anchor the midnight to 2am slot of ABCs 24 hour news channel. On her appointment Managing Director Anderson states “This appointment shows claims the ABC is biased to the left by the likes of Gerard Henderson are a complete sham”. Despite numerous mysterious technical glitches the ratings go off the charts and the early morning news claims more viewers than the prime time slot. This leads to calls, even from the Friends of the ABC, for Fanny to be elevated to lead the main 7pm news report. However with the opening credits rolling on her first prime time show she is tragically killed, impaled live on air by a falling light boom girder. The broadcast is saved by seasoned presenter Juanita Phillips who just happened to be on set at the time. During the funeral Chair Ita Buttrose states “We will never see another one like her”. </div>
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<b>Episode 3 We <s>never</s> climb <s>ULURU</s> Ayers Rock</b></div>
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We follow seasoned ABC environment reporter Fatima el Baksheesh-Namatjira, an Indigenous transgender Muslim and stellar graduate of Wendy Bacon’s University of Technology journalism course, as she travels to Australia’s red centre to cover the ban on climbing Uluru. She conducts numerous interviews with the current owners, elders and Park officials and they all agree that no traditional people ever climbed the Rock and that they never did. Happy with the interviews Baksheesh-Namatjira is invited by the owners to take a camel ride around Uluru but as the camel passes the climbing spur her flapping black burka spooks it and it runs crazily up the summit walk casting aside the last climbers on the way. Near the end of the chain things go from bad to worse as Baksheesh-Namatjira is thrown from the back of the wild beast. Fortunately as she starts to slide down the rock face her burka catches one of the chain posts and prevents her falling to her death. Hanging with her underwear exposed and lower limbs flailing her modesty is saved by a passing Japanese tourist who drapes her in an Australian flag that continues to flap in the breeze as she is brought safely to ground hanging from a helicopter cable.</div>
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The report when screened causes much dismay to Uluru’s owners when a production intern inadvertently includes archival footage of <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3DaLosLdIAi9I&source=gmail&ust=1579665099581000&usg=AFQjCNH8ogMiJbeI-0cZebjmmpQSo08xJA" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLosLdIAi9I" rel="noreferrer" style="color: #0563c1;" target="_blank">past owners Tiger Tjalkalyirri and Mitjenkeri Mick leading tourists to the summit</a>, and <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://quadrant.org.au/opinion/bennelong-papers/2018/08/ayers-rock-climb-monolithic-con-job/&source=gmail&ust=1579665099581000&usg=AFQjCNHnQYJEsTCS7N_NmhRPMlJM-S_5Nw" href="http://quadrant.org.au/opinion/bennelong-papers/2018/08/ayers-rock-climb-monolithic-con-job/" rel="noreferrer" style="color: #0563c1;" target="_blank">elder Toby Naninga saying tourists can go anywhere at Uluru except the men’s Initiation cave</a> showing claims about the climb are a complete farce. </div>
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A few months later mobile phone footage of Baksheesh-Namatjira riding the camel up the Rock becomes the most watched youtube video in history and she is given the role of leading ABC’s Indigenous unit.<br />
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<b>Episode 4 Covid1984</b></div>
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ABC's medical expert Norma Swann features in a special 4 Corners report tracking down the origins of the Covid19 virus. Swanny goes deep undercover into the stinking wet markets of China's Wuhan province determined to find the bat or pangolin that started the pandemic and thereby prove once and for all the virus didn't come out of a Chinese lab, a view exposed by President Trump. Posing as a vertebrate guano dealer Swanny enters the Wuhan Infectious Diseases Institute and sneaks into the laboratories. While Swanny is praising the health setup and safe guard the camera pans to a shelf in the background that shows a signed picture of Tony Jones and a box of organic carrots from ABC's roof top garden. A bat swoops in and munches on the carrots then flies straight into Swanny who looks into the camera and then sneezes as he states it will never be known where the virus originated from. As we follow him out a distinct dry coughing sound is heard. The camera tracks back to the bat now in convulsions on the floor half eaten carrot in its claws.</div>
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Other episodes this season include:</div>
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<b>Ridd Iculous</b> lauds the ABC’s far ranging in-depth coverage of the dismissal of Professor Peter Ridd from James Cook University. ABC head of news stated that the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://search-beta.abc.net.au/%23/?query%3Dpeter%2520ridd%26page%3D1%26configure%255BgetRankingInfo%255D%3Dtrue%26configure%255BclickAnalytics%255D%3Dtrue%26configure%255Banalytics%255D%3Dtrue%26configure%255BenablePersonalization%255D%3Dtrue%26configure%255BfacetFilters%255D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1579665099581000&usg=AFQjCNET2-bjEUxCcIbEBXFbOMw1WPbqQw" href="https://search-beta.abc.net.au/#/?query=peter%20ridd&page=1&configure%5BgetRankingInfo%5D=true&configure%5BclickAnalytics%5D=true&configure%5Banalytics%5D=true&configure%5BenablePersonalization%5D=true&configure%5BfacetFilters%5D=" rel="noreferrer" style="color: #0563c1;" target="_blank">9 minutes</a> of reporting provided by ABC was amongst his proudest achievements ever;<br />
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<b>Saint Greta </b>Greta Thunberg takes up a 3 month internship with ABC Science but the organisation is thrown into chaos as she insists no CO2 be emitted by the organisation for the length of her stay. For three months ABC rely on wind and solar and manage to provide about 20% of their normal output. Both the Chair and Managing Director thank the Australian public for their patience and say they are gratified that not a single complaint was received about the interruptions to broadcasting. </div>
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<b>imPelled-Guilty as all Hell:</b> follows ABC’s balanced impartial reporting of the trial of Cardinal George Pell; and</div>
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<b style="font-size: 11pt;">Austinct?</b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> We find Australia's first climate refugees. ABC reporters Emily and Chris, members of Extinction Rebellion, are interviewed about their amazing survival following their emergency exodus from their inner-city apartment to a yurt in Mongolia due to smoke from the bushfires.</span></div>
Marc Hendrickxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13764038599250494228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330650666541115497.post-1580989155557586842019-12-21T18:48:00.000+11:002020-01-28T10:35:25.109+11:00ABC continue to ignore weather historyWe pay over $1billion dollars to the ABC each year. You'd expect with that amount of money, enough to purchase around 3030 new Cat 1 fire fighting tankers (each year), it might be able to meet the requirements of its charter and present a news service free of bias and error but unfortunately for many, many years now it has been failing miserably and continues to let the Australian public down. If any other government agency was this bad they would long ago have been restructured or given the boot, with red-faced politicians vowing that such waste would never see the light of day ever again.<br />
<a href="http://joannenova.com.au/2019/12/abc-climate-experts-do-damage-control-on-1896-heatwave-story-cant-say-why-but-they-know-it-was-cooler-faith/">This post</a> from JoNova demonstrates that when it comes to climate, ABC has (long) been infected by activists intent of rewriting history to meet a failing propaganda message.<br />
For another example consider this piece about the maximum temperature in the nation's capital.<br />
<strong><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-19/heatwave-australia-bom-records-temperature-forecast/11811470">Canberra records highest December temperature as mercury soars to 39.3C</a></strong><br />
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ABC claims "<i>Canberra has surpassed its highest recorded December temperature, amid a heatwave that continues to sweep the country. At 3:16pm, the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) reported the mercury had reached 39.3C at Canberra Airport, breaking the 1994 record of 39.2C.</i>"<br />
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Now compare those statements with the weather recorded at the official Canberra Capital Weather station in Acton that was run for 27 years between 1912 and 1939.<br />
Station:Canberra (Acton)Number: 70099 Opened: 1912 Closed 31 Dec 1939<br />
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Here are the top 5 maximum temperatures for December recorded at ACTON until 1939 Canberra's official weather station:<br />
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1938<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>12<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>27<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>39.7<br />
1937<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>12<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>24<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>38.5<br />
1937<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>12<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>23<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>38<br />
1938<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>12<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>19<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>36.8<br />
1931<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>12<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>31<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>36.7<br />
The temperature on December 27 1938: 39.7 degrees C. <a href="https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/185611017">This news article</a> from the Telegraph captures what remains Canberra's highest December maximum. In 1938 Acton and the rest of Canberra was more rural village than city with much less urban heating affect. The ACTON reading was done in a Stevenson screen with a mercury thermometer that does not react to microsecond heat bursts like the current electronic thermometer housed on the runway at Canberra's Airport (BOM station 70351 opened in 2008, it replaced another at the airport 70014 that recorded data between 1939 and 2008). It seems both ABC and indeed BOM are completely unaware of the data stored in BOM's vast repository. Our first Parliament house opened in May 1927. Somehow the incompetent reporters at ABC believe there was no weather station there till 1939!<br />
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For interest the highest recorded Max. Temp at ACTON was 42.8C set on Jan 11, 1939. ABC would have you believe Canberra's record high is 42.2C recorded on Feb 1 1968.<br />
ABC: <i>"Earlier forecasts for Saturday put the hottest ACT temperature ever, 42.2C, under threat of being overtaken, but the BOM later downgraded its prediction to 41C."</i><br />
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I can't believe we still are forced to pay for the lies, errors and misrepresentations.<br />
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For other posts that feature the ACTON station follow this <a href="http://abcnewswatch.blogspot.com/search/label/acton%20weather%20records">LINK</a><br />
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UPDATE: According to BOM today Canberra Airport recorded at least 40.1C. Amazing what hot tarmac and overly sensitive instruments will do to our weather history!<br />
21/03:00pm<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>40.1<br />
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Update 2: The actual recorded max was 41.1C! Seems BOM's method of instantaneous weather, that records an errant exhaust blast from a passing jet engine will totally corrupt our weather records.<br />
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UPDATE: ABC issue a correction. <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">We referred your complaint to ABC News. They have amended the story, including the headline, to make clear that it relates specifically to readings taken at the BOM station at Canberra Airport. An Editor’s Note has been added to acknowledge and explain the changes made. In view of this prompt and appropriate action by ABC News, we consider this matter resolved.</span>Marc Hendrickxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13764038599250494228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330650666541115497.post-28671529206397367202019-08-19T12:40:00.003+10:002019-08-19T12:40:53.812+10:00ABC's Icelandic glacier coverage is not OKABC <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-19/iceland-okjokull-glacier-climate-change-plaque-warning-future/11426208">report </a>that a plaque is to be placed near the summit of the OK Volcano to mark the purported "official" death of Iceland's first glacier, the Ok Glacier which sits in the vent of a shield volcano. "Death" of the glacier is attributed to modern global warming.<br />
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Unfortunately, ABC lets down its audience (as usual) in failing to critically examine the claims made. It took us less than 5 minutes online to find out that about 90% of the OK glacier vanished between 1901 and 1945 well before the onset of late 20th-century global temperature increases. Here's what the publication <a href="https://books.google.com.au/books/about/The_Glaciers_of_Iceland.html?">Glaciers of Iceland</a> has to say about the OK glacier...<br />
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<i>"Thoroddsen described the glacier as a regularly-shaped, snow-white mound, like an eggshell, although further down its flanks it was succeeded by scattered patches of snow which gave the mountain the appearance of a spotted leopard. No individual outlet glaciers crept down from the glacier and all its meltwater runoff seeped into the dolerite lava.<b> The ice cap is depicted as being about 38 km2 on Thoroddsen's geological map from 1901, but on the map of the Danish General Staff from 1910, it was only around 15 km2, and only 5 km2 on the map of 1945; </b>the glacial patch had a surface area of just over 3 km2 on an aerial photograph from 1978, just less than 2 km2 on a satellite picture from 2004, and it has been reduced even more since then, the crater at the top of the lava dome now glacier-free."</i></div>
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<br />Marc Hendrickxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13764038599250494228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330650666541115497.post-41923567690377388212018-04-01T09:51:00.002+10:002018-04-01T09:51:49.794+10:00Ayers Rock Climb; don't expect balanced coverage from #theirabcThe fight to save one of the world's most renowned walking experiences is only just beginning. For historical information about the Climb that is not likely to get <strike>wide</strike> any coverage on the ABC visit <a href="https://righttoclimb.blogspot.com.au/">https://righttoclimb.blogspot.com.au/</a><br />
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Trying to get positive changes at the ABC appears to be a lost cause but we may still be able to stop political correctness, myth and superstition, and petty bureaucracy from making the world a worse place and save that iconic natural experience at the heart of the continent. With that in mind posting here will be infrequent. Make sure to follow us at the Right to Climb Blog.<br />
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Marc Hendrickxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13764038599250494228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330650666541115497.post-22571862999806970982018-01-11T17:45:00.002+11:002018-01-11T17:45:34.625+11:00Missing News: Quality control needed in environmental researchAnother missing story:<br />
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Microsoft Sans Serif", "Segoe UI Symbol", STIXGeneral, "Cambria Math", "Arial Unicode MS", sans-serif;">Research science used to inform public policy decisions, herein defined as “Policy-Science”, is rarely subjected to rigorous checking, testing and replication. Studies of biomedical and other sciences indicate that a considerable fraction of published peer-reviewed scientific literature, perhaps half, has significant flaws. To demonstrate the potential failings of the present approaches to scientific Quality Control (QC), we describe examples of science associated with perceived threats to the Great Barrier Reef (GBR), Australia. There appears a serious risk of efforts to improve the health of the GBR being directed inefficiently and/or away from the more serious threats. We suggest the need for a new organisation to undertake quality reviews and audits of important scientific results that underpin government spending decisions on the environment. Logically, such a body could also examine policy science in other key areas where governments rely heavily upon scientific results, such as education, health and criminology.</span>Marc Hendrickxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13764038599250494228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330650666541115497.post-43452581409040326042017-12-19T21:09:00.002+11:002017-12-20T06:48:39.945+11:00Missing News: Solar impact on climate seven times greater than climate models suggestedWow, Great Story from Graham Lloyd at the Oz about a new paper by an ABC missing voice Henrik Svensmark:<br />
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<i>The impact of changes in solar activity on Earth’s climate was up to seven times greater than climate models suggested according to new research published today in Nature Communications.</i></div>
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<i>Researchers have claimed a breakthrough in understanding how cosmic rays from supernovas react with the sun to form clouds, which impact the climate on Earth.</i></div>
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<i>The findings have been described as the “missing link” to help resolve a decades long controversy that has big implications for climate science.</i></div>
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<i>Lead author, Henrik Svensmark, from The Technical University of Denmark has long held that climate models had greatly underestimated the impact of solar activity.</i></div>
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<i>He says the new research identified the feedback mechanism through which the sun’s impact on climate was varied.</i></div>
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Read the rest at the link above, or at <a href="https://videnskab.dk/naturvidenskab/svensmark-fremlaegger-nye-argumenter-for-sin-kontroversielle-klimateori">videnskab.dk</a> you won't read this on "our" ABC.<br />
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Ions produced by cosmic rays have been thought to influence aerosols and clouds. In this study, the effect of ionization on the growth of aerosols into cloud condensation nuclei is investigated theoretically and experimentally. We show that the mass-flux of small ions can constitute an important addition to the growth caused by condensation of neutral molecules. Under present atmospheric conditions the growth rate from ions can constitute several percent of the neutral growth rate. We performed experimental studies which quantify the effect of ions on the growth of aerosols between nucleation and sizes >20 nm and find good agreement with theory. Ion-induced condensation should be of importance not just in Earth’s present day atmosphere for the growth of aerosols into cloud condensation nuclei under pristine marine conditions, but also under elevated atmospheric ionization caused by increased supernova activity.</div>
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Marc Hendrickxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13764038599250494228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330650666541115497.post-47942820185960267452017-11-17T07:47:00.001+11:002017-11-17T07:47:34.245+11:00ABC alarm: OMG Coffee will be gone!!!!ABC post this alarmist piece from activist Molly Harriss Olson, CEO of Fairtrade Australia and New Zealand. <div>
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<br /><i>The countless cups of coffee downed during the UN's COP23 climate summit in Bonn may seem insignificant.But if coffee consumption has any message, it is that climate change is personal.<br />Worldwide, more than 2.75 billion cups of coffee are consumed every day. Half of all Australians love a good coffee to kick-start each morning. <b>Yet, as climate change influences weather patterns around the world, coffee yields and quality are already suffering, and pests and diseases are on the rise.</b></i><div>
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<b>"Already suffering". </b>Simple Fact check using production figures from the <a href="http://www.ico.org/new_historical.asp?section=Statistics">International Coffee Organisation</a> shows production figures over the last few decades have improved significantly, during a time of rising temperatures.</div>
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Testing my morning brew reveals a good tasting cup of joe.</div>
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Marc Hendrickxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13764038599250494228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330650666541115497.post-70097690619897535832017-11-16T13:06:00.001+11:002017-11-16T13:06:11.881+11:00Anti - scienceABC cover the idiot Greens extension of a ban on GM crops in SA. The report lacks any inquiry into the long term consequences for SA. Looks like they'll be starving in the dark.<br />
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LINK to very ordinary report that does not ask any hard questions:<br />
<b><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2017-11-16/south-australian-gm-ban-extension-to-2025/9155994">Genetically-modified crop ban extension in South Australia to 2025 passes Upper House by single vote</a></b>Marc Hendrickxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13764038599250494228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330650666541115497.post-1766417393105660552017-11-01T08:43:00.000+11:002017-11-01T10:00:31.798+11:00Missing News: Killing an Australian IconNo mention by the ABC of news from Alice Springs about the administrative murder of a great Australian icon:<br />
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The Uluru (Ayers Rock) climb was closed for parts 229 days of the 273 days between January 1 and September 30 this year. That’s 84% of the days.<br />
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The reasons for the closures include wind, rain, storms or extreme temperatures, according to Parks Australia, the Federal instrumentality that manages the park. The climb is opened again when rangers deem it safe.<br />
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In January and February the climb was closed from 8am every day “due to heat” and longer on 52 of the 59 days in those two months.<br />
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A Parks spokeswoman says the climb is closed “for people’s safety” for the following reasons: If the temperature reaches 36 degrees or above; there is a greater than 20% chance of rain within three hours; there is a greater than 5% chance of thunderstorms within three hours; the estimated wind speed at the summit reaches 25 knots or above; more than 20% of the rock’s surface is wet after rain; cloud descends below the summit or for cultural reasons, for example, during a period of mourning.<br />
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During the height of the tourist season the climb was closed at some time during the following number of days: May – 20 days, June – 26, July – 10, August – 29.<br />
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<br />Marc Hendrickxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13764038599250494228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330650666541115497.post-46098036457121992332017-10-11T11:22:00.000+11:002017-10-11T11:22:16.445+11:00Quote of the week<a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-11/abbott:-how-to-provoke-instant-outrage-to-keep-yourself-relevant/9037366">ABC's James Glenday:</a><br />
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<i>"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a media outlet fighting for readers must be in want of a clickable headline quote."</i></blockquote>
Could not have described ABC News more succinctly. Its mediocrity is palpable. Marc Hendrickxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13764038599250494228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330650666541115497.post-1080835880330396652017-09-12T11:12:00.002+10:002017-09-13T09:16:27.532+10:00Missing News: What temperatures are BOM recording?The Australian have been covering and interesting and newsworthy story concerning problems BOM have in recording temperatures (eg <a href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/push-for-probe-into-weather-stations-failures/news-story/0aefeeb5d24dec9d7014c888cf0e51b0">Push for probe into weather stations failures</a>). This is their basic role, you'd think by now they could get it right.<br />
Given the importance of temperature in the land of droughts and flooding rains we are astounded that the ABC has failed to provide any coverage.<br />
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<a href="http://jennifermarohasy.com/">Jennifer Marohasy</a> has an important series of articles on her blog that outline the problem. See...<br />
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<a href="http://jennifermarohasy.com/2017/09/two-decades-temperature-data-australia-not-fit-purpose/">Two Decades of Temperature Data from Australia – Not Fit for Purpose</a><br />
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<a href="http://jennifermarohasy.com/2017/09/recordings-electronic-devices-comparable-not/">Are Recordings from Electronic Devices Comparable – or Not?</a><br />
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<a href="http://jennifermarohasy.com/2017/09/vindicated-bureau-acknowledges-limits-set-cold-temperatures-can-recorded/">Vindicated: Bureau acknowledges limits set on how cold temperatures can be recorded</a><br />
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<a href="http://jennifermarohasy.com/2017/09/vindicated-bureau-not-following-wmo-guidelines/">Vindicated: Bureau not following WMO guidelines</a><br />
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<a href="http://jennifermarohasy.com/2017/09/bureau-management-rewrites-rules/">Bureau Management Rewrites the Rules – Again</a>Marc Hendrickxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13764038599250494228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330650666541115497.post-75322738975056541532017-08-28T08:40:00.001+10:002017-08-28T08:40:26.768+10:00Dysfunctional RN UpdateThis From RN Listener enquiries regarding <a href="http://abcnewswatch.blogspot.com.au/2017/08/history-repeating-dysfunctional-rn.html">RN's short memory</a>:<br />
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State Department was under Barack Obama's Presidency.c</span></span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/saturdayextra/dysfunctional-state-department/8775560&source=gmail&ust=1503959541674000&usg=AFQjCNH0ZhF2s8uPC92u5gA1U5JkNqByAQ" href="http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/saturdayextra/dysfunctional-state-department/8775560" target="_blank"><span><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"></span></span><span></span></a><span><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"></span></span></div>
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Score one for us.Marc Hendrickxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13764038599250494228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330650666541115497.post-23344562703399410362017-08-24T08:29:00.000+10:002017-08-24T08:29:34.349+10:00Respecting the Elders<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">
In recent weeks considerable angst has been expressed about our public monuments and the potential that we may inadvertently be honouring some figures with questionable morals. We have seen the statues of slave owning confederate generals torn down in the USA and <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-18/america-tears-down-its-racist-history-we-ignore-ours-stan-grant/8821662&source=gmail&ust=1503613618724000&usg=AFQjCNHs5El3oDhiH-o8t7hzlRb8OGGLog" href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-18/america-tears-down-its-racist-history-we-ignore-ours-stan-grant/8821662" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">questions raised</a> about our own statues by ABC's Stan Grant, including those of Captain James Cook and Governor Macquarie, and the names of certain rivers and roads. </div>
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<b><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2007-07-12/aboriginal-elder-hears-rape-victim-statements/97542&source=gmail&ust=1503613618724000&usg=AFQjCNGy4NBmCc_jcsFvBlHJNYzc1PZRpQ" href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2007-07-12/aboriginal-elder-hears-rape-victim-statements/97542" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Aboriginal elder hears rape victim statements</a> ABC 12 Jul 2007</b></div>
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<i>The teenage victims of an Aboriginal elder who raped them in exchange for petrol to sniff have told the South Australian Supreme Court that they now suffer eating disorders and sleep deprivation in the wake of their sexual assaults.</i></div>
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<i>Winkie Ingomar, 52, has pleaded guilty to raping three girls in their early teens in Yalata in the west of SA early last year.</i></div>
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<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/aboriginal-elder-roy-kennedy-pleads-guilty-to-child-sex-charges-20151207-glhrdd.html&source=gmail&ust=1503613618724000&usg=AFQjCNGAq16krb-bVqTRufmGTakwOLa72Q" href="http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/aboriginal-elder-roy-kennedy-pleads-guilty-to-child-sex-charges-20151207-glhrdd.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Aboriginal elder pleads guilty to child sex charges</a> <b>SMH DECEMBER 7 2015</b></div>
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<i>In the mid 1990s, aged in his late 30s, he'd become obsessed with a teenage girl and for five years subjected her to physical and sexual abuse.</i></div>
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<i>His depraved actions resulted in the birth of two children – one when the teen was a day shy of her 16th birthday, and the second almost a year later.</i></div>
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<i>A third pregnancy in quick succession ended abruptly with a miscarriage at 12 weeks.</i></div>
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<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/elders-rape-sentence-to-be-reviewed/2005/09/27/1127804477978.html&source=gmail&ust=1503613618725000&usg=AFQjCNG53Y1_NV7yhZsOTCFtClNxxgFFGA" href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/elders-rape-sentence-to-be-reviewed/2005/09/27/1127804477978.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Elder's rape sentence to be reviewed</a> <b>SMH September 28, 2005</b></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission plans to intervene in a case in which a judge gave a short jail term to an Aborigine who anally raped and bashed his 14-year-old "promised wife". </span></i><i><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">In an unusual move, the commission will seek leave to appear before the Northern Territory Court of Criminal Appeal to intervene in the interests of the girl, who was promised to the 55-year-old man under Aboriginal customary law at the age of four.</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/culture-of-denial/news-story/3dd28525dc85e34c1fb549813bd4d9f4&source=gmail&ust=1503613618725000&usg=AFQjCNGjlLXt9wqrYNYPVszZiOSGECnThQ" href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/culture-of-denial/news-story/3dd28525dc85e34c1fb549813bd4d9f4" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Culture of Denial</a> <b>The Australian March 2007</b></span></div>
<i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">IN 2005 I spent several days in the Alice Springs hospital after falling ill while attending a friend's wedding. I shared a ward with a middle-aged Aboriginal man who was quite proud that he had raped a 13-year-old girl. As he said, "She wouldn't say yes, so I f---ed her hard."<br />It did not surprise me. A few years before, I was in Alice Springs talking to two Aboriginal men in their early 70s. They were preparing to go into town to buy plastic toy dinosaurs. This was to pay a 12-year-old girl for having sex with both of them at the same time.</i><br />
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To judge the actions of "respected" Elders of the Past, readers are referred to Tony Thomas’s excellent series on Quadrant that some time ago broke the "Great Australian Silence" Stan Grant seems so keen not to comment on:</div>
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Part I: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://quadrant.org.au/opinion/bennelong-papers/2013/05/yabbered-to-death-part-i/&source=gmail&ust=1503613618725000&usg=AFQjCNEj-jaCEz8KDDLH9UXiv4nNsogFgQ" href="http://quadrant.org.au/opinion/bennelong-papers/2013/05/yabbered-to-death-part-i/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Yabbered to death</a> </div>
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Part II: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://quadrant.org.au/opinion/bennelong-papers/2013/05/the-long-bloody-history-of-aboriginal-violence/&source=gmail&ust=1503613618725000&usg=AFQjCNE3zxYjRvV0ZyLcBJVPZFtHYUgf-A" href="http://quadrant.org.au/opinion/bennelong-papers/2013/05/the-long-bloody-history-of-aboriginal-violence/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">A Long Bloody History of Violence</a></div>
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Part III: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://quadrant.org.au/blogs/bennelong-papers/2013/05/a-blacked-out-past-part-iii&source=gmail&ust=1503613618725000&usg=AFQjCNHYQApr_ldM3CQedVkmFoFdHF1PKQ" href="http://quadrant.org.au/blogs/bennelong-papers/2013/05/a-blacked-out-past-part-iii" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">A Blacked-Out Past</a></div>
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Part IV: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://quadrant.org.au/blogs/bennelong-papers/2013/05/when-the-horrific-is-mundane-part-iv&source=gmail&ust=1503613618725000&usg=AFQjCNFdEQfGNUTc4LOBA6CS97iCimdNXw" href="http://quadrant.org.au/blogs/bennelong-papers/2013/05/when-the-horrific-is-mundane-part-iv" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">When The Horrific Is Mundane</a></div>
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