If the Archives does nothing more than collect political speeches, it will be doing its job. I think it's time for another version of Inconvenient Truth. (also, have a read of Annabel Crabb's comment piece in The Age today which for some weird reason is in the entertainment section. She'll just love that. http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/the-surprise-party-rumbles-on-and-only-a-shameless-act-will-end-it-20131130-2yiir.html)
Tony Abbott's more controversial speeches disappear http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/tony-abbotts-more-controversial-speeches-disappear-20131130-2yimm.html Bianca Hall Published: December 1, 2013 - 3:00AM Some of Tony Abbott's most controversial speeches have been airbrushed from Coalition history since the election, including a 2009 speech in which he backed a carbon tax, and a 2004 speech in which he described abortion as ''a question of the mother's convenience''. During Mr Abbott's 2009 carbon tax speech, in which he described himself as a ''climate change realist'', he poured doubt on climate change being man-made, saying: ''We can't conclusively say whether man-made carbon dioxide emissions are contributing to climate change.'' But he went on to say: ''If Australia is greatly to reduce its carbon emissions, the price of carbon-intensive products should rise a new tax would be the intelligent sceptic's way to deal with minimising emissions.'' [snip] Since 1996, the National Library of Australia's Pandora project has archived websites and pages, including political material. Since then it has collected content from more than 50 election campaigns, including every federal campaign, and has retained all of the pages formerly on tonyabbott.com.au. A spokeswoman for Mr Abbott said: ''The Liberal Party website is being updated to provide a single website to access media releases, speeches and policy documents released prior to the election of the Coalition government.'' Melbourne, Victoria, Australia [email protected] Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It's yours. Seize your space. ~Margaret Atwood, writer _ __________________ _ _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
