[ASC-list] Report and comment on national "strategy" for science communication

[Peter Pockley]

Dear ASCers,

Arising from the ASC National Conference in February, I posted a note 
to the ASC List on 8 March drawing attention to commentaries in the 
Walkley Magazine by Robyn Williams and Wilson da Silva on the state 
of science journalism.

I concluded with: "My own not-so-sanguine assessment of the "national 
strategy" will appear in the public prints later on. (I happen to 
have been the sole reporter present for questioning Science Minister 
Kim Carr at his "media conference" after he launched the "strategy", 
which was not a convincing demonstration to national politics of the 
importance of our field of work, as expressed ultimately by budget planners.)"

This piece has now appeared in the April issue of Australasian 
Science which has just been published.

Cheers all!

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Peter Pockley, DPhil
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