[LINK] Thanks, Pandora

[Jan Whitaker]

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
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