[LINK] Thanks, Pandora

Richard rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au
Sun Dec 1 12:00:19 AEDT 2013


Jan,

Good work Pandora.

May I ask how come the Wayback Machine has left the collective 
consciousness?

Richard C

On 1/12/13 8:37 AM, Jan Whitaker wrote:
> 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
> jwhit at janwhitaker.com
>
> 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
>
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