[LINK] Australia has an updated government style manual

[Antony Barry]

On Sat, 1 Aug 2020 at 12:57 pm, Stephen Loosley <StephenLoosley at outlook.com>
wrote:

> Beta:  <https://www.stylemanual.gov.au/> https://www.stylemanual.gov.au<
> https://www.stylemanual.gov.au/>
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> Australia has an updated (Beta) government style manual
>
> Yes,  the Commonwealth Style Manual, the usage guide and
> whole-of-government communication ethos has been modernised and it now
> lives online.
>
> First published in 1966 by the Commonwealth Government Printing Office,
> the Style Manual has long provided guidance and recommendations for,
> “anyone faced with the task of preparing material for publication”.


The original manual was the work of the great John Pitson
<http://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/pitson-john-1596>
who I had the honour  of working with many years ago when I was the
Director of the Services Publications Section of the Australian Government
Publishing Service. The last printed copy of the manual I saw sadly made
made no acknowledgement of John's work. Hopefully there will be some in
this online version.

Tony

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