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 > [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 > _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
