Thanks, I wasn’t specifically referring to Prof Albrechtsen’s very learned views on anthropogenic climate change. I was referring to what I thought was your expressed view that a certain part of modern scientific enquiry is now closed and completed.

I believe that this is not the case, and that science’s main asset (apart from its delightfully logical and open and enquiring mind) is its determination NEVER to declare any part of its mighty edifice “complete”.

Everything should be “up for grabs”, I think. That’s not to say I believe in a Flat Earth. It’s also not to diagree with those who say that some of the climate warming “skeptics” spout utter bollocks. They misunderstand some of the physics for example.

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There will also be a short, sharp enquiry into both broadcasters prior to the next triennial submissions according to everyone who claims to know anything. The issue is whether it will hear public submissions or not. I don’t think anything will be gained by opening it up yet again, since the positions are well know.

People tend to talk mostly about the ABC board, but SBS has slid towards commercialism as fast as its little legs will take it, and this is a question of policy, open to discussion.

“Moving to Washington, Cassidy worked as a correspondent for The Australian, owned by Rupert Murdoch. He returned to Australia, where he hosted a program on Network Ten called The Last Shout.”
(Wiki pedia)

Once Murdoch knows YOU…he KNOWS you.

There’s quite a few so called “die-hard Laborites” who make excuses for this media mogul & his crew who helped give us THE WAR. I wonder why? Even some Labor pollies who feel the need to promote that networking site.

The ABC board should not be run/overseen by individuals who have had influential positions in competing news companies…insider info, running campaigns, use of news shows to promote companies (showing of papers etc.)etc.

It’s NOT ON. Once upon a time when people really thought it thru they GOT THAT.

Some refreshing comments above. Some not.

I don’t want to see another Red Bee swarm. Look at the ever-growing, evolving, consuming BBC Corporation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC

Albrechtson & others shouldn’t be there in the first place. Conflict of interest, to begin with.
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Of course! Thank god someone is on to their dastardly plan, nasking……

Albrectsen needs to make a decision: whether she is on the Board of The ABC and thus shuts her public mouth, or whether she is a Murdoch journalist with definite opinions who can say and write what she likes.

It’s really as simple as that.

Pitting one journalist of decades of experience in all facets of the media against one who was a brekkie announcer a couple of years ago and has now been elevated above most of his longer serving, experienced and talented colleagues to a prime position of national reporting is a definite no-no.

And the thing is that Uhlmann gets it so damn wrong, so damn often.

His “House Of Cards” analogy regarding the Labor Party (a few months before they won last year’s election) was a memorable occasion. But there are plenty of others.

Albrechtsen is abusing her position, and has been for years. She can’t have it both ways: it’s either resign fromthe ABC and rave on a much as she likes, or shut her trap and do the job she is paid to do.

Like, um … the snow on the ski-fields isn’t already disappearing? I, Ikniw it is acrual some vast left wing conspiracy engineered by evil left wingers on the ABC who went to all the trouble of creating a set of Thredbo without snow just to scare us. Or maybe they just broadcast picrures of Thredbo in autumn before the snow fell and seaid it was winter?

If I follow your argument: no snow on Thredbo is proof of global warming. In which case, these snowcams should adequately debunk it.

I hope the Rudd government moves away from the “lets stack the board” game of the last 50 years and insteads appoints people based on their history and dedication to broadcasting, but i wont hold my breath.

Clause 1.5 is the same with every corporation, it is a clause which delegates the board’s management powers to the CEO, and the directors have no individual power of agency, that is, a director by themselves cannot enter into agreements on behalf of the company as the board’s powers are only in a majority vote from all board members. The CEO can, because the CEO position embodies the collective power of all directors transferred to him for day to day management decisions.

The other clause you posted is definately relevant.

http://thepipingshrike.blogspot.com/2008/07/crunch-time-update.html

“Even when a set of scientific propositions has majority support by well-qualified and knowledgeable scientists, that set of propositions can (and MUST) be tested, questioned, examined closely etc”
- Ambigulous

Except that’s not really what’s going on here. Concerns about scientific truth aren’t what’s driving the Albrechtons. The fact is these people are still fighting Howard’s culture wars and see in global warming an opportunity to wedge ‘the left’.

The problem is that that odious war is over and these people - and the rear vision-looking mainstream media giving them far too much oxygen - haven’t woken up to it.

Piping Shrike’s blog today makes this point better than I can.

I reckon this is partially a crafty, yet predictable move to try & save the butt of Barry Cassidy (Insiders has been BIASED and unbalanced under his guidance for ages now)…it’s another “strawman” argument…& in the process Albrechtson gets fed ideas on how to try & turn the Global Warming “censorship debate” on its head…

we all know that it was the Global Warming “skeptics” like the Busheviks & Howeirdians w/ the help of the Murdoch media & others, that did the CENSORING/GAGGING. The idea that somehow the corporate (benefitting & related to oil/coal/cars) media are robots/sheep promoting the views of the Garnauts is a load of RUBBISH. Look at the SKEPTICAL piece on Ch.9s Sunday program the Sunday before last.

This is just the media wank*rs who support the too oft enviro-damaging & war-creating energy industries trying to create confusion & undermine the change to alternative forms of energy. And they are painting a bogus picture for the public by using the very same arguments that WE used against them. Not an ORIGINAL idea in their heads.

Break the MIRRORS, blow away the FOG. And REMEMBER. Who were the ENABLERS? People don’t change their views/approach on a dime, usually. Not unless they are forced to, or playing GAMES. Or feel the need to REDEEM themselves. Or are able to rid themselves of the poison/conditioning somehow.

That’s not her problem. Her problem is that she doesn’t seem to know how to use her boardroom powers to make the ABC better (as she sees it). Instead, she’s carping at underlings from an external venue. She could say “these are problems with the ABC” without naming any particular employee. As a taxpayer, I should expect something like “And this is how we will make it better!”, even if I disagree with her views. Simply put, Janet is a shithouse CEO who doesn’t understand the responsibilities of her position, or how to use them.

She can be inside pissing out, or outside pissing in, but inside pissing in is just dumb.