Hi all,
I had the pleasure of attending the No Carbon Tax Rally down at Canberra on Tuesday.
Loads of fun..Angry Anderson sung a tune and the Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd impersonators were hilarious...especially when Kevin turned around to walk off stage and there was a (fake of course) knife sticking out of his back....
The most interesting speaker was a man who had been employed by the CSIRO for 35 years.
Dr Art Raiche, retired CSIRO Chief Research Scientist.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-IYJUDskds
(Skip to 8mins into it for the best bits if u haven't got time)
He talked of the days when the CSIRO was a world class organisation and worked for Australia, Agriculture and Industry.
And people wonder why this topic has impassioned me so much.
Regards JO
I had the pleasure of attending the No Carbon Tax Rally down at Canberra on Tuesday.
Loads of fun..Angry Anderson sung a tune and the Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd impersonators were hilarious...especially when Kevin turned around to walk off stage and there was a (fake of course) knife sticking out of his back....
The most interesting speaker was a man who had been employed by the CSIRO for 35 years.
Dr Art Raiche, retired CSIRO Chief Research Scientist.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-IYJUDskds
(Skip to 8mins into it for the best bits if u haven't got time)
He talked of the days when the CSIRO was a world class organisation and worked for Australia, Agriculture and Industry.
The original Scientists of the CSIRO were the best of their day and the CSIRO was a non-Government organisation working with quality science and how useful it was to Australia. (research)
In the 80's, I noticed we were under increasing pressure to become more "Business like" and the doors were opened to "Management Consultation."
Layer upon layer of management was created, some intersecting others.
You think that your tax dollars went towards research but alot of it was devoted to letting them play their management games.... the CSIRO was sent to fancy business schools in the US and Europe and they didn't learn one thing...
Managment learned how to bring the most senior climate scientist under their control. It was OK to think independantly...as long as Management approved of it.
We were given very strict, VERY strict guidelines on not publishing anything or publically discussing any research that could be seen as critical to Government policy.
If we did not do it, we would be subject to dismissal.
We had now become a Government Enterprise. We were told by the Chairperson that we Scientists no longer worked for Australia, we had to learn that we worked for the CSIRO.
And people wonder why this topic has impassioned me so much.
Regards JO