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Date/Time 25 Jun 2017 1:55:16pm
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Thanks Ken,

1) I’m curious to know if Robyn responds to your communications. He and also his TV buddy Jonathan Holmes of Media Watch were initially responsive to mine, even entertainingly so in repartee, but not so recently what with some strongly more “inconvenient” questions from me. This has also been the case with various other ABC radio and TV staff, and also the commercial manager for Dick Smith an ABC commissioned co-producer with Simon Nasht of a go-nowhere TV “doco” [sic] where when I’ve asked more penetrating questions they go silent and it gets referred to A&CA (Audience & Consumer Affairs who send me their stereotyped rejections).

2) Robyn rarely responds to comments on-line and has given his email excuse to me as that he only has 7 days in the week and less than 25 hours in the day yet has to find time to read 25 journals a week. (words collectively to that effect…. And he might be sorely distressed if his home is less than 100m above sea-level?)

3) Flannery and others have also ignored more severe droughts in the past such as when the River Murray stopped flowing in 1914/15, and also as portrayed in Dorothea Mackellar’s famous poem of 1905, particularly verses 2 & 4.

4) Concerning Crank, he/she seems to have gone quiet over the weekend which is almost disappointing since rational readers should see that he/she only has insulting rhetoric and zero technical contribution. (Perhaps it should be the moderator(s) that should be questioned on his ad homs rather than Mr Williams?)

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