O’Neill award for ABC journalist
Australian journalist, Andrew Greene (pictured) and Indonesian journalist, Tri Joko Her Riadi are the recipients of the 2018 Elizabeth O’Neill Journalism Award.
The award will support Mr Greene and Mr Riadi to spend two weeks in Indonesia and Australia respectively to deepen their understanding of contemporary issues in each country.
Mr Greene is the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Defence Correspondent and Mr Riadi is a journalist with the Pikiran Rakyat newspaper in Bandung.
The award commemorates the career of Elizabeth O’Neill who died in the service of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Indonesia on 7 March 2007.
APVMA picks up the pace
The Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) has improved its operational performance for a third consecutive quarter.
According to the Authority a total of 79 per cent of assessments were finalised on time during the March quarter of 2018.
This improvement comes on top of the regulator’s previous gains in December 2017 when 74 per cent of assessments were completed on time, and September 2017 when 58 per cent of assessments were finalised within statutory timeframes.
A total of 832 applications were finalised by the APVMA between January and March this year.
Satellite support for air transport
Geoscience Australia is trialling new satellite positioning technology that is predicted to transform air transport in remote and regional Australia.
Airservices Australia is leading the Satellite-Based Augmentation System (SBAS) project on behalf of the aviation industry, fitting SBAS technology into aircraft and testing it across regional Australia.
SBAS technology provides accurate guidance for landing procedures at regional aerodromes where ground infrastructure may not be as advanced as that used at larger airports.
New data on Anzac battlefield
An archaeological survey of the World War I battlefield at Anzac on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey has produced a unique digital archive.
The Anzac Gallipoli Archaeological Database has been created by the University of Melbourne. It will be an important legacy of the work of the tri-nation Joint Historical Archaeological Survey, the Australian component of which was funded by the Department of Veterans’ Affairs.
The Anzac Gallipoli Archaeological Database can be accessed on the University of Melbourne website at this PS News link.
