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Project SafeCom News and Updates 7 March 2006
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Project SafeCom News and Updates 7 March 2006
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1. ALP eco-power nuclear free
2. History shows violence erupts when leaders stoop to politics of fear
3. Anti-immigration pamphlets target foreigners
4. Amnesty report criticises prisoner detention in Iraq
5. Ambassador rejects Papuans' persecution claims
6. MEDIA RELEASE: QLD Free West Papua Protest
7. Protesters meet Indonesian ambassador
8. Deportee 'may never recover'
9. Australia is racist: poll
10. Owners speak out about Kakadu's uranium
11. Tsunami risk for homes
12. The end for the Loch's Nessie
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1. ALP eco-power nuclear free
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The Australian
Steve Lewis, Chief political correspondent
March 07, 2006
LABOR will force Australia's fossil fuel industries to invest billions of
dollars in clean technology under an ambitious climate change plan to cut
greenhouse gas emissions by 60per cent by 2050.
Opening a policy divide with the Howard Government, Kim Beazley will today
also unveil plans to lift the level of renewable energy - such as wind and
solar - delivered by big energy suppliers to households and business.
Despite a strong pitch from within Labor to keep open the nuclear energy
option - whose supporters include resources spokesman Martin Ferguson -
there is no mention of nuclear power in the Labor policy.
Labor could also top up the $7000 first-home owners grant for people
willing to invest in eco-friendly energy systems - part of a bid to win
back voter support in new housing estates.
The Opposition Leader will also announce plans to shift the "mandatory
renewable energy target" - which stipulates how much energy should be
derived from green sources such as wind and solar power - from 2 per cent
to 5 per cent. This would be one of the most ambitious targets among
developed economies.
Mr Beazley will unveil his climate change blueprint in Sydney to a business
audience today, hoping to secure industry support for a program even more
rigorous than that laid down by the Kyoto Protocol. He is promising to
deliver tax incentives and grants to help develop more eco-friendly
echnologies.
But Mr Beazley risks a backlash from sections of industry with his
aggressive pitch to make compulsory the uptake of these renewable sources
of power.
The Government will also accuse Labor of promoting policies that will
undermine the viability of coal and other significant industries in Australia.
Mr Beazley is determined to take a more aggressive stance on climate change
policy, despite some resistance within his party about the effects this
will have on traditional jobs in mining and other related industries.
He will argue that working towards a long-term goal of cutting greenhouse
emissions will give consumers and business greater certainty.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,18373879%255E601,00.html
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2. History shows violence erupts when leaders stoop to politics of fear
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Sydney Morning Herald
March 7, 2006
The anti-Muslim sentiment voiced in recent months echoes the rhetoric of an
earlier time, writes Emily Maguire.
RESPONDING to Peter Costello's recent comments about Muslims in Australia,
the Queensland Premier, Peter Beattie, accused the federal Treasurer of
"trying to appeal back to the 1950s". Beattie would have been just as
correct if he'd said the 1850s.
This month, 155 years ago, a group of Chinese immigrants working at Long
Pocket, near Ipswich, were attacked by their white co-workers. Two Chinese
men were killed and 10 others were "shockingly mutilated". Far from being
an isolated incident, this was the beginning of a half-century of
anti-Chinese violence fuelled by fear-mongering politicians.
By the 1888 Queensland election, anti-Chinese policies were known
vote-winners. Thus the premier, Samuel Griffith, described the "flood" of
Chinese as the "most immediately pressing problem of the hour", although
Chinese immigrants made up less than a quarter of a per cent of Brisbane's
population. The Opposition leader, Thomas McIlwraith, responded by
promising the "total and immediate exclusion of Chinese".
Australian pollies still vie to prove themselves toughest on border
protection and terrorism - terms which are today almost exclusively used in
the context of Muslim immigrants and refugees.
Then, as now, politicians are liable when their constituents react to
hateful, dehumanising rhetoric with violent action. On election night in
1888, a mob rampaged through Brisbane, bashing Chinese immigrants and
destroying their homes and businesses. In 21st-century Australia we saw the
stomach-turning scenes of race hatred on Cronulla beach, where red-faced
youths echoed the words of their Prime Minister: "We will decide who comes
here and the circumstances in which they come."
Some would argue that the anti-Chinese and anti-Muslim rioters were
responding to specific local issues. Maybe, but in both cases politicians
contributed to an acceptance of hatred of a particular minority.
In the past couple of years political commentary about Muslims has rarely
been reaction or response. Danna Vale's outburst about Muslims outbreeding
white Australians came during a discussion on an unrelated topic. Howard's
statement that some Muslims have "extreme attitudes" towards women was not
in reaction to any incident. Costello's remarks came out of nowhere: nobody
had been calling for the institution of sharia law in Australia; no one had
argued Muslims should not have to live by Australian law. Supporters of
multiculturalism have not advocated the right of any cultural, religious or
ethnic group to break or overturn the law.
There may be genuine ethnic tensions between Anglo and immigrant
communities in Australia but such comments do not address them. They
generate anti-Muslim feeling; they create negative public sentiment.
And since all citizens and residents have to abide by Australia's laws, we
must ask why Muslims are singled out. Howard has justified such targeting
by saying Muslims are not like "other immigrant communities, who become
easily absorbed by Australia's mainstream". But this argument was old and
tired before the dawn of the 20th century.
At a public meeting in Sydney in 1861 after anti-Chinese riots at Lambing
Flat, politicians justified the violence by arguing that the Chinese should
not be allowed into Australia at all. They would never assimilate because
their customs, clothing and religion were alien. Worst of all, they were
proud of their heritage. If we allowed them to live among us they would
destroy our way of life and corrupt our values.
One hundred and fifty years later we can see how ludicrous these fears
were. Despite large-scale Chinese immigration over a long period we do not
have in this country a "Chinese problem". Chinese religion has not
destroyed Christianity; Chinese cultural practices have not destroyed a
single Anglo-Celtic cultural practice.
To believe that a tiny minority of the population was a threat to the way
of life of the majority simply because they dressed and prayed differently
and cherished the traditions of their homeland was - from this distance -
clearly the result of ignorance and paranoia.
Yet Bronwyn Bishop, Sophie Panopoulos and Howard have all recently
considered it appropriate to comment disapprovingly on the clothing of
Muslim women, as though a tiny minority of Australian women dressing
unconventionally is a matter of national concern. Our politicians need to
get a grip: terrorism is a serious threat; the hijab is not. Criminal
behaviour should be targeted; non-Anglo cultural practices should not.
The fact is that ethnic or cultural minorities have never been the enemy of
peace in Australia, but fear-mongering leaders have long been.
Emily Maguire is a freelance writer.
http://smh.com.au/news/opinion/history-shows-violence-erupts-when-leaders-stoop-to-politics-offear/2006/03/06/1141493607956.html
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3. Anti-immigration pamphlets target foreigners
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ABC ONLINE NEWS
Tuesday, March 7, 2006. 8:36am (AEDT)
A year after anti-immigration leaflets and a subsequent rally caused
widespread anger in Newcastle, similar pamphlets have again begun
circulating in the city.
The Patriotic Youth League was behind last year's rally, which linked an
influx of Sudanese refugees with crime and gang-related activity.
The Australia First Party, which has links with the League, has this week
distributed more leaflets under the heading "immigration is out of control".
The director of the Newcastle Migrant Resource Centre, Violetta Walsh, says
while the latest leaflets are not as inflammatory as previous ones, the
message is clear.
"I think the message is absolutely crystal clear, you know, get them out of
Newcastle, illegal immigration, any kind of immigration is out of control,"
she said.
"Overseas students are targeted, the language is still very intemperate and
incites racial and other hatred."
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200603/s1585444.htm
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4. Amnesty report criticises prisoner detention in Iraq
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ABC ONLINE NEWS
Monday, March 6, 2006. 10:21pm (AEDT)
By Stephanie Kennedy
A report by Amnesty International has found thousands of detainees held in
Iraq are still being denied their basic human rights.
Amnesty says thousands of prisoners are being held by the US led
multi-national forces, some have been detained for many months without
charge or trial.
The group says the lessons of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal have been
ignored and reports of torture continue to "pour out of Iraq".
Amnesty has based its findings on interviews with former inmates.
The human rights organisation is calling on the multi-national forces and
the Iraqi authorities to take urgent action to stop further abuses.
US and British officials insist that prisoners are treated in accordance
with international standards.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200603/s1585361.htm
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5. Ambassador rejects Papuans' persecution claims
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ABC ONLINE NEWS
Monday, March 6, 2006. 4:43pm (AEDT)
Indonesia's ambassador to Australia has tried to discredit the claims of a
group of Papuan asylum seekers.
The 43 asylum seekers travelled to Cape York in a canoe in late January.
They are being detained on Christmas Island while the Federal Government
assesses their claims.
Ambassador Hamzah Thayeb has told a forum in Brisbane he doubts the asylum
seekers' claims that they will be persecuted if they are returned to Indonesia.
"What they claim is that they are being persecuted, even genocide, they
mentioned that word - genocide in this 21st Century, I don't think that is
the way of doing things," he said.
"Nor are they being persecuted. They are not even on the wanted list of our
national police."
He says the Indonesian consulate contacted the group when it arrived in
Australia.
"But that was the only contact that we've had," he said.
"Now we are still waiting for the latest development and we are always in
close contact with DFAT."
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200603/s1585155.htm
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6. MEDIA RELEASE: QLD Free West Papua Protest
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Monday March 6, 2006
Free West Papua Protest to Greet Indonesian Ambassador at Queensland
University
West Papuan activists and refuge supporters will hold a protest at
Queensland University when the Indonesian ambassador, Tamken Thayeb hosts a
reception at Mayne Hall on the St Lucia campus, at 2pm, today (Monday 6
March).
“We were disgusted when the 43 West Papuan asylum seekers who landed on
Cape York were taken to Christmas Island. But we have been appalled at the
calls by the Indonesian government to return the 43 West Papuan Asylum
seekers to Indonesia,” said Ian Rintoul, a spokesperson for the Refugee
Action Collective.
“The repression of West Papuan is a daily occurrence. Just after the asylum
seekers arrived on Cape York, a West Papuan student was killed by
Indonesian soldiers.
“Freeport mine has recently been closed by protests of local people and
even the West Papuan representatives of the Indonesian parliament are
calling for an inquiry into the violence of the local military protecting
the mine.
“We are very concerned by the Australian government’s co-operation with the
Indonesian government and military forces. Alexander Downer recently
repeated that Australia supports the territorial integrity of Indonesia and
the government has recommenced training Indonesia army units in Australia.
“The government should be supporting a real act of free choice for
self-determination in West Papua.
“We will be calling for freedom for West Papua and the immediate release of
the West Papuan asylum seekers from Christmas Island and for them to be
granted permanent protection visas,” said Ian Rintoul.
The protest will also highlight the plight of asylum seekers on the
Indonesian island of Lombok. Many of those are Afghans and Iraqis towed
back from Australian territory after the infamous Tampa incident in 2001.
“There are around 100 people, some with family members in Australia still
stranded and destitute on Lombok that are the responsibility of the
Australian government. It is another Nauru that the government has been
trying to hide,” said Ian Rintoul.
Speakers at the rally will include West Papua Association, University of
Queensland student union environmental officer and the Refugee Action
Collective.
For more information contact: Ian Rintoul 0417 275 713
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7. Protesters meet Indonesian ambassador
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The Age
March 6, 2006 - 6:29PM
Indonesia's Ambassador to Australia faced protests from Papuan and refugee
activists on a visit to Brisbane.
A group of about 20 refugee and Papuan independence activists were held
back by state and federal police at a function for the ambassador at the
University of Queensland.
The function, closed to the public and media, was the second attended by
Teuku Mohammad Hamzah Thayeb in Brisbane, in his first official state visit
since becoming ambassador to Australia last December.
Protesters, some waving the banned Papuan Morning Star flag, called for a
group of 43 Papuan asylum seekers to be granted protection and freed.
The group, including seven children, claimed asylum in January after
landing their rickety boat on a Cape York beach in far north Queensland.
They are currently on Christmas Island where claims their lives are in
danger due to their fight for Papuan independence are being assessed.
The Indonesian government disputes their claims and has guaranteed their
safety if they return home.
But Refugee Action Collective spokesman Ian Rintoul said the Australian
government should support the group and Papua's right to self-determination.
"We are calling for freedom for West Papua and the immediate release of the
West Papuan asylum seekers from Christmas Island and for them to be granted
permanent protection visas," Mr Rintoul said.
Earlier, Mr Thayeb said he did not understand why the group had sought
asylum in the first place.
"They are not on Indonesia's wanted list, so they have no reason whatsoever
to seek asylum," he said.
"We would like to see them back in the villages and reunited with their
families."
Describing Papua's fight for independence as a "dream of the past", Mr
Thayeb said Indonesia was changing and was now a democratic place.
"What they claim is that they are being persecuted, even genocide, they
even mention that word," he said.
"I mean genocide in the 21st century - I don't think that is now the way of
doing things. Nor are they being persecuted."
Mr Thayeb, who has previously said relations between the two countries
could be affected if asylum is granted, steered away from the issue.
"They are still in the process of being interrogated by you on Christmas
Island, so I don't want to venture into that until we know what is the
final decision," he said.
© 2006 AAP
http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Protesters-meet-Indonesian-ambassador/2006/03/06/1141493604236.html
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8. Deportee 'may never recover'
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The Courier Mail
By Xavier La Canna
06mar06
MELBOURNE man Robert Jovicic might never recover from his deportation
ordeal, despite being granted permission to return to Australia, his sister
said today.
Susanna Jovicic, of Sydney, said her brother had tried to commit suicide a
number of times since he was deported to Serbia and Montenegro in June 2004.
"I don't know if he will get over it ... I am certainly fully aware that he
will be needing a lot of counselling from psychiatrists," Ms Jovicic said.
Mr Jovicic, 39, was deported on character grounds despite living in
Australia since he was two, having an Australian sister and an Australian
de-facto wife.
Mr Jovicic, a former heroin addict, was considered of poor character
because he had been jailed for a string of burglaries.
The campaign to have him returned was sparked when it was discovered he had
been living on the streets of Belgrade and was stateless in a country where
he did not speak the language.
Mr Jovicic was reportedly suffering prostate problems and scoliosis, making
it difficult for him to walk without crutches.
He warned that he would die on the Australian embassy's steps, prompting
the Australian Government to pay for his hotel and medical bills.
Last Thursday, Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone granted Mr Jovicic a
special purpose visa to return to Australia.
Ms Jovicic said her brother was stunned when he learned he would be coming
back to Australia.
"His initial reaction was shock. It was just disbelief. He kept asking me,
'what do you mean, coming home?'," she said.
Mr Jovicic will stay with his sister after flying into Sydney on Thursday
morning.
"His health will determine what he is able to do," Ms Jovicic said.
Mr Jovicic's lawyer, Michaela Byers, applauded Senator Vanstone's decision
to allow her client to return to Australia.
"She was put in a very difficult position from the former minister (Philip
Ruddock)," Ms Byers said.
Ms Byers said she was always confident Mr Jovicic would be allowed to
return, it was just a matter of when.
She said her client would meet immigration officials on Friday to hopefully
get his permanent residency reinstated.
A directions hearing on a compensation claim by Mr Jovicic will go before
Federal Court Justice Michael Moore in Sydney on March 22.
http://www.couriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,18363351%255E1702,00.html
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9. Australia is racist: poll
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news.com.au
From: AAP
By Paul Colgan
March 06, 2006
ALMOST two-thirds of Australians believe there is underlying racism in the
country and four in 10 people believe it can be described as a racist
nation, according to a NEWS.com.au poll.
Four out of every five respondents to the survey, conducted in the wake of
recent controversial statements by the Howard Government leadership,
believed immigrants should be forced to adopt Australian values when they
arrived.
While the survey showed broad community support for recent statements by
Prime Minister John Howard and Treasurer Peter Costello on racism and
immigration, respondents overwhelmingly disagreed with Mr Howard's
assertion - made in the wake of the Cronulla riots last December - that
there was no underlying racism in Australia.
Respondents to the Coredata survey, commissioned by NEWS.com.au, also
disagreed with the Prime Minister's claim last month that most Australians
would prefer not to see Muslim women in full traditional dress.
There were more than 2550 respondents to the online survey conducted over
two days last week, and the results reflect the opinions of those people
who chose to take part.
Statements in a recent speech by Mr Costello in which he said new arrivals
to Australia should be forced to live by the country's existing values drew
widespread support, with 79 per cent of respondents backing the statement.
Opinion was divided on the nature of Australian values. Mateship and
fairness were seen as key values by 86 per cent of respondents, while only
two-thirds agreed that respect for the law was a national value. The same
amount - 66 per cent - believed larrikinism was an Australian value.
Given a number of options on what best described an Australian, the
statement most favoured was "people who love Australia and love being in
Australia" - 45 per cent of respondents backed the statement. "People who
have gained citizenship in Australia" (20 per cent), and "people with
Australian values" (13 per cent) were also favoured.
Only 2.2 per cent of people surveyed selected "White Australians" as an
option to describe nationals.
One in four respondents actively disagreed that multiculturalism was an
Australian value. Around one in seven respondents - 14 per cent - believed
extremist clerics should be allowed to preach here.
Asked if John Howard - who marked his 10th year in power last week - should
remain as Prime Minister, 42 per cent of respondents agreed while 39 per
cent disagreed.
Only 28 per cent of respondents believed Australian values had improved
during Mr Howard's time in power. A slight majority of Liberal voters
believed values had improved, but less than 10 per cent of other voters,
including Labor, believed values had improved in that time.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,18362815-29277,00.html
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10. Owners speak out about Kakadu's uranium
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The Age
By Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin
March 7, 2006
THE Howard Government has used a native title claim to pressure Aboriginal
owners to approve mining of the massive Jabiluka uranium deposit in Kakadu
National Park, it was claimed yesterday.
The traditional Mirarr owners said the Government had indicated they would
be given ownership of Jabiru, a mining town in Kakadu, if they reversed
their opposition to mining Jabiluka. At today's soaring prices, the site —
the world's richest undeveloped uranium deposit — is worth more than $10
billion
"Its outrageous. We are sick and tired of having the mining of Jabiluka and
the future of Jabiru mentioned in the same breath," said Andy Ralph, the
chief executive of the Gundjehmi Aboriginal Corporation, which represents
the Mirarr people.
The Mirarr, who have the right to veto mining at Jabiluka, have a native
title claim over Jabiru, a town of about 1100 that services the Ranger
uranium mine in the park.
Greg Hunt, a Victorian Liberal MP with federal ministerial responsibility
for Kakadu, said last night that Jabiluka's future was "a matter for the
Mirarr people". "There is no question that in policy and in law they have
binding control over what occurs at Jabiluka and that will not change," Mr
Hunt said.
Mr Ralph told The Age he had decided to publicly reveal the attempt by
several federal ministers to link Jabiru with Jabiluka because the Mirarr
people are coming under increasing pressure over Jabiluka. "The pressure to
mine Jabiluka will become enormous in the years to come," he said. "The
time has come to speak out about some of the pressures that are being
applied to the Mirarr people."
Mr Ralph said the federal ministers had " implied" over a number of years
to Mirarr representatives that "we will give you Jabiru, just give us
Jabiluka".
The Mirarr people, led by Yvonne Margarula, have strongly opposed mining of
Jabiluka, telling a parliamentary inquiry last year that they were worried
about the impact of any future mining on their land. "My mob continue to
respectfully say 'no thanks', we don't want mining at Jabiluka and I can't
see it happening," Mr Ralph said.
Late last year the Howard Government declared the Northern Territory open
for expanded uranium mining, saying companies could exploit more than $12
billion of known deposits, including Jabiluka, as long as they won the
support of traditional owners and met environmental concerns.
The NT Labor Government, which regulates mines in the Territory, has
effectively handed the responsibility for new uranium mines to Canberra.
Rio-Tinto-owned Energy Resources Australia Limited has not given up hope of
mining Jabiluka, despite abandoning work at the site a decade ago after
anti-mine protesters had blockaded it. The company's Ranger mine is
scheduled to cease operation in 2014, putting the future of Jabiru in doubt.
Mr Ralph said the Mirarr want the 13-square-kilometre township area
returned to Aboriginal ownership. He said that when Ranger closes, the town
would lose most of its population and would become a small,
tourism-oriented settlement.
"They are saying the town will go from having 1100 to 300," he said. "They
are saying instead of having two doctors we will have none. Instead of
having 15 school teachers we will have five. It's a threat."
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/owners-speak-out-about-kakadus-uranium/2006/03/06/1141493611298.html
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11. Tsunami risk for homes
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The Australian
Steve Creedy
March 06, 2006
MORE than 7 per cent of Australia's houses are in low-lying areas near the
coast that would be vulnerable to a tsunami.
Macquarie University researcher Keping Chen used census data and satellite
images to determine that 75 per cent of the addresses vulnerable to a
tsunami are in 39 local government areas.
The Gold Coast leads the list with more than 92,000 houses under threat.
Brisbane (32,909), Rockingham in Western Australia (27,509), Gosford in NSW
(22,796) and Kingston in Victoria (19,508) are also in the top five. The
study found that about 50 per cent of the population is located within 7km
of the coast and 7.4 per cent of addresses are within the most vulnerable
area of within 3km of the coast with an elevation of less than 6m.
Most of the addresses were on the east coast in NSW and Queensland.
Gosford, Tweed, Wyong, Rockdale and Lake Macquarie topped the list in NSW.
The study also warned coastal vulnerability was increasing as more people
flocked to the coast. The study follows a federal government report that
warned the risk of a tsunami in the region was real.
"Australia is surrounded ... by some 8000km of active tectonic plate
boundaries capable of generating tsunamis," that report said.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,18360927%255E2702,00.html
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12. The end for the Loch's Nessie
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The Australian
From correspondents in London
March 06, 2006
NESSIE, the Loch Ness monster, is in fact an elephant, according to a
Scottish palaeontologist who claims to have solved the riddle surrounding
the unexplained sightings of a monster in a lake near Glasgow in Scotland.
Neil Clark, curator of palaeontology at Glasgow University's Hunterian
Museum, who has spent two years investigating the myth, said that the idea
for Nessie was dreamt up as a "magnificent piece of marketing" by a circus
impresario after he saw one of his elephants bathing in the loch.
In 1933, the same year as the first modern "sighting" of Nessie, Bertram
Mills offered £20,000 ($47,298) - or £1 million ($2.36 million) in today's
money - to anyone who could capture the monster for his circus at Olympia,
based in London.
Clark, who made a name for himself by discovering a 165 million-year-old
dinosaur footprint on the Isle of Skye in 2004, said that the legend of the
Loch Ness monster was "largely a product of the 20th century".
He said: "Most sightings occurred after 1933 ... All we have are eyewitness
accounts, fuzzy photographs, distant video footage and proven hoaxes".
Most could be explained by floating logs or waves, but there were a number
of unexplained sightings of a creature elephant grey, with a long neck and
humped back particularly from 1933.
"My research suggests that these were elephants belonging to circuses.
Circus fairs visiting Inverness stopped on the banks of Loch Ness to allow
their animals to rest", said Clark.
"When their elephants were allowed to swim in the loch, only the trunk and
two humps could be seen: the first hump being the top of the head and the
second being the back of the animal.
"The resulting impression would be of an animal with a long neck and two
humps perhaps more if there were more than one elephant in the water.
"It is not surprising Bertram Mills offered a £20,000 reward to anyone who
could capture the monster for his circus. He already had the Loch Ness
monster in his circus", said Clark.
Nessie fans, however, have reported four sightings in 2005 alone.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,18374017%255E1702,00.html
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