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381##2000 Moving service forMalcolm NEARLY 1000 people in Canberra Prime Minister John Howard, sang a traditional Welsh melody, a and several hnndred at CSIRO sites Opposition Leader Kim Beazley, pianist gave us Grainger's Handel in the aronnd Australia celebrated the life Malcolm's younger brother Ian Siralld - one of Malcolm's favourites to which he had been known to dance - and of Dr Malcolm McIntosh, at a McIntosh, Allen Hawke, Defence Secretary and friend Bob Wylie, col finally, a lone piper, standing all the bal~ service held in the Great Hall, league and friend Darren Cundy and Jim cony above the hall, carried us to conclu Parliament HOllse. Peacock, CSIRO. sion upon the stmins of the McIntosh The ceremony on March 8 was direct Young Charles McIntosh made a Lament. telecast to Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, speech never to be forgotten by anyone It was an event undoubtedly unique in Hobart, Sydney and Brisbane. in the audience. CSIRO history. Dr Jim Peacock was Me. Amanda Hyatt's striking portrait of -WENDY PARSONS, CNA Speakers in praise of Malcolm were Malcolm was unveiled, a chapel choir • Legacy of adaptability - Page 2 Electrifying Australian car Australians trust By MEG~~I~ _ TIle surge-power unit or supercapaci A REVOLUTIONARY $30 million tors have not been used successfuUy in hybrid-electric car will be unveiled at electric vehicles before and were devel Parliament I-louse in Canberra on May oped by CSIRO to work with the battery us on biotech 31. pack and electric traction motor. 1t will show how vehicle fuel con The car can be charged overnight on AUSTRALIANS trust CSIRO the cent, would wear clothes made from sumption can be halved and pollution cut low-tariff electricity to reduce running most to provide truthful information genetically engineered fibre; lise by 90 per cent. costs even further. auout biotechnology, an independent genetically modified medicines, 64 per It is the second aXcessaustralia con Drive time: an artist has captured the Director of CSIRO's Australian survey has found. cent; or buy genetically modified cept car. innovative exterior o( the car. Automotive Technology Centre Mr The recent study found that 30 per fruits or vegetables if they tasted bet The first, a low-emission car, was 80 Australian component manufacturers. David Lamb said: "It's packed with cent of people would have the most ter, 51 per cent. unveiled to the world in 1998 at the The drive train incorporates features CSIRO technology and the best that confidence in CSIRO to tell them the And perceptions of a lacl~ of infor Detroit Exposition of the Society of such as a bank of five spedal leadMacid Australian industry can provide. truth about biotechnology. mation on gene technology ,vere "com Automotive Engineers. And it helped pounded by sensationalist media batteries, rather than one in a conven "Australia is one of only 10 countries The next most trusted groups were cov Australian component manufacturers scientists, 14 per cent, schools and uni erage", the report stated. tional car. in the world that can style, design, engiM achieve more than $730 million in new The CSIRO battery design contains versities, 11 pel' cent, and consumer The telephone and focus-gronp neer ancI rnanufnchlre almost evelY com export business. several innovations, is the subject of a organisations, 11 per cent. study, by Vano Hoare 'Wheeler, com ponent of the modem car." It toured the world for a year and was patent with the world's largest industrial In other results, about half of the 75 missioned by Biotechnology Australia, seen by more than a million people. battery manufacturer and includes a new The car will travel from Canberra to per cent of people aware of biotech surveyed almost 2,000 people through The new car uses hybrid-electric tech lead material that has been developed Fisita 2000, a major international auto nology expected it to provide benefits. out Australia. nology and has been put together with with Pasminco and that is now sold com~ motive-technology symposium in Seoul, Only 20 pCI' cent expected it to make It is available at www.iSl..gov.ull/ba innovative technology from more than merciatly. then to Japan, Chinn and Europe. things worse. The l11ajol"ity, 81 per -MEGAN BIRD Lucerne to mop up salinity "Life must be confusing fOf the citi zens ofMelbourne. Earlier this week the CSIRO released some figures on the EFFECTIVE pasture management may ers exploit lower-grade ore deposits, the river bottom. Phoslock absorbs and analysis of rainfall in the southern capi halt rising water tables and could pre extract metals more cheaply. clean up locks up large amounts of phosphorus. tal since 1910. The Herald-Sun and TIle vent dryland salinity, soil acidification waste streams and possibly improve If this and other trials are successful Age both ran the story but the fonner's ancI water logging. Solution to water hoggers mine safety. The volcanic systems to be they will provide managers of fresh headline read, 'Summer gets warmer. Plant Industry's Dr Mark Peoples says explored for these lifefonns are of the water bodies around Australia with a wetter' while the latter said, 'After a excess water costs Australia more than SMART meters that monitor thoughtless same type that fanned Australia's might new weapon against the toxic plague. teenagers taking extravagant showers is cenrury of rain on the rise, (he future is $600 million a year in lost agricultural iest ore bodies, like those at Broken Hill looking dry. It probably means production and is a serious problem a possible future water-use solution, and Mt Isa. Sydney water audit according to a CS1RO investigation. Melbourne's weather is nonnal - best to across agricultural land in Western SYDNEY'S water catchment is "moder carry a raincoat and a parasol.' Australia, NSW and Victoria. Off-peak water delivered to homes Gargle for health ately good", according to a recent audit. ~ Melba, The Australian, January CSIRO research has shown the vigor during the night and stored until it's time to use it is another option emerging from RINSING your mouth out could be the The research, conducted by CSIRO 13, page 9 ous deep roots of perennial pastures like devel~ the first national urban-water-use inves best way to gauge your chances of under the leadership of Dr John luceme are highly effective at removing oping hypertension. Williams, Deputy Chief, Land and "Why don't scientists get the same waler from deep in the soil and control tigation. Director of the Urban Water Program Me Andrew Speers said: "We A world-first diagnostic test uses Water, provides a snapshot of the cntch recognition as sportspersons? ... It's ling this problem. H now have evidence to suggest that by cheek cells to predict whether young ment environment, land-uses and the because scientists from the CSIRO con Dam pure water better managing water peaks and better aduJ ts and teenagers are at risk from the human activities that put pressure on dueting experiments proving genetic potentially fatal condition. water quality and catchment health. engineering can increase the yield of CSIRO is pioneering a new way to make matching pipe size to demand, the potential exists to save the nation tens of The CSIRO-developed test uses sorghum crops by 13.15 per cent can't polluted water safe, by storing it under 15,OOO~plus millions of dollars as we renew our $50 mouthwash to extract human cheek Test helps woolly exports draw crowds of at Bruce ground. epithelial cells that then have tbeir Stadium on a regular basis." Microbiologist Dr Simon Toze from billion urban water infrastructure." WOOLGROWERS will save money sodhlffi ion transport activity monitored. ~ Bruce Stuart, Letters to the Land and Water has shown that disease with a new test for pesticide residues that This activity is about half as likely in Editor, The Cnnberra Times, causing micro-organisms can be killed Bugs hold mining key will keep Australian wool at the fore adults with high blood pressure com December 16, page 10 by storing water in underground aqui EXTRAORDINARY lifefonns that can front of global markets. fiers for several months. survive at the temperature of boiling pared to those with normal blood pres CSIRO's Dr Ian Russell said: "The sure. new test will reduce residue testing costs "It must have been a slow news day Hnmlless microbes purify the water water and dine on a chemical soup con for The Age newspaper, which yester that has been polluted by sewage dis taining copper, gold and nickel will be to woolgrowers by at least two-rhirds." Fighting toxic algae The test has been developed by day ran a short piece Oll the bug, fOUf charges, leaky septic systems and sought out in active volcanic vents in the days after the embargo date. Could it be POISONOUS blue-greeu algae in CSIRO Textile and Fibre Technology to animals, the research indicates. depths of the Pacific Ocean. that the Millennium Bug was thus Perth's Canning River could be starved meet International Wool Textile These bugs reduced the polio virus to The pioneering search will be named because of its important role as by reducing one of its major food Organisation specifications. undetectable levels in less than 40 days mounted in April in the seabed of the an indicator of (he health of inland during laboratory studies. Manus Basin, north of Papua New sources, phosphorus. Australia exports most of its wool unprocessed, and this can be sold into freshwater bodies. a precious resource The geopurification technique is part Guinea, to help discover new processes In a world-fhst experiment scientists that must be protected for future gener sensitive environments subject to strin of a project to store water below ground.