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National Library a step closer
Plans to establish a National Library of Timor-Leste moved a step closer with the recent appointment of a library specialist to guide its development.
Karen Myers, an Australian librarian with significant East Timor working experience, began a 7-month contract in mid-January.
Her appointment follows international advertising in September 2010 through the Italian oil company, Eni, which is contributing substantial funds to the National Library project.
The broad shape of the new institution as a national coordinating body for all libraries in Timor-Leste is outlined in a recent government statement.
The contract library specialist tasks include input into design of physical infrastructure, legal framework for the library, cultural and educational policy statements, training requirements, human resources planning and collection and acquisition policies.
Karen Myers
Timor Experience
Prior to coming to Timor full-time in 2006, Karen worked in a public library service in Victoria and, from 2002, periodically did library work and training at the National University of Timor-Leste.
She worked through Australian Volunteers International in 2006-7 in advisory roles and course development work at the Dili Institute of Technology. In 2007-9 she was advisor to the Documentation Centre of the Post-CAVR Secretariat.
National Library and Archives
CHART has a special interest in the emergence of the National Library for three specific archives-related reasons.
The new institution is called the National Library and Archives on the Secretary of State for Culture website. There was some speculation in 2009 that the new institution might incorporate the existing government archives (Arquivo Nacional) and/or some other smaller special interest archives emerging in Timor-Leste (see our brief report here). We look forward to learning more about the expected archives functions in the new National Library.
CHART connection?
CHART is currently planning a significant digitisation program of Australian-held Timor archival materials. We hope to arrange public access to these files through emerging institutions in Timor-Leste. An archives function at the National Library would make the new institution a potential candidate for such an arrangement with CHART.
Today's publications, tomorrow's archives
Our 2003 report on archives developments in Timor-Leste noted that "there does not yet appear to be any institution committed to collecting output from today's East Timor. Today's newspapers, books, images, leaflets, radio broadcasts and so forth are tomorrow's archival record of East Timorese civil society in its early life as an independent nation." (p.11). We await with great interest to see whether the emerging National Library will take on this important role.
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Resistance Archive & Museum: New database access
The Arquivo & Museu da Resistencia (AMRT) in Dili continues to lead the way on access to digitised archives of the East Timorese struggle for independence.
In a new development, the online search facility has been re-designed to improve access to the well-established collection of digitised documents.
The centrepiece of the AMRT collection is internal resistance documents gathered from individuals throughout Timor-Leste since 2002.
Browsing document folders
Researchers now find documents by entering simple search terms or navigating the collection's database through browsing the underlying document folder structure. Previously, only visitors to the Archive in Dili could access the document folders on a dedicated stand-alone computer.
The predominant Timorese resistance document collections are arranged in folders by year; each year folder contains up to 10 standard sub-folders (see graphic).
The other main sections of the folder structure are Photographs and a Digital Library. The photographs folder contains a vast assemblage of images of the internal resistance and international solidarity campaigning. The digital library folder contains copies of published materials – from pamphlets to whole books. Many of these items come from the collection of Antonio Barbedo de Magalhães.
New document presentation
The onscreen presentation of documents has also changed. Instead of whole PDF documents being delivered from search results, documents are viewed page-by-page via navigation buttons. Database information about the origins and content of each document (metadata) is displayed alongside the page view. Page images can be enlarged for better readability.
Researchers' gems
Some very useful items caught the eye of this researcher while browsing the folders. They include:
The guide to Jill Jolliffe's well-known microfiche collection of Timor documents. (57 pages)
List of acronyms (9 pages)
List of resistance members' names and pseudonyms (52 pages)
The latter two were probably internal AMRT documents developed during the course of building its database.
The new design of the search facility is a great improvement over the earlier version. I like browsing the folder structure and the new delivery method of search results – a summary of types of documents and their quantity – is welcome. While the facility is currently restricted to Portuguese language, this is no serious barrier to using the database.
On my wish list for a future improvements would be an advanced search screen which allowed searching for terms in a particular field of the database. At present a word is searched simultaneously across all database fields, sometimes producing too many results to easily browse. It does not seem possible, for example, to search for all items from a particular donor's collection (Fundo).
Data accuracy & 'crowd sourcing'
Large databases such as this inevitably contain typographical or informational errors. Having the data online provides the opportunity for end users to spot errors or offer valuable additional information to document data. Getting data help from end-users has the trendy title of 'crowd sourcing'.
There are errors and holes in the AMRT database. Sadly, data corrections offered in the crowd-sourcing spirit by CHART in 2009 have yet to appear in the database. Perhaps when resources allow, the AMRT will consider establishing a formal method for end-users to submit data suggestions/corrections.
That said, the AMRT digitisation program, and making the material accessible online, is marvellous. AMRT is setting a fine example to all of us interested in making archival material accessible to present and future generations of Timorese and the international community.
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Moment of truth for Timor's truth commissions' archives
CAVR Archives: Priceless, unique, irreplaceable
Upcoming legislation in Timor-Leste's parliament marks a critical moment in the long-term preservation of, and public access to, Timor's truth commission archives.
Timor's 2001-2005 Commission for Reception, Truth & Reconciliation (CAVR) and the 2005-2008 Indonesia-Timor joint Commission for Truth & Friendship (CTF) both hold archival records of long-term importance to the people of Timor-Leste, Indonesia and the broader international community.
Both commissions made broadly similar recommendations on the need for addressing justice and reparations issues arising from the violations of human rights they documented. Similarly, both commissions recommended the creation of formal entities to preserve and provide access to the respective commission archives and to collect, house and provide access to related materials currently held outside Timor-Leste.
Draft legislation
Draft legislation defining the institutional framework for implementing the recommendations of both commissions is now under active consideration by the relevant parliamentary committee. Committee A heard Timorese non-government organisations and victims groups' comments on the draft legislation in early July. The Committee is expected to submit the legislation to Parliament for debate in September.
The Timorese NGO La'o Hamutuk is maintaining a valuable guide to this process, including background documents, links to the draft legislation text and some critical commentary on it.
Archival principles important
CHART's brief submission on the draft legislation – limited to commentary and suggestions on specific archival aspects – can be found here.
The final form of the institutional arrangements to keep the commission archives is unclear. Regardless of the structure, some basic archival principles will need to be adopted. They include:
Collection integrity
Any legal action against perpetrators or reparations for victims must necessarily be based on evidence. If material collected by either commission can contribute to any such future actions, it is absolutely crucial that the evidence is protected against accidental, environmental or intentional/malicious loss, defacement or destruction.
For this reason, the legislation should enshrine the need to follow recognised international archival standards and practices for managing and protecting these important materials. Additionally, an offsite copy of the archives – similar to the post-CAVR secretariat's initial projects with the British Library – should be mandated.
Collection authenticity
A piece of evidence is more likely to accepted if it can be authenticated as belonging to a body of evidence from a documented process or investigation. For this reason alone, it is important to keep records gathered by each commission as separate and distinct collections so there can be no confusion about the origins (gathering process, source) of the evidence.
For similar reasons, any related material collected later by the new institution should be maintained separately and not interfiled with either commission's archive.
Collection Access
Public access to truth commission archives internationally is a complex issue. Restrictions on access to confidential victim statements from individuals may be necessary to protect the victim's privacy or protect them against pressure or harm from alleged perpetrators. Allegations against individual perpetrators, yet to be tested in some legal process, may need to be protected to prevent private revenge actions.
These examples need to be balanced against the need for access to the records for reparation, legal, educational, historical research and memory reasons.
In the absence of post-independence laws in Timor-Leste on access to government documents and national archives, the current legisation should define rules on access – probably specifying that the post-CAVR secretariat's access guidelines be adopted as an interim measure.
Anecdotal evidence from researchers suggests already some difficulty in ease of access to CAVR archives, despite the existence of an access policy. Hopefully an ethos of public access – within prudent limits mentioned above – will be enshrined in the new institution, whatever form it might take.
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Archives in Timor-Leste, 2009: Summary update
My brief on-the-ground exploration of archival developments in Timor-Leste during August leaves me both encouraged and bewildered.
Encouraged because the interest in archival matters I found in Dili in 2003 continues, unabated, to drive several interesting institutional developments and encouraged by the very strong interest in Timor archival materials being held in Australia.
Bewildered by the funding, building, training and personnel difficulties that all archives in Timor face, the uncertainties of government decision-making processes and what seems, in part, a rather negative competitiveness between some developing archival projects.
More on all that later. For now, here is a taste of what Cecily Gilbert and I managed to learn in a few short days in the very busy run-up to the 10th anniversary of the decisive independence ballot of 30 August 1999.
The National Archive, created to hold past and current government records, was established in the early years after independence. Since 2003 the Arquivo has been allocated a building, but does not yet appear to be a major government priority. A sizeable collection of Portuguese-era administrative records are held in reasonable storage conditions but the Arquivo does not have sufficient storage space to properly house a large volume of seemingly unexamined Indonesia-era administrative records. Transfers of independence-era government records have just begun. There does not appear to be any available listings of collection holdings and public access to the collection remains in planning stages. A detailed legislative basis for the Arquivo Nacional's existence and function, in draft form in 2003, has yet to be adopted. The Director of the archive, Pedro Fernandes, hopes the National Archive will eventually house some Timor-related archival materials held in Australia and elsewhere, but believes it will be some years before the institution will be ready to do this.
CAVR
Materials collected in Timor as evidence for the monumental 'Chega' report form the centre-piece of the archives of East Timor's Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation (CAVR). Since CAVR's wind-up in 2005, the Post-CAVR Secretariat has managed the archive, notably conducting a copy program funded under the British Library's Endangered Archives Programme whereby digital copies of original materials are held in London for preservation and (later) access purposes. Both paper and audio-visual materials are currently housed in reasonable archival conditions. Preservation copying of a large collection of audio-tapes of victim statements and other interviews is an important future task which will require significant resources. Access to the archives is possible with applications considered on a case by case basis but is somewhat hampered by incomplete documentation on collection content. Planning for a successor institution is well-developed but currently stalled by Parliament's continued delay in formally considering the recommendations of Chega. The proposed institution includes a human rights documentation centre based on the existing archive and acquisition of related material from abroad.
Centro Audiovisual Max Stahl Timor Leste (CAMSTL)
Currently housed in part of the Independence Memorial Hall in Farol and directed by the inimitable Max Stahl. In addition to holding historical footage from the occupation years, CAMSTL maintains an active program of recording, for the historical record, video of current events and interviews on Timorese experience of occupation. Timorese employees are trained in camera work, editing and archival procedures and work with volunteers to transcribe all spoken words in footage held. CAMSTL has created a number of films for sale on DVD. Max Stahl has recently concluded an agreement with INA, the French national audiovisual institute, to house archival copies of Timor footage for long term preservation and access. Detailed public listings of the content of CAMSTL are not yet available. We did not have time to learn more about the funding structure and long-term administrative and viability planning for CAMSTL.
National Library
The 'new kid on the block' in archival terms, a National Library is under very active consideration at the highest levels. Part-funded by an international donor, a building site has been allocated (but not yet made public), books and temporary storage space have been acquired, plans for appointing an international advisor, beginning staff training and conducting an international building design competition are in progress. Planning is the responsibility of the Secretary of State for Culture, Virgilio Smith. It is still too early to know what the final form of the National Library will be but that will become clearer in the coming months. The archival aspect arises from a declared interest by ministerial advisers to acquire for the Library Australian and other Timor solidarity archival materials from abroad. There has also been some tentative discussion of the idea of co-locating some existing archival institutions at the new Library. Our guess is the sceptical reaction from existing archives to this idea will persist at least until they have a clearer picture of the emerging National Library.
Timorese Resistance Archive and Museum
Opened in 2005, the Timorese Resistance Archive and Museum (AMRT) is located near the current (temporary) National Parliament building and the National University. The building houses a selection of Falintil weapons, radios and other equipment along with informational posters and displays of resistance documents (copies). The archival centrepiece of the AMRT is a large collection of documents gathered from resistance figures and supporters inside East Timor from 2002 to the present. Many of the collected documents are currently held in Lisbon at the Mario Soares Foundation (FMS) which has digitised the materials. With the exception of some politically sensitive materials, the digitised copies are available internationally on the internet through the AMRT website (managed by FMS) and a dedicated standalone computer in the Museum building in Dili. Aware of some questions in Dili about the ownership and management of the AMRT, along with some disquiet about documents being kept in Lisbon, a Timorese representative board of management is under construction. Also under construction is an imminent expansion of the existing building to add secure, archival standard storage and work areas and commercial seminar, bookshop and cafe facilities to assist AMRT funding for the longer term.
There's more, much more, to say about these and other archival matters inside Timor-Leste today. Keep an eye on the 'Timorese Archives' section of this blog over the coming month.
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Mariners scout heckles Jesus Montero, Montero allegedly tries to go after him with a bat
By Craig CalcaterraAug 29, 2014, 7:35 AM EDT
Tyler Maun of MiLB.com reports that a crazy incident occurred in Boise during a game between the Everett AquaSox and the Boise Hawks in the Northwest League yesterday. Jesus Montero, who is with Everett as he rehabs from an oblique injury, was coaching first base and was being heckled from the stands. Not by an ordinary fan, but a cross-checker — a scout who usually oversees scouts in a given geographical area — who is actually employed by the Mariners.
The incident was kicked off when the scout yelled at Montero to hustle off the field after an inning, yelling "Rapido! Rapido!" Then the scout ordered an ice cream sandwich and had it sent to Montero in the dugout, which one assumes was a dig at his weight issues (Montero showed up for spring training 40 pounds overweight). Montero didn't take kindly to that at all, heading toward the stands with a bat in his hands, throwing the ice cream sandwich at the scout and screaming expletives at the scout. He had to restrained by an Everett coach.
Mariners GM Jack Zduriencik told the Seattle Times that he was looking into the matter. And while, as the high-profile player who was acting aggressively, Montero is going draw most of the heat and coverage here, what on God's green Earth is a scout employed by the Mariners doing acting like that at a baseball game which he is presumably working? Toward a Mariners player no less? We obviously don't have all the information here, but if his behavior was as reported by Maun, I'm not sure how that guy doesn't get fired pretty quickly.
In other news, the minor leagues are a great bang for your entertainment buck.


BROTHER LOUIE
Modern Talking booked major commercial success with the single "Brother Louie" in 1986. It was the lead single of their third studio album Ready For Romance and also the fourth consecutive single to top the German Singles Chart.
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Modern Talking booked major commercial success with the single "Brother Louie" in 1986. It was the lead single of their third studio album Ready For Romance and also the fourth consecutive single to top the German Singles Chart, after "You're My Heart, You're My Soul", "You Can Win If You Want" and "Cheri, Cheri Lady". It was certified Gold in Belgium and Silver in both Germany and France.
The 12" Brother Louie features the special long version and instrumental version of the hit single. It is cut on 45RPM and is available as a limited edition of 1500 individually numbered copies on red coloured vinyl.
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Nigeria: In Search of Patriots, By Dele Agekameh
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We need to believe in our own strength to fight the obstacles we are faced with, before our country can emerge from the ashes of yesterday's failures.
In the past week, we heard news of Boko Haram victories and the unprecedented number of casualties amongst Nigerian soldiers engaged in the fight against the religious extremists. The police hierarchy is also locked in a blame game with a very highly placed Niger Delta elder, who was a victim to what was again described by the police as an 'unauthorised' raid by some of its men. While all of these are going on, there are men currently lining up behind the flags of their political parties to indicate their interest in charting the course of the country, for good or bad.
In truth, the country needs a determined leader to take it through the coming years, especially as we are in a make or break phase of development in many areas. This crucial time in our history is proving tough, as should be reasonably expected in a country with so many diverse interests. There are times when one is simply proud of what we have achieved and the potential that we still hold, while at other times the daunting task of nation building seems to be a lost cause. In the end, it is the people who hold this union together, through their acts and their belief in our prospects and survival as a country. This is where the trouble lies.
Nigerians are amongst the most mobile groups of people in the world. After the Chinese and Indians, Nigerians are probably the most likely group of immigrants you will encounter in most parts of the world, even in regions with stark differences in weather, culture and language. The average Nigerian considers it a step forward to be able to pack his belongings and leave the country behind, even to an uncertain fate in a foreign country. This does not portray a picture of people who have faith in their chances at home or a belief in the prospects for a good life in this country.
Sometime after our independence, Nigerian immigrants moved freely to the United Kingdom where many families remain rooted till this day. When the British began tightening their borders, there was a concentration on American visas, and many Nigerians can now be found across the vast territory there. Again, the Americans tightened their borders through more stringent visa requirements and now the exodus is concentrated on Canada, where the signs of the restricted intake of Nigerians are already materialising. Wherever the next destination may be, life in the country is still pushing people out, even at times when there seems to be improvements. When will visas stop being more important than national identity cards or voters cards?
We are so quick to trade our identities for the safety of a working society that we leave gaps in our own country that contribute to the poor development of our sectors. Many Nigerians serve in the British army or in the American military, even recent migrants, when the Nigerian army is engaged on multiple fronts at home and abroad.
Every day, more people make the seemingly bold move to restart their lives in other countries, sometimes uprooting entire families in order to give their children a fighting chance in the vastly competitive world out there. We no longer believe in dreams made in Nigeria, but want to be part of the American dream, or share in the openness of the Canadian society. Nigerian children are learning to speak languages in continental Europe, where the natives themselves are looking to expand their horizons and teach their children more of the popular culture in Britain or America.
We are so quick to trade our identities for the safety of a working society that we leave gaps in our own country that contribute to the poor development of our sectors. Many Nigerians serve in the British army or in the American military, even recent migrants, when the Nigerian army is engaged on multiple fronts at home and abroad. One cannot fault their decisions, as everyone is responsible for themselves, especially when it seems that we are faced with insurmountable obstacles at home.
Promising entrepreneurs and employers of labour flee the country to become employees in foreign countries, where they get lost in the demographics and lead ordinary but safe lives. Ideas that can make positive impacts in our society are sold to the West for the promise of a life there, only for the end products of those ideas, that were conceived in the minds of born and bred Nigerians, to be imported into the country at a premium. Our biggest employers of labour are foreigners who are mining the potentials of our unique markets and repatriating the proceeds to their home countries. Behind crude oil and maybe the products of a rejuvenated agricultural sector, our biggest export is labour, and unlike oil and agricultural produce, it is a negative to national development.
Most of our public servants are not left out of the race for greener pastures. The ones who do not have dual citizenships have ensured that their children have not missed out on the massive advantages of the citizenship of successful countries, where dreams are born and nurtured for the advantage of those societies. In many cases, their offsprings identify more with the foreign nationalities, for obvious reasons, and never visit or return home. For the ones who return, they are met with plush appointments facilitated by the standing of their parents or the natural advantage of their foreign backgrounds and education.
The returnees become policy makers and leaders of industry who understand the theoretics of global business and public management, but are deficient in the practical knowledge of how things work in the country. As a result, they are deceived, exploited and used by those who know but have no moral integrity. The shock of being jolted to reality leads many to leave or join the band of exploiters, having never felt, first hand, the consequences of their elitist ideas. They join a class of Nigerians that consciously or unconsciously propagate a growing class divide, widening the wealth gap through an established system of elitism that ensures non-inclusion.
What may encourage patriotism in the Nigerians that choose to live here, or simply have no choice, is not so difficult to decipher… Security…is an important factor. This is closely followed by the guarantee of a respectable means of livelihood and access to affordable healthcare, education and other daily needs.
A striking thing about the most developed countries is the sense of patriotism of the citizens there. Those that think Nigerians are patriotic merely confuse our natural defensiveness for patriotism. Over 80 per cent of Nigerians will readily trade their Nigerian passports for British or American passports and never look back. About 77 per cent of Nigerians are currently living below the poverty line and it is without question that they will be willing to make such a trade. Of those living above that line, one assumes that a quarter already have dual citizenships or are working on a migration plan.
What may encourage patriotism in the Nigerians that choose to live here, or simply have no choice, is not so difficult to decipher. Everyone wants to be able to lie down at night peacefully and wake up in the morning with peace of mind. For those living in the North-East or outside fortified areas like military cantonments in other parts, this may be difficult. Security, therefore, is an important factor. This is closely followed by the guarantee of a respectable means of livelihood and access to affordable healthcare, education and other daily needs.
There is no shaming or praising people who leave or stay, as everybody's experience is personal. What is clear is that it does Nigeria no good when its best brains are in flight or when there is no belief in the country by its own citizens. Dora Akunyili of blessed memory tried to launch a rebranding programme that evidently has not sailed, like the vision 2020 plan that failed several years ago. We need to believe in our own strength to fight the obstacles we are faced with, before our country can emerge from the ashes of yesterday's failures.
The measure of a country, it is becoming clear, is not by the wealth of its richest people, but by the aggregate of citizens actively working and succeeding at making a better life for themselves. We are grateful for the work of people like Alhaji Aliko Dangote, Oba Otudeko, Tony Elumelu and others who are inspiring the next generation and creating a dream for Nigerians to follow. But there are obstacles that even they cannot help many cross, and we may have to rely on the resilience of the Nigerian spirit, channeled into nation building and growing together. This is what we expect today's politicians to do, not ganging up to loot our common patrimony as it were.
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Steve Hilton begs media: STOP the 'wild, reckless overreaction' to coronavirus
Steve Hilton begs media: STOP the 'wild, reckless overreaction' to coronavirus
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Fox News host Steve Hilton warned of the "catastrophic overreaction" to the coronavirus outbreak being caused by the media and Democrats.
Hilton slammed leaders and media personalities who are creating harm amid a panic over coronavirus during his opening monologue on "The Next Revolution" Sunday.
"Of course, no one should minimize it, and we must do all we can to stop preventable deaths — but it seems to me that we've got a bunch of people in leadership positions in the media and business and Congress who are running around maximizing coronavirus without a thought for the harm they may be causing," Hilton said.
"With a virus like this, there's a policy choice: containment or mitigation. You try and stop it spreading or accept it will spread and focus on reducing the harm," he explained.
"In China, they went for containment with great success," Hilton noted while pointing out the effects if the U.S. followed suit by closing down cities and "ruthlessly" quarantining people.
"Doing that here would mean right now, tonight, sealing off Seattle, probably California too, canceling domestic air travel, closing schools, separating families, canceling March Madness, putting the Democrat primary on hold. All of that and much more deliberately and consciously tanking our economy," Hilton said.
"And for what? For this," he said, before playing a news conference video clip in which a health official explains that "coronavirus is responsible for the common cold" and "our experience to date is that most people, more than 85 percent, will have mild or no symptoms."
"By the way, that is an actual public health official. When Trump says literally the same thing, the idiots on the ruling-class state TV go nuts," Hilton said.
"I don't think that in a free society there is any chance of actually pursuing a real containment strategy like China did. The virus is here. It's going to spread. The vast majority of people who get it won't even know," he added. "As Dr. [Anthony] Fauci said today, we know who is at risk: the elderly and those with underlying conditions. So for God's sake, let's put our efforts into protecting them."
Hilton contended that safeguards should be implemented to protect those at high risk of being infected.
"Get hospital ICUs and ventilator capacity ready. Take extra steps to protect nursing homes…make sure no one is put off from being seen by a doctor over fears of the cost," he continued, "but stop this wild, reckless overreaction based on panic, not science"
Hilton criticized those calling on people to work from home, pointing to the example of the cancellation of the South by Southwest media and music festival.
"These people canceling South by Southwest, telling people to work from home… they're not going to suffer. The people who will be really hurt are the workers in the hotels, the bars, the food trucks. Who is going to take care of them while the tech workers lounge around at home ordering Uber Eats on their stupid iPhones?" Hilton said.
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Drew Hutton was young, gifted and ambitious. A teenage boarder at Brisbane Grammar in 1963, Hutton was the school's captain, and happily proficient in sport and study. His first sport was tennis but, he tells me, in '64 he got hooked on the idea of dominating athletics, too. Hurdles and short-distance running. Soon, he would break a state record.
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Jones wasn't much older than his students, but traits that would influence public life decades later – and passionately inspire both admiration and disgust – were evident then. A fierce commitment to his favourites was one.
With tennis and study, Hutton realised he could only train at athletics before dawn. That meant rising at 4.30am and hitting the track at 5. Jones joined him. "He would get up with me," Hutton says. "And there were plenty of others he coached. Then he would teach all day. He's got an enormous energy."
Jones did so because he saw something in Hutton. When you speak with people who know Jones, a few adjectives recur. Loyalty is one, although the word is qualified. "Jones knew the technical things, but he could also motivate you," Hutton says. "Well, he could if he liked you. This is where I have the most problems with Alan. If he liked you, he'd do anything for you. Get up at 5am to supervise you, say. But if he didn't like you, he'd make your life hell."
In off-the-record conversations, people remarked on Jones's sense of loyalty and how forcefully it was projected: passionate, sacrificial and unqualified. Loyalty exists for Jones as a primal virtue, something to be honoured with energetic commitment. But there was another side, suggested by Hutton and repeated by others: Jones invests his loyalty mercurially, and his substantial passions might just as easily be used to belittle and intimidate.
Drew Hutton never became a professional athlete – but he helped found a political party. In the 1970s, while Jones was variously a schoolmaster at The King's School in Parramatta, a four-time failed political candidate and, in the last year of the decade, a speechwriter for Malcolm Fraser, Hutton was lecturing in history and political science and organising political rallies. "I was involved in the New Left and anti-Vietnam War movement, became an anarchist, and then, later, realised you had to engage the system," Hutton says.
By the time Hutton founded the Queensland Greens in 1991, and helped Bob Brown found the national Greens party in the same decade, he had long lost contact with Jones. Their politics were opposed, mostly, but the two retained a mutual respect. Many years after the 5am hurdle runs, when the "system" with which Hutton had resolved to engage would include his old track and tennis coach, the two would meet again.
Jones has been talking for a long time now – and we've been talking about him for just as long. Since his first broadcast in 1985, Jones has seen eight prime ministers, 11 New South Wales premiers and outrun exhausted radio titans such as John Laws. His endurance is phenomenal.
And that's just radio. Jones has had a remarkably varied career, and I wonder if a comparable one could exist now: a country boy of modest grades but fierce ambition, excels in tennis, goes to Oxford, manages a regional airline, becomes a schoolmaster, coaches the Wallabies, writes for a prime minister, and then... becomes the long-reigning, mythically powerful king of talkback radio. Jones's most ardent admirers describe him as a Renaissance man; his critics, as an indefatigable grifter.
At 2GB, calculations about the contesting values of infamy and defamation settlements on one side, and the influence and popularity of Jones on the other, have always been resolved in favour of the talent.
One consistency has been Jones's ego. It seems supernaturally fortified. Last month, a judge found Jones had serially and gravely defamed a Queensland family – the Wagners – who he had accused of being responsible, through a collapsed quarry wall, of 12 deaths in the 2011 Lockyer Valley floods. The judge spoke of Jones's "intrinsically vicious and spiteful wording … [his] wilful blindness to the truth or falsity of the defamatory accusations". Jones was ordered to pay $3.7 million in damages, an Australian record since actress Rebel Wilson's defamation payout from Bauer Media was slashed from $4.5 million to just $600,000 by Victoria's Court of Appeal.
One might expect an ordinary person to be chastened – or sacked. But Jones isn't ordinary. Ordinary people don't sustain a career like his – even, or especially, when they assume ambassadorship of ordinariness. For years at 2GB, calculations about the contesting values of infamy and defamation settlements on one side, and the influence and popularity of Jones on the other, have always been resolved in favour of the talent.
The other consistency of Jones's career, inseparable from the first, is controversy – though that's probably too asinine a word to describe his transgressions. Impulsive, condescending and abusive, Jones will, on average, speak about 150,000 words a week. This verbosity is profitable and commends his rare energy, but it means the odds are always good that there will be some indecency of truth or manners. The Wagner order was only the largest and latest in a string of defamations, and you can add to Jones's sins plagiarism and racial vilification. But as the former NSW premier Bob Carr told me: "Just because Alan Jones says it's true, doesn't mean it's wrong." This was a line he often delivered to his cabinet.
This week, Jones was again making news after haranguing Opera House chief executive Louise Herron on-air for objecting to having the promotion of a horse race projected on the building's iconic sails. "People reading The Daily Telegraph this morning would be thinking, 'Who the hell do you think you are, you don't own the Opera House, we own it … you manage it,' " Jones said. "You don't have a right to fence it off. If you can't give the go-ahead for this to happen, to an event that's providing $100 million to the economy, delivering a tourism boom to Sydney, to send Sydney around the world … If I were Gladys Berejiklian, I'd pick up the phone and sack you today."
Herron barely got a word in, and Jones was once again Sydney's favourite villain. The interview revived the spectre of misogyny – feminist critics won't forget his line, said during the Gillard years, that "women are wrecking the joint" – but the next day Jones doubled-down on his belligerence, only to issue a qualified apology 24 hours later.
"I think he'll be enjoying the attention," a friend of his told me. "He loves a fight."
When the NSW premier said she would override Herron's objection, and permit Racing NSW to go ahead with its projection, the question of Jones's power – complemented by the city's daily tabloid – was raised again.
For years now, the word "perceived" has been frequently added to the word "power" when pondering Jones's influence. Periodically – whenever Jones has outraged or transgressed – opinion pieces emerge like mushrooms, pointing to Jones's shrinking, ageing listenership. Rebecca Huntley, an author and social trends researcher, said this week: "Fifteen years of research and I haven't found Alan Jones to be that much more influential with voters than ABC Radio or The SMH. He is only powerful because politicians think he is."
This idea that Jones's power is not so much illusory but self-fulfilling seems common. But surely the perception of power is power. The writer and broadcaster Mike Carlton was a colleague of Jones's at 2UE in the 1980s, and a major radio figure himself. Before Jones began his broadcasting career, Carlton had interviewed him as the executive director of the Employers' Federation of NSW. Even then, Carlton was "astounded by the machinegun delivery – there's no sense of proportion. Everything's an outrage or tragedy. No sense of scale. It's all extremes. That's his schtick. He has to deliver a new outrage every day."
As colleagues, Jones and Carlton quickly fell out and theirs has been a long and public acrimony. "In a sense, he is powerful," Carlton tells me. "He's remorseless. He has no sense of proportion, and will go for the jugular. As he did with the Wagner family. He went and went and went for them. With no facts to back them up. But he was set on destroying them. Politicians take the line of least resistance, and toss him a bone. Under the Howard government there was allegedly some operative in his office solely working on Alan Jones issues. He has power insofar as politicians are willing to grant it to him. He's powerful because people believe he is."
In 1995, Bob Carr was elected NSW premier and Jones would later boast about having anointed him. For the decade of his premiership, Carr featured regularly on Jones's show – alternately flattering and combative. Carr told me that he approached it as an adversarial contest. Yet, in the 1999 and 2003 state elections, Jones's opposition to Carr didn't seem to matter: Carr won both decisively.
"His influence is not easily resolved," Carr tells me. "If you're an opposition leader, you'd rather a relationship than not, and any politician seeking power in NSW will want a dialogue with him.
"His personality and performance speaks for itself. He's at his most effective when he assumes the role of ombudsman, and campaigns unblinkingly for those who recruit his assistance. The reverse side is that he can end up subscribing uncritically to the cause of any whistleblower. Just as Alan Jones is not always wrong, his sources aren't always right.
"I just wish I could recruit his unclouded intelligence on climate change – it's sad that while he can take up a position highly critical of coal, he's been recruited by climate change deniers. The same logic that had him adopt an anti-coal position, could have him look at the hard and growing evidence of climate change."
In 2010, Drew Hutton received a call from Alan Jones's producer. Hutton was by now an admired elder statesman of environmental activism, and determined to broaden the Greens' appeal beyond the inner city. Like Jones, Hutton grew up on a Queensland farm, and while coal seam gas expanded into farming districts, Hutton went from farm to farm enlisting support. Soon, Hutton would go on to help found the Lock the Gate protest group and become its first president. But before he did, his old coach's people were calling asking whether he could privately brief Jones on coal seam gas mining.
"I had to think about it only briefly," Hutton tells me. "I knew he'd taken up the Acland issue, outside Toowoomba. I knew he was critical of it. I thought he'd be a valuable ally. His radio audience would give us access to people we wouldn't normally have access to. I wanted to take it out of the 'Greens space'. I didn't want Lock the Gate to be a traditional Greens campaign.
"So I briefed him on it. Alan's very intelligent. He got on top of the issues very quickly and just two to three weeks later, he spoke at the National Press Club about it, and I don't think there was one mistake in it. He has an enormous capacity to take in a lot of information and synthesise.
"He's been a terrific ally. He has access to a wide audience, but also to the NSW government. He knew first-hand most members of cabinet. He could exert a lot of pressure."
Through Hutton, Jones was introduced to Peter Martin, a NSW truffle farmer and founding director of the Southern Highlands Coal Action Group, a region where Jones owns property. Martin was invited to Jones's apartment on the sixth floor of a deluxe residential building overlooking Circular Quay and the Opera House.
Martin had long refused to listen to Jones's show, or any talkback radio, "as a matter of course". But he was pleasantly surprised by Jones. "We had coffee on the sofa," Martin says. "And a chat about what was happening in our neck of the woods. It was a pleasant conversation. I was struck by how considered he was, and questioning. His personality was completely different to what you might perceive from the radio."
Martin invited Jones to speak with the Southern Highlands community, who were then fighting mining companies' exploratory licences. It was a place where Jones was already something of a part-time resident. "The locals, almost to a man, didn't like Alan Jones," Martin remembers. "They found him aggressive, distasteful. We got emails saying: 'You guys have more class than that.' But he converted them. They thought he was a hero, despite his other views.
"He's a Jekyll and Hyde. In person, he's very considered. He'll listen well. But in a crowd, he can be aggro, and when someone's speaking and he doesn't agree, he'll be muttering angrily to me. He was like an atomic bomb about to explode.
"On a stage, he can mesmerise you. There's a great recollection of facts; he'll connect the dots. I've seen him speak for an hour without notes in front of sophisticated people, and he'll stun them with his ability. It's like a politician who just has this ability to relay facts – like Bill Clinton did. But he has qualities that are self-damaging, too.
"I can't reconcile it all. He doesn't feel any boundaries. Most people feel embarrassed if we say something silly. This guy's spent his whole life sticking his neck out. He's a complex character. But this is his life. If you took away the microphone, and his ability to opine on things, it would kill him. He lives for this."
Mike Carlton is unsurprisingly sceptical of Jones's motivation in protesting coal and coal seam gas mining. He tells me it's purely self-concerned. "Jones's interest is that it's in his backyard," he says. "Logic has never been his strong point. Logic doesn't trouble him. He's just terrified that there might be a coal seam gas operation under or near his Southern Highlands estate. He also has a residual, childish fondness for the Darling Downs where he grew up and he would not want that despoiled."
Hutton dismissed this, telling me it "underestimated" Jones. Both Hutton and Martin are pragmatists, and spoke about their antipathy to many of Jones's views – the Opera House farrago was "disgraceful" and both men are embarrassed by Jones's climate change scepticism. But they also spoke honestly of their calculation to favour his influence over their disagreements. "If you've got Exocet missiles, you need to use them," Hutton says. "They're not always perfect. But a community's weapons are limited. You don't have the money, or the government behind you. You need to engage the media, and, funnily enough, I think a lot of the progressive media probably didn't cover this issue properly – and I wonder if that's because Alan Jones was involved."
One environmental ally of Jones's would not speak on record for fear of upsetting the relationship – such is his perceived value to the cause. But the relationship Hutton and Martin have with Jones isn't bloodlessly transactional, either – both see personal qualities they admire.
"With coal seam gas, government and business were in lock step against common sense and science, and Jones helped man the barricades," Martin says. "I've used him at rallies and whenever I've asked for help, he's stepped up. He's always done his homework and he's very loyal.
"I've never asked him about his motivations. Maybe he has a thing for the underdog. Odd, given he's a rich fat cat himself. But he does have a belief that people who get trodden on by government, that someone has to stand up for them. I don't think that's a cynical view he has that will gain him support. He's got a real heart.
"I saw him once in a community meeting. It's a weekend and he stayed all day, then came to the pub for a few drinks. Left in his chopper that night. He was back on the radio the next morning, talking about the meeting. Summarising it with crystal clear recall at six in the morning. The volume of material that day was huge, and he summarised it – he's got a photographic memory."
Alan Jones turned 77 this year, but age, prostate cancer and brain and spinal surgery have not diminished his energy – and infamy has only fuelled it. "Perhaps he's nearing the end of his rope," Mike Carlton says. "But his fire still glows brightly."
For decades now, that energy has been expressed quixotically, abusively and impulsively. His career is unique and his legacy complicated, but for his environmental allies it will principally be blackened on the issue of climate change. "I'm a trenchant opponent of his view on climate change," Martin says. "He's 100 per cent wrong. And it will do serious damage to the climate movement. It's terrible. His legacy won't be kindly regarded. I wish he'd drop that line."
Martin hasn't confronted Jones about his climate scepticism. "Facts become irrelevant to their position," he says. "They don't want to know what the reality is. Unfortunately that's the huge negative. Not the racing thing. That's a storm in a teacup. But the climate change stuff – that's very serious."
This article was first published in the print edition of The Saturday Paper on Oct 13, 2018 as "The power of Alan Jones". Subscribe here.
Martin McKenzie-Murray
is The Saturday Paper's chief correspondent.
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