Category: Announcements

December 6, 2012

Auskepcon 2012, Photos From Events Before the Convention

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Some images of events before the convention.

James Randi joined the convention organising committee and made fools of us with his card tricks – Tuesday, 27 November.

DJ Grothe, Brian Thompson and Randi took a trip to Healesville Sanctuary to see just a little of Australian nature whilst they were here – Wednesday, 28 November.

Richard Saunders, Maynard, our international guests, and others chill out at ‘The Penny Black’ pub in Brunswick – Thursday, 29 November.

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November 19, 2012

Convention 2012, One Day Tickets

There are less than two weeks to go for the convention. The organising committee are burning the midnight oil (no not the CDs!), frantically making arrangements and going over the details with a fine-tooth comb. You probably won’t see this calibre of well known skeptics in Melbourne for a very long time.

If you’re interested in coming along, there are still some tickets remaining for the convention and dinners. We’ve previously given preference to those who want to attend both days; however, due to requests we’ve released some One Day tickets for either Saturday or Sunday at $140. So if there’s something else that you just can’t miss out on during one of the convention days and you’d still like to attend, please consider a One Day ticket.

Full convention details here.

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November 2, 2012

Puzzles for November

November’s Picture Puzzles and Mixed Bag Questions are at the top of the PUZZLES Page.

November’s Crossword Puzzle concentrates on Predicting the Future, can be solved by recourse to either Ken’s prosaic clues or Roy’s fiendish cryptic clues and can be found HERE.

A new batch of Maths and Logic Problems for November is ensconced HERE .

Enjoy!

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October 28, 2012

James Gerrand – Another Skeptic Pioneer dies

James (Gerry) Gerrand, co-founder of the Australian Skeptics, died on October 12, aged 93.

James Gerrand

Gerrand played a fundamental role in the setting-up and on-going activities of Australia Skeptics. The initial meetings to establish the Skeptics were held in 1980 at his home in Hawthorn, Melbourne, with lawyer Mark Plummer, who became the group’s founding president. (Plummer died last year.)

Gerrand had previously spent six years working for the United Nations agency ICAO in Montreal. Gerrand and Plummer had known each other as colleagues in the early 1970s when Plummer was the industrial officer for the Professional Officers Association (the union representing scientists, engineers and other professionals in the Commonwealth Public Service) and Gerrand was honorary editor-in-chief of the same group’s monthly journal. In his day job, Gerrand was the superintending airways engineer for the Victorian & Tasmanian Region in the Department of Civil Aviation.

Read the rest of this article here

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September 19, 2012

Special Fundraising Event

Tickets for this event are SOLD OUT!

Announcing a very special Australian Skeptics Fundraising Dinner!
6.30pm, Thursday 29 November 2012

We will have a number of special guests joining us for the Australian Skeptics National Convention. These include Rebecca Watson of the Skeptics Guide to the Universe, JREF president DJ Grothe, The Amateur Scientist Brian Thompson, and the one and only James (The Amazing) Randi.

As a special fundraising event, the Australian Skeptics are offering the opportunity to have dinner with our guests in the beautiful and historic surrounds of Melbourne’s Royal Society building.

Attendance at the dinner is $250 per head, and strictly limited to just 30 people. Tickets are expected to go fast!

Date: 29 November 2012
Time: 6.30pm-10.30pm
Location: Royal Society of Victoria, 9 Victoria Street Melbourne

Book your tickets here.

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September 15, 2012

Two Skeptical Videos

Two Australian Skeptics were recently in the media. Loretta Marron (AKA Anne) appears in the first video and Victoria’s own Dr Mick Vagg features in the second. Here they are for your viewing pleasure…

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Despite tough talk from politicians, it appears that Rev Trevor Robinson’s web site is back on-line, he’s still in business. I won’t link to him here, I’m sure readers know how to use Google. It’s a shameful example of the lack of effective health practitioner regulation.

Below the fold, a screen capture from Rev Trevor Robinson’s web site. View More Two Skeptical Videos

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