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ABRS Inc Business

• Minutes of the 21st AGM .................... 3

• Treasurer's Report .................... 6

• Newsletter editor's report .................... 14

ABRS Report

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ABLO Report

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Articles

• 1998 Eichler award recipient's reports .................... 17

Dampier 300

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Incites

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News from FASTS

• Commercialising science, and Dr Kemp's white paper .................... 24

• Report from FASTS .................... 25

• President's report .................... 26

• Contact points for members of the FASTS' board and executive .................... 29

• Comments by scientists on the parlimentarians they visited .................... 31

• Australian Council of Deans of Science .................... 32