Media Coverage

GSA appreciates the efforts of the many media organizations that reported on the GSA2004 conference. Below you will find links to a series of stories that can be accessed via the web. This list is not exhaustive. If you know of other stories not linked to this page please send an email message to Phil Batterham (p.batterham@unimelb.edu.au). Other stories have been written for publication in the near future. In addition to the print media, radio coverage included extended interviews broadcast in Adelaide, Darwin, Perth, Toowoomba and one national broadcast with Robin Williams on The Science Show (Radio National).

Links to stories

New treatments for brain disease (pdf)
AAP/ The Age newspaper Melbourne, July 12 2004

Finally, flies have a point - unlocking the secrets to diseases such as Alzheimer's [pdf version]
Written by Michael Bradley, Sydney Morning Herald newspaper, July 13 2004

Telling lice finds truth [pdf version]
Written by Tom Noble, The Age newspaper Melbourne, July 13 2004

The death of Eve [pdf version]
Written by Graeme O'Neill and posted on the internet at bulletin.ninemsn.com on July 13 2004

New twist on out-of-Africa theory [pdf version]
Written by Judy Skatssoon, ABC Science Online , July 14 2004

A plea to lose the race [pdf version]
Written by Catharine Munro, The Age newspaper Melbourne, July 15 2004

Australian snakes reveal deadly secrets [pdf version]
Written by Judy Skatssoon, ABC Science Online , July 15 2004

Genetics may save animals [pdf version]
Written by Michelle Pountney, Herald Sun newspaper Melbourne, July 15 2004

Are we Neanderthals? [pdf version]
Interview of Alan Templeton by Robin Williams on The Science Show, Radio National, July 24 2004

Australian Life Scientist and Australian Biotechnology News have covered the conference in some detail. Stories that have already appeared in Australian Life Scientist can be downloaded here (pdf). There will be more stories in the August issue of this magazine.