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From time to time, the Society and its Fellows and Members are mentioned, or are published, in the media, or in other sources or outlets. This page summarises such mentions, providing links either to the original sources, or to news items that include links to original sources. For readership transparency, the following annotations are used:

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• Opinion: indicating that the article is solely the opinion of the author, irrespective of the existence of, or alignment with, any formally adopted position of the Society
• Unclassified: indicating that the reference is informational in its nature.

2020

• Andrea Morello, UNSW launches new degree in quantum engineering, ABC Science Show, 15 August 2020
• Jake Olivier (Opinion), quoted in Heartbroken mother calls on drivers to drop ‘she'll be right’ attitude, Sydney Morning Herald, 6 August 2020
• Len Fisher (Opinion), Scientists struggle with their message, ABC Science Show, 24 July 2020
• Peter Shergold, quoted in Call for ‘learner profile’ of students to end dominance of ATAR, Sydney Morning Herald, 24 July 2020
• Herbert Huppert, Society Fellow awarded the 2020 London Royal Society Royal Medal, and Royal Society (News), 4 August 2020
• Barney Glover (Opinion), Powerhouse Parramatta will be bigger and better than before, Sydney Morning Herald, 30 June 2020
• Ian Sloan (Society Position), Premier's zeal for museum's move must be explained, Sydney Morning Herald (President's Letter to the Editor), 29 June 2020
• Thomas Keneally (Opinion), Cultural cringe + market economics = lower education, Sydney Morning Herald, 26 June 2020
• Lord Robert May, Vale the professor of everything, ABC Science Show, 13 June 2020
• Belinda Hutchinson, Stephen Garton, Roy MacLeod, Queen's Birthday Honours 2020, 8 June 2020
• Gary Froyland, Katrina Joliffe, Ian Paulsen, Professors Froyland, Joliffe and Paulsen, RSN Fellows, elected as Australian Academy of Science Fellows, 30 May 2020
• John Shine, Society Fellow awarded a prestigious international fellowship, 15 May 2020
• Mohammed Choucair, Quantum computing startup led by Royal Society Fellow joins the IBM Q Network, 5 May 2020
• Lord Robert May, Death of Lord Robert May of Oxford-Distinguished Fellow of the Royal Society of NSW, 30 April 2020
• Maria Kavallaris, RSNSW Fellow named NSW Woman of the Year 2020, 7 March 2020
• Her Excellency The Honourable Margaret Beazley, Australia Day Honours 2020, 26 January 2020

2019

• Rebecca Johnson, RSNSW Fellow appointed Chief Scientist of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, 18 December 2019
• Rose Amal, Nalini Joshi, Society Fellows awarded NSW Premier's Science Prizes, 31 October 2019
• Elizabeth New, Society Fellow wins 2019 Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year, 19 October 2019
• Leo Radom, Katherine Belov, Michelle Simmons, Keith Suter, Queen’s Birthday honours for RSNSW Fellows, 10 June 2019
• Jillian Broadbent, Leonard Fisheer, Barney Glover, Adrian Hibberd, Robert Thomas, FRSNs in 2019 Australia Day honours, 29 January 2019
• Mark Compton, FRSN to be Lord Prior of St John International, 10 January 2019

Contents of JProcRSNSW, Vol. 153, Part 2, December 2020

Earlier

The complete Volume 153, Part 2, December 2020.

Robert E. Marks
Editorial: A new era in vaccinology?
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 135-137, 2020

Submitted Papers

Jamin Forbes, Aldo Steffe, Robyn Watts, Lee Baumgartner, Paul Brown, Jason Thiem, Nathan Miles
Implementation of a harvest slot for Murray Cod: Initial impacts on the recreational harvest in a manmade reservoir and comparison to riverine fisheries
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 138-155, 2020

Kenneth R. Dutton
The Skottowe manuscript and the Cook connection
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 156-163, 2020

Commissioned Paper

Steven Patterson
The history of blue pigments in the Fine Arts – painting, from the perspective of a paint maker,
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 164-179, 2020

Point Counterpoint:

The Editor.
Introduction.
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 180, 2020

25 Scientists. 
A letter to the Chief Scientist, Alan Finkel.
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 181-183, 2020

Alan Finkel.
Response to the 25 scientists.
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 184-185, 2020

Penny D. Sackett. 
Gas is not a transition fuel to a safe climate. That ship has sailed.
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 186-188, 2020

Richard Bolt. 
The Chief Scientist’s critics are wrong about natural gas.
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 189-190, 2020

Andrew W. Blakers. 
Gas as a transition fuel is a bit-player.
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 191-193, 2020

Peter Rez
The Chief Scientist is right, and why
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 194-199, 2020

Andrew Blakers and Peter Rez
Debate
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 200-204, 2020

PhD Abstracts

Yael Bar-Zeev,
Improving health providers' management of smoking in Australian Indigenous pregnant women
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 205-208, 2020

Emma Bradshaw,
Intrinsic and extrinsic aspirations and psychological wellbeing: a meta-analysis and latent profile analyses of life goals
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 208-209, 2020

Jie Chen,
Institutional influences on education investment and pro-social behaviour
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 209-210, 2020

James Farquharson,
"Black America Cares:" The response of African Americans to the Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 210-211, 2020

Andrew Harrison,
Sounding out the past
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 211-212, 2020

Carolyn Hayes,
Investigating undergraduate nurse responses to simulated interruptions during medication administration--a qualitative multi-method study
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 212-213, 2020

Terri Janke,
True Tracks: Indigenous Culture and Intellectual Property principles for putting self-determination into practice
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 214-215, 2020

Luke C. Jeffrey,
Cryptic drivers of methane and carbon dioxide emissions from disturbed coastal wetlands
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 215, 2020

Jonathan Jones,
Murruwaygu: Following in the footsteps of our ancestors
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 216-217, 2020

Ralph Kenke,
A creative study on data portraits: the visualisation process of self-surveillance as an indicator of datafication of social life
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 217-218, 2020

Graeme Lyle La Macchia,
Big Gubba Business: The making of the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, First Nations resurgence and the Australian connection
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 218-219, 2020

Coulson Lantz,
The impact of anthropogenic stressors on coral reef carbonate sediment metabolism and dissolution
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 219, 2020

Alicia Brooke Mitchell,
The impact of detection of respiratory viruses on at-risk patient populations
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 220, 2020

Andrew Nette,
Pulp Jungle Down Under: Horwitz Publications and the rise of the Australian paperback, 1945-1972
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 221, 2020

Stephane L. Rayner,
The role of cyclin F in Motor Neurone Disease
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 222, 2020

Jandson Santo Ribeiro Santo,
Belief change without compactness
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 222-223, 2020

Laura Stoltenberg,
Coral reef sediment dissolution in a changing ocean: insights from a temporal field study
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 224, 2020

Suzette Timmerman,
Diamonds--time capsules of volatiles and the key to dynamic Earth evolution
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 224-226, 2020

Sodany Tong,
Managerial quality, firm performance, technical efficiency and productivity in New Zealand
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 226-228, 2020

Obituary:

Richard Limon Stanton DistFRSN (1926-2020)
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 229-232, 2020

Proceedings, 2020:

Programmes of events in Sydney, the Southern Highlands, and the Hunter; the Awards 2020; the Gazetting of Fellows, February 2020.
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 233-246, 2020

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ISSN (online): 2653-1305

Uluru Statement of the Heart: Statement of Support from the Royal Society of NSW

In January 2018, the President of the Royal Society of NSW, Emeritus Professor Brynn Hibbert AM FRSN, signed the Uluru Statement from the Heart declaration on behalf of the Royal Society of NSW.  The Society's Statement of Support included the following paragraph:

“Our mandate, as the Royal Society of NSW, Australia's oldest peak scholarly body, is the disciplined concern for excellence in knowledge across the natural and social worlds. From this base, we reaffirm the significance of our indigenous forebears in the strength and contribution of their own culture and knowledge to Australia as a whole. Their exclusion from government endorsing and paying attention to the collective ‘Uluru Voice’ is both a reprehensible return to human rights violations of the past, as well as a loss for all Australians from the indigenous culture, knowledge, and voice from which we can all learn, both for now and for our sustainable future.”

On 27 May 2018, the Society made a submission (Submission 65) to the Parliament of Australia’s Joint Select Committee on Constitutional Recognition Relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples that included this Statement.