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So, for those who don't follow Australian news, shortly after the attempted terrorist attacks in Glasgow a couple of months back, Mohammad Haneef, a second cousin of the Glasgow attacers working in Queensland as a doctor was arrested and detained for more than three weeks (the first twelve days without charge); after various errors and falsehoods were eliminated, the only remaining evidence against him was that he'd given one of the attackers his SIM card when leaving Britain because it still had some credit on it. (The card was not used in the attacks, BTW.) He was released, the Immigration Minister, Kevin Andrews, promptly cancelled his visa, a court cancelled the cancellation, and there's an appeal in the works.
Anyway, during all the fuss, another Indian doctor in Queensland turned out to have fudged his CV; there's no suggestion that he was involved in terrorist activity, but he padded a previous job by three months, and when it came out he lost his job here. (Rightly so, IMHO - I know getting ahead in medicine is tough, but it's even tougher for the honest folk.)
So, presumably in an attempt to recover some face over the Haneef fiasco, Kevin Andrews has been crowing about catching one guy out for lying on his CV, and declaring that "Premier Beattie [Premier of Queensland, who's been very critical of Haneef's treatment] should be assuring the people of Queensland that this is an isolated case - that there is no other case in which somebody has falsified their information."
Which is a bit silly in itself - of course there are plenty of employees in every state in Australia who've exaggerated on their CVs. And doubly silly because it appears that Kevin Andrews is one of them.
[If you don't work in academia, the distinction between 'co-author' and 'contributing author' might appear trivial, but it's not. A co-author is claiming a share of the credit - and the blame - for the whole of the work. If I sign off as co-author on a work that has so much as a single spelling mistake, even in a section I didn't personally write, that is now my spelling mistake.]
Meanwhile, Phil Ruddock declares: people are sick of opinion polls. I can certainly see why some people might feel that way, but lately I've been delighted by the polls. Show me more!
Anyway, during all the fuss, another Indian doctor in Queensland turned out to have fudged his CV; there's no suggestion that he was involved in terrorist activity, but he padded a previous job by three months, and when it came out he lost his job here. (Rightly so, IMHO - I know getting ahead in medicine is tough, but it's even tougher for the honest folk.)
So, presumably in an attempt to recover some face over the Haneef fiasco, Kevin Andrews has been crowing about catching one guy out for lying on his CV, and declaring that "Premier Beattie [Premier of Queensland, who's been very critical of Haneef's treatment] should be assuring the people of Queensland that this is an isolated case - that there is no other case in which somebody has falsified their information."
Which is a bit silly in itself - of course there are plenty of employees in every state in Australia who've exaggerated on their CVs. And doubly silly because it appears that Kevin Andrews is one of them.
[If you don't work in academia, the distinction between 'co-author' and 'contributing author' might appear trivial, but it's not. A co-author is claiming a share of the credit - and the blame - for the whole of the work. If I sign off as co-author on a work that has so much as a single spelling mistake, even in a section I didn't personally write, that is now my spelling mistake.]
Meanwhile, Phil Ruddock declares: people are sick of opinion polls. I can certainly see why some people might feel that way, but lately I've been delighted by the polls. Show me more!
