Cunning stunt

Julie Bishop jumps ship from Wild Oats at the start of the Sydney Hobart saying no political metaphor was intended.
Meanwhile, as Paul Karp reported in The Guardian, that Scott Morrison’s latest poll slump mirrors Julia Gillard’s before she was replaced by Kevin Rudd in 2013.
"The Morrison government has recorded its third successive 10-point deficit in the latest Newspoll, leaving itself a monumental task to recover before the 2019 election."

As Paul Karp reported that The Guardian, Scott Morrison’s slump mirrors Julia Gillard’s before she was replaced by Kevin Rudd in 2013"The Morrison government has recorded its third successive 10-point deficit in the latest Newspoll, leaving itself a monumental task to recover before the 2019 election."Paul Karp reported that The Guardian, Scott Morrison’s slump mirrors Julia Gillard’s before she was replaced by Kevin Rudd in 2013"The Morrison government has recorded its third successive 10-point deficit in the latest Newspoll, leaving itself a monumental task to recover before the 2019 election."

Green New Deal?

It may not last but the "Green New Deal" appears to have a lot of traction in the US.
This is because, at the moment, it is seen as a non-partisan project to face the facts of climate change. 

Support is, of course, higher among "progressives" and non-skeptics in both the Republican and the Democrats. 

Here is the best fleshing out of the idea that I have found

Here are some of the proposed aims which seem to have widespread agreement if you leave aside the Trumpists:

✔ 100% Clean and Renewable Electricity by 2035 
✔ Zero Net Emissions from Energy by 2050
✔ 100% Net-Zero Building Energy Standards by 2030
✔ 100% Zero Emission Passenger Vehicles by 2030
✔ 100% Fossil-Free Transportation by 2050
✔ National Clean Air Attainment
✔ Cut Methane Leakage 50% by 2025
✔ National Lead Pipe Replacement & Infrastructure Upgrades
✔ Guarantee Access to Affordable Drinking Water
✔ Protect Two Million New Miles of Waterways
✔ Reforest 40 Million Acres of Public and Private Land by 2035
✔ Restore 5 Million Acres of Wetlands by 2040
✔ Expand Sustainable Farming and Soil Practices to 30% of Agricultural Land by 2030 and 70% by 2050
✔ Cleanup Brownfields and All Hazardous Sites
✔ Establish a National Fund for Urban and Rural Resilience
✔ Expand Public Green Space and Recreational Lands and Waters
✔ Modernize Urban Mobility and Mass Transit
✔ Zero Waste by 2040
✔ Capture 50% of Wasted Methane by 2040

Ironically whether it dies or not will depend on less enthusiasm by the traditional Left. If it is too heavily sponsored by the Left, the Rightwingers will be suspicious and the fragile cooperation based on the reality of climate change will be destroyed. Fancy footwork is required.

Duopoly

I don't know how I missed this but the ACCC's recommendations two weeks ago into Digital Platforms ( read: "the Google and Facebook domination") are really good news. 

...we are at a critical point in considering the impact of digital platforms on society. While the ACCC recognises their significant benefits to consumers and businesses, there are important questions to be asked about the role the global digital platforms play in the supply of news and journalism in Australia, what responsibility they should hold as gateways to information and business, and the extent to which they should be accountable for their influence.

I find it hard to believe that such a careful set of recommendations for the long-term benefit was sponsored by the current shambolic Australian Government that seems to have the attention span of a gnat.

Unfortunately, at 370 pages, the preliminary report does not lend itself to a quick summary but the 18 page "Executive Summary" is all you really need to read.  

Of that Summary, the most important section is of the 11 recommendations which, according to the better informed and thoughtful press, are gaining a lot of traction in the English-speaking world as the basis for a coordinated governmental approach.  

Full report will be out in the middle of next year which gives plenty of time for other Governments and both Google and Facebook, to make comment.

Bloody socialists!

Snapping the past

The Leica Camera is an icon.

 Yes, so recognisable that it can be used in software as an icon signifying taking a photograph.

And like other icons like the Coca-Cola bottle and the Harley Davidson Electroglide. It is spoken off with a hushed reverence.
Here is a homage (and a reasonable explanation) by a sensible Hong Kong vlogger Kai Man Wong. He starts out by describing a Leica M3 as "Camera Porn" but does a more than reasonable job of explaining why this camera was, and still has a special status

Leica has not been slow to capitalize on this legend. Descendents of the M3 are hideously expensive.
The latest in a long line of such tributes is an entire feature movie, called Kodachrome based on a short New York Times article mourning the closure of the first last development lab for Kodachrome.

​As you can see from the poster a Leica M3 had equal billing with the rest of the stars of the movie released in May.
Unfortunately, the film wasn't nearly as good as it should have been: great actors but a poor script that didn't do justice to the original idea spark
The camera is never really explained except that we see it being cleaned, fondled, loaded and one memorable moment when a single photo is taken.
It also didn't explain the Leica heydays were those when black and white images were in most demand for the dominant newspaper media.
Even today, the best photographers note that the best photos they have taken with the Leica M series tend to be monochrome because precise focus that you can get with the Leica's rangefinder is so important
The final titles of the feature film showed some of the best of the Kodachrome photos featured in National Geographic but most where not snapped with a Leica.
Here is my favourite Kodachrome photos that didn't appear and should have: Steve McCurry in 1985. of an angry Afgan girl.

 McCurry also claims to have shot the final roll of Kodachrome and published the result on his website. However, the camera used was the next generation's iconic camera more suited to colour the Nikon F a single lens reflex that allowed photographers to see exactly what they were shooting.

Vanishing 1990s New York

Neil's Coffee Shop, as featured in the film Can You Ever Forgive Me is still an operating restaurant

"a quality hold-out from the old city.
"On Lexington and 70th, Neil's has been here for half a century--and it's got the signage to prove it, from the brilliant pink neon sign to the all-caps COFFEE SHOP on the front, to the cursive Neil's suspended on a white cloud around the side.

But it is one of the few from the 1990s still around. Variety reported

... director Marielle Heller and her production team had to re-create New York City in the 1990s on a shoestring budget. A few destinations, such as the Greenwhich Village gay bar Julius or the cavernous Upper West Side food emporium Zabar’s, are vestiges of that period. But in more cases than not, the crew had to avoid CitiBike racks and unearth the few remaining phone booths. It was a race against time.

“We were trying to shoot in bookstores, but they kept shutting down,” says Heller on a recent September afternoon, after debuting her film at the Toronto Film Festival. “We found this great store during pre-production, but it closed before we could shoot in it.”

But some of the sites used, such as the gay bar, Julius',  have been granted Heritage status. Heller told The New Yorker

 “I always feel like I missed this perfect moment in New York, this interesting, grittier, more artist-driven time,” 

“This movie is sort of as that was ending and New York was shifting and artists were getting pushed out. In so many ways I related to what that must have been like for somebody like Lee, to feel their city changing. And to feel like there was no place for her anymore

Chickens slaughter

A group of 50 Animal Liberation Queensland protesters invaded the Golden Cockerel slaughterhouse on Friday, shutting down the Christmas production line.

They took photos of the production line before police arrived.

A further 30 vegan campaigners protested outside with placards

According to the group, it wanted 'to bring awareness to the 664 million chickens slaughtered every year in Australia and to tell their stories'.

For more on the ethics of how we treat animals see this recent article

Cold War 2.0

Covert surveillance is a valuable tool of espionage.
During WWII, Britain's spy organizations went to extraordinary lengths to ensure the breaking of the enigma code was kept secret...not just to the Germans but to its allies.
Apart from the careful calculation of when to use the ultra-secret information to win the Battle of the Atlantic, British intelligence created a fictional MI6 master spy, Boniface, who controlled a fictional series of agents throughout Germany. Information obtained through code-breaking was often attributed to the human intelligence from the Boniface network.
Such counterintelligence skills have only become more sophisticated in the last 60 years.

Front page panic in The Weekend Australian on China espionage

Mark Gregory is an associate professor in network engineering at RMIT in Melbourne. He has written a string of interesting tech articles in the sensible academically-inclined webzine The Conversation.
He was asked his thoughts on the gathering China-US Cold War over Huawei and ZTE in a New Daily article by John Elder.
After outlining the push on Huawei by the security agencies, Gregory said there have been no publicly revealed documents showing evidence of Huawei engaged in espionage.
“The only public documents are the Snowden papers, and they showed that it was American agencies that have used telcos to spy on people,” he said.
“The NSA has been doing the same thing that Huawei is being accused of. But there are no pubic (evidence) that shows that Huawei has been a conduit for the Chinese government.

Slide from an NSA presentation on "Google Cloud Exploitation"
 exposed in the Snowden Papers; the sketch shows
 where the Public Internet meets the Google Cloud.

"That’s not to say day there isn’t a concern or something going on.”
Dr Gregory said that Cold War 2.0 prophesied 15 years ago, when the intellectual property and technology transfer methodologies being used by China were identified, and concerns have been growing since this time.

As he has in other articles, Gregory then points out that Australia should "have a whole-of-life security assurance capability to ensure that all equipment and systems used in the telecommunications networks are safe to use”

Kingston Shores

Tradition is everything

A hundred years ago, the London Underground decided to adopt an American invention known as the "escalator" for the Earl's Court Station.

Must be true because they have a depiction
 in the London Transport Museum)

Unlike modern comb type, these escalators had a shunt mechanism ending with a diagonal (see pic): it finished sooner for the right foot than for the left. People were asked to stand to the right to allow others to pass
On the first day, a one-legged man was said to have been employed to ride it and demonstrate its safety.
Unlike other places where the escalator rules follows the side of the road people drive, the London convention of walking on the left on elevators was set so Londoners, still stand to the right.
You can read more about the introduction of various forms of moving walkways to London here.
If you are wondering the word ‘escalator’ was coined by one of the device's American inventors, Charles Seeberger, in 1895. He combined ‘elevator’, already a known term, and ‘scala’ the latin for steps – hence ‘rising steps’.

In Dad We Trust

Low Res photo from a much larger colour version. Heavy cropping made a larger photo not very pretty.

The perils of driverless cars

No, driverless cars won't solve traffic problems. They could, in fact, make them worse as this elegant video explains(10 minutes..the last minute is an ad). The real solution is to intensify cities so that much more is within walking distance and we do without much of the highway and parking lots that now dominate our landscapes.

But the politicians are, in the main, not listening because they want to be elected short term. Long-term, counter-intuitive solutions rarely figure.

So instead we are seeing big investment into driverless cars that will, like wider roads only be a short term relief. If you are skeptical that such a tech will actually happen, here is a list of 48 major corporations who are betting it will.

With share vehicles, here is what they are promising  

 

Okay, if you have got that, how close are we to getting actual driverless vehicles roaming the streets? The bad publicity from two driveless car deaths earlier this year have slowed the rush but didn't stop it.

One of the pioneers, WayMo, has the rubber hitting the road 
Originally a Google "moonshot" project, the company has been working way longer than anyone else on the solution.
Now it is being very tentative and low-profile with an employee "monitoring" from the driver's seat each of the the test cabs in Phoenix, Arizona.
The price set by Waymo is just as tentative, being about the same as competing share services Uber and Lyft, driven by real people.
On the upside, if the acceptance hurdle is cleared and the cars do lose their "monitors", Waymo says the price of rides will drop dramatically.

Here is a nice video summary by the Verge that gives you a look at the cabs in action.

Nice, but just remember, if you choose to travel this way motion sickness doesn't magically disappear. if you decide to read, watch a movie or sit backwards to face others while talking in the vehicle expect nausea just like in a normal car.

Things on a walk

Water fountains at Dickson College

Tactical water store and cans atop Majura heights ready for a summer bushfire

Canberra's bike n coffee culture

First weekend of Summer and, while our former home in Queensland is under threat of bushfire, we enjoy sandal-weather in Canberra. 

The Canberra bike n coffee culture continues to blossom in the inner North. Each suburb seems to have its own favourite cafe...some two. Families in the neighbourhood, often arrive on their pushies

One of the latest places to reach full flower is Ganggang in the otherwise sleepy, nondescript suburb of Downer. Losing its only food shop a few years back was instant euthanasia.

But now, thanks to the generous spirit of the ex-South American owners of the cafe, life, including a regular accordianist, has returned. On a Sunday, finding a place to park your bike is becoming an issue.

Something rotten in the state

It appears 3,128 Australians took their own life in 2017  262 more than the previous year.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics released national data recently that showed intentional self-harm is now ranked the 13th leading cause of death, moving up from 15th position in 2016.

In 2016, the suicide rate in Australia was 11.7 deaths per 100,000 people, up from 10.6 per 100,000 people in 2007.

This mirrors, but not as severely, the US trend.  The number of suicides per 100,000 Americans rose 30.4 percent between 1999 and 2015.  The increase has not been uniform across all demographic groups. Those in midlife had the largest uptick. For example, for those ages 45 to 54, the rate increased from 13.9 persons that age to 20.3, or 46 percent, during that period.

Strangely, the upticks in the US and Australia  are against the world-wide trend according to the Economist

In the view of a researcher, Steven Stack, a professor of Criminal Justice at Wayne State University who studies the social risk of suicide, two social factors have contributed: 

- the weakening of the social safety net and 

- increasing income inequality.

Another US study showed that 

"states with higher per capita public assistance expenditures tend to have lower suicide rates. ... We also find that general state policy liberalism and the governing ideologies of state governments are linked to suicide rates. In response to a growing literature on the importance of non-political factors such as social connectedness in determining quality of life, these findings demonstrate that government policies remain important determinates as well.

Measure for measure

This four minute US Department of Commerce video is a little "gee-whiz" but makes an important point: the world's measurement system is about to become much more precise.

A vote to be taken in Versailles on 16 November will probably redefine all the metric measurements to be based on scientifically derived constants rather than against samples held in vaults.

See full story

Running cost of EVs

A short chat by a UK car nut about the current cost of running a pretty ordinary (as opposed to a flashy high end) EV. 

Despite the best efforts of our current govt, the difference in running costs will make EVs attractive. At the same time the cost of batteries are dropping driven by innovation and mass production. EVs are projected to reach purchase parity with petrol in Europe by 2022...4 years from now 

Video

The real Moby Dick

While the book Moby Dick was based on the real life travails of the whaling boat, Essex, the title and whale's name was probably derived from "Mocha Dick", a white Sperm Whale who frequently appeared at Mocha Island, Chile. 

First seen in 1810, Mocha Dick survived over a hundred skirmishes with whalers before he was eventually killed in 1838. He was large and powerful, capable of wrecking small craft with his flukes.  https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/mobydick.html

Non-dieting

 🍋🍅🍐🍓🍒🍇 🥩🍟🍗🍞

 a 2012 study found people who consistently had the following behaviours had a lower risk of mortality —

1. Regular exercise (more than 12 times a month)
2. Diet rich in vegetables and fruit (at least five serves a day)
3. Moderate alcohol intake
4. Avoiding or quitting smoking
   

In this study, people who kept up with all four behaviours had similarly low risk of dying, regardless of whether they were classed as normal weight, overweight or obese.

To this list, Professor Wittert adds 

1. getting enough good-quality sleep, eating at regular times, 
   
2. restricting eating to daylight hours and 
   
3. reducing stress to optimise health.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2018-01-21/set-aside-losing-weight-focus-on-healthy-behaviours/9345648

The downside of a mobile phone camera

I was too far away for a good photo to be taken with my camera phone but I still like the magic of this photo taken in the little park at the Ainslie Shops in the ACT.

The little kid, dressed as a fireman is lecturing to  his grandparents...and has obviously sparked the interest of the oversized bronze of a snail.

Ah, for a few more pixels and a slightly better angle.

Towards better journalism

One of the people on The Drum yesterday mentioned in passing a journalism  model being pioneered in the Netherlands for building trusted news sources.  "De Correspondent" is in Dutch but they are intent on creating an English version. 
The Correspondent wants to redefine what news is about. "we don’t cover the weather, we cover the climate", informing you about how the world really works.
Rather idealistically, here is what the site claims it is about:

1. We are an ad-free platform funded by paying members. We also accept funding from organizations whose investments contribute directly to our journalistic goals. Any such agreement will include one non-negotiable condition: full editorial independence.
2. We fight stereotypes, prejudice, and fear mongering
3. We don’t just cover the problem, but also what can be done about it
4. We collaborate with you, our knowledgeable members.
5. We don’t take the view from nowhere. We tell you where we’re coming from, At The Correspondent, we don’t think journalists should pretend to be ‘neutral’ or ‘unbiased’.
6. We protect your privacy, by minimizing the personal data we collect
7. We want to be as inclusive as possible. Journalism is at its best when it includes many different perspectives and worldviews. That’s why we seek to include people from a broad variety of backgrounds, both in our newsroom and on our platform.
8. We always put journalism before financial gain. We do not maximize shareholder return, limiting dividends to 5 percent of revenue.
9. We believe in transparency and continued self-improvement
10. We know we’re not ‘the fix’ for what’s wrong in journalism, and we know that there’s no one way to do it. When we make mistakes, we admit and correct them. 

To get a taste of what they are about, it is best to read some of their articles. Fortunately, the ones available from the site, flipped from Dutch to English by Google Translate, are remarkably readable.  I can see why some people are getting excited.  Here is an excellent example of what the final product is like. It delves into why Nigerians are risking death to migrate to Europe. 
More detail about the De Correspondent platform can be seen on Wikipedia

Pushing a future

Tesla's primemover sells not on sexiness but on economy

After reading so much doom and gloom about Climate, it is lovely to come across a well-founded, optimistic article about how we can fix so many of our current issues using tech.

The writer, Michael Liebreich, is a heavyweight Yankee consultant at Bloomberg who has been advising business for 20 years about how to navigate the changes now closing in.

He is optimistic that we can innovate our way out of the transport dilemma. He concludes we are already working on it.

“Since replacing expensive fossil fuels with cheap electricity should save money as well as reducing emissions, it does not require much more than short-term pump priming and regulatory alignment, rather than long-term subsidies or a carbon price. A huge market opportunity, that moves us closer to hitting the Paris goals, and that should not require long-term subsidies or a carbon price. What’s not to like?

This paper published this week, is a light wander (10 minute read) through some of those innovations that should shape our world for the good. If you want to look further, links are noted.

 ...and for fun, if you have the time, here is a 15 min YouTube vid exploring what we found to be true about the use of electric bikes when we visited China last year...it is a revolution.

We don't trust social media

What do social media news consumers dislike *most* about getting news on social media? Concerns about inaccuracy top the list https://t.co/xdLHyM2tYY pic.twitter.com/x9aJfLYTDu

— Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) September 10, 2018

Double your pleasure, double your fun

Old Lithium Metal batteries were replaced by The shorter life Lithium-ion type because of safety issues

True techie stuff but a different approach to Lithium batteries could drastically increase charge size, battery life and safety.

Manufacturers swapped to the Lithium-ion batteries when the plain metal batteries started catching fire.

If the breakthrough is real we could see a doubling of current mobile battery life. Implications for the economics and usability of EVs are profound.

Still a lot of work to be done but breakthroughs like this tend to be fast tracked to market 

https://techxplore.com/news/2018-08-battery-breakthrough-lithium-metal-doesnt.html

One lump or two?

The coal lobby has won.
Our new prime minister, Scott Morrison, has ended the fusion of the energy and environment portfolios in the Australian Government
On Sunday, he appointed one of the country’s most prominent anti-wind campaigners, Angus Taylor, as energy minister, while a former mining industry lawyer, Melissa Price, became the environment minister.
Morrison's chief of staff is John Kunkel, the former deputy CEO of the Minerals Council of Australia, the same group that thoughtfully provided a lacquered lump of coal for the then Treasurer to wave around parliament in February

This despite a Lowy Institute finding published in June that, overwhelmingly, Australians want to move to renewables.

Mapping for Google

One of my hobbies is contributing to Google Maps.

I have provided, over the last five years, 455 reviews, 3581 photos and discovered for Maps 24 new locations. Consequently, I do have a reasonable feel for where it is headed.
And I am not particularly happy.
It is becoming increasingly difficult to do anything but review accomodation, shops and restaurants. On any marked public space, Maps will ask if you want to "claim this business" and it has a constant problem with out of town businesses declaring themselves as located on public lands.
At the same time, significant cultural sites can be ignored or poorly marked. It is hard to do.
I live in the national capital of Australia, which is strewn with significant sites, symbolic monuments, museums and galleries and thus often have very human juxtapositions that should be noted.
For example, the Australian War Memorial has, over the term of the current conservative government, been steadily more politicised with promotion of militarism over the waste of war. The adjoining Poppy Restaurant actually promotes a current political figure. This is not sufficiently represented in Maps.

Across Lake Burley Griffin is Old Parliament House which is well marked but colourless in its entry, confused with the reviews of the Museum of Democracy, the cafe and the restaurant that it houses.  What we should have is more historical photos that put it in context much as the Australian War Memorial does.  For example, why not the inclusion of the front steps at the opening and again at the famous moment when Whitlam was dismissed?

Opening 1927

Whitlam Dismissal crowd on steps of the Old Parliament House

But perhaps the best example is the controversial and culturally significant Aboriginal Tent Embassy, on the lawns of Old Parliament House

It is described by Local Guide Chris Forker as the "Informal embassy of Australia's first people" is poorly represented photographically(but is elsewhere) with no commentary or link back to Wikipedia and split over two entries. Worse, the best entry is obscured under the vague and difficult to discover name "Sovereign Tribal Original Embassy of the land now known as Australia (Aboriginal Tent Embassy)" The fight to take possession of the adjoining abandoned restaurant has been well-documented in photos

All three sites are difficult subjects to map but somehow Google does have to come to terms with how to best map the cultural dimension to such locations.

"Jhay the Cobbler" a fixture at Dickson shops has a new baby: a brand-new Indian Scout.

It is so new that, only today, he took delivery of his matching matt-black helmet to replace the beige one that matched his equally immaculate Royal Enfield.

The Fallen

Yesterday, an extraordinary firefight has broken out on Twitter caused by a position put by the well-respected Australian journalist and heavy-weight professor, Peter van Onselen @vanOnselenP.

The rights and wrongs of what he said is an ongoing battle, spreading across Australian media. It has managed to bring out some excellent scholarship and explanations to the surface about what was Nazism and what happened in WW2...a time fast fading from our collective memory, and, sadly, the lessons it taught.

Here is one diamond uncovered, strictly on the impact of WW2. It is an uncontroversial, 18 minute, award-winning video presenting beautifully (if that is the right word) the cost in human lives of that conflict and compares it to previous and subsequent wars.

Lest we forget,

https://vimeo.com/128373915

Tramatic Sydney

Nothing says Sydney central at the moment than these temporary litter bins as a fixture in the landscape. The length of George Street from Central to the Quay, appears as an abandoned worksite with odd bits of unused equipment, half finished concrete works and building material littering the thoroughfare.  Big streams of pedestrians move slowly on the narrowed sidewalks. Every intersection the passage is a snarl of angry honking motorists queing across the CBD. 

The new Eastern Suburbs light rail network was due for completion next year but, with contract issues, cost overruns and poor planning the most optimistic prediction is at least another year.

Pity the NSW Government ripped the most extensive tram network in the Southern Hemisphere up in 1961(above) to give more room to those motorists. SMH article

No charge today

How not to have an EV Charging Station.

• The charging station should be easily visible (inclusive of signage, parking bays and charging equipment) and accessible for users to find. 
• A prominent location has the additional effect of creating awareness amongst the general public of the existence of EV charging infrastructure. 
• Though prominence is important, the location should not be in a premium, high-demand parking area that would encourage non-EVs to occupy the charging bay, or attract high parking fees. 
• Accessibility in terms of limitations to non-paying patrons, and out-of-hours restrictions also need to be considered.

Don't be vague

Haig Park on the North of the Civic area, Canberra, was controversially named after Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, KT, GCB, OM, GCVO, KCIE,  a senior officer of the British Army. During the WW1, he commanded the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front. He designed operations that involved the wholesale slaughter of troops including 48,900 Australians. 

The tone of the time was summed up by Adrian Henri’s line “Don’t be vague, blame General Haig”. That was a parody of an advertisment of the time and neat since the General owed his wealth to the Haig whisky business.

Puffing Billy

The Newcastle  colliery steam engine 'Puffing Billy' was an important influence on inventor George Stephenson, who lived locally, and its success was a key factor in promoting the use of steam locomotives by other collieries in north-eastern England.

It also entered the language as a metaphor for an energetic traveller, and phrases like "puffing like Billy-o" and "running like Billy-o" are thought to derive from the locomotive's name.
In 1952 British light music composer Edward White wrote a melody named after the locomotive. The piece became ubiquitous in British media, being used on BBC Light Programme's 'Children's Favourites', a radio request programme, from 1952 to 1966 & also appearing in numerous commercials and radio shows. 

Source  

Memories are made of this

On display as part of the 1960s exhibition at the National Library in Canberra, are a few  fine examples carpenter Fred Ward's original furniture for the Library. 
A feature for anyone who used it was the anachronistic cardboard Dewey index catalogue, exquisitely boxed with brass and hardwood by Ward as well as the new-fangled Library of Congress index. His furniture subtly contributed to the building's atmosphere and launch a thousand academic papers. 

Ah, remember the slide, click and flick that went with the chore of tracking down dusty gems hiding in the Book Stack somewhere in the basement?

Max Dupain (1911–1992) photgraphed the Card Catalogue at NLA in 1968