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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">ASA members may be interested in the Sydney Powerhouse Museum's <a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/Rta1CWLVXkU59qxD5S6ED8n?domain=sydneyscience.maas.museum/" title="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/wOK7CwV1vMfG899PEcVGPZd?domain=sydneyscience.maas.museum/">Sydney
 Science Festival</a> program.  It has some astronomical content and, in this Covid era, the program is completely online, live and free, which opens it to the widest possible audience.  You may like to promote it to your contacts, especially local schools
 or other educational links you may have. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">It is running from 14–22 of August. Some highlights include:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">- <a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/eEhSCXLW2mUX5KGOXFVYLfp?domain=sydneyscience.maas.museum/" title="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/W8LTCxngwOf1MwwB5cvXdbJ?domain=sydneyscience.maas.museum/">Gamilaraay
 astrophysicist Karlie Noon</a> will take us light-years away to explore the late winter, August skies through the telescopic eyes of the historic Sydney Observatory.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">- <a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/QzIJCYW8NocL1lgALH9p-_s?domain=sydneyscience.maas.museum" title="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/nGmnCyojxQTrXkkJPuQN4iO?domain=sydneyscience.maas.museum">Professor
 Chanda Prescod-Weinstein</a> champions everyone's right to know the night sky.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">- <a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/8bLyCZY1Nqi54gxQ5SyXVrR?domain=sydneyscience.maas.museum" title="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/uTaGCzvkyVCMg99nYcKk8jt?domain=sydneyscience.maas.museum">Dr
 Norman Swan</a> answers your questions and examines how pandemics have changed the course of history.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">For any social posts, they are using the hashtag #SSF21 and URL <a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/Rta1CWLVXkU59qxD5S6ED8n?domain=sydneyscience.maas.museum/" title="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/wOK7CwV1vMfG899PEcVGPZd?domain=sydneyscience.maas.museum/">ma.as/ssf21</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">John<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#77BB41;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">"The standard you walk past is the standard you accept” </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#4D4D4D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR JOHN O’BYRNE
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#4D4D4D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Associate Dean (Student Life), Faculty of Science <br>
Secretary, Astronomical Society of Australia Inc. <br>
Sydney Institute for Astronomy | School of Physics | Faculty of Science<br>
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<b>THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY</b></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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