<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Dear colleagues,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Please join me in offering our congratulations to OzGrav Director Matthew Bailes who has just shared the <a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/rnYkC0YKPvikY62qBswbAjZ?domain=iau.org/" target="_blank">2023 Shaw Prize in Astronomy!</a><u> </u>  </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The prize was awarded for the discovery of Fast Radio Bursts.</span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Matthew shares the prize with Professors Duncan Lorimer and Maura McLaughlin from West Virginia University, USA.<br><br>Well done Matthew, Parkes and all who were involved!<br><br>John Lattanzio<u></u><u></u></p><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u> </span></p></div></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">--</span><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><div dir="ltr"><div><b><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(53,28,117)">I'</span><span style="color:rgb(11,83,148)">m</span><font color="#000000"> </font><span style="color:rgb(106,168,79)">a</span><span style="color:rgb(241,194,50)">n</span><span style="color:rgb(230,145,56)"> </span><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(153,0,255)"><span style="color:rgb(230,145,56)">L</span><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)">G</span></span><span style="color:rgb(142,124,195)">B</span><span style="color:rgb(53,28,117)">T<span style="color:rgb(11,83,148)">I</span></span><span style="color:rgb(106,168,79)">Q</span></span><span style="color:rgb(0,255,0)"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(241,194,50)">A</span><span style="color:rgb(230,145,56)">l</span><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)">l</span><span style="color:rgb(142,124,195)">y</span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><b>  </b>    -     Find out more at </span></i><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/BdQcCjZ1N7iYZpjKmc5GU9T?domain=monash.edu" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:arial,sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap" target="_blank"><i>monash.edu/lgbtiqa</i></a><i><br></i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div>Professor John Lattanzio</div><div>President, Astronomical Society of Australia</div><div><br>School of Physics and Astronomy<br></div><div>Monash University Victoria 3800 AUSTRALIA<br><br></div><div>Ph:  +61 (0)3 9905-4428<br>WWW: <a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/TUFNClx1Nji16go0ET1l3h2?domain=maths.monash.edu.au/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">users.monash.edu.au/~johnl/</a><br><div><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/z81LCoV1kpfD6xXjYT7p3Qm?domain=orcid.org" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">orcid.org/0000-0003-2952-859X</a></div></div><div><br></div><div>---------</div></div></div><p style="padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:top;font-family:Merriweather,Palatino,"Palatino Linotype","Palatino LT STD","Book Antiqua",Georgia,serif;line-height:var(--ws-base-line-height);color:hsla(var(--ws-surface-text-color),var(--ws-surface-text-medium-emphasis-opacity));text-align:center">"<i style="padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:top">When you arrive in Heaven, you’ll have to leave your dog outside the gate. That’s because Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.</i>"   <span style="color:var(--text-color-1658212901230-1658212894919);font-weight:var(--ws-heading-5-font-weight);text-align:right">Mark Twain</span></p><p style="padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:top;font-family:Merriweather,Palatino,"Palatino Linotype","Palatino LT STD","Book Antiqua",Georgia,serif;line-height:var(--ws-base-line-height);color:hsla(var(--ws-surface-text-color),var(--ws-surface-text-medium-emphasis-opacity));text-align:center"><span style="color:var(--text-color-1658212901230-1658212894919);font-weight:var(--ws-heading-5-font-weight);text-align:right">Mr Twain is no fool. He may serve <a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/prTPCnx1jniXrMGADSpnyFR?domain=minkah.net/" target="_blank">Her Majesty Queen Minkah I.</a></span></p></div></div></div>