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not well educated, rude and blunt...

 

vaguely ignorant...

An Australian-led delegation to the West Bank featuring Minister Christopher Pyne, former speaker Bronwyn Bishop and Human Rights Commissioner Tim Wilson has been criticised by a Minister in the Palestinian Authority, who said the group had "false information" and were "not well educated".

Mr Pyne, the Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science, on Sunday led the delegation which included members of the British parliament to Ramallah.

All the delegates were visiting Jerusalem for two days as part of an annual Australia-UK-Israel leadership dialogue.

Mr Wilson said the group "quizzed" the Palestinian Prime Minister and Education Minister about a range of topics.

Palestinian Minister for Education Dr Sabri Saidam described the meeting as "very explosive and very challenging" and said the group had asked "rude and blunt" questions.

"The delegation had false information and twisted facts," Dr Saidam told the ABC.

"So it was clear the delegation was not well educated.

"Obviously the delegation was under impressions, wrong impressions accumulated after the visit to Israel."

When asked about Dr Saidam's comments, Mr Pyne said he believed he was very diplomatic but admitted that some members of the delegation were potentially "too robust".

"I very diplomatically asked the Prime Minister and the Higher Education Minister questions which I thought would be useful for understanding the Palestinian attitudes to the peace process," Mr Pyne told the ABC.

"Other members of the dialogue were slightly more robust and could be accused of quizzing them.

"I didn't quiz anyone."

Dr Saidam said, despite the atmosphere, he welcomed the visit because he thought it was important to "clarify facts".

"There has been a lot of complaints on the Palestinian side that the government of Australia was not that sympathetic with the Palestinians," he said.

"I thought the Minister of Innovation would come with innovative ideas, but instead he came with a list of complaints."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-12-16/australian-delegation-to-west-bank-'very-explosive'/7032084

 

blunt and rude...

Minister Christopher Pyne, former speaker Bronwyn Bishop and Human Rights and Human Rights Commissioner Tim Wilson visited Ramallah on Sunday during an official visit to Israel.

The group met with Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah and grilled him on a range of topics, such as the naming of schools and venues after terrorists, and education practices.

It is believed repeated questions on the naming of schools and venues made Mr Hamdallah agitated, and Education Minister Sabri Haidam has reportedly called the delegation "blunt and rude".

A spokesman for the Palestinian Authority has told SBS it was "generally unhappy" with the Australian delegation for spending far more time with Israeli officials.

Minister Pyne has admitted to the ABC that while he was diplomatic, other members may have been "too robust".

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2015/12/16/blunt-and-rude-australian-delegation-rebuked-palestinian-education-minister

innovations and guinness...

October 28, 2015 | Wyatt Roy, the Australian Assistant Minister for Innovation, will be leading a delegation of entrepreneurs, industry representatives and government officials on a week long tour of Israel. “It’s important that we learn as much as we can from Israel, they are a global leader in innovation,” Roy said. Under the leadership of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, Australia is seeking to develop a more innovation-based economy.

http://news.nocamels.com/2015/10/28/australian-delegation-visits-the-startup-nation/

 

December 17 — Gus News Flash: Okay I have enough of this "innovation"... There are plenty of thinkers and innovators in Australia, beyond the pub-elbow grease beer lifting blottos inventing a new lazy device to drink their Guinness. True.

People in Australia think up great ideas as much as the next israeli or yanko-yankee. So why go there to investigate something that is available here without having to travel to Jerusalem and insult Palestinians? I see. It's a stitch-up to cream some Qantas frequent flyer points from the taxpayers, the sods. 

 

Meanwhile:

 

Researchers in Switzerland have created what has been classed as the world's smallest inkjet-printed picture.

They made a 0.08mm-by-0.115mm (0.003in-by-0.005in) colour photo of tropical clown fish, which is about as wide as a piece of photocopy paper is thick.

They printed it using "quantum dot" technology, an innovation also being deployed in new high-end TVs.

The nanotechnologists say their achievement has been verified by the Guinness World Records.

The photo of the fish - which are 3,333 times bigger in real life than in the picture - was printed at a resolution of 25,000 dots per inch (dpi).

There is 500 nanometres (0.0005mm) between each dot on each of the three colour layers deposited - red, green and blue.

Rather than squirt normal ink, "quantum dots" were used.

These are tiny particles that emit a different colour of light according to their size.

Smaller ones appear blue, mid-size ones are green and the bigger type are red.

The light generated by quantum dots is particularly intense, which makes them attractive to TV-makers, who have struggled to produce large OLED screens at affordable prices - another technology known for delivering colour-rich images.

One of the team suggested their technique could ultimately be adapted to "print" screens on demand.

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35110483