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Great Race XXXIV results

EDITOR'S NOTE: The race has been authorized by lightning before all the finishers came along during the teams that had already passed the redress of their boats so were allowed to finish, but because of the storm, they could not be timed electronically. These times show that ().

Top 20 Long Course

1. Vote Ed Wagner Owasco Super - Drew Hart, Ithaca, Cameron Cogburn, Cambridge, MA, Matt Belknap, Cortland, Andy Melnychenko, Alpine. (1:50:43).

2. Spinach - Scott Weeks, Cortland, Mariano Garcia, Ithaca, Michael Schlimmer, Cortland, Benedict Schlimmer, Cortland. (1:53:14).

3.The perennial contenders - Fred Joslyn, Syracuse, Glenn Swan Freeville, Al Shaver, Meridale, Mike Packer, Otego. (1:55:54).

4. Route 17 Masters - James Derick, Big Flats, Bruce Rohdenburg, Corning, Bruce Lee, Port Crane, Tom Yarosh, Windsor. (1:56:59).

5. Tri-Valley Sports - Aaron Robertson, Bainbridge, Todd Sherwood, Chenango Forks; Bruce Codington, Sidney, Trevor Lefever, Unadilla. (1:58:18).

6. John Trowse Memorial - Chris Burke, Tully, Don Sproull, Auburn, Sean Wilson, Auburn, Sean Lefever. (1:59:42).

7. Wild stallions - Craig Coon, Steve Sloan, Jeff Schultes, Otego, Brian Watson, Watertown.(2:00:49).

8. Raise, Recycle, Repaddle - Jason Phillips, Moravia; Paul Eisele, Cortland, Steven Southworth, Cortland, Larry Kabat, Homer. (2:03:22).

9. The Midnight Men - Joe Compagna, Chittenango, Mark Pinchak, Auburn, Peter Ross, Ontario, Tim Henni, Marion. (2:04:32).

10. Morgan Produce - Josh Henry, Ithaca, Tersegno Michael, Auburn, Bill Morgan Union Springs; Kelli Morgan Union Springs. (2:05:12).

11. Mason & Grant - Chris Mason, Auburn, Bill Golembieski, Boulder, CO, Mason Tate, Auburn, Wayne Mason, Auburn. (2:05:21).

12.Ridiculous speed - Scott Bickham, Corning, Mark Klemann, Savona, Doug Jennings, Corning. (2:06:06).

13. Sporthill team - Martin Connor, Fairport, Jack Kirch Auburn, Jim Underwood, Queensbury, Bob Underwood, Katskill Bay. (2:06:11).

14. For Wagner Owasco - Ryan Gilmore, Auburn, Peter Ozolins, Ithaca, Ed Wagner, Auburn, John Potter, Port Byron. (2:06:35).

15. Xs Energy - Derrick Jones, Henrietta Todd Furstoss, Rochester, James Mallory, West Henrietta. (2:06:51).

16. Kingsley Krew - Lori Kingsley, Wysox, PA; Stephen Hudyncia, Fort Plain, John Maier Otego; Doug Leveille Unadilla. (2:07:15).

17. Team Ommegang - 1 - John Sovecal, Burlington, CT; Kevin Mallery, Burlington, CT, Jim Jordan, Burlington, CT, Larry Harrison. (2:07:21).

Broadcasting and the enemy within: ASIO's political surveillance ...

All this and more we know, thanks to newly released archival files of the Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO).

Earlier, in March, Duckmanton had met both Spry's deputy chief and the head of the Counter-Subversion branch of ASIO. The two senior ASIO officers expressed concern about the forthcoming National Television Congress, an early initiative promoting Australian content and highbrow television whose supporters included left wing figures, some in the ABC. The officers also brought with them a list of 'certain personnel' in the ABC with potted biographies and information about their left wing connections. The listed people ranged from a secretary, a set finisher to journalists, TV producers and editors who were past or present members of the Communist Party of Australia or 'sympathisers' with that party. Also discussed was Radio Australia, the Indonesian crisis and the Department of External Affairs. The meeting ended with Duckmanton confirming that ABC assistant general manger, Arthur Finlay, would remain as ASIO's 'liaison contact' but that Duckmanton 'would appreciate being kept informed personally on major matters, e.g. the list of personnel in the organization'.

A second meeting in April 1965 between Duckmanton and ASIO officers again discussed this list of ABC personnel, which included film editor, Rod Adamson, play editor, Leslie Rees, Talks supervisor, Allan Ashbolt and TV presenter, Bob Sanders, producer Bob Allnutt, senior broadcaster John Thompson and journalists Kevon Kemp and Gary Scully. The meeting ended with the arrangement being made for the dinner between Spry and Duckmanton in May.

Just a few months later, Sir Charles Spry wrote to Attorney General, Billy Snedden. Spry sent Snedden lists of names of news commentators who had spoken on ABC radio and TV about whom ASIO held 'adverse information' of 'a substantial nature'. They included academics Ted Wheelwright, Dr Peter Russo and Professor Oscar Spate, the eccentric churchman, Francis James, and a Melbourne businessman, Paul Morawetz.

Unlike the ABC, ASIO's impact on the cultural and intellectual life of Australia has been scantily and imperfectly recorded. Perhaps this is not only because ASIO's role was secret but also because it was just one of the raft of prevailing influences of conservative Australia, expressed variously through government ministers, Establishment artists and academics. Certainly, ASIO was no rogue elephant but a body whose actions were approved of by the Prime Minister in strict accordance to the conventions of the Westminster system. But ASIO's activities had some special characteristics. It was a body of some 500 full time staff armed with a vast filing system and substantial powers of inquiry whose total energy was devoted to identifying left wing influence in Australia and planning operations against it. ASIO was the powerful, sharp sword of Cold War Australia aimed at skewering the communist-influenced Left whose activities (apart from the more traditional trade unionism) ranged broadly across the visual arts, theatre, filmmaking, journalism, academia, radio and television. In this respect, there are similarities with operations of the American FBI in relation the mass media. Like the FBI, ASIO was broadly concerned with 'communist propaganda' in public debate, including in the media.

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