{"id":453,"date":"2019-10-05T05:56:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T19:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=453"},"modified":"2019-10-05T05:56:01","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T19:56:01","slug":"update-to-peter-ridd-legal-action-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=453","title":{"rendered":"Update to Peter Ridd Legal Action Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"

https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/peter-ridd-legal-action-fund?viewupdates=1&rcid=r01-15700815615-77352559301442cd&utm_medium=email&utm_source=customer&utm_campaign=p_email%2B1137-update-supporters-v5b<\/a><\/p>\n

Dear All, In addition to the cash seen on the gofundme page we have also received just over $105500 in direct transfers, cheques and other commitments so we have cracked the $500K figure. Things have slowed down for the moment, but it is a phenomenal effort considering there has not been much media interest. We have some plans for the next few weeks.<\/p>\n

We had some good news that the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) has applied to the court to be represented at the appeal and will argue, like us, that Judge Vasta\u2019s decision is correct. The NTEU, of which I was a member for about 25 years, has an obvious interest in academic freedom and if they are accepted by the court, it will do our chances no harm at all. We expect JCU to oppose. It says something about JCU that we have got support from the IPA and the union, which are often philosophically at opposite ends of a debate.<\/p>\n

The funds requested in this gofundme campaign is to get us all the way to the High Court, although the first step of the appeal will be heard in the Federal Court. We have little faith that JCU will accept the Federal Court ruling if\/when they lose. And we have no great hopes that either the state of federal government will take any action to stop this waste of money. The dates for the federal court appeal hearing have still not been set, but could just possibly be as early as November – and if not, February is another possibility. We should find out in the next week or so.<\/p>\n

We are still a bit short of what we will need for the Federal Court component, about $750K, but we are in striking distance.<\/p>\n

Many thanks again to all of you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/peter-ridd-legal-action-fund?viewupdates=1&rcid=r01-15700815615-77352559301442cd&utm_medium=email&utm_source=customer&utm_campaign=p_email%2B1137-update-supporters-v5b Dear All, In addition to the cash seen on the gofundme page we have also received just over $105500 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[426,427,425,324,428],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":454,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions\/454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}