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Hi Fred,
It would be a brave person who signed up for that. Unfortunately the record of redundancies at the AAT facility over the past 10 years due to funding cutbacks and ownership control changes is pretty appalling. When you sign on for a job at the AAT these days you don't worry about whether you will make long service leave. Historically it was very stable, but not in more recent years as technology changes and funding allocations change. I have 3 friends who have been shafted from AAT in the past few years. One of them is Rob McNaught who has discovered more comets and near Earth Asteroids than anyone in the history of the human race. His operation (Uppsala / Schmidt Telescope) was closed down about 3 years ago due to lack of funding from Government / ANU. All it needed to continue running was $100K per year.
Cheers,
John B
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