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[2021-01-12 17:42:37] [Kristian Andersen] Kinda nice the journalists actually understand evolution too - makes for better questions :wink: [2021-01-12 18:14:09] [Eddie Holmes] Cheers...95% of that I got from this Slack channel! [2021-01-12 18:14:41] [Eddie Holmes] In other news, here is that GIPA request: [2021-01-12 18:14:44] [Eddie Holmes] Dear Eddie I hope you have had a restful and very well deserved Christmas break. While you were on leave, I left a message to let you know that we had received another application under the NSW freedom of information legislation, the NSW Government Information (Public Access) Act (the GIPA Act), for information about your work. This is quite an extensive application by a public health research organisation based in the United States, US Right to Know. It is asking for the following: "We are requesting records of correspondence specifically in relation to following research projects of Professor Holmes: 1. Kristian Andersen, Andrew Rambaut, W. Ian Lipkin, *Edward C. Holmes*, and Robert F. Garry. The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2. _Nature Medicine_ 26, 450-452 (2020). doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-020-0820-9 2. Hong Zhou, Xing Chen, Tao Hu, Juan Li, Hao Song, Yanran Liu, Peihan Wang, Di Liu, Jing Yang, *Edward C. Holmes*, Alice C. Hughes, Yuhai Bi, and Weifeng Shi. A novel bat coronavirus closely related to SARS-CoV-2 contains natural insertions at the S1/S2 cleavage site of the spike protein*.* _Current Biology_ 30: 2196-2203 (2020). doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.05.023 3. Tommy Tsan-Yuk Lam, Na Jia, Ya-Wei Zhang, Marcus Ho-Hin Shum, Jia-Fu Jiang, Hua-Chen Zhu, Yi-Gang Tong, Yong-Xia Shi, Xue-Bing Ni, Yun-Shi Liao, Wen-Juan Li, Bao-Gui Jiang, Wei Wei, Ting-Ting Yuan, Kui Zheng, Xiao-Ming Cui, Jie Li, Guang-Qian Pei, Xin Qiang, William Yiu-Man Cheung, Lian-Feng Li, Fang-Fang Sun, Si Qin, Ji-Cheng Huang, Gabriel M. Leung, *Edward C. Holmes*, Yan-Ling Hu, Yi Guan & Wu-Chun Cao. Identifying SARS-CoV-2-related coronaviruses in Malayan pangolins. _Nature_ 583, 282-285 (2020). doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2169-0 4. Fan Wu, Su Zhao, Bin Yu, Yan-Mei Chen, Wen Wang, Zhi-Gang Song, Yi Hu, Zhao-Wu Tao, Jun-Hua Tian, Yuan-Yuan Pei, Ming-Li Yuan, Yu-Ling Zhang, Fa-Hui Dai, Yi Liu, Qi-Min Wang, Jiao-Jiao Zheng, Lin Xu, *Edward C. Holmes* and Yong-Zhen Zhang. A new coronavirus associated with human respiratory disease in China. _Nature_ 579, 265-269 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2008-3 We request all correspondence about the above projects, *with the exception of correspondence of peer-reviewers and editors of the above-named scientific journals*, held by The University of Sydney that reflect communications - to or from Professor Holmes - including written correspondence, emails, email attachments, CC and BCC. The time period covered by this request is from March 1, 2019 to December 2, 2020. Please narrow the search results to exclude any published papers, organizational newsletters or other widely available published materials." I know it is a very busy time for you as you return from your month of leave, but to help the University meet its tight legal obligations under the NSW GIPA Act, I would appreciate it very much if you could conduct comprehensive searches for the requested information and provide any relevant correspondence to me by *Friday 22 January*. However, please do let me know if this timeframe will be problematic for you.