Agent TypePersonActivities & OccupationsFarmersGenderMaleHistoryOn 10 March 2002, following release by the National Australian Archives of some 50-year old records concerning the Australian Government's involvement in biological warfare policy c.1948, 'The Sunday Age' published an article headed 'How Australia's greatest scientist planned to poison S-E Asia: the Macfarlane Burnet solution'. Subsequently Burnet's son, Ian D. Burnet, engaged in a round of correspondence with The Age, and with the National Australian Archives, both of which supplied copies of various official documents upon which the story was said to be based, and with the Australian Press Council in an attempt to clarify his father's role at the time.
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