Asked whether the domestic politics of emissions reduction, highlighted this week in Canberra, frustrated the efforts of the scientific community, Heron remained upbeat that necessity would ultimately drive the public policy solutions at home and abroad.
There is a plethora of upbeat dialogue in the scientific community that does not grab headlines because it's not about big money and a magic cure.
Jonathan McShane, a member of the Local Government Association's community wellbeing board, is upbeat about the future of health checks.
But in the euphoria of sudden plenty after years of flat or falling funding and collapsing pay lines, the science policy community is feeling pretty upbeat.
But in a recent tour of some locations where Chevron had focused its community spending, company officials sounded upbeat.
Casey and his staff -- some of the most genuinely good people in the N.B.A. community -- have been as upbeat as possible.
Diverse views were expressed, but, on the whole, divergence was not found to be related to participant group i.e. the GPs, the PNs, the community pharmacist, those involved in UPBEAT or those less or not involved.
