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Michael Phillip Austin

Australian environmentalist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ6833526 ↗
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Michael Phillip Austin is Divisional Fellow of Sustainable Ecosystems at CSIRO in Canberra. He was elected as a Foreign Member of the Linnean Society of London in 1997, and received the Gold Medal from the Ecological Society of Australia in 1995.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Michael Phillip Austin” as australian environmentalist. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1997, 1995—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Michael, Phillip and Austin can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as australian environmentalist. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6833526. VIAF identifies the subject as 13948835. The Library of Congress control number is n91057286. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1997 and 1995.

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This entry incorporates text from “Michael Phillip Austin” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.