noire of those who sought, and continue to seek, darker explanations of the Sydney tragedy".JCFADT, Report on the loss of HMAS Sydney, p. 12 In 1991, the HMAS Sydney Forum was convened by the Western Australian Museum; its goals were to seek a consensus view of the battle and collect suggestions on how and where searches for Sydney and Kormoran should occur. Interested parties, including Montgomery, Winter, and Frame, were brought together for the three-day forum, but instead of reconciling different views of the battle, the forum only served to split the participants further. Prompted by the outcome, Frame wrote HMAS Sydney: Loss and Controversy. Published in 1993, this was the first book dedicated to the subject authored by a naval officer or a trained historian. In addition to analysing the battle and its aftermath, it looked at the historiography to date and the development of the controversy.JCFADT, Report on the loss of HMAS Sydney, p. 13 Frame's work was pro-RAN and supportive of Burnett, and while he dismissed many of the alternative claims made regarding the battle, he felt that those involving German duplicity were plausible.Cole, The Loss of HMAS Sydney II, vol. 2, pp. 3–5 A second forum was hosted in 1997 by the End Secrecy on Sydney group, but the antagonism between holders of different interpretations of the battle meant the forum "degenerated into a partisan verbal melee". An Inquiry into the loss of HMAS Sydney was carried out by the Joint Standing Committee for Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade (JCFADT) between 1997 and 1998 and was tabled in March 1999.JCFADT, Report on the loss of HMAS Sydney, p. 1 The JCFADT inquiry received over 400 submissions and compiled over 500 pages of oral testimony. However, the report was indecisive, and despite finding there was no evidence to support the various controversial claims made about the battle, it failed to end debates between holders of the various viewpoints: a debate that was said to have "become a dialogue of the deaf". Several more books about the battle were published. Frame's book was updated and republished in 1998. Wesley Olson's Bitter Victory: the death of HMAS Sydney, published in 2000, was a re-examination of the evidence, including comparisons with similar naval engagements and sinkings, which supported the accepted view of the battle.Cole, The Loss of HMAS Sydney II, vol. 3, p. 10 Glenys McDonald's 2005 work Seeking the