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Going Against the Flow
Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party may be in mothballs, but the rural discontent that helped fuel it is alive and growing. Nothing illustrates this...
Green 'Truth' Just a Load of Hot Air
The publication of Bjorn Lomborg's meticulously researched tome The Skeptical Environmentalist in 1998 shocked the environmental movement....
'Catastrophe' Overheated
Again newspapers and television are packed with stories of environmental degradation, extreme weather and global warming. Consider last year's...
Lighter Shade of Green
IS the environment being ruined? The clear message from the media, many scientists and environmental activists is that the environment is on the...
The Great Land Grab
If drought, fire and pestilence were not enough, the man on the land is now facing a larger threat---a run-away bureaucracy attempting to...
The Green Movement: Time to Get Serious
An address to the Victorian Farmers Federation 24th Annual Conference, Melbourne, 22-23 July, 2003 History is replete with examples of societies...
Go With the Flow on River Management
Late last year the World Wildlife Fund and a group of CSIRO officials formed the Wentworth Group. They issued a paper, Blueprint for a living...
Gamekeepers Turn Poachers
The Cole royal commission could simply have produced yet another list of corrupt practices and persons in the construction industry. But the...
Managing the Murray
Managing the Murray River is arguably the nation's leading policy challenge. The river supports a $5 billion agricultural industry, supplies water...
Private Property Rights: the Key to Efficient Rural Water Use
Water in Australia Water has always been a defining issue in Australia's prosperity. And in recent decades irrigation has grown rapidly. Even so,...