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Environmentalism is now political
The year 2004 may be remembered as the year that environmentalism became accepted as a political reality rather than as an ecological imperative....
Cost of Kyoto is still rising
Last Tuesday, as the Victorian Government was launching its Greenhouse Challenge for Energy, the Economic Adviser to Russian President Putin was...
Protocol is just lots of hot air
According to the Kyoto protocol proponents, Australia and the US are the rogue nations. But in the eyes of the absolute majority of the world, they...
Beware of doomsday forecasts
Many people are thrilled by a good, action-packed disaster movie complete with erupting volcanoes, tidal waves, floods, pestilence and of course, a...
Time for a New Stand
I was in Ballarat last Friday for the 150th anniversary of the Eureka Stockade. As part of the official celebrations there was a high profile music...
Can't See the Trees or the Forests
I am sitting on a wooden chair, in front of a wooden desk, all in a wooden house (Queenslander circa 1890) while pondering Jenny Bell from...
'Hands off' Gets Fiery Results
What is best for the environment? What should our environmental priorities be? How interventionist an approach should we take, for example, to the...
Get More Murray Facts Flowing
We live in strange times. Official government statistics shows that across Australia water quality in our rivers and streams are generally...
Water draws opportunists
Having little political rating 20 years ago, water is now a battleground area in the Federal election campaign. Farmers use 70 per cent of the...
'Easing the squeeze' on farmers
I've just finished watching the one and only televised debate between the Prime Minister, John Howard, and Opposition Leader, Mark Latham,...