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Let's eat kangaroo
The Icelandic Minister for Fisheries, Arni Mathiesen, recently wrote to the Australian Environment Minister, Ian Campbell, indicating that if...
Howard sees his 'enterprise worker' as ending class warfare
In a significant but under-reported speech in July this year, Prime Minister John Howard announced that in his view the most important economic...
Time to tap into technology
Queensland Premier Peter Beattie recently was quoted talking up Brisbane's water shortage. He said computer modelling has shown that without rain...
Abandoning Agriculture and Science
The president of the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF), Professor Ian Lowe, has just written a book titled A big fix: Radical solutions for...
Save the whaling
Why is it that the International Whaling Commission condones the slaughter of rare whales by indigenous peoples using what are, arguably, inhumane...
Hazelwood trumps the politics
After painfully long reviews, the State Government has finally granted Hazelwood Power station's owners the right to continue providing Victorians...
Hazelwood expansion the right move
The Bracks Government's decision this week to approve the expansion of the Hazelwood brown coal power station was not just the right decision, but...
Prosperity's deadly spiral
"Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?" "To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time." "The dog did...
Left to sink or swim, it's our ag that could drown
I enjoyed a meal of crawfish with farmers in Louisiana a few years ago, where the locals boasted the Port at New Orleans was the fifth largest in...
Cash and contentment: the truth
According to the new gurus of happiness, most of us are mugs. We spend our lives pursuing money, wealth and the good life for ourselves and our...