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May '07 bring back skeptics
I will remember 2006 as the year a misguided film portraying carbon dioxide as the main cause of all climate change captured the imagination of so...
Leave water recycling to Mother Nature
The Bracks Government re-election represents the electorate's confidence in the steady-as-she goes administration. But government is also about...
Save Forests, Bring Back Millers
Back in August 2002, as part of its campaign to increase the area of national parkland in NSW, the Western Conservation Alliance held a forest...
Anvil Hill Decision: Impractical and Uncompetitive
Last week the NSW Land and Environment Court found that a proposed coal mine at Anvil Hill in the Hunter Valley was being approved without adequate...
There's not much future in predictions
Is it possible to make useful economic predictions spanning 100 years? World climate change forecasts require it. The report to the British...
Mighty Murray will cope
I wonder what will happen if the Murray River runs dry next year? I don't mean completely dry, but rather, if it is reduced to a series of...
The campaign to stop mining
Across the world too many people still live in poverty. A new feature-length documentary by former Financial Times journalist Phelim McAleer...
Are our trail blazers looking backwards?
When the Prime Minister, John Howard, recently announced another $350 million in drought aid for farmers he said we would "lose something of our...
On Robert Malthus and Banning New Foods
Many people harbour a deep-seated fear of new technology particularly when it involves our food. The current ban on all new genetically modified...
Climate change? No drought!
I nearly choked on my Wheaties as I skimmed the online newspapers. Paul Sheehan, a senior journalist at the Sydney Morning Herald barked at me "it...