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GM release triumph for reason over green-wash
In an interesting post-election development, within a few days of Kevin Rudd's Labor Party storming home to win the federal election with a lot of...
State's water split remains a dam shame
Ideological aversion to dams in the state government's first bloom meant cancelling the proposed Mitchell Basin dam. The drought has meant the...
Cooler assessment of climate obsession
Over the past half-century we have become used to planetary scares of one kind or another. But the latest such scare -- global warming -- has...
Vote for rain - no matter who wins
In the lead-up to the last federal election there was much angst among the irrigation community in the Murray-Darling Basin. It was feared that if...
Bell Bay pulp friction all due to Sydney's ... Green elites
Geoffrey Cousins, a well-known Sydney businessman and confidante of the prime minister, ran a campaign against a pulp mill planned for Bell Bay in...
Fighting for River Red Gums
It was raining on the Murray River and the annual Koondrook-Barham Red Gum Showcase last Sunday. A few farmers who attended the festival complained...
Shade of green could spoil Labor's colour
Opposition leader Kevin Rudd and his party's environment spokesman, Peter Garrett, first said Labor would agree to Australia reducing greenhouse...
Cronyism buys into wheat sales
Australian wheat marketing arrangements are a monument to why trade policy and politics don't mix. A Federal Court decision last week was a victory...
Nuclear power the main point of party difference
When it comes to the environment as a federal election issue there are few differences between the major political parties. Energy, and in...
Sydney sticks its nose in Tasmania's problem
It is increasingly common for the rich and famous in Sydney to tell the rest of us what we should and should not do. Most recently, well known...