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Rachel Carson: too successful for her own legacy
Rachel Carson was born on May 27, 1907. If she were still alive, she would be 100 years old today. Many claim her as founding the modern...
Dredging Lake's Political Barrage
I was in Adelaide a couple of weeks ago and drove over to Lake Alexandrina. The lake is part of a huge lake system covering some 86,000 hectares at...
GM foods offer a rosy future
Penicillin wouldn't exist if we had the same attitude to pharmaceuticals as we do to genetically modified food. One of the arguments against GM...
Single desk monopoly has to go
Many Liberal MPs bemoan the failure of Malcolm Fraser's government to reform the Australian economy in the late 1970s. A key example is Fraser's...
Time for wheat to cut against the grain
Wheat exporting needs reform. Restricting exports to the discredited AWB is outmoded and against the national interest. The wheat regulator could...
Give MacBank a break
Tiger Woods, J. K. Rowling and Allan Moss, the chief executive of Macquarie Bank, have much in common. They manage global operations, they face...
Ingrained prejudice
Many Liberal MPs bemoan the failure of Malcolm Fraser's government to reform the Australian economy in the late 1970s. A key example is Fraser's...
When reform has no bang and barely a whimper
What a difference a year makes. One year ago, when Communications Minister Helen Coonan released the discussion paper which was to become the...
Go easy on regulation in carbon fight
Australian spending and regulatory measures for greenhouse mitigation fall under two categories: subsidies by governments for carbon dioxide...
South Pole 'keeping its cool' - IPCC
The United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has a mandate to deliver a comprehensive assessment of human-induced climate...