People & associates
Jennifer Marohasy
GM Could Save the Day for Future Fuels
For a long time now the doomsayers have been telling us we are about to run out of oil - at least since the 1970s. Now, with the world financial...
Water Woe a Political Power Play
I have it on good advice, from the cabbie who drove me to the airport in Canberra recently, that South Australian senator Nick Xenophon is the most...
Sane voices amid climate hysteria
I have it on good advice that a well known independent thinker, British naturalist and television personality, David Bellamy, will be visiting...
Crisis Gloom Equals Climate Boon
Last year Federal Minister for Climate Change and Water, Penny Wong, was telling Australians that the drought in the Murray-Darling was a...
Farmers hit to 'save' the reef - and Anna
Queensland Premier, Anna Bligh, has indicated that she will run a campaign against farmers in coastal catchments adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef...
Global warming blame game gets furry
So many things are blamed on global warming. A quick internet search of reported repercussions just beginning with ‘p', includes...
Topsy-turvy temperature
So much of government policy is now about reducing carbon emissions on the basis that the earth is heating-up. But measuring the earth's...
A misguided desire to save the bush
There has been much written about Australia's national character emerging from a bush ethos - the idea that a specifically Australian outlook...
Roos for Ruminants but What about Rice
The Federal Government's climate change advisor, Professor Ross Garnaut, has suggested that reducing sheep and cattle numbers and...
Science Joins the Sub-Prime
Well known British scientist and commentator, Phillip Stott, recently described ‘global warming' as sub-prime science, sub-prime economics...