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HomeRESEARCH AREASEnvironment and Agriculture

Environment and Agriculture

Support for the environment needs to strike the right balance between genuine conservation without hampering productive economic activity.
IPA TODAY
The Case Against Four Bin System

The Case Against Four Bin System

Evan Mulholland 25 February 2020 Environment and agriculture, Ipa today,

The Andrews Government’s announced statewide move to four colour-coded rubbish bins is a waste of time, money and space. Environment Minister Lily D’Ambrosio is conscripting every citizen to...

Originally appeared in Herald Sun
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Tragic, But Unprecedented? Not Yet

Tragic, But Unprecedented? Not Yet

Jennifer Marohasy 6 January 2020 Climate change, Environment and agriculture,

The word unprecedented is applied to almost every bad thing that happens at the moment, as though particular events could not have been predicted, and have never happened before at such a scale or...

Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
PUBLICATIONS
No Data On Coral Growth Rates For 15 Years

No Data On Coral Growth Rates For 15 Years

Jennifer Marohasy 2 January 2020 Climate change, Environment and agriculture,

CORALS are animals, closely related to jelly fish, but they differ in having a limestone skeleton. This is hard-stuff, calcium carbonate, and it can persist in the environment and provide an...

Originally appeared in Jennifer Maroshasy Blog
Climate Change
The Right Climate For Optimism

The Right Climate For Optimism

Peter Gregory Started 19 December 2019 Climate change, Environment and agriculture,

This article from the Summer 2019 edition of the IPA Review is by IPA Research Fellow and co-host of the Young IPA Podcast, Peter Gregory. Doom and gloom are rife among young people over the state...

Environment and Agriculture
Great Minds Shunned Alike

Great Minds Shunned Alike

Scott Hargreaves Started 19 December 2019 Climate change, Environment and agriculture,

This Editorial from the Summer 2019 Edition of the IPA Review is by IPA Executive General Manager and  Editor of the IPA Review, Scott Hargreaves. I wish I’d been in the room in Oslo, Norway, when...

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Cutting Red Tape Will Drive Growth

Cutting Red Tape Will Drive Growth

Daniel Wild 6 December 2019 Environment and agriculture, Ipa today,

Momentum is building for bi-partisan reform between the Western Australia state Labor government and the federal coalition government to cut red tape and boost economic growth. As reported in...

Originally appeared in The West Australian
PUBLICATIONS
IPA Media Release – IPA Launches ‘Beige Reef’: A New Short Film By Dr Jennifer Marohasy On The Great Barrier Reef

IPA Media Release – IPA Launches ‘Beige Reef’: A New Short Film By Dr Jennifer Marohasy On The Great Barrier Reef

Jennifer Marohasy 14 November 2019 Climate change, Environment and agriculture,

The Institute of Public Affairs has released a new, must-watch short film by Senior Fellow Dr Jennifer Marohasy which contradicts everything you’ve heard about climate change threatening the Great...

IPA TODAY
End The Man-Made Drought. Rip Up The Murray Darling Basin Plan

End The Man-Made Drought. Rip Up The Murray Darling Basin Plan

Zachary Gorman 6 November 2019 Environment and agriculture, Ipa today,

The failure of the Murray Darling Basin Plan is an example of what happens when decisions are taken out of the hands of locals and given to distant Canberra bureaucrats. By taking an extra 2000GL...

IPA TODAY
80-Fold Increase In Environmental Legislation Since 1971

80-Fold Increase In Environmental Legislation Since 1971

Morgan Begg 24 October 2019 Environment and agriculture, Ipa today,

There has been 80-fold increase to Commonwealth environmental regulation since the first Commonwealth environmental department was established in 1971, according to a new report by free market...

Ideas and Liberty
New Clear Future

New Clear Future

IPA Review Started 21 October 2019 Energy and resources, Environment and agriculture,

Dayne Eckermann is General Manager at Bright New World, which is based in Adelaide, Australia. Nuclear advocates have long felt that once people start to look again at nuclear technology, confront...

Environment and Agriculture
The Tide Must Turn

The Tide Must Turn

IPA Review Started 21 October 2019 Environment and agriculture,

Topher Field is a filmmaker and self-described optimist and libertarian. His videos on the Murray-Darling have been viewed more than 300,000 times. www.topherfield.net Water has become the most...

Media Coverage
How To Evaluate The Evidence Of Contrarians – Scientifically

How To Evaluate The Evidence Of Contrarians – Scientifically

Jennifer Marohasy 23 September 2019 Climate change, Environment and agriculture,

Fundamental to the scientific method is the assumption that reality exists independently of our belief systems; that there is such a thing as evidence, and that it matters. There seems to be...

Originally appeared in jennifermarohasy.com on 21st September 2019
IPA TODAY
Found: 25 Hectares of Acropora at Stone Island

Found: 25 Hectares of Acropora at Stone Island

Jennifer Marohasy 5 September 2019 Climate change, Environment and agriculture,

CORAL reefs in shallow waters adjacent to the Australian mainland are considered particularly susceptible to coral bleaching, and also smothering by sediment from turbid water. This was all...

IPA TODAY
10 Days at the Magnificent Great Barrier Reef (Part 1, Whitsundays)

10 Days at the Magnificent Great Barrier Reef (Part 1, Whitsundays)

Jennifer Marohasy 31 August 2019 Climate change, Environment and agriculture,

I’VE spent the last 10 days snorkelling, paddle boarding, and droning over the coral reefs of the northern and southern Whitsundays. I’ve been with a great crew including Clint Hempsall who has an...

IPA TODAY
Smashed by Debbie – Middle Island Corals

Smashed by Debbie – Middle Island Corals

Jennifer Marohasy 24 April 2019 Climate change, Environment and agriculture,

This is the third in a series reporting on the reef adventure – Part I (Denying the Littoral Zone at the Great Barrier Reef) here and Part II (The Eerie Ancient Coral Reef at Bowen, with a...

IPA TODAY
The Eerie Ancient Coral Reef at Bowen, with a Crocodile

The Eerie Ancient Coral Reef at Bowen, with a Crocodile

Jennifer Marohasy 22 April 2019 Climate change, Environment and agriculture,

MOST people rarely venture into nature – they certainly don’t spend much time on coral reefs. When they do, they may expect the fish and corals to be as bright, colourful and perfect as the last...

IPA TODAY
Denying the Littoral Zone at the Great Barrier Reef

Denying the Littoral Zone at the Great Barrier Reef

Jennifer Marohasy 20 April 2019 Climate change, Environment and agriculture,

The coral reef off Bowen, in North Queensland, is only dead to the 2,500 marine scientists who attended the conference in Cairns on 9th July 2012. That day, they were shown photographs of a...

IPA TODAY
The Prince and His Dump Trucks

The Prince and His Dump Trucks

Jennifer Marohasy 7 November 2018 Climate change, Environment and agriculture,

THE World Wide Fund for Nature’s ‘Save the Reef’ Campaign was launched on 6th June 2001, which was World Environment Day that year. There was no forewarning. I woke-up that morning to the...

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