Legal activism by environmental groups has put $65 billion of investment at risk in Australia by holding major projects up in court for a cumulative total of 10,100 days (28 years) since the year...
“A small group of green activists are using a special legal privilege to delay and disrupt $65 billion of investment, which is disproportionately damaging regional Australia,” said Kurt Wallace...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
