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Taxes on carbon too drastic and too soon
Julia Gillard's loss of voter confidence was massively compounded by her reneging on the pledge that "there will be no carbon tax under a...
Carbon market flaws evident
The collapse of the European carbon price exposes the structural flaws of the government's plan to cut greenhouse gases. A European Commission plan...
Stagnation flows from our banana republic laws
Australia has thrived by achieving high productivity levels, especially in our agricultural and mining industries. Commercial fishing has had a...
Farms left high and dry by water grab
The release of the Murray-Darling plan adds another chapter of woe to those reliant on the river system's irrigation water. At present, 11,000...
Population and misanthropy
"I have no doubt that the present uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt have unsustainable population levels as their root cause," wrote Labor backbencher...
Dig in, don't wait. Our slow food nostalgia is misplaced
We want food to be simple and honest, local and seasonal. We want it to be organic, ''natural'', free of preservatives and homemade. This, at...
Government subsidies to green groups must end
The Victorian, New South Wales and Federal Governments' have been using taxpayer funds to support advocacy organisations which encourage radical...
Natural disasters give economic growth a moral dimension
Between 1990 and 2002, globally 815,077 people were killed by 4,300 natural disasters. Since then, an earthquake in Bam, Iran in 2003 took 26,000...
The truth about Australia's floods
If the news from Tucson has been grim this month, the news from Australia has been no better. For years, we Aussies have been fighting drought...
Murray-Darling irrigation and agricultural production are critical
Under Labor, Victorian water policy had an urban-orientation. Its focus was on reducing city usage and providing more water to Melbourne without...