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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...
Bank on basin's resilience
John Quiggin argues that taxpayers should buy 34 per cent of the water now used by Murray-Darling basin irrigators and add this to the 50 per cent...
Sequel to Copenhagen Resembles the Remake of a Bad Movie
One year after the Copenhagen climate change circus, the Gillard government is being dragged by the Greens towards policies that are out of step...
Green protectionist racket incompatible with free trade
Following meetings with senior US officials recently, Emerson said he was "genuinely encouraged" by the support to conclude global free trade...