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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...