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Jennifer Marohasy
Jennifer Marohasy was a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs between 2004 and 2009.
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Imposing our preferences on whaling cultures
Few issues illustrate how subjective beliefs about morality distorts environmental debate more than the issue of whaling. Many environmentalists claim to be simply advocates for the sustainable use of resources; they claim that they are not in...
What's happening to the Murray River
The Murray River is Australia's longest river, and together with its tributary, the Darling River, drains an area known as the Murray Darling Basin. The region has historically received only 6 per cent of Australia's annual rainfall but produced...
Misbehaving models and missing mammals
Jennifer Marohasy reviews Science and Public Policy: The Virtuous Corruption of Virtual Environmental Science by Aynsley Kellow. In 2000 the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) claimed a species of Cambodian mountain goat,...
New satellite data casts doubts on global warming models
New NASA data from their Aqua Satellite throws doubt on the validity of climate change models currently being used by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. For the first time scientists have found a strong negative cloud...
Scientific independence is more than media releases
Just before Christmas a directive from the new Federal Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research mandated that all ‘strategic' media releases, including those dealing with climate change, must be consistent with the...
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GM Could Save the Day for Future Fuels
For a long time now the doomsayers have been telling us we are about to run out of oil - at least since the 1970s. Now, with the world financial...
Water Woe a Political Power Play
I have it on good advice, from the cabbie who drove me to the airport in Canberra recently, that South Australian senator Nick Xenophon is the most...
Sane voices amid climate hysteria
I have it on good advice that a well known independent thinker, British naturalist and television personality, David Bellamy, will be visiting...
Crisis Gloom Equals Climate Boon
Last year Federal Minister for Climate Change and Water, Penny Wong, was telling Australians that the drought in the Murray-Darling was a...
Farmers hit to 'save' the reef - and Anna
Queensland Premier, Anna Bligh, has indicated that she will run a campaign against farmers in coastal catchments adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef...