People & associates
Jennifer Marohasy
Facts, before Commitment, Mr Iemma
A couple of weeks ago, NSW Premier, Morris Iemma, announced "the biggest environmental spending package in NSW history". A highlight of the package...
Costly harvest of ignorant GM campaign
The organic food market is growing and according to some studies this demand is being driven by increasing consumer resistance to genetically...
Native Vegetation - Who's the example?
Jeff Angel from the Total Environment Centre suggests that with the introduction of the new regulations under the NSW Native Vegetation Act 2003, a...
Let's be smart on genetic crops
CSIRO has scrapped its $5 million project to develop a genetically modified pea because it produced an allergic reaction in trials on mice,...
Why organics should give GM a go
My brother, Jim, lives in Cairns. When he came to Brisbane for Christmas last year I asked him to bring a large tub of yoghurt. It is not that you...
Jared Diamond's gated community of the mind
According to Californian professor and Pulitzer Prize winning author Jared Diamond, the reason the Maya civilisation failed is because the elites...
Graziers must lift water game
Out on the Macquarie Marshes, downstream of Warren, graziers have a saying: Fat ducks mean fat cattle. Last week, NSW Environment Minister, Bob...
Nuclear waste site in outback makes cents
The Northern Territory Chief Minister, Clare Martin, has said she will fight "tooth and nail" the building of even a small nuclear waste facility...
Planet in the Balance
I have just got back from Forster, on the New South Wales mid north coast. Everyone there was raving about a visit from a southern right whale that...
NSW Parks and Wildlife Service: from brickbats to bouquets
There was a collective sigh of relief when NSW Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) recently gave the go ahead for baiting with 1080 in some National...