People & associates
Jennifer Marohasy
More Salt for Murray's Hypothetical Wounds
Government institutions, as the custodians of important information on farm issues, once provided detailed assessments based on actual data. The...
WA Takes a Commercial Risk in Shunning GM
Last week's decision by Premier Gallop to declare the entire State of Western Australia a 'GM-free area' is likely to come back and haunt the...
Bracks Sowing GM Seeds of Doubt
If the Bracks Government were honest, it would tell us the real reason it announced the ban on the commercial planting of genetically modified (GM)...
Let's be Clear on Native Veg Clearing Rates
Let's be clear on native veg clearing rates New tree clearing laws will soon come into effect in NSW. They will change the way applications to...
Exploring the Past to Define the Future
Have you heard of the 'wet paddocks cause rain' phenomena? These are stories that confuse cause and effect. Just as an appreciation of the...
Weeding out the GM Problems
On February 2 the European Union (EU) rejected an application from Bayer CropScience to grow genetically modified (GM) canola in Europe. The...
Skeptics, the Environment Needs You
Last year, on the eve of a visit to Australia by Associate Professor Bjorn Lomborg---Danish statistician and author of the international best...
Putting Murray River where its Mouth Is
As a cause, Environmentalism has a lot going for it. Promise to 'save' something and you may not only feel righteous superiority but, if you are...
Local coastline well and truly in tidal wave sights
As I write this column the number of people estimated to have died from the Boxing Day Tsunami that devastated Indian Ocean communities is 150,000....