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Jennifer Marohasy
Acid Sulfate Blame Floating Upstream
South Australians seem to really know how to whinge - now they're blaming an acid sulphate soil problem on NSW irrigators. The latest moaning...
Rewriting Murray History for a Fish
With the many problems besetting the Murray Darling Basin, the last thing a group of scientists was expecting to find was a new species of fish in...
No Balance in Water Negotiations
Some years ago an irrigator in the Macquarie Valley explained to me that they had been giving back water for years as part of negotiated and then...
Global Warming Theories off The Boil
Professor Aynsley Kellow, the head of the School of Government at the University of Tasmania, recently released a book called 'Science and Public...
Opinions Clash at Climate Conference
I was recently in New York for the International Conference on Climate Change. The 500 delegates came from a great diversity of professions...
Carbon rationing or freedom
Australia has now ratified the Kyoto Protocol and when George Bush's Presidency expires the United States is also likely to join up. Indeed all...
Cattle versus Ducks down in The Marshes
NSW Water Minister, Nathan Rees, has allocated $400,000 to conduct an audit of water diversion structures in the Macquarie Marshes, north of...
Parochialism Afloat in National Water Crisis?
The Minister for Water in the new Rudd government, Penny Wong, is from South Australia and there has been some mumbling - mostly behind closed...
Having a whale of a time
There is a story about an Australian farmer and a debate he has with one of his sheep, as told by whalers in Norway. It begins with the Aussie...
GM release triumph for reason over green-wash
In an interesting post-election development, within a few days of Kevin Rudd's Labor Party storming home to win the federal election with a lot of...