People & associates
Jennifer Marohasy
Can We Embrace Carbon Trading?
Prime Minister, John Howard, set up a joint government-business taskforce last December to consider the potential for a national carbon trading...
Rachel Carson: too successful for her own legacy
Rachel Carson was born on May 27, 1907. If she were still alive, she would be 100 years old today. Many claim her as founding the modern...
Dredging Lake's Political Barrage
I was in Adelaide a couple of weeks ago and drove over to Lake Alexandrina. The lake is part of a huge lake system covering some 86,000 hectares at...
South Pole 'keeping its cool' - IPCC
The United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has a mandate to deliver a comprehensive assessment of human-induced climate...
GM canola or nothing soon?
It is illegal to grow genetically modified (GM) food crops in NSW. Cotton is exempt because it is grown mainly for fibre. Last year Greenpeace...
Mining Cool Heads A Must
Three years ago, in February 2004, Member for Tamworth, Peter Draper, told the NSW Parliament that in the past decade Gunnedah has suffered badly...
Grand Plan Not to Trash Water Rights
Last week NSW Irrigator's Council chief executive, Doug Miell, said he feared the property rights of irrigators may be "trashed" under the new $10...
How much of climate change is hot air?
Almost every day some report or event is claimed as evidence of global warming. Al Gore's recent movie An Inconvenient Truth went so far as to...
Grand, but still no water in plan
Last week the Prime Minister, John Howard, announced a national plan for water security with a focus on irrigation in the Murray-Darling Basin and...
Reef may benefit from global warming
ON Friday in Paris the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will launch a new report, Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis,...