Recent publications
Conservation at any cost
The Uses and Value of National Parks: Does More Mean Worse?
Politicians are happy to lock up vast areas around the country as national parks, but are not willing to actually maintain them. Instead of continuously expanding the park area, we should be making better use of the parks we already have. "If we...
'Threats' to the Great Barrier Reef
Over the years, we have been told that coral-eating starfish, oil pollution, overfishing, fertilizer runoff, silt, agrichemicals, sewerage, anchor damage, people walking on the reef, ship groundings and global warming were each imminent threats to...
The Lost Battle of Queensland Farming
Wake Up, They're Misleading You: The Media's Climate Change Propaganda
Why "Save The Murray"?
Reprinted from Quadrant Magazine: I WAS SURPRISED when I learned that the Australian was running a "Saving the Murray" campaign. I realised that journalists often fail in their quest for the truth, but I assumed that they at least subscribed to...
Business Environment Conservation
Time to Redefine Environmentalism
Some Australian Views on Climate Change
These people have no interest in furthering any political agenda on climate or related environmental issues. Rather, their comments and analysis are based upon the tradition of dispassionate honesty which characterises the scientific method. They...
The Green Inferno
The Green Inferno: Do we really want to minimise Disaster fires?