Recent publications in IPA Backgrounder
Sydney Heartland Conference 2010
Address to the Heartland Institute by Alan Moran.
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...
Myth and the Murray: Measuring The Real State of the Environment
We have all heard about the declining health of the Murray River, including poor water quality, dying red gums and threats to the continued survival of the Murray cod---this is the popular view in urban Australia. Along the river, communities...
Property Rights to Water: Effects on Agricultural Productivity and the Environment
If water rights are taken away without compensation, major incentives that power the economy’s well-being are undermined.
Regulating Biotechnology: Some Questions and Answers
Forty years ago James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the molecular structure of DNA and, from the early seventies, biotechnologists progressively learned more precise ways of introducing genes into plants and animals. Although by...