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The inconvenient truth of public transport success
Since its privatisation in 1999, Melbourne's public transport system has recorded the largest patronage increases in the country. Sadly, ideological opponents of privatisation will go to any lengths to not only hide this fact, but to actually...
Low emissions technology under threat
At the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change meeting hosted in Bali last December, NGOs were falling over themselves to have their favourite causes included in the proceedings. NGOs have successfully ticketed climate change as the...
Corporate research and development beyond the reach of even the federal Innovation Minister
Innovation, Industry, Science and Research Minister Kim Carr has promised that the Labor government will ‘review' the R&D tax concessions. One of the early decisions of the Howard government was to reduce the 150 per cent R&D...
Labor’s Ag Minister picking up where the Coalition failed
Since becoming the surprise choice as Minister for Agriculture in the new Rudd government, Tony Burke has, by and large, said sensible things on all the big issues confronting agriculture. In so doing he has upset both the diminishing band of...
Preparing for the baby cull
Global warming is bringing out the usual suspects who will use any alleged threat to humanity's existence to argue that the world would be a better place with less humans living on it. Having a degree in any branch of science seems to especially...
Scientific independence is more than media releases
Just before Christmas a directive from the new Federal Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research mandated that all ‘strategic' media releases, including those dealing with climate change, must be consistent with the...
20 years reveals gigantic strides in international trade
The politics of trade policy often obscures what should be an unambiguously positive story about the globalisation of the world economy. Goods which were previously produced on a single site are now produced in a virtual international factory-each...