- Dam good (24 Dec 07)
Christmas Day is forecast to be mostly fine but I won't care if it pours rain. It's been a long time since anyone complained about rain. There was 17mm of ...
- Greens do well (27 Nov 07)
In the election last Saturday the Australian Greens:achieved over one million votes: the final count will near 1 080 000 compared with 917 000 in 2004;supplanted the coalition National Party ...
- Whales revenge (27 Nov 07)
I am signatory no. 464 816 of Patrick Bonello's petition at Whales Revenge seeking a million signatures opposing commercial whaling. Its words are simple and to the point.We the undersigned ...
- ANU shows independence and gumption on climate research (22 Nov 07)
Congratulations to the Australian National University and the Australian Capital Territory government which will defy federal Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull's rejection of its bid to co-host a $50 million national ...
- Greening the Senate (04 Nov 07)
In an agreement announced yesterday Labor is to direct its Senate preferences to the Greens in every state and territory. In return the Greens will direct their preferences to Labor ...
- Barry Jones and the wisdom of Pascal's wager (04 Nov 07)
In the 1980s former Minister for Science Dr Barry Jones was ridiculed for his Commission for the Future which warned about global warming and climate change. Now Philip Adams rightly ...
- Watering our national garden (01 Nov 07)
I am dismayed to read in the Canberra Times (1 Nov 07) that the Australian National Botanic Gardens in Canberra home to Australia's biggest living collection of native plants is ...
- Kerrie for the Senate (27 Oct 07)
I'm not usually a busy political actvist -- I simply don't have the time and strength. In the ACT federal election results are usually a foregone conclusion in any case. ...
- Aussie Anglicans take action on climate change (25 Oct 07)
Bishop George Browning of Canberra and Goulburn is convenor of the worldwide Anglican Communion Environment Network. Yesterday he told us in the General Synod that the theological response to global ...
- Grow the trees first (07 Oct 07)
Opponents of Gunns' pulp mill in northern Tasmania will campaign strongly but we will get no joy as both the Labor party and the government support the mill. The federal ...
- Yet another year of drought and fire (03 Oct 07)
This week the Australian Capital Territory celebrates early Spring and the beginning of the official bushfire season with a day of 'total fire ban' which prohibits lighting of fires outdoors. ...
- Wet turns to dry and dry turns to wet (04 Aug 07)
A Kenyan friend writes:Even Nairobi has been very cold going as low as eight degrees Celsius and a high of twenty! To us that is unusual. I think all of ...
- Small target sellout (24 Jul 07)
It's obvious that Labor is making itself vulnerable when Health Minister Abbott can say something like this (SMH 25 Jul 07)Federal Health Minister Tony Abbott says that while the Howard ...
- Final nail on warming? (12 Jul 07)
Australia's ABC screened British Channel 4's The Great Global Warming Swindle today. The ABC has a duty to be even-handed in airing controversial issues. Nevertheless it's broadcasting of such a ...
- Swimming well without water (05 Jul 07)
Though I didn't bother to see An inconvenient truth because I've already studied the matter fully I respect Al Gore and his campaign on climate change. Now it seems Mr ...
- Beijing boycott? (29 Jun 07)
A few seconds of Googling will find a plethora of advocates for a boycott for the Beijing Olympics. Reporters Without Borders are among the more impressive. Reasons for a boycott ...
- Conservatively green (21 May 07)
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is in Time's lastest listing of the 100 "Most Influential people in the World" because of his environmental credentials. This interests me because Swarzenegger has shown that ...
- Treasury lack of foresight (15 Feb 07)
It is astonishing that as it admitted yesterday Australia's Treasury department has no detailed assessment of the economic impact of climate change and considers there to be no urgent need ...
- Crumpled for the planet (07 Feb 07)
"We are entering the 'Oh Shit' era of global warming."-- Rolling Stone 3 Nov 05Seriously folks global warming is really really scary. Meanwhile here's a worthy suggestion by Dave Walker ...
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