While there is a truckload of accommodation in and around the centre of Melbourne, when there is a lot on, only dodgy pubs and extremely expensive hotels remain unoccupied. I have learnt my lesson from a past mistake and missed out on ideal accommodation by booking too late, and thus was left staying in an […]
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Volcanic eruption – Iceland’s Mount Eyjafjallajokull
April 16th, 2010The current volcanic eruption in Iceland which began last month and has now resulted in clouds of ash interfering with air travel, is a timely reminder that however much the activity of human beings affects the earth, volcanic eruptions beat it hands down. This volcano is located under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier and apparently it erupted […]
RMWAH investment by Westscheme Superannuation
March 29th, 2010Westscheme, a Western Australian based industry superannuation fund managing more than $2.8b billion, has become a minor shareholder (under $2 million ) in RMWAH. R.M. Williams Agricultural Holdings is a joint venture between Ken Cowley and Primary Holdings International.
Preserving Australian Rural Heritage & the ICOMOS conference
March 16th, 2010Australian – International Council of Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) is the peak body for Australian professionals who work in heritage conservation. This year the annual conference theme is ‘Outback & Beyond – The Future of Historic Towns, Industrial Heritage & Pastoralism’. The upcoming conference will be in Broken Hill (far western NSW), 22-25 April 2010. […]
Recycling paper & envelopes
March 16th, 2010The latest fashion is to include ‘Please consider the environment before printing this email’ on the bottom of emails. To me the most likely effect of this is to simply make the printed email take up more paper than it otherwise would (along with those mile-long legal disclaimers), while giving the sender a perfectly pointless […]
Global warming & climate change sceptics – Jennifer Marohasy
March 12th, 2010Two of the most thought-provoking and interesting blogs I’ve come across are by female Australian scientists, both with years of experience working in scientific fields. One website belongs to Western Australian Jo Nova, and the other to Queenslander Jennifer Marohasy. Jennifer spent her early years on the family farm near Darwin, and has lived in […]
Global Warming & Climate Change Sceptics (skeptics) – Jo Nova
March 11th, 2010Anyone interested in the climate change/global warming debate should visit Joanne Nova’s website. Joanne has a science degree in molecular biology and has worked in a variety of science-related fields, including as an associate lecturer in science at the ANU and in the media; is author of The Skeptics* Handbook, and producer of cartoons and […]
Australian imports of beef from countries with BSE (Mad Cow disease)
March 8th, 2010The good news: Tony Burke has just announced that due to public concern, there will be a 2 year delay on allowing the importation of beef from countries where BSE (Mad Cow) cases have been recorded. (Clearly, the general public are brighter than those who thought this was a good idea.) The bad news: the […]
Floods in far western Queensland
March 2nd, 2010Most of far western – southern/central Queensland has an average rainfall of around 6″ (150mm), but in Australia average rainfall figures are usually misleading. In many years Queensland’s channel country only receives 1-2″ (25-50mm) and in other years they get 10-15″ or more (250-375mm). Cattle stations in the channel country have had a fair old […]