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Stanbroke Pastoral Company suing Ernest Henry Mining Pty Ltd
August 15th, 2010Australian Plague Locusts
July 17th, 2010I’ve seen grasshoppers of all kinds and lots of locusts (and have learnt that picking up big spur throated locusts is not wise), but can’t remember ever seeing locusts swarming. That is until we drove home the other day, and went through locust swarms east and west of Julia Creek. Most of them flew a […]
Governments and the lack of Care for the Environment
June 16th, 2010Governments are not doing nearly enough to ensure mining activity does not damage the environment, in the short or long term
Feral Pigs in Australia
June 6th, 2010The first pigs arrived in Australia with the First Fleet in 1788, and ‘Captain Cookers’ have been recorded as thriving on Queensland’s Cape York Peninsula for more than a century. Feral pigs are found right through rural Australia, except in areas where there is little or no permanent waterholes, or the water is protected from […]
Amalgamation of pastoral leases
May 11th, 2010Why does the government continue to turn a blind eye to the amalgamation of northern cattle stations that are large and profitable enough to be run as stand-alone businesses; running down built assets that have taken generations to acquire, and creating conglomerations that are out of financial reach of all but a tiny number of exceedingly well off Australians?
FOOD,INC film – let’s hope the vegetarian barrow-pushers don’t overshadow the important message
May 10th, 2010The film (movie) Food,Inc was produced in the U.S.A. and released in 2009, and is about to be released in Australia (next week – 20th May). Food,Inc. is especially relevant in the U.S.A. – the home of rubbish takeaway foodchains and an obesity epidemic (though not to suggest that we’re all Olive Oils here in […]
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 […]
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 […]