The 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 […]
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Garden watering advice & native plants
March 2nd, 2010Yuruga Native Plant Nursery, at Walkamin on the Atherton Tableland ( far north Queensland), has the most sensible garden watering advice I’ve read. Watering plants thoroughly but as infrequently as possible would seem like common sense, to encourage healthy root growth (and thus, drought and wind-tolerate plants) and avoid wasting water. Unfortunately with shrinking backyards, […]
Dumping Nuclear Waste in the Bush & BNI
February 28th, 2010Read the latest on government intentions to dump nuclear waste in the bush at the ‘Beyond Nuclear Initiative’ (BNI) blog. Depressing stuff, and indicative of how our Federal Government views remote Australia. Logically, nuclear waste should be stored as close to where it is created as possible, to minimise transport distances and associated spillage and […]
Beef importation from countries with BSE (‘Mad Cow’ disease)
February 26th, 2010Who voted for a Government so utterly stupid, that they have decided to relax Food Safety rules and allow the importation of beef from countries that have had BSE (Bovine spongiform encephalopathy – otherwise known as ‘mad cow disease’)? No Australians have been inflicted with the BSE-related variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD) and no Australian […]
‘Iconic landscapes’ – another exercise in wasting taxpayer’s money
February 26th, 2010Today I stumbled upon ‘Iconic Landscapes’.Quoting the home page: “A group of researchers representing the Sciences and Arts at the University of Sydney have been funded by the University’s Institute for Sustainability to conduct a study looking at how communities value the environment and understand local environmental challenges and their options to overcome them.They are […]
Fernleigh Farms & The Diggers Club – real environmentalists
February 3rd, 2010‘Pretend’ environmentalists are now as thick as fleas on a dog’s back – people who have just jumped on the bandwagon in the last 5 minutes because it’s fashionable. They now feel really good because they use those green synthetic shopping bags and buy their garbage bags, instead of using the free supermarket plastic shopping […]
Australian Windmills & Artesian Water
January 6th, 2010Apparently in some countries a windmill is associated with an image of poverty. But in Australia a windmill is an image of life and prosperity. Much of inland Australia has no permanent surface water so during the annual dry season it would not be possible for animals, birds or people to live there if it […]
Pro-vegetarian propaganda
December 3rd, 2009Anyone who underestimates the amount of misinformation being spread by pro-vegetarian extremists, should check out ‘Save Our Planet Be Vegan’ on YouTube. It’s so inaccurate and alarmist it would be funny if it were not for the unfortunate reality that there are urban residents with absolutely no first hand knowledge of farming or farmers, who […]
Tackling the fairyland claims of extremist environmentalists
November 24th, 2009Ian Mott takes Jennifer Marohasy to task regarding her sweeping claims of cattle damaging the environment on her blog. Have a read and a think about what they both have to say. Jennifer is a classic example of someone who is absolutely determined to push a very specific barrow, despite whatever evidence may exist to […]
Global Warming – Kevin look out for a volcanic eruption
November 19th, 2009Kevin is entertaining, isn’t he? ‘Record high temperatures in southern Australia are evidence of global warming’. Right-o Kevin. Up here we’ve had what must be record cool temperatures for the last couple of months. Today I have been able to wear a t-shirt with short sleeves, and I can’t ever remember being able to do […]