Authorities will not take the necessary measures to prevent bush fires for fear of offending radical environmentalists. With dismaying predictability, bushfires in south-eastern Australia have devastated some of the country’s state forests and national parks, put at risk the lives of thousands of firefighters who have heroically sought to contain them, and caused substantial loss…
Australia faces a moment of truth with regard to its uranium reserves. Media coverage of the Switkowski report into Australia’s nuclear future concentrated on one startling option: the possible development of up to 25 nuclear power stations in Australia by the year 2050. Quite apart from Australia’s chronic and worsening balance of payments deficit, which…
Many Americans hope that a solution to the Iraq War will emerge from the recommendations of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group, chaired by former Secretary of State James Baker, writes Peter Westmore. Many Americans hope that a solution to the Iraq War will emerge from the recommendations of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group, chaired by…
The Government’s proposed emergency measures to counter Australia’s drought will merely add to the problem. The water summit convened by the Prime Minister, John Howard, in Canberra on November 7, 2006, to respond to the serious drought in eastern Australia, was advised by the Murray-Darling Basin Commission that the drought was a one-in-1,000-year event, prompting…