For decades, environmentalists have been shouting that the world is overpopulated, and will soon run out of food, oil, and other necessities on which modern societies depend. Paul Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb, published in 1968, set the scene for the adoption of “zero population growth” policies in most Western countries, as well as some in…
The recent visit to Australia of Bjorn Lomborg, the Danish statistics professor and author of the bestseller, The Skeptical Environmentalist, has predictably been met with fierce criticism. Labor’s Shadow Minister for the Environment, Kelvin Thompson, was given time on the ABC to criticise the visit. “I believe that [Lomborg’s visit] is because neither the Institute…
The photos of the Murray River at the Swan Hill bridge (below) show the river in 2003 during the worst drought in 100 years, and the river during the drought of 1914. The difference is stark. The dams, locks and weirs that were built over the past 80 years mean that today the river is…
Articles in the local Gippsland press highlighting the legitimate and genuine concerns of property owners about the proposal to build 100 metre high wind turbines in the area are just the start of many more such stories if the Bracks Victorian Labor Government continues with its folly of using taxpayers money to fund wind farms.…
To many Australians, Hong Kong is a distant reality, with little or no significance other than as a tourist destination. The recent visit to Australia by Democratic Party leader, Martin Lee, highlighted the fact that the struggle currently underway between the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong, and its China-installed chief executive, Tung Chee Hwa, has…
In the libertine world of the Web, pornography is an equal citizen with every other information resource, lying one Google, two clicks and not much else from access. Unlike the real world, where classifications restrict access, the Web is on for young and old. With the phenomenon of spam spiralling out of control, Senator Richard…