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» 25/04/2010 8:56:01 AM The reality is that the biggest affiliation problem with academia and academics is with co.....
» 20/04/2010 9:37:29 PM Currently humans consumer around 40% of the earths resources. One species among millions. .....
» 1/04/2010 11:38:38 PM Your interpretation of the CPRS clauses is entirely incorrect. The CPRS does not abolish t.....
» 25/03/2010 7:54:23 PM Maiy, perhaps you need a new drinking game - one designed for suggesting that climate chan.....
» 25/03/2010 7:33:02 PM Take Queensland. A huge expansion of national parks from less than 5% to around 7.5%. What.....
» 17/03/2010 5:48:41 PM The problem with patent law isn't just that it is allowed to apply to pre-existing forms i.....
» 15/01/2010 6:15:14 AM One of the biggest problems in the Murray Darling is that water is now too expensive to bu.....
» 14/01/2010 6:40:29 PM I don't even know where to begin this piece was so ignorant and just wrong. The glib demon.....
» 3/01/2010 12:16:35 PM RPG, in asking for evidence of AGW, you're implicitly rejecting a large body of science. T.....
» 3/01/2010 7:32:29 AM Nice try KenH - you want the debate to return to the comfortable denialist ground of rejec.....
» 31/12/2009 9:26:12 PM To all those denialists, a simple question: what evidence would be enough to convince you .....
» 28/12/2009 9:06:01 PM Well haven't the denialists created the ideal situation; one where nothing, ever is able t.....
» 22/11/2009 8:43:53 AM Unfortunately, we keep turning to the possibilities of democracy, not the realities. Most .....
» 22/11/2009 8:37:47 AM Joe It isn’t doubt that is the problem. The problem is that this isn’t an academic proble.....
» 21/11/2009 7:58:01 PM You have highlighted the problem with our system of democracy. We may well reach a comprom.....
» 21/11/2009 4:23:12 PM Making a virtue of scepticism is fine. Recognising that most great science emerges from re.....
» 14/11/2009 11:57:05 AM As my children - who are now young adults - went through school, I hoped only that they wo.....
» 6/11/2009 8:55:12 PM Agronomist - from the first study you cite: Some studies find increasedyields and returns.....
» 6/11/2009 7:03:07 PM Interesting to see the pro-GE advocates argue that opposition to GE is akin to calling far.....
» 25/10/2009 7:23:26 AM What is saddest about the denialism of the zionist clan is that they demonstrate how littl.....
» 20/10/2009 10:06:31 PM The number of asylum seekers is miniscule both in global terms and in terms of the numbers.....
» 18/10/2009 9:14:12 AM In almost any arena, the hard hand of corporations is visible...Monsanto's ownership of se.....
» 16/10/2009 6:56:03 AM Clownfish - you claim the rational high ground and yet your entire entry is a tirade again.....
» 12/10/2009 7:17:44 PM Shadow Minister, your response is rubbish in almost every respect. Firstly, I'm not anti-t.....
» 10/10/2009 7:05:57 PM You cannot talk about the state of agriculture without talking about the monsantos of the .....
» 9/10/2009 11:20:16 PM Vandana Shiva’s point is that scientists cannot absolve themselves from the failures of th.....
» 8/10/2009 8:01:29 PM Clownfish, the logic is clear: scientists of the green revolution claimed to save millions.....
» 7/10/2009 7:34:57 PM There is ZERO evidence that GE increases yields - in fact, there is more evidence to the c.....
» 6/10/2009 9:25:46 PM Borlaug was tireless in his belief in technology, devoted to intensive, corporate agricult.....
» 3/10/2009 10:54:56 AM While centralised food production and distribution certainly did not work in the Soviet Un.....
» 3/10/2009 10:37:40 AM The law does not act to protect either life support systems or communities. It is partiall.....
» 27/09/2009 2:03:45 PM clownfish, population is not declining. Birth rates are but we are still on an upward traj.....
» 27/09/2009 10:39:09 AM The most destructive religion in our culture is free market capitalism. I find it extraord.....
» 26/09/2009 11:14:59 AM Rudd has done an amazing job of convincing an uncritical media that he's serious about cli.....
» 25/09/2009 8:00:06 PM Professor Callum Roberts has written an amazing book - An Unnatural History of the Sea - a.....
» 25/09/2009 6:21:13 AM What is most amusing about the righteous dudgeon of denialists such as clownfish and Hume .....
» 24/09/2009 7:54:06 PM RPG and Odo It's not a matter of opinion - it's a matter of informed opinion. I have been.....
» 23/09/2009 10:17:19 PM RPG - your comments on environmentalists is simplistic, stereotyped, facile and inane. I o.....
» 22/09/2009 7:09:12 AM More business as usual from the corporate lackeys in the ALP. What is most depressing is t.....
» 15/09/2009 8:09:09 PM One element of the peak oil decline that's not mentioned is demand collapse when prices ri.....
» 13/09/2009 8:32:16 AM Last year in Queensland coal royalties were in the realm of 1.2 b and subsidies 1.7b. Nati.....
» 13/09/2009 8:26:34 AM One way to start this is that everytime you buy you must give away twice or three times as.....
» 24/08/2009 7:57:25 PM Putting a price on water - not privatising it - is certainly one step that can be taken. S.....
» 21/06/2009 11:53:19 AM It's fascinating to watch the anti-green brigade parade themselves as virtuous because the.....
» 3/05/2009 7:29:40 AM Come on - if you're going to hold right wing, militaristic free market fundamentalist opin.....
» 28/04/2009 7:30:48 AM I think we also need to challenge the dominant discourse relating to the notions of people.....
» 25/04/2009 11:37:43 AM What a crock. Firstly, all Telstra is doing is defending its own interests (certainly not .....
» 16/03/2009 6:04:22 PM oh god, not the creeping socialist again, its clammy fingers on my leg, my heart, my brain.....
» 9/03/2009 6:24:36 AM I've worked in Parliament and what surprised me the most is that the large majority of rep.....
» 4/03/2009 9:08:17 AM Recently I had a conversation with someone who works in a primary industries agency. He sa.....
» 19/02/2009 9:01:49 PM Two reports issued last year estimated that the subsidies paid to the fossil fuel industry.....
» 9/02/2009 9:52:34 PM You cannot speak of population without speaking about consumption. You cannot speak about .....
» 31/12/2008 8:08:57 PM Diocletion, you make a false distinction between the state and the forces of capital. Take.....
» 31/12/2008 12:48:54 PM The big change in the relationship between the state and the markets is that the state is .....
» 26/12/2008 7:49:20 AM The move to fully electric private and light commercial vehicles is happening much faster .....
» 14/12/2008 6:16:34 AM rstuart raises the important question of how much risk we as individuals and society are w.....
» 4/12/2008 6:01:41 AM Yeah RPG - stuff happens. We destroy our diversity, our landscapes and then move on until .....
» 1/12/2008 8:24:57 PM I'm glad to see articles such as this...the wheezings of a dying breed, desperate to see t.....
» 12/11/2008 6:56:59 AM The piece is wrong in a number of respects - not just in the failure to discuss population.....
» 7/11/2008 5:57:06 AM When I read yet another pro-gm article posing as a concern for the state of the poor, I fe.....
» 1/08/2008 6:33:37 AM The notion that patents only apply to novel uses and not to living organisms is actually a.....
» 30/07/2008 8:28:19 PM David - where is the evidence of increased productivity with GE crops? Why has the governm.....
» 6/06/2008 9:39:39 PM Bugsy, you're in part right. The biotech companies refused to continue participation becau.....
» 6/06/2008 7:16:34 AM Bugsy and others are engaging in the nitpick strategy. Focus on a few highly specific area.....
» 20/05/2008 10:49:50 PM Bugsy, you have no idea what you're talking about. When you dismiss a peer reviewed paper .....
» 20/05/2008 10:41:06 PM GMO pundit, even if so-called golden rice worked - which is dubious; and even if there was.....
» 18/05/2008 7:20:25 PM I wonder whether the IPA would support this argument wnen it comes to genetically engineer.....
» 17/05/2008 11:13:36 PM Agronomist In 2005 Pyrne and Lembke looked at all the in vivo (live animal rather than tes.....
» 16/05/2008 9:58:18 PM Agronomist continues the noble tradition of corrupted science through selective citations......
» 30/04/2008 9:26:55 PM JF the fact that plastic bags aren't a primary cause of marine deaths, doesn't make attemp.....
» 30/04/2008 6:00:47 PM Grn and others, really, listen to what you're saying. The inconvenience of spending 7 seco.....
» 30/04/2008 5:48:13 PM Why do we continue to accept any government that is willing to sell the needs and good of .....
» 29/04/2008 6:36:20 PM Col Rouge's response with its extremist libertarian and revisionist views of history, poin.....
» 25/04/2008 5:39:32 PM Col, what crap. You obviously know next to nothing about the environment movement, who occ.....
» 25/04/2008 8:51:28 AM 'Rooting out the climate skeptics' is not the answer. Intelligent skepticism is fine and n.....
» 21/04/2008 8:11:02 PM Only an optimist could believe that the anti-rural, anti-farmer trends of the last 50 year.....
» 18/04/2008 6:19:03 AM Gecko's comments are correct but only part of the story. It wasn't long ago that rejecting.....
» 16/04/2008 6:39:11 AM Unfortunately, our political and social systems will remain blissfully unprepared for the .....
» 11/04/2008 7:04:02 AM Like climate change, awareness of the reality and meaning of peak oil will only begin to h.....
» 11/04/2008 6:51:53 AM The denialists continue to amaze me. Not that they deny climate change, nor that they argu.....
» 3/04/2008 9:49:48 PM To all those denialists , adamant and absolute in their refusal to accept a vast body of s.....
» 1/04/2008 6:38:57 AM get over it folks. There is always going to be disagreement about the aspects of the scien.....
» 27/03/2008 10:01:10 PM There was an overwhelming silence, vacuum, emptiness in Ridd's piece - not a mention of ch.....
» 25/03/2008 8:26:43 PM This is the same Minister who has mindlessly endorsed genetically engineered foods - a pos.....
» 21/03/2008 10:07:32 AM Col, that model of government regulating and business protecting the resources and assets .....
» 21/03/2008 9:38:40 AM KGB - you may be right that Harry made a factual error - I can't be bothered checking thou.....
» 21/03/2008 9:03:18 AM Corporations do change individual behaviour whether it's in childcare, health or any other.....

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