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» 14/11/2024 10:41:30 AM US employment grew every year under Trump. Serious error (deliberate?) in the article make.....
» 5/11/2024 10:45:15 AM I agree that Abbott, while an extremely effective leader of the opposition, was a very poo.....
» 29/10/2024 11:05:42 AM Excellent article that should be read by every Australian of every age......
» 28/10/2024 10:46:59 AM I was a member of the Liberal Party in WA for 20+ years and was elected to the state parli.....
» 8/04/2024 10:49:36 AM I thought (hoped) that Friends of the Earth had ceased to exist. They've been irrelevant f.....
» 8/02/2024 11:16:18 AM Taswegian, the article "Exceedances of national air quality standards for particulate.....
» 10/10/2023 11:34:52 AM The author is using race as an argument in support of the referendum, confirming the under.....
» 28/09/2023 11:37:30 AM 2. that many Indigenous people would have been victims of colonization of this continent; .....
» 28/09/2023 11:17:55 AM Many problems with this article. "Andrews also oversaw the beginning of negotiations .....
» 1/09/2023 11:42:59 AM Fair comment, Alan B, but the paranoia surrounding the threat of communism in the 1950s an.....
» 1/09/2023 11:18:31 AM The only whitewashing is the author's refusal to accept that, 50+ years ago, the threat of.....
» 12/03/2023 3:14:22 PM Fester. On a related issue, when apartheid ended in South Africa, Mandela created the Trut.....
» 8/03/2023 4:35:42 PM Alan B - the problem is that, once enshrined in the Constitution, the Voice may allow the .....
» 8/03/2023 11:51:41 AM What people like this author refuse to consider is that the current problems being suffere.....
» 2/03/2023 8:35:43 AM To Paul1405, You should study history more. It was the McMahon Liberal government which to.....
» 1/03/2023 11:47:35 AM Whitlam increased the pay of federal public servants by 30%. He gave his blessing to Indon.....
» 10/01/2023 11:54:46 AM The Australian people simply need to be told how the Voice will close the gap and improve .....
» 5/10/2022 11:04:38 AM To the people who doubt whether the author is an expert or not, if you're a forester respo.....
» 1/08/2022 11:16:19 AM As objectionable a person that Trump is, and here I'm not making excuses for what happened.....
» 9/06/2022 1:15:20 PM I'm with you, Cody. This article is so ill-conceived and wide of the truth that it's laugh.....
» 5/04/2022 11:11:36 PM Alan B - you wrote "nobody is even considering engineered equality outcomes" but.....
» 5/04/2022 11:06:49 AM Spoken like a true communist, Alan B. You say "nobody is even considering engineered .....
» 17/01/2022 11:44:27 AM During my 8 years in the WA Parliament, I encountered or heard about no examples of the so.....
» 9/12/2021 10:20:02 AM individual: what 'state of affairs around the world' are you referring to? If you check th.....
» 8/12/2021 2:13:18 PM Excellent article. It explains much about the people I have known in my life and what they.....
» 1/11/2021 12:36:46 PM Alan B. - thanks for the comment but can you give me just one example anywhere in the worl.....
» 1/11/2021 10:35:10 AM Ah, the follies of youth. Rail against practical solutions that are working (however imper.....
» 28/10/2021 10:23:35 AM Aboriginal Australians did not practice any form of recognisable democracy. Tribal groups .....
» 11/07/2021 12:16:47 PM The author, like most of the communist party's senior executives, are uneducated peasants .....
» 5/02/2021 2:49:03 PM I'd like to say this article is spot on in its views but where is the evidence that Google.....
» 4/02/2021 1:53:29 PM Alan B. Please at least read Bill Gammage's book. It will inform you through dozens of exa.....
» 4/02/2021 12:29:58 PM Alan B. Best if you read The Biggest Estate on Earth by Bill Gammage or Fire and Hearth by.....
» 4/02/2021 11:08:38 AM The author fails to understand that, while scientists are correctly telling us we have a p.....
» 2/02/2021 3:06:10 PM I understand where you're coming from, LEGO, but disagree with your concerns about Muslims.....
» 2/02/2021 2:38:23 PM When I look at people around the world, especially among my family members and friends who.....
» 2/02/2021 10:39:39 AM One of the worst articles ever published on OLO. Darwin was not hoping that some races of .....
» 7/01/2021 10:15:59 AM Canem Malum, thanks for the links but: the first link is nit-picking with a focus on econo.....
» 6/01/2021 6:52:13 PM Canem Malum, read Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline by Darrell Bricker .....
» 2/01/2021 11:44:34 AM Canem Malum, exactly what disaster are you referring to? Nuclear war, a pandemic with 80% .....
» 1/01/2021 11:06:03 AM Mr Opinion, if you are being honest with us, then I can only reply by saying you need to t.....
» 1/01/2021 10:45:43 AM Everyone, please ignore Mr Opinion. I think he's a Russian bot designed to try and make us.....
» 31/12/2020 7:24:08 PM I agree with your views of the future, loudmouth2. The population declines in developed co.....
» 31/12/2020 1:26:20 PM Canem Malum, if you're concerned about human population size and growth, I can recommend t.....
» 23/12/2020 6:53:48 PM Alan B, apart from going nuclear which will maybe reduce CO2 emissions from fossil-fuel po.....
» 23/12/2020 1:51:08 PM Thanks for the reply, Mr Opinion. You've answered my question perfectly. Happy Christmas......
» 23/12/2020 1:31:45 PM Oh dear, Mr Opinion, so the world is doomed, is it? Can you please provide me the sources .....
» 23/12/2020 1:16:21 PM Excellent article, Don. But Alan B's comments show just how strong the magnetism of blame .....
» 14/12/2020 10:46:27 AM No doubt, RIO were wrong to blast so close to the caves BUT: 1. the traditional landowners.....
» 12/11/2020 11:06:07 AM Good article, Don, but it misses two really important points. 1. More important than wheth.....
» 9/07/2020 6:39:47 PM The author should read the book Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline by Da.....
» 7/07/2020 1:20:07 PM Hi loudmouth2. Thanks for the comment. I believe there are faults on both sides: the Israe.....
» 7/07/2020 10:44:21 AM It's time the Celts threw the Anglo-Saxons out of the British Isles. And the American Indi.....
» 12/06/2020 10:59:59 AM One of the reasons why Australia did not close its borders with China earlier is because o.....
» 12/06/2020 10:55:55 AM The author self describes his motivation for becoming an activists as, in part, "the .....
» 12/06/2020 10:51:01 AM The author is more of a 'theoretical realist' than a 'theoretical chemist'. He describes i.....
» 7/06/2020 5:03:10 PM plantagenet Comparing the police actions against Hong Kong protesters with 99% of the poli.....
» 7/06/2020 12:28:44 PM Aries54 Aboriginal people are just as guilty as white Australians in not being prepared to.....
» 7/06/2020 10:15:05 AM LEGO I'm not sure why you're critical of my past comments. All I'm saying is that, for rec.....
» 6/06/2020 10:47:07 AM LEGO, I'm not going to buy into your straw man arguments. You'll need to do better than j.....
» 5/06/2020 5:04:19 PM LEGO, I mostly agree with your last post but need to mention that "Aboriginal middle.....
» 5/06/2020 2:27:54 PM Foxy, In a number of Aboriginal communities where they had "The ability to control a.....
» 4/06/2020 1:50:53 PM Hi Foxy, you wrote "Some other wise person also said - "In a just and equitable .....
» 4/06/2020 11:56:16 AM To Jayb and ttbn, Best if you read my post again. I'm not asking anyone to apologise for a.....
» 4/06/2020 11:07:03 AM Reconciliation is a two-way process. While white Australia must admit to the wrongs of the.....
» 14/05/2020 11:12:54 AM Ms Pepper writes: "The reality of uranium mining in Australia has been one of leaks, .....
» 5/05/2020 2:19:20 PM Mr Opinion. Spot on. We're in agreement. The big question then becomes how quickly will hu.....
» 5/05/2020 1:24:15 PM Mr Opinion, wrong again. Andras Smith and I are saying the rate of growth of world populat.....
» 5/05/2020 11:18:01 AM Mr Opinion, both Andras Smith and I are saying that the global increase in human beings is.....
» 2/05/2020 1:17:04 PM Apologies, ericc, you found a mistake I'd made in my original post. I'd intended to write .....
» 1/05/2020 2:38:03 PM Mr Opinion, Thanks for advising where the number came from. I've read that book and, while.....
» 1/05/2020 1:39:42 PM Mr Opinion. Where do you get the 5.6 billion number from please?.....
» 1/05/2020 12:55:02 PM Hi Mr Opinion. In theory, there is no sustainable human population limit provided we are p.....
» 1/05/2020 10:43:35 AM Every time I meet a person who blames human over-population for our woes, I recommend they.....
» 2/03/2020 7:51:29 PM The author should read "Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline" by.....
» 20/02/2020 11:57:54 AM There are a number of articles telling us about the real state of the planet. They are rea.....
» 20/02/2020 11:03:52 AM Talk about glass half empty! Or is today April 1? Either way, the world and humanity are i.....
» 11/02/2020 12:59:21 PM ttbn. Best if you read Bill Gammage's book The Biggest Estate on Earth as he can totally r.....
» 11/02/2020 12:28:40 PM The author seems not to understand that Australia can do nothing to make a meaningful redu.....
» 11/12/2019 10:56:48 PM To Aiden: "More solar panels means less in the way of electricity bills - so if anyth.....
» 11/12/2019 10:53:01 AM Not a bad idea, provided Coles and Woolworths let their customers know that prices of good.....
» 18/11/2019 2:44:19 PM Highly unlikely, individual, but you'd need to look at all the building components includi.....
» 18/11/2019 2:09:47 PM Your suggestion of "a mile-wide area of ploughed ground between the town and the fore.....
» 14/11/2019 1:31:23 PM Here's what the IPCC 2019 report says about forestry: In the long term, a sustainable for.....
» 19/06/2019 11:13:43 AM Where there's smoke, there's fire. No doubt the Roma people have been disadvantaged for ce.....
» 18/06/2019 10:51:36 AM Good article. The whole system below the river should be returned to natural conditions, m.....
» 13/06/2019 1:19:51 PM It seems that at least 50% of people living homeless have mental health issues which rende.....
» 23/05/2019 12:36:29 PM reply to Alan B: You wrote "We Just don't have decades any more ..... Your article s.....
» 23/05/2019 12:32:46 PM in reply to ttbn: you wrote "“ The most obvious conclusion to draw from the election .....
» 30/04/2019 10:48:21 AM The corruption within Ergodan's government is breathtaking. When I visited Turkey in 2014,.....
» 1/04/2019 10:51:30 AM Two points. By all means, allow bicycle riders to not wear helmets, provided they have ful.....
» 23/01/2019 5:21:24 PM No, mhaze, the hope for a stabilisation and then a reduction in human population growth is.....
» 23/01/2019 10:54:12 AM What can we top 10% emitters do? Simple really. We should lobby state and federal governme.....
» 16/10/2018 10:51:03 AM The article is nothing but propaganda. As Goebbels said, the bigger the lie, the easier it.....
» 13/08/2018 10:29:48 AM The author writes: "Yet the Turnbull Government has done little to prioritise any ini.....
» 20/06/2018 10:34:19 AM Good article, with meaningful insights into the stupidity and irrelevance of bans such as .....
» 27/11/2017 4:57:16 PM Life is full of shades of grey - nothing is black and white - and the author needs to unde.....
» 8/05/2017 10:55:08 AM The author was brought up in a household where she was taught that the end of the world is.....
» 1/05/2017 8:13:58 PM My wife is a vegetarian so I do know what you mean! :-).....
» 1/05/2017 4:02:40 PM Yuyutsu, governments of all colours are forgetting that the base on which democratic gover.....
» 1/05/2017 2:09:33 PM I agree with your comments, Taswegian. Nothing in life is perfect but, in the WA mineral s.....
» 1/05/2017 12:09:32 PM Nothing really wrong with giving farmers a slice of the state government's royalty payment.....
» 8/11/2016 10:44:41 AM When the Gallop Labor government in WA made its decision to end all old growth logging in .....
» 10/10/2016 6:05:31 PM Good points, Shadow Minister. The only current 'renewable' technology that I think could p.....
» 10/10/2016 2:01:54 PM Craig, the issue I see is that we don't have the technologies to efficiently and cheaply p.....
» 10/10/2016 1:39:49 PM Craig, I accept that China is spending what seems like a lot of money on renewables but th.....
» 10/10/2016 11:30:22 AM If Australia got to 100% renewables, the difference this would make to global CO2 levels w.....
» 3/10/2016 10:31:52 AM The author writes: "you can’t separate blackface from its colonial history". May.....
» 29/08/2016 11:57:02 AM If they were coming to commemorate their people who died during the Darwin attacks, I woul.....
» 15/08/2016 10:07:15 AM In many respects, the most 'conservative' political party in Australia is the Greens. They.....
» 25/07/2016 10:25:36 AM This is an important and highly relevant explanation of what's wrong with the ABC ethos. O.....
» 30/05/2016 3:45:24 PM and most of the remaining two thirds of UN member countries have felt the hands of communi.....
» 23/05/2016 11:07:12 AM Excellent article, Tom. Many thanks. One 'renewable' technology I'm interested in is wast.....
» 23/05/2016 10:59:09 AM David, one the examples you've chosen to highlight our nanny state - compulsory use of bic.....
» 22/04/2016 3:30:47 PM In the 1980s, a book on the history of Busselton was published. The town was originally ca.....
» 19/04/2016 10:12:38 AM I agree with your last comments, Luciferase, but, where you write "Where land rights .....
» 18/04/2016 2:51:12 PM well said, EmperorJulian. My younger brother is something of an apologist for all things A.....
» 18/04/2016 10:21:11 AM The book has no credibility. Two example: 1. The mining industry does not receive subsidie.....
» 18/04/2016 10:14:06 AM I strongly recommend everyone interested in understanding Aboriginal issues to read ".....
» 4/04/2016 4:55:01 PM The Vasse Wonnerup estuaries immediately south and east of Busselton in WA have similar, a.....
» 15/02/2016 10:34:23 AM Excellent article, Sara, but sadly it will be largely ignored by many Aboriginal activists.....
» 15/02/2016 10:30:52 AM Good article, John. The Queensland hospital's decision to not send a recovered baby back.....
» 15/02/2016 10:25:50 AM Good article, Don. My experience of the CSIRO in recent years is that many of its staff ar.....
» 25/01/2016 4:16:56 PM Thanks for your reply, Andrew. By using the words "It is much easier to feel proud ab.....
» 25/01/2016 11:20:34 AM "26 January, one of the saddest days in human history". Rubbish: the last 10,000.....
» 25/01/2016 11:10:11 AM If we are going to use Australia Day to remind us of the bad things Exdigenous Australians.....
» 25/01/2016 10:46:28 AM "our independence is somewhat nominal, if foreigners own much of our country". R.....
» 19/01/2016 10:05:01 AM There should be only two issues of concern to humanity regarding the hunting of whales. Th.....
» 11/01/2016 1:59:30 PM ateday, recent history suggests that national growth can and does stop for a number of rea.....
» 11/01/2016 11:09:42 AM Good question, Jonathon: Is capitalism a growth based system? Capitalism (or free market e.....
» 11/01/2016 10:23:38 AM If Saral is accurate in the first part of this article (and I believe he is), then he has .....
» 11/01/2016 10:23:23 AM This could have been one of the most important and perceptive articles yet written on the .....
» 23/11/2015 11:55:30 AM A committee of the Upper House of the WA Parliament has recently reported on fracking and .....
» 23/11/2015 11:46:34 AM The reason why global GDP will triple over coming decades is because almost 2 billion peop.....
» 24/09/2015 7:15:05 PM Kangaroo grazing is listed as a threatening process under federal legislation as they are .....
» 7/09/2015 10:19:06 AM Rob, you may choose to call yourself and most other Australians 'non-indigenous' but I do .....
» 28/04/2015 2:29:26 PM Paul, a serious question (and I'm not trying to have a go at you) but is your life at pres.....
» 27/04/2015 10:29:39 AM This racist rant conveniently ignores so many truths. For example, Aboriginal people will .....
» 27/04/2015 10:21:54 AM Good article, Don. Well done......
» 27/04/2015 10:15:28 AM I have just read an article in On Line Opinion about the Armenian genocide, where 1.5 mill.....
» 20/04/2015 10:06:17 AM Excellent article, John, that should be widely read by all those people who profess sympat.....
» 14/04/2015 10:26:33 AM Agnostic, Vanuatu and Solomon Islands have to import their fossil fuels at very high cost .....
» 13/04/2015 10:46:08 AM In the 1980s and 1990s, the world imposed economic and other sanctions against the governm.....
» 16/03/2015 11:31:17 AM I wonder how many people have actually read the paper by Monckton et al which is the subje.....
» 18/11/2014 10:04:58 PM Mark, if you raise your concerns with the latest report(s) from the ANU activists who masq.....
» 15/10/2014 8:50:28 PM JKJ, you may have established in your own mind that there is no rational justification for.....
» 15/10/2014 10:20:50 AM Loudmouth, is it possible that, in addition to gnus and wildebeests, some of the heat coul.....
» 14/10/2014 2:49:14 PM Looking at the big picture, if the world wants to move forward on this climate change issu.....
» 14/10/2014 2:48:55 PM Thanks for the reply, JKJ, now I understand where you're coming from. No one I've met disp.....
» 14/10/2014 12:27:44 AM Jardine, the point of my post was not to suggest that the measures I listed would reduce g.....
» 13/10/2014 7:30:34 PM Very useful article by Don Aitken but can I take the debate about what we should be doing .....
» 28/07/2014 11:35:04 AM Having just returned after a first-time holiday to Greece and Turkey, it seems that the au.....
» 28/07/2014 11:24:51 AM "Australia will be the laughing stock of the world!" Sorry, but this claim by an.....
» 14/07/2014 2:23:58 PM Rhian, sorry but I don't understand what marriage legitimacy has got to do with these frie.....
» 14/07/2014 11:20:14 AM I disagree. The choice of one's partner in most developed countries is a totally private m.....
» 7/07/2014 11:14:48 AM Good luck in your laudable endeavors, David. I spent 8 years as a state MP in WA and remai.....
» 19/08/2013 10:32:55 AM Lyn, you state (correctly) that "governments need to be planning well into the future.....
» 1/07/2013 11:13:03 AM Sorry, Russell, but you can't see the logs for the trees! Here in WA, the vast majority of.....
» 4/02/2013 10:44:16 AM Great news! With the UN clearly failing to take strong or any action in many war-torn part.....
» 1/10/2012 1:45:10 PM In many ways, this is a very disappointing article. The author does not present a strong c.....
» 24/09/2012 4:03:09 PM What a shallow analysis of a complex issue whose history is the key to understanding why t.....
» 30/04/2012 12:10:14 PM But there is no imperative to conduct the research which I agree is so badly needed, BAYGO.....
» 30/04/2012 10:28:53 AM Michael_in-Adelaide, if you read my post again, you'll see that I said: "alternative .....
» 30/04/2012 10:19:57 AM Ah, the glorious Socialist Left. Spending money they don't have on schemes that have some .....
» 30/04/2012 10:07:10 AM If someone who hasn't contributed a post on this article is referred to as a nut case, I'l.....
» 10/04/2012 10:24:36 AM If history of the last 200 years tells us anything, we have learned that no political or e.....
» 2/04/2012 7:49:36 PM Pericles: in a free market economy, customers who don't wish to sign up to the Frequent Fl.....
» 2/04/2012 9:29:31 AM Fair Work Australia laws was designed by the federal ALP govt to return unprecedented powe.....
» 26/03/2012 11:01:19 AM The Vasse-Wonnerup Estuaries in SW WA cover 2000 hectares of Ramsar listed wetlands. Since.....
» 26/03/2012 10:34:01 AM Good article, Mark; many thanks. Another example of poor journalism is the attitude shown.....
» 16/01/2012 11:02:45 AM The book and article offer a shallow, incomplete understanding of Australia's mining indus.....
» 16/01/2012 10:39:09 AM Thanks for the perceptive article, Elizabeth. The reality of the world we live in is that .....
» 5/09/2011 10:55:07 AM Spin, spin, spin! The Greens had the balance of power in the WA upper house of Parliament .....
» 8/08/2011 10:26:47 AM In Western Australia, the Mining Act gives an absolute power of veto over any decision to .....
» 27/07/2011 6:53:15 PM Fortunately, most young people mature as they experience the reality of the world, so the .....
» 6/06/2011 7:19:46 PM To Ben and the people who've posted on Ben's article. Can we please try to understand that.....
» 21/03/2011 10:03:20 AM Thanks for a sensible, balanced article, Simon. Since the 2001 decision here in WA to imme.....
» 21/02/2011 12:26:44 PM One of the major points made by the author is that the coal companies wish to double their.....
» 7/02/2011 2:10:38 PM A useful article - many thanks. There are other problems with Australian overseas aid, how.....
» 6/01/2011 8:04:23 PM Thanks for the link, Bazz. Interesting article, in that it states that all projections by .....
» 5/01/2011 5:07:47 PM Bazz, which report of Uppsala University are you referring to? I've looked at their websit.....
» 4/01/2011 12:32:46 PM Sorry to disappoint you, LukeS, but I'm not taking any pleasure from the current problems .....
» 4/01/2011 11:44:36 AM Great article, Katy, well done. In my blog - see http://berniemasters.blogspot.com/ - I'v.....
» 4/01/2011 11:23:24 AM Good article, Sam, just like your previous article on NGOs and the influence these usually.....
» 4/01/2011 11:15:02 AM Of course, another alternative is for the PIIGS to accept some measure of national respons.....
» 20/12/2010 11:44:49 AM I'm a member of the 'Save the Apostrophe Foundation' but unfortunately I don't know of any.....
» 20/12/2010 11:14:05 AM I don't doubt that radon gas poses an increased risk of cancer to underground uranium mine.....
» 6/12/2010 10:55:27 AM I haven't read Janet Albrechtsen's article but did she also describe the Greens as anti-en.....
» 8/11/2010 10:21:07 AM Pilger's call to arms is directed at "The BA workers, the fire-fighters, the council .....
» 18/10/2010 2:33:09 PM The problem with setting an annual subscription fee is that it then has to be administered.....
» 11/10/2010 12:12:10 PM The real point to make about the GST is that it should be applied to all goods and service.....
» 27/09/2010 4:40:52 PM I'd far prefer to see the constitution amended so that Tasmania lost half of its senators .....
» 2/08/2010 11:16:06 AM I've read most of the Henry Tax Review report and it generally makes a lot of sense. It's .....
» 21/06/2010 11:29:48 AM Spot on, Mark. You're showing the anti-logging activists as zealots who care nothing for t.....
» 17/05/2010 10:48:20 AM Let's put aside the personal attacks made against the character of some of the critics of .....
» 17/05/2010 10:35:29 AM Having worked 30 years in the non-oil mining industry, I'm surprised that anyone would cla.....
» 17/05/2010 10:25:58 AM Good article, Monika. Your points are well made. It's unfortunate that the new tax is bein.....
» 17/05/2010 10:16:51 AM No one living outside of WA should believe much of what has been written in this article. .....
» 30/04/2010 4:59:40 PM Protagoras - have a look at the Parliamentary Committee report (dominated by ALP members, .....
» 30/04/2010 12:18:18 PM Protagoras - it's important (in my mind, at least) that you remain focused on the subject .....
» 27/04/2010 11:00:46 AM Not being familiar with the Tasmanian forestry scene, I won't make comment on whether it i.....
» 20/04/2010 5:27:54 PM Thanks, Stezza. Some of the information you're after is confidential - the Greenbushes lit.....
» 19/04/2010 11:33:25 AM I'm happy to assure the author that a new spice war based around exotic metals such as lit.....
» 19/04/2010 11:27:08 AM I'd be happy to consider changing Australia's electoral system provided that we also intro.....
» 29/03/2010 10:27:17 AM I'd love to see Liberal and Labor form a coalition in Tasmania and then abolish the curren.....
» 5/03/2010 6:53:10 PM individual: it seems you haven't been out into the Australian wilderness for some time. It.....
» 5/03/2010 11:54:56 AM Excellent article and deserving to be read by every urban greenie (and politician). Two a.....
» 2/03/2010 11:44:53 AM Severin - if all human beings suddenly vanished from the planet, Australia's wilderness ar.....
» 1/03/2010 6:42:37 PM what a pity that the author has completely failed to mention the one major influence over .....
» 1/03/2010 5:49:21 PM Thanks for what is a good article. My assessor did a good job when assessing our passive s.....
» 3/11/2009 5:52:32 PM Bugsy, This page - http://www.malaria.org/bateftddt.html - may be of interest. The most te.....
» 2/11/2009 1:30:09 PM Bugsy, I'm not sure why you're so aggressive in your post. Common courtesy never hurt anyo.....
» 2/11/2009 10:22:27 AM Pilger should start a new career as a stand-up comic. This article is so out of touch with.....
» 2/11/2009 10:18:21 AM And yet Rachel Carson's book is responsible for the deaths of millions upon millions of pe.....
» 2/11/2009 10:13:18 AM The Wilderness Society is not a pro-environment group, regardless of what they might say. .....
» 28/09/2009 10:49:40 AM Are we about to see the first large-scale feed-back loop come into operation to help maint.....
» 7/09/2009 10:11:10 AM Historically, Australia has had interest rates that have been among the highest in the wor.....
» 3/08/2009 10:40:53 AM Was this article published on April 1? It's a wonderful combination of paranoia and conspi.....
» 24/06/2009 10:45:53 AM I'm pleased to read that the mining industry contributes little to the Australian economy......
» 24/06/2009 10:38:33 AM Beder should spend some time better understanding how the Senate works. Fielding is one vo.....
» 9/06/2009 2:09:57 PM as a geologist, I'm aware that the fossil record shows that hard corals have been on the p.....
» 2/06/2009 10:46:19 PM very perceptive, Protagoras, with your tongue-in-cheek suggestion that we'll soon move to .....
» 2/06/2009 10:10:35 AM Kulu - as a geologist, I was taught there is more gold in one cubic mile of seawater than .....
» 1/06/2009 11:08:32 AM There's no need to restrict the growth of human populations, certainly not to reduce them,.....
» 1/06/2009 10:57:33 AM The author states: "At Wadeye, youth gangs “are based loosely on ancient divisions be.....
» 1/06/2009 10:53:57 AM Last year, I spend 12 days on a drilling rig east of Kalgoorlie. I camped near the rig but.....
» 1/06/2009 10:39:09 AM I can't agree with a couple of the article's statements."In reality, such a rise in i.....
» 31/03/2009 11:25:32 PM Protagoras is about as wrong as a person can be while pontificating on his version of how .....
» 30/03/2009 1:54:56 PM * their call to prioritise the protection of life and property with fuel reduction and fir.....
» 30/03/2009 1:52:18 PM I can expand on any of the following statements if requested but the facts as I see them a.....
» 23/03/2009 3:52:44 PM Protagoras: In your previous post that I was referring to, you quoted from a WAFA submiss.....
» 23/03/2009 10:43:28 AM Aime: many fruit and nut trees are far less combustible than eucalypts and can assist in p.....
» 10/03/2009 10:39:40 PM EVO2, an earlier post by PartTime provided this link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_.....
» 9/03/2009 7:47:54 PM Q&A, there are no absolute certainties on dates or population size, etc, whenever dealing .....
» 9/03/2009 5:56:32 PM If you look at the website suggested by PartTime, from 2000 to 2008, the global average fe.....
» 2/03/2009 2:57:37 PM This is a really pointless article as it proposes no alternatives to the burning of coal, .....
» 23/02/2009 11:37:06 PM Riche and Stokes provide snapshots of a laborious process of lighting, spreading, maintain.....
» 23/02/2009 11:35:46 PM Sylvia Hallam is an 81 year old retired academic in WA who wrote one of the earliest books.....
» 16/02/2009 2:28:38 PM Mikk, Aboriginal people had many assets that they carefully protected with their use of fi.....
» 8/12/2008 12:46:01 PM dickie, The media reports last week about lead in seafood were based upon a small number o.....
» 8/12/2008 10:47:27 AM Good article, John, thanks. What you're highlighting is the latest media and political fas.....
» 11/11/2008 10:14:35 AM I'm no expert on pulp mills but I understand that chlorine is used to bleach wood pulp so .....
» 6/11/2008 3:54:38 PM As he often does, dickie now runs off on other tangents when he starts coming under pressu.....
» 5/11/2008 10:37:06 PM Apologies to all for my misplaced post of Nov 4th on Indigenous issues. I posted it to the.....
» 4/11/2008 11:09:56 PM If you'd like to see the whole of the following article, go to http://www.cis.org.au/execu.....
» 4/11/2008 7:43:17 PM Normally, I prefer not to attack the person but instead focus on the issues. Sadly, in dic.....
» 4/11/2008 4:58:03 PM See the whole of the following article at http://www.cis.org.au/executive_highlights/EH200.....
» 3/11/2008 10:18:25 AM There are times when human rights must be made subservient to other more urgent human need.....
» 3/11/2008 10:03:14 AM This is not the first time that academics from the ANU have put science to one side and so.....
» 27/10/2008 11:58:12 PM environment for everyone, In WA, we're thinning (i.e. logging) a catchment in Perth's hill.....
» 27/10/2008 10:43:04 AM The new law also gives doctors who don't agree with abortion the opportunity to talk to th.....
» 25/10/2008 2:53:32 PM Q&A, thanks for posing the questions raised in the two ABC programs. I'm not a climate sci.....
» 21/10/2008 10:53:40 AM dickie, you may think the world as we know it is going to be destroyed by us greedy nasty .....
» 20/10/2008 10:37:30 AM dickie - sorry mate but your view of the world is not just excessively pessimistic but sim.....
» 19/10/2008 12:58:48 AM CarlStruth - while nuclear waste is dangerous for 1000 years or more, the volumes involved.....
» 19/10/2008 12:57:47 AM Thanks to all contributors of posts about my article (I've been away from my computer for .....
» 8/10/2008 5:41:18 PM 2.6 million square kilometres of land in WA and you can only come up with 3 or 4 significa.....
» 8/10/2008 10:57:45 AM Ah, the well intentioned but misguided beliefs of someone who doesn't understand that scie.....
» 8/10/2008 12:07:09 AM dickie, I was a member of the parliamentary committee of inquiry into the Bellevue fire an.....
» 6/10/2008 9:58:43 PM hopeleft, I think the current global recession which we're just entering into will do more.....
» 6/10/2008 8:41:54 PM Dickie, I must be getting old but I can't remember the names of the co-chairs of the waste.....
» 6/10/2008 7:49:40 PM Thank you, MWPOYNTER, for some science to counter the emotional and often untrue rantings .....
» 6/10/2008 7:16:15 PM I wonder of Anita knows what a Luddite is? Maybe she should read "Geological Storage .....
» 1/10/2008 10:36:09 AM Dear dickie and Fractelle, You give the impression that, with 6 billion people on the plan.....
» 1/10/2008 12:08:48 AM What a yawn! There are many far more dangerous toxins and harmful substances on the planet.....
» 15/09/2008 10:25:51 AM Not a bad article and most of its conclusions are accurate and valid. Two points, however......
» 21/07/2008 10:31:05 AM Sharon Beder must be living on a different planet than the rest of us. She states: "p.....
» 10/07/2008 12:31:59 PM Wozza: I've been a member of a south west WA landcare group since 1991 and an a board memb.....
» 10/07/2008 11:45:58 AM Katherine: thanks for your post. As a scientist, I have found over the years that some sci.....
» 7/07/2008 9:49:55 PM Well said, Graham. I've only heard Clive Hamilton speak once - at a Communities conference.....
» 30/06/2008 6:41:04 PM Sorry, Flo, but courts around the world have placed a value on human life of between $4 an.....
» 30/06/2008 10:50:11 AM What a pity that Ruth doesn't give us an alternative way of better educating Indigenous ch.....
» 30/06/2008 10:38:12 AM Another typical emotional anti-science rant from one of the 'anything but GM' brigade. If .....
» 23/06/2008 10:36:04 AM Many thanks to all who've made comment on my article. I agree that, in many respects, it's.....
» 2/06/2008 11:08:53 AM John Howard gave us Work Choices yet, during the year long pre-election campaign run by th.....
» 26/05/2008 10:54:54 AM Good article and I couldn't agree more with the call for the Liberal Party to recognise an.....
» 26/05/2008 10:43:53 AM What would the Easter Islanders have said as the last tree was cut down? Based upon new re.....
» 23/05/2008 11:09:09 AM Why is so much of the current debate about this concept of 'ecological footprint' when it .....
» 13/05/2008 4:30:04 PM Dickie, The reason why I criticise the Greens is two-fold. First, on several occasions, th.....
» 13/05/2008 1:31:40 PM Dickie, If Australia is and has been such an awful place to live in and if being an Austra.....
» 12/05/2008 10:30:42 AM Peter - a well written, accurate post. The Greens are a political party hiding behind an e.....
» 28/04/2008 11:01:00 AM Why are people jumping up and condemning a possible solution to the climate change problem.....
» 28/04/2008 10:38:06 AM Come now, Graham, our rights are pretty well protected here in Australia even in the absen.....
» 28/04/2008 10:27:35 AM The shallowness of Lardelli's arguments is highlighted in his final paragraph where he say.....
» 25/03/2008 10:27:41 AM Anyone with a complaint about the federal (and state) public services should go back 20 ye.....
» 25/03/2008 10:22:58 AM The only thing that was reprehensible in 1975 was the incompetent and corrupt government o.....
» 25/02/2008 1:07:30 PM Daggett, I am truly astonished that, even with a year or more of intense media interest in.....
» 25/02/2008 10:58:44 AM Can we also ban donations from unions to the ALP? And can we make it illegal for unions to.....
» 25/02/2008 10:51:52 AM To make this debate more meaningful, could the author Andrew Hewett advise what dialogue h.....
» 11/02/2008 3:01:07 PM Thanks for the comments, Lev. I'm no scholar of Jewish history but it seems to me that the.....
» 11/02/2008 10:18:42 AM The author writes: "Even though Jews had been persecuted in Europe for centuries....&.....
» 4/02/2008 5:40:52 PM Good article, James. Your knockers should read a publication called "Conspicuous Com.....
» 4/02/2008 5:34:43 PM One of the solutions to the currently terrible living conditions of many Indigenous commun.....
» 4/02/2008 5:34:17 PM In the 1980s, the now disgraced WA premier Brian Burke held an inquiry into whether land r.....
» 21/01/2008 10:15:01 AM The media is also to blame for the unwillingness of politicians and governments to act. Ho.....
» 3/12/2007 9:06:43 AM I respect Julian Cribb for the good work he's done in the past. However, it is scientifica.....
» 15/11/2007 11:19:27 AM Yes, my arguments may be old and tired but that doesn't mean there not still true. Face it.....
» 14/11/2007 9:15:13 AM Dickie, Sorry but you've underwhelmed me with your 'proof' of the devastation caused by th.....
» 13/11/2007 11:04:39 PM Dickie - yes, you've picked me out correctly as the former state MP who used to work for t.....
» 12/11/2007 1:44:09 PM KAEP - Can you please provide me with just one example from human history of the last 10,0.....
» 12/11/2007 9:51:48 AM It's a pity the author hasn't chosen to define what he means by the word 'community'. Clea.....
» 12/11/2007 9:36:21 AM Former high court judge Jim 'Diamond' McLennan once said to a community group opposing a s.....
» 11/11/2007 1:28:59 PM So, of all these physiological needs, food is the one I see most at risk of being impacted.....
» 11/11/2007 1:28:20 PM According to Maslow's hierarchy of human needs, our species - Homo sapiens - has needs whi.....
» 6/11/2007 9:19:00 AM Over thousands of years, human societies have had to face countless challenges, some natur.....
» 5/11/2007 10:10:08 AM I remember something called the Y2K bug, when the world's computers were due to crash in t.....
» 5/11/2007 9:57:39 AM Bravo to the author for a perceptive and accurate article. I was a state MP in WA for 8 ye.....
» 5/11/2007 9:48:57 AM If the author really is an environmental scientist, then she should revise her opening par.....
» 24/09/2007 11:54:36 AM The Kyoto protocol was, is and forever will be a failed and unsuccessful agreement. As soo.....
» 24/09/2007 11:46:42 AM The sooner the Nationals disappear from Australia's political scene, the better. As a form.....
» 11/09/2007 12:28:01 AM Can anyone tell me what resources we're running out of? Or what are our limits to growth? .....
» 10/09/2007 11:07:25 AM I've been a subscriber to Henry Thornton's emailed opinions for a couple of years now and .....
» 21/08/2007 12:39:41 AM A good article which could just as easily be summarising the Liberal Party in WA. Here, a .....
» 21/08/2007 12:31:13 AM At the time that Howard was introducing the GST and needing one extra vote in the Senate t.....
» 20/08/2007 10:43:32 PM Sorry, Roger, but we're going to have to disagree on whether bauxite mining should continu.....
» 20/08/2007 10:32:02 PM To be honest, I'm less interested in the niceties of the legal and moral aspects of the fe.....
» 20/08/2007 9:02:26 PM Good article. One problem with reform in Australia is that our Parliaments are small in te.....
» 7/08/2007 11:23:19 PM While public funding of election campaigns may have been introduced at a time of diminishi.....
» 6/08/2007 3:02:13 PM Demos, you're correct: we get what we deserve. But the best governments (and there have be.....
» 6/08/2007 11:26:00 AM I agree with your comments, Scott, but there are further issues to consider as well. The r.....
» 6/08/2007 11:11:54 AM Tax breaks should be just one of several mechanisms used by government to encourage R&D. M.....
» 6/08/2007 11:03:52 AM So the perennial issue of protecting old growth forests has arisen yet again. In 2001, the.....
» 29/07/2007 6:31:44 PM ruawake: I remember the 30% pay rise paid by the Whitlam government to federal public serv.....
» 29/07/2007 10:45:18 AM ruawake: I need to respond to your two earlier posts. 1. during the Hawke/Keating years, w.....
» 29/07/2007 10:08:42 AM To RobW and R Roush: I've learnt a lot from your posts so thanks for your contributions. S.....
» 26/07/2007 9:46:36 PM Real: During the 1980s and early 1990s, inflation hit 12% and interest rates reached 18% o.....
» 23/07/2007 11:08:20 AM There's one issue that I'm confused about and I'd be grateful for an explanation. During t.....
» 23/07/2007 10:49:40 AM Good article, Peter. People like you are doing what the Australian Democrats under Don Chi.....
» 16/07/2007 10:36:29 AM Well done, Ken, for an illuminating article. During the late 1990s when the RFA debate was.....
» 14/07/2007 4:12:04 PM You make some good points, Agronomist. The claim that butterflies died when fed pollen fro.....
» 12/07/2007 5:08:33 PM It's easy to see why the Democrats are nearing extinction as a political party: all talk a.....
» 11/07/2007 6:30:32 PM Rather than talking about the perceived problems of the gap between rich and poor, isn't i.....
» 11/07/2007 6:24:05 PM Since when does Donald Bradman have anything relevant to do with Australian history? He wa.....
» 11/07/2007 6:15:18 PM Kim Chance is on the public record as saying that the consumption of GM foods may cause a .....
» 19/06/2007 4:05:37 PM Greenlight: thanks for those comments which make a lot of sense. I must confess that I'm a.....
» 18/06/2007 6:55:29 PM Ludwig: history has shown that complex issues which have their solutions determined by mar.....
» 18/06/2007 6:43:28 PM Danielle, Could you please respond to my earlier post which asks why the Jews have been so.....
» 18/06/2007 11:36:06 AM One issue that continues to puzzle me is why the Jews have been so disliked over millennia.....
» 18/06/2007 11:20:06 AM 1. If Howard had come forward 10 years ago and announced that he was taking action on clim.....
» 18/06/2007 11:09:53 AM I'm sorry but I can't take seriously an argument about a greenhouse gas-neutral country li.....
» 6/06/2007 3:13:00 PM Greenlight: Thanks for the comments. My response is that, if people don't know what to do,.....
» 6/06/2007 11:14:35 AM Bazz: I think people are more resilient and flexible in responding to a crisis that you ma.....
» 4/06/2007 2:19:09 PM Pdev, I think we must be living on different planets. In the last 50 years (i.e., excludin.....
» 4/06/2007 10:56:38 AM The article contains some sensible and practical solutions to the GHG emissions of aviatio.....
» 4/06/2007 10:50:00 AM Greg says that "If she (Ayaan Hirsi Ali) were a genuine leader she would seek dialogu.....
» 4/06/2007 10:41:00 AM To paraphrase Winston Churchill, Australia's political donation system may have many probl.....
» 4/06/2007 10:27:55 AM Crisis! What crisis? Peak oil is a myth, since shortages of easily accessible oil (which w.....
» 15/05/2007 11:12:56 AM After 20+ years of being active in the environmental movement, plus 8 years as an MP in th.....
» 12/03/2007 11:21:45 AM You make some good points, Perseus, and I'm of the view that our democracy needs more refo.....
» 12/03/2007 10:35:51 AM In my 8 years as a lower house MP in the WA Parliament, I never - not even once - found a .....
» 12/03/2007 10:23:37 AM The anti-mining stance of the Catholic Church in the Philippines has two motivations: the .....
» 6/02/2007 12:26:23 AM If Australia's mining industry is serious about ensuring that it has a long-term future, i.....
» 31/01/2007 9:16:47 AM Tony Ryan makes some useful points, but not all of them are accurate, based upon my experi.....
» 22/01/2007 10:22:36 AM Western Australia had a similar fire versus no fire debate after the Dwellingup fire of th.....
» 27/12/2006 9:37:25 AM If one believes that Dickens' story is an accurate portrayal of what capitalism is really .....
» 11/12/2006 11:05:31 AM The authors are quite right: Australia's direct contributions to global GHG levls are unim.....
» 17/11/2006 4:11:29 PM To people other than Kwv: thanks for your attempts to make this an interesting, rational a.....
» 15/11/2006 5:08:03 PM Dear Kwv, In the last line of your last post, what "truth" are you referring to?.....
» 14/11/2006 5:21:18 PM Double standards are one thing - I note that Kwv criticises Mark for being a logging indus.....
» 13/11/2006 10:19:07 AM Andrew hasn't understood Stern's report correctly. Stern said that the cost would be 20% o.....
» 30/10/2006 4:04:17 PM It's important to make two more points, especially in light of the last post about clearfe.....
» 30/10/2006 10:24:42 AM In the 5 years since all old growth logging in south west WA forests was stopped by the ne.....
» 16/10/2006 10:31:36 AM For 8 years, I was a lower house member of parliament in WA. Green MPs were in the upper h.....
» 16/10/2006 10:20:50 AM I was working in the WA mineral sands industry at the time of the Whitlam government. My b.....
» 25/09/2006 10:47:24 AM My understanding is that suicide is not against the law, although it is illegal to help a .....
» 14/09/2006 7:59:39 PM I've just come across an article by one of the world's experts on Kangaroos - Hugh Tyndale.....
» 4/09/2006 10:43:49 AM I've learnt to be just a little skeptical of activists, be they working in the environment.....
» 17/07/2006 8:52:31 PM My Collins English dictionary defines racism as: "the belief that races have distinct.....
» 17/07/2006 12:06:24 PM What a load of political crock, Tanya. Governments should not be funding people or groups .....
» 17/07/2006 11:57:16 AM Well written, Peirre, I agree with just about all you say. As a person with Jewish ancestr.....
» 26/06/2006 10:35:16 AM Here in Western Australia, logging of all old growth forests was stopped the day after the.....
» 13/06/2006 2:00:45 PM Dear Shonga, Trivialising an important issue shouldn't reduce its importance. When I visit.....
» 13/06/2006 11:22:44 AM Graham - your otherwise excellent article has overlooked one of the most profound influenc.....
» 16/05/2006 5:52:01 PM Dear Paddy, Point # 1 - my idea of kangaroo farming is totally different than your concept.....
» 13/05/2006 10:53:24 AM As president of the Wildlife Protection Society, Paddy has a particular barrow to push. If.....
» 3/04/2006 10:37:45 AM Thanks, Rex, for the positive comments you made about my 8 years in Parliament. I agree wi.....
» 27/02/2006 5:09:30 PM To try and satisfy a couple of concerns about kangaroo farming put forward by Perseus, two.....
» 20/02/2006 11:41:14 PM As a former wildlife officer in the south west of WA who issued licenses to allow the cull.....
» 9/01/2006 12:00:10 PM Two points need to be made. First, when I think of terrorism in an historical sense, I th.....
» 25/10/2005 10:31:04 AM Sorry, Brian, but your opening paragraph is a significant distortion of what Darwin propos.....
» 20/06/2005 1:49:09 PM As a former state MP, I praise the on-ground work of volunteers from St Vincent de Paul. B.....
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