Story by Lin Sutherland reproduced with permission from Explore, the Australian Museum magazine, vol 30 (2) pp 24-27 © Australian Museum 2008. CLIMATE CHANGE A GEOLOGIST’S VIEW Climate change is not new to Australia. Our ‘rocky’ records hold many clues to past climates, which is why debates about climate change need geology on the agenda, [...]
Entries from May 31st, 2008
CLIMATE CHANGE; everything you need to know to sound clever at a dinner party
May 31st, 2008 · 1 Comment · News
Tags: climate change·geology
NO MORE BUNNY BUSINESS; the end for Centennial Park’s dirty wotten wabbits
May 31st, 2008 · No Comments · News
By JAMES WOODFORD Andrew Glover’s clandestine raid on Centennial Park would have left Elmer Fudd wide-eyed with awe. Glover is the managing ranger with the Moss Vale Rural Lands Protection Board, and is used to complex and controversial shooting tasks. In the past he has shot wild pigs at Hurstville and deer in the [...]
ROCK DOCTOR TAKES THE PULSE OF AUSTRALIA’S PREHISTORIC ART
May 27th, 2008 · No Comments · Guest Viewpoint
Prof. Paul S.C. Taçon School of Arts Gold Coast campus Griffith University, Qld 4222 p.tacon@griffith.edu.au I am fortunate to have worked in incredible natural and cultural landscapes around the world, many of them in remote parts of Australia. I work closely with indigenous people to study rock art – paintings, drawings, engravings, stencils, prints and [...]
Tags: prehistory·rock art
PROFESSOR DAVID BOOTH TAKES ON MARINE PARK BULLY BOYS
May 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · News
David Booth Professor of Marine Ecology, UTS Chief Scientist, Sydney Institute of Marine Science You’d think from the rhetoric floating around debate on the validity of NSW marine parks of late that scientists were equivocal about their benefits. Some scientists have claimed that park establishment is politically driven, and there is no science behind them, [...]
Tags: marine parks
Kevin Rudd Hacks the Head off the Home Solar Industry
May 21st, 2008 · No Comments · Blog
As a post election party hit its straps last year I watched as a solar installer I know took a campaign poster of then-Prime Minister Howard and burnt it with glee.The incoming Rudd Government was making the kinds of comforting noises that could have put anyone worried about climate change to sleep. Labor instantly ratified [...]
Tags: climate change·politics·solar
HOW GREEN IS YOUR GOD? Comment piece by Dr Steve Douglas
May 15th, 2008 · No Comments · News
Story by Dr Steve Douglas Keep an eye on any Church-owned bushland. In spite of the growing list of environmental policies and proclamations emerging from the Churches, they continue to pursue the construction of facilities such as schools and nursing homes in areas of remnant vegetation. They’ll likely comply with all the environmental laws in [...]
Tags: church·environment
SOLAR INSTALLER BLOWS A FUSE
May 15th, 2008 · No Comments · News
By Luke Williams LJW Solar It’s amazing that a government whose pre-election environmental position was considered so strong has now crushed the grid connected solar power industry. Rudd may not be as smart as he looks after all. However, you would think that the Federal Environment Minister, Peter Garrett, of all people, would want to [...]
Tags: rebate·solar power
ROCK DOCTORS CATCH UP WITH WHAT LIES BENEATH SYDNEY’S SKYSCRAPERS
May 15th, 2008 · No Comments · News
By JAMES WOODFORD Walk around the Sydney CBD block bounded by Kent, Sussex, Napoleon and Erskine streets and you are on top of a cultural Ground Zero. Below your feet is one of the first places in Australia where the stone age ended and the industrial revolution began. And ironically that very spot is one [...]
Tags: archaeology·sydney
IF TREES COULD SPEAK
May 15th, 2008 · No Comments · News
By Bob Beale Australia’s story is written in trees. You can read its ancient origins in the cool mystical Antarctic beech forests of the south and in the vibrant green rainforests of the north. The tale of its long slow drift into drought and fire is imprinted in the black furrowed bark of the brigalow, [...]
Tags: australian history·trees
