Wednesday’s Age quotes the Australian Governor-General, Quentin Bryce, as strongly supporting the introduction of statutory paid maternity leave for Australian women, and paid parental leave in general.
Ms. Bryce is also reported by the ABC to be “optimistic about the future of the Murray-Darling Basin”. Read more »
I've said my piece on this issue before. I am happy to concede that the current drought might prove to be a manifestation of climate change but my claim has been that this is not implied by the evidence. My impression is based in part on the following rainfall graph: Read more »
Photograph displayed at One of the new elements in the Garnaut Review’s final report is an analysis of “Transforming rural land use” in chapter 22. It’s a tour of some of the ways in which agricultural and forestry practices might change to increase the amount of carbon sequestered in our forests, woodlands, and our soil. It’s one of the most positive chapters in the entire report; changing the way Australia uses its land offers some enormous opportunities to absorb carbon at relatively low cost. Read more »
Stewart Franks supports my earlier claim that the current dought in the Murray-Darling Basin cannot be attributed to climate change. It can be more accurately attributed to the 2002 El Niño event and there is no convincing evidence increased frequencies of such events can be linked to climate change. In the past such events have been bunched at high frequencies. An excellent older post on this Read more »
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