Archive for July 13th, 2006
Three Pressing Issues for the Macquarie Marshes
Posted by jennifer, July 13th, 2006 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Water
Comments: 7
It was good to see Professor John Quiggin drawing attention to the problems with the Macquarie Marshes in his post of last Sunday titled ‘Macquarie Marshes again’.
But it’s a pity he can’t get beyond ad hominem attacks [1] and a pitch for his ARC fellowship, which is about trading water in the Murray Darling Basin. [...]
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Did It Really Get That Cold in Stanthorpe?
Posted by jennifer, July 13th, 2006 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Climate & Climate Change
Comments: 10
A couple of hours drive west from my home in Brisbane, is a place called Stanthorpe up on the Great Dividing Range. The town has an abattoir and according to its operator John Allen, as reported by James Nason at Farm Online, it closed on Monday because temperatures dropped to -20 C and [...]

