Jennifer Marohasy

The Australian government’s new $10 billion, 10 point plan entitled ‘A National Plan for Water Security’ states that there is a need to address “once and for all water over-allocation in the Murray-Darling Basin”. This is point 4 of the plan.
So what does it mean to be “over-allocated”?
According to The Plan “over-allocation is where [...]

ON Friday in Paris the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will launch a new report, Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis, with an up-to-date assessment of likely temperature rises because of global warming. Three related reports will be released later in the year, including a report on the likely effects of the rise [...]

Bushfires have burnt more than 1.2 million hectares (4,600 square miles) of Australia this summer.
Some blame the ferocity of this year’s fires on global warming, others on inadequate control burning claiming that fuel loads in many forests are too high.
Bob McDonald has a very different perspective suggesting that both the frequency of bushfires and fuel [...]