Jennifer Marohasy

“Absolute wilderness is those boundless places in the eye of the mind of the beholder where no human footprints can be found and for which all those enter there and become lost have no hope of rescue. Only the most reckless trapper or sibylline shaman venture into the wilderness, as a pebble falls to the [...]

At the Genetically Modified Crops Summit in Melbourne last week Dr TJ Higgins from CSIRO Plant Industries suggested there was a place for both organic and GM food crops including by using organic methods to cultivate superior varieties breed through the application of biotechnology. He made particular reference to subsistence farming systems in [...]

“It can be quite tricky traversing a car dominated city by bicycle, particularly when you need to travel an unknown route to a new destination.
“But the chances are, someone has cycled that way before you. Bikely.com makes it easy for him or her to show you the best way.
“Put very simply, www.bikely.com helps cyclists share [...]

The new Tasmanian premier, David Bartlett, today said the future of the state’s key project, the pulp mill, was in the hands of its proponents and their financiers.
His predecessor, Paul Lennon, tied his political fortunes closely to the mill, which appears to have failed to gain the backing of the ANZ bank.
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