Jennifer Marohasy

IT is generally agreed that the worst dust storms since European settlement were during the 1944-1945 period.  
In his book Out of the West: A Historical Perspective of the Western Division of NSW, former Western Lands Commissioner, Dick Condon, says there were 34 severe dust storms at Wagga Wagga during the period 1944-45, many so bad [...]

RECENTLY the Australian Department of Climate Change released a report suggesting that global warming would severely threaten many native species.
While it is currently very fashionable to emphasis the influence temperature can have on the distribution and abundance of plant and animal species, let’s not ignore the very broad geographic ranges of many species, or the words of [...]

RESEARCHERS from The Australian National University have created the world’s first comprehensive visual atlas of global rainfall projections over the next 100 years based on all of the models used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in its most recent report.
PhD researcher Wee Ho Lim and Dr Michael Roderick from ANU have created the [...]

“YOU didn’t want to start to firm up ideas too early in an investigation, before you had enough facts. But you couldn’t help wondering how the pieces you had fitted together. It was a compulsion, even if at times it had to be resisted.”
This is not a quote from a scientist, but Sydney detective, Nicholas [...]

CANBERRA, Australia 24 July 2009: Better Place Australia, the leading electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure and services provider today announced that it has chosen the nation’s capital, Canberra, as the site of its first city-wide roll-out of electric vehicle infrastructure in Australia. 

Register here.  Other speakers include Graham Young, Chris Hodendyk, Mark Poynter, Max Rheese and Gerhardt Pearson.

Professor Jak Kelly will present ‘Science then and now: What will 100 years have done for science?’ as it was delivered 100 years ago to a meeting of the Royal Society of NSW, in the now heritage-listed Science House in the Rocks (Sydney) on Saturday September 6, 2008.
According to the latest newsletter from the Royal [...]

A highlight of the last year’s conference for me was meeting Helen Mahar. I will be at the conference again this year. You can also register at www.aefweb.info

Caroline Marohasy, a reader of this weblog and my daughter, makes her debut in a new Australian revenge thriller ‘The Horseman’ that will premier at the Melbourne International Film Festival.

Caroline Marohasy and Peter Marshall in The Horseman
If you like this genre of movie you can watch the trailer; but be warned there is lots of [...]

The Institute of Public Affairs invites you to the third Brisbane Club Lecture for 2008. Entitled ‘Prescribing the right medicine for a city choked with congestion’ the lecture is on Thursday, July 24, 2008 at 5pm in The Brisbane Club’s The Oak Room (241 Adelaide Street, Brisbane CCBD).
After the talk, attendees are invited [...]