Jennifer Marohasy

Those who know me well know that I care deeply about the natural environment and that I can be very competitive. 

 There were over 5,000 nomination for us to sort through and visit, and it was a very difficult task. When the process pushed the potential voting dates too close to Christmas we made the decision to hold off voting until after the New Year.
 
From all of the nominations we have selected nearly 500 finalists [...]

“Over 650 dissenting scientists from around the globe challenged man-made global warming claims made by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and former Vice President Al Gore” according to Marc Morano at the launch of a new report in Washington.  Mr Morano is  communications director for the Republicans on the U.S. Senate [...]

Each year On Line Opinion and Club Troppo collaborate to publish a Best Blogs feature in January, which features the best blog pieces from the previous year selected from reader nominations.
This year we are doing it again.
What was the best blog piece that you read in 2008? It can even be one you have written [...]

Spare a thought for this scrub turkey unable to open that nut.  I watched the bird struggle with it for quite a while at Alexandra Bay, Noosa National Park, on November 24, 2008. 
If only I’d had a parang, I would have opened the nut for the turkey.
I try hard with this blog to open issues in [...]

I have been a senior fellow with the Melbourne-based Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) for more than five years now.   I have written a lot for the magazine,  which used to be published by the IPA quarterly, but now comes out every two months.   A year’s subscription is not that much - just $33 a year.
Anyway,  Nichole Hoskin has [...]

ABC [Australia's] Science Show host Robyn Williams says those who contradict him when he makes absurdly alarmist - and false - claims about global warming just don’t understand “nuance”. Read more here.

DOES society benefit from a fear-driven science-funding policy that threatens the livelihood of scientists with the courage to argue against “orthodox” and established “beyond doubt” views on climate? 
The media drives this fear with increasingly hysterical messages that the earth is getting hotter, that this is being caused by human CO2 emissions and, that without radical [...]

INVESTIGATIVE journalist Ross Coulthart and guru producer Nick Farrow have won the Gold Walkley for this year for exposing a doctor’s alleged malpractice in the New South Wales town of Bega.
The award is the most prestigious in Australian journalism.
They undertook the investigation while working for the Sunday Program, a program recently axed by Channel 9.
You may [...]

Don’t forget that this blog has a community page.
Thanks to Art Raiche, there is a recent post with some great links to podcasts of the late Michael Crichton speaking about all sorts of things - even news as entertainment. 
If you scroll through the recent posts you will even see a picture of me ontop of the Sydney Harbour bridge - that [...]