Category: Articles

Flood management worsens Lockyer Valley floods

Diane and Mark Bruhn live in the Lockyer Valley and are alarmed by the mismanagement of the waterways that continues to make floods worse through landclearing. They have been trying to communicate their views to State Government about possible land management factors which may have played a part in the recent unbelievable flood they’ve had across both the 2011 and 2013 floods and now have photographic evidence supporting their case.

We tried our best in 2011, to have local and State Government listen to our concerns http://www.thechronicle.com.au/news/earthworks-destroy-creeks-waterways-lockyer-valley/1067473/.

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14 February, 2013
Those Heathen Dreams

The film about the artist forgotten in Australia and feted in France

One of the most controversial Australian artists of the 80’s, avant-garde, poet and dramaturge, Christopher Barnett turned the literary and theatre worlds on their heads, and then abruptly left for France where he has lived for the past 20 years and where he has won many followers and admirers including the current prime minister.

With project development assistance from Screen Australia, South Australian Film Corporation and Screen NSW, I saw an urgent need to go immediately to France and start making a documentary that rediscovers the work of this significant Australian, giving him his due recognition as one of our great artists. We have some French finance and a French broadcaster on board to be able to return to France to continue shooting. However, we need to raise the finance to shoot and post the Australian content. We are asking your support to assist us reach our target of $25K. We’re so close but only with your support we can make this happen! Visit the website

31 January, 2013
Authorities deny toxin studies in Gladstone port

Aquatic veterinarian Dr Matt Landos.

AN AQUATIC veterinarian critical of the dredging project in Gladstone Harbour has attacked testing and reporting methods used by authorities.

Dr Matt Landos has written a long list of criticisms of testing by Gladstone Ports Corporation (GPC) and the Department of Environment and Heritage Protection (EHP).

Those departments yesterday went on the front foot, delivering lengthy answers, and rejections, of Dr Landos’s criticisms.

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11 January, 2013
Beyond 7 billion: Bending the population curve

Beyond 7 billion: Bending the population curve
Los Angeles Times
These were among the consequences of rapid global population growth documented in a five-part series in The Times in July. Now, Opinion has invited leading scholars to consider what, if anything, people and governments can do to address the issue.
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2 December, 2012
Integrating science and policy to address the impacts of air pollution

Integrating science and policy to address the impacts of air pollution

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 11:32 AM PST

New research examines how science and policy address air pollution effects on human health and ecosystems, and climate change in Europe.

1 December, 2012
‘Middle ground’ of sea-level change: ‘Intra-seasonal’ variability impacts forecasting and ecosystems

‘Middle ground’ of sea-level change: ‘Intra-seasonal’ variability impacts forecasting and ecosystems

Posted: 27 Nov 2012 08:13 AM PST

The effects of storm surge and sea-level rise have become topics of everyday conversation in the days and weeks following Hurricane Sandy’s catastrophic landfall along the mid-Atlantic coast. Researchers are throwing light on another, less-familiar component of sea-level variability — the “intra-seasonal” changes that occupy the middle ground between rapid, storm-related surges in sea level and the long-term increase in sea level due to global climate change.

28 November, 2012

Category: Articles

Flood management worsens Lockyer Valley floods

Those Heathen Dreams

Authorities deny toxin studies in Gladstone port

Beyond 7 billion: Bending the population curve

Integrating science and policy to address the impacts of air pollution

‘Middle ground’ of sea-level change: ‘Intra-seasonal’ variability impacts forecasting and ecosystems