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Bob Brown is ever the opportunist, even if his timing leaves a very bad taste in everyone’s mouths.
His recent pronouncement that our coal industry is to blame for the devastation caused by the floods in Queensland, NSW, Victoria and Tasmania is both absurd and insensitive.
All the experts, whatever their views on climate change, agree that the increased rainfalls are driven by the long-established cycles of La Nina weather events, just as El Nino is associated with drought.
I had a humbling experience the other day. Sitting in a room of 300 scientists, I found myself captivated by the sheer brilliance and daring of a lifetime spent in quiet and determined research.
Scientific endeavour can achieve so much - most of us barely realise - but we all become the beneficiaries.
At CSIRO’s annual medal presentation awards, we heard of new polymer technologies that can be implanted into a human eye to improve vision, a bio-economic model that has the potential to revolutionise the way we manage prawn fisheries and we celebrated a career spent positioning Australia at the forefront of radio astronomy.
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All these great scientists and we still don’t understand global warming!!! Read more »
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It is a pity that this Labour Government has no idea how to commercialise innovation. The demise of the Commonwealth Commercial Institute (CCI) after only 5 months of its announcement and before it even got underway exposes Labor’s incapacity to understand the vital innovation sector. Read more »
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