(Cross-posted from my Greens candidate blog site here) The purchase by Indian tycoon Gautam Adani of the Moray Downs cattle station and his announcement of plans to build the largest ever open-cut and underground coal mine complex in Queensland’s Galilee Basin will be seen as good news by some. But the idea of digging this [...]
Tags:2012·Adani·coal·election·Galilee Basin·India·Indooroopilly·mine·Moray Downs
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I’ll be blogging from my candidate site until we conclude the Queensland election on March 24th. First post here
I’m running for the State seat of Indooroopilly as the Greens candidate at the upcoming election. See here for more, and here.
Visiting family in California, and refreshing my impressions of the country where I met my wife, where our children were born, and which gave me most of my higher education as well as my start as an academic. Hardly surprising, then, that I resist simplistic criticisms of the U.S. by those who have never lived [...]
We have a very fine university in our backyard, with many outstanding scientists and talented students. The University of Queensland has earned its reputation through quality, and the recent resignation of its two top leaders will not greatly alter the view we have of UQ’s accomplishments. But these events should cause the university to go [...]
Tags:coal seam gas·Environment·integrity·jobs·Professor·Professors·University of Queensland
Reading The Australian is no longer a straightforward matter. At one level is the traditional business of scanning for interesting stories (i.e. sifting through for those not already well aired electronically), skipping the dull bits and homing in on the personal favourites. Nothing special there… every newspaper reader develops such comfortable reading habits. Nor is [...]
It took the effrontery of the Weekend Australian to stir this dormant blogger from his posting slumber. Today’s edition sees them publish a Google Earth image clearly marking the location of Prof. Tim Flannery’s home on the Hawkesbury River, which took me less than 45 seconds to locate in Google Earth and doubtless would take [...]
Tags:Anthony Klan·August 6-7 2011·Australian Press Council·Ean Higgins·privacy·security·the Australian·Tim Flannery
In the face of unprecedented rainfall and flood potential, conflicting goals in the authority’s manual cause problems elsewhere, too… Listening to this story from NPR. (Link now fixed…)