How ironic that federal Energy Minister Martin Ferguson has ASIO investigating anti-coal mining campaign groups funded by federal and state governments, and which enjoy federal tax-deductibility status! Two environmental groups behind the campaign to halt expansion of Victoria’s brown-coal deposits have received over $775,000 in federal and Victorian state government grants over the past two years. It’s part of a much wider campaign…

Vision needed for Murray-Darling Basin Sir, In the year 1887, E.A. Leonard, of the Royal Geographical Society of Queensland, devised a remarkable scheme for the rivers of the far north of Australia. For 50 years the proposal gathered dust in government archives. Then, in 1938, the engineer John Bradfield, who had designed the Sydney Harbour Bridge, brought it to light again, and…

Era of catastrophes Around the turn of the 21st century, a paradigm shift in our thinking took place: we decided that the era of revolutions was over and that the era of catastrophes had begun. How did this change happen? Over the last half-century, leftist intellectuals have identified two great scapegoats for the world’s woes. First, Marxism designated capitalism as responsible for human…