Issue 2017 July 01
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LETTERS
Energy sense? Tom King’s defence of coal (News Weekly, Letters, June 3, 2017) makes good sense – apart from advocating carbon dioxide sequestration. Carbon dioxide is an essential part of our life cycle on earth. With more of it, plants grow faster, need less water and farming is more productive. Palaeontology shows that carbon dioxide levels were much higher in the past and…
BOOK REVIEW Charting 15 years of changing emphases
THE SECRET COLD WAR: The Official History of ASIO, 1975–1989 by John Blaxland and Rhys Crawley Allen & Unwin, Sydney Hardcover: 522 pages Price: AUD$49.99 Reviewed by Chris Rule This is the third volume of the official history of ASIO and covers the period from 1975 till the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. The authors detail a…

