Australia’s symbiotic relationship with China has seen tremendous growth over the past few decades, but it also has come at a great price to our economic independence. The institutes named for Confucius might more accurately be named for his compatriot Sun Szu, author of The Art of War. The fortunes of our universities, our resources sector through to our tourism, agricultural and real…

by Patrick J. Byrne After the covid19 crisis vividly exposed the vulnerability of Australia’s global supply chains, (re)building essential medical supplies and other strategic industries will take far more government involvement than just cutting the company tax rate. In an exercise eerily predictive of the current crisis, the Department of Defence last year assembled 17 senior engineers from peak industry bodies – including…

INFRARED-ACTIVE GASES The surface of the earth is warmed mostly by radiation from the sun, and some of this heat energy is distributed to the atmosphere, mostly by conduction, convection, and evaporation and condensation. A very small fraction of this heat from the earth’s surface is radiated towards space in the form of infrared (IR) radiation, and a small proportion of this is…

by Patrick J. Byrne The latest Murray-Darling Basin report has highlighted deep discontent among regional communities over the Basin Plan’s water allocations, the science behind the Plan and the Murray-Darling Basin Authority (MDBA). The report into the “Impact of lower inflows on state shares under the Murray–Darling Basin Agreement” was conducted by the interim inspector-general of Murray-Darling Basin Water Resources, and former federal…