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Postgraduate Research Opportunity

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INFLUENTIAL, but seriously flawed research suggesting agricultural pesticides killed mature stands of mangroves at Mackay in Queensland was based on experiments with mangrove seedlings that were dosed with concentrations of Diuron orders of magnitude higher than anything found in waterways.

Seedling were used because it was claimed that it was impossible to grow mature mangrove plants under controlled conditions, and because of the urgency of proving a causal connection between agriculture and damage to the Great Barrier Reef high concentrations were applied.

In April 2011, with funding from the B. Macfie Family Foundation, and a permit from the Department of Fisheries, John Abbot and I oversaw the excavation (with a 10 tonne excavator) of 10 mature mangrove plants from the Koorana Crocodile Park on the Capricorn Coast. Eight of the 10 plants survived. In fact the eight have thrived under our cultivation system that includes an irrigation system that simulates diurnal tidal inundation of the large containers with the mangroves.

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Gillard’s $4 Million Propaganda: Send It Back!

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Dear Jennifer, As you are probably aware, Julia Gillard announced recently that she wants to spend four million dollars of our hard-earned tax dollars to mail a pro-tax propaganda campaign to every Australian household. And this is on top of the twelve million dollars in TV Advertising already announced. And this is just the start!

So let’s send her a message. When we get our glossy, focus-group tested propaganda piece in the mail – let’s just send it back! Let’s flood their mailboxes and show Labor MP’s just what the Australian people think! If enough people do this, then maybe some Labor MP’s wlil finally be convinced to do the right thing and will VOTE NO!

If it arrives in an envelope simply write RETURN TO SENDER and post it. If it arrives as loose junk-mail, pop it into an envelope and address it to:
The Hon. Greg Combet
Minister for Climate Change
House of Representatives
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600

So when you get this piece of propaganda in the mail – don’t just toss it in the bin: SEND IT BACK!

Timothy Andrews, Managing Editor
Menzies House

Join the Convoy to Canberra

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THE Australian government has lost the confidence of many of its people particularly those in rural and regional Australia.

‘A Convoy of No Confidence’ in the Australian government will start on August 17 and will arrive at Parliament House Canberra on the August 22.

According to the ‘Just Grounds Online Community’ convoys will be on all major highways leading to Canberra. Come in your truck, car, camper, caravan, bus or horse & cart, anything that moves, just join in. Together they hope to force an Election.

For more information visit:
http://justgroundsonline.com/forum/topics/convoy-of-no-confidence-in-the?xg_source=facebookshare&id=3535428:Topic:238563&page=18

Spectator Australia Debate on Carbon Tax

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POLLS show strong public opposition to the minority government’s policy of increasing the price of energy to combat climate change. Meanwhile, a global agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions remains elusive. In this environment, is the proposed carbon tax justified?

Join the Spectator Australia debate on Wednesday 3 August at Tattersalls Club, Sydney, between 6 p.m. and 8.30 p.m.

WE need a carbon tax to help combat global warming

FOR the motion:

• John Hewson, chairman of GSA and former federal Liberal leader
• Benjamin McNeil, senior fellow at the Climate Change Research Centre at the University of New South Wales
• Mark Latham, Spectator Australia columnist and former federal Labor leader

AGAINST the motion:

• Lord Nigel Lawson, former British Conservative chancellor and author of An Appeal to Reason
• Ian Plimer, geologist at University of Adelaide and author of Heaven & Earth
• Gary Johns, associate professor at the Australian Catholic University and former federal Labor minister

$50 ticket
$40 for Spectator Australia subscribers

TO BOOK
visit www.stickytickets.com.au/6064

Orange-thighed Tree Frogs: Part 2

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Neil Hewett, who lives in the Daintree, posted on Orange-thighed Tree Frogs in October 2007.   That blog post has gathered a couple of recent comments, including from Shane Panton near Coffs Harbour, NSW, claiming to have Orange-thighed frogs mating on his property …
https://jennifermarohasy.com.dev.internet-thinking.com.au/blog/2007/10/orange-thighed-tree-frogs/

And start here with planning for your holiday in North Queensland… http://www.ccwild.com/

Nominate a Best Blog: Graham Young

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It’s been a big year, especially the second half. An election where they disinvited Kevin Rudd, the Republicans rolled the Democrats, and now Julian Assange rolls everyone. Plenty for bloggers to blog about, and we’re hunting for the best of them.

Best Blogs is a collaboration with Club Troppo where we look for the best blog posts in the preceding year and then publish them on OLO in the following January. Please send us your submissions using the form here:

http://polling.nationalforum.com.au/index.php?sid=11496&lang=en