Gillard looks to U.S. for Green Jobs

Gillard looks to US for ‘green’ jobs Updated: 16:49, Saturday October 3, 2009 So the Deputy Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, is flying to the United States on a mission to see how it is creating more ‘‘green’’ jobs. We could have saved her the trouble – and the considerable expense. What could possibly be cleaner […]

MP warns against basin water sell-off

Western Queensland state MP Vaughan Johnson says it would be irresponsible and “sacrilege” to sell off water from the Great Artesian Basin. The New South Wales Government is planning to auction water from the basin in Walgett, in northern NSW, later this month. The basin underlies one-fifth of Australia and is a valuable water source […]

Push on to stop Walgett water auction

Water users across north-west New South Wales will today appeal to the State Government to stop next week’s controversial water auction at Walgett. Coonamble farmers Neil and Anne Kennedy have formed the Great Artesian Basin Protection Group to fight the sale of water saved under the Cap and Pipe the Bores Scheme. The group, which […]

Vale Lance Endersbee (1925-2009): Humanity loses a champion

The world has lost one of the architects of its future, with the passing of Emeritus Professor Lance Endersbee AO on 1st of October.

In the Promethean task of building humanity’s future, in which the only power is ideas, Lance Endersbee was a Titan.

For his entire adult life, Lance wrought the infrastructure that sustains humanity in the present, and envisioned the infrastructure to sustain humanity in the future.