By Stuart Rees On Monday, former immigration minister Amanda Vanstone was wringing her hands on ABC TV. Not on behalf of the persecuted Biloela family, though. She was crying crocodile tears to defend a powerful, inflexible government. As if Vanstone’s scornful judgement about the stupidity of making exceptions to the rule in immigration matters was insufficient, […]
by Richard Bates Question: Can floating offshore wind farms and migrating whales coexist? The saving from extinction of the East Australian humpback whale has been one of humanity's great environmental success stories. By the mid 1960s a hundred years of commercial whaling had driven the population down to somewhere between just 100 to 150. We







