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ACF opinion pieces
Climate change is most vital issue for next govt (Canberra Times)
18 August 2010
By Ian Lowe, ACF President
Local disputes risk river plan for all (Adelaide Advertiser)
3 August 2010
By Dr Arlene Harriss-Buchan our Healthy Rivers Campaigner
Is ocean protection dead, buried and cremated? (ABC Online Opinion)
29 July 2010
By Don Henry, CEO - Australian Conservation Foundation
Getting down to business on a carbon price (Climate Spectator)
12 July 2010
By Tony Mohr our Climate Change Program Manager
We need more green areas on our blue planet (National Times)
8 June 2010
By Chee Chee Leung our Healthy Oceans Campaigner.
Labor reneges on nuclear waste promise (National Times)
14 May 2010
By Dave Sweeney, our Nuclear Free Campaigner
Miners strangely silent on the billions they reap in tax credits (The Age)
11 May 2010
By Charles Berger Director of Strategic Ideas
Tax reform will let us peddle a healthier life cycle (Canberra Times)
6 May 2010
By Don Henry and Lyn Roberts
Kevin Rudd has failed his own test on climate change (Online Opinion)
30 April 2010
When our prime minister likes a turn of phrase, he gives it a real hammering, writes Owen Pascoe, our Climate Change Campaigner.
What does population growth mean for environmental policy? (Crikey)
30 March 2010
By Charles Berger, Director of Strategic Ideas.
Human impact on the environment is costing us dearly (Canberra Times)
29 March 2010
By Ian Lowe, ACF President
Where’s the critical analysis? (Crikey)
5 March 2010
By Charles Berger, our Director of Strategic Ideas
Memo to Mike Rann and Isobel Redmond: Spend now to save our river (Adelaide Advertiser)
5 March 2010
By Don Henry, our Executive Director
NSW red gum logging defies Federal environment law (On Line Opinion)
4 March 2010
By Lindsay Hesketh, our Healthy Country Campaigner
If Norway can prosper with a stable population, why can't Australia? (Online Opinion)
22 February 2010
By Chuck Berger, our director of strategic ideas.
Premier must lift the curse of the cars (Sydney Morning Herald)
19 February 2010
By Gail Broadbent, Sustainable Transport Campaigner
Climate sceptic short on facts and credibility (Sunshine Coast Daily)
Monday 1 February 2010
By Professor Ian Lowe
Better lives are what we most need to produce (Canberra Times)
Thursday 21 January 2010
Is Australia’s biggest problem that we’re not rich enough, because we aren’t ‘productive’ enough?
Chuck Berger is our director of strategic ideas.
All of our efforts to reduce emissions will be undone by just one company (The Advertiser)
20 January 2010
David Noonan is our Nuclear Free campaigner
Latest science is alarming (Newcastle Herald)
26-Oct-09
Ian Lowe summarises the latest climate science and looks at what Australia should do.
Climate won’t wait as world polluters dither (Newcastle Herald)
14 October 2009
Australia has to stop playing politics and act, writes Ian Lowe.
Climate right for Australia to lead (Canberra Times)
8 October 2009
Australia must break its silence on the Copenhagen ‘deal-breaking’ issue of climate financing for developing nations, writes Don Henry.
Uranium policy a hypocrisy (The Age)
5 October 2009
Australia mouths non-nuclear platitudes on the world stage while quietly adding to the problem with exports to China, says David Noonan.
Now it's perish as we populate (Canberra Times)
25 September 2009
A serious debate on population is needed for the sake of future generations, writes Ian Lowe....
We want more from Victoria’s environment law (Park Watch)
14 September 2009
Victorian Government approval for an inappropriate development at Bastion Point in the state’s far east is one of a number of bad planning decisions made under Victoria’s weak Environmental Effects Act, writes Chris Smyth.
Fuel reduction would not - did not - stop Black Saturday (Crikey)
11 September 2009
The new national fire warning system, with a top level of ‘catastrophic’ or ‘code red’, will send a clear message to everyone living in fire-prone areas that when conditions are so extreme the best survival measure is to get out of harm’s way, writes Lindsay Hesketh.
Festival of GDP worship must end! (Crikey)
2 September 2009
As Australia again begins the quarterly festival of GDP worship, Charles Berger suggests a better measure of national success.
A green energy boom (ABC Unleashed)
24 August 2009
"Where to from here?" writes Don Henry now that the 20% renewable energy target legislation has passed into law.
Sums and timing are right, so let's go with the flow (Canberra Times)
21 August 2009
Simon O’Connor looks at the economics of a Government purchase of water-hoarding cotton farm, Cubbie Station.
Emissions trading: let’s get cracking (Adelaide Advertiser and Perth Sunday Times)
15 August
Both major parties need to renovate their policies, writes Don Henry
No time to retreat on climate change (Australian Financial Review)
15 August 2009
Businesses lobbying to delay or block emissions trading should be careful what they ask for, writes Charles Berger...
Olympic Dam economics: do the benefits outweigh the costs? (The Age)
6 August 2009
When considering whether to approve the expansion of the Olympic Dam mine, authorities should weigh up the benefits and the costs, writes Simon O'Connor.
Two-faced strategy may damage polluters (Australian Financial Review)
15 June 2009
Australia’s biggest polluters are speaking out of both sides of their mouths when it comes to climate change, says ACF’s Charles Berger.
Environmental decay is bad for your health (The Age)
5 June 2009
Funds from an emissions trading scheme should help us, not big polluters, writes Paul Sinclair.
Crunching the numbers on the Minerals Council's ETS job loss claims (Crikey)
22 May 2009
Australian Conservation Foundation director of strategic ideas Charles Berger writes:
Gas guzzlers are holding us back (ABC Unleashed)
21 May 2009
Monica Richter, Sustainable Australia Program Manager
Embrace the renewable energy future (Business Day)
19 May
Australia can take a lead, and a profit, in renewable energy, write James Norman and Simon O'Connor.
River slows while the money flows (Adelaide Advertiser)
28 April
There's no lack of money to save the Murray, writes Paul Sinclair
Don’t drop the ball on climate (Canberra Times)
23 April 2009
Kevin Rudd needs to remember his words on climate change from last year’s 2020 summit, writes Ian Lowe....
Carbon: embrace the change (The Age)
22 April 2009
It's time to get realistic about carbon reduction, write Tim Costello and Don Henry.
Govt ignores better options after pressure from industry (The Age)
20 April 2009
Billion-dollar hand-outs to polluters won't create the jobs we need now, writes James Norman
First wave of 'climate refugees' on the seas (The Age)
9 April 2009
The encroaching ocean is in part Australia's responsibility writes James Norman.
