Author: David Boyd

Western Division graziers are using the highs to get through the lows

Will, Graham and Peter Morphett in front of their six stand shearing shed at Alma, Booligal in the midst of shearing 700 rams. Photo: Supplied Graziers in the Western Division are finding a long-term management approach is allowing them to have a good year in a poor season. The Morphetts join around 15,000 Merino ewes … Continue reading Western Division graziers are using the highs to get through the lows →

The Darling and Menindee Lakes

While on the subject of the Murray-Darling Basin, CEO of the NSW Irrigators’ Council, Luke Simpkins, has expressed disapproval of The Australia Institute’s report “Owing down the river”, describing it as “a further appalling attempt at skewing the facts.” In his vigorous rejoinder, Simpkins points out a few salient facts conveniently ignored by the Institute … Continue reading The Darling and Menindee Lakes →

Pell – A superbly balanced commentary

The Australian // Pell’s conviction and fall from high public esteem is a question of judgment PAUL KELLY Cardinal George Pell arrives at the County Court for a plea hearing on Wednesday. Picture: David Caird. 12:00AM MARCH 2, 2019 There have been two trials of Cardinal George Pell — in the court of justice to … Continue reading Pell – A superbly balanced commentary →

Conservation-Viv Forbes

Be Like the Beaver – Build More DamsWater is essential for all life, and happily it is abundant on our blue watery planet.However, salty oceans cover 70% of Earth’s surface and contain 97% of Earth’s water. Salt water is great for ocean dwellers but not directly useful for most life on land. Another 2% of … Continue reading Conservation-Viv Forbes →

This Man is not all bad.

The White House • February 13, 2019 Not one more person should suffer under socialism Today, President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump welcomed President Ivan Duque Marquez and First Lady Maria Juliana Ruiz Sandoval of Colombia to the White House. “We’re working on many things together: the eradication of drugs in Colombia and outside … Continue reading This Man is not all bad. →

Murray Darling Debate-Summary of My Key Thoughts

"I represent no one except myself.My background is grazing including flood plain grazing, dryland farming and irrigation, mostly cotton. Geographically it is mainly influenced by experience in the Lake Eyre Basin, the Darling Basin, but also includes the Lower Darling and the Murrumbidgee (Tandou). My only motivation is not to see  Australia's future productive capacity damaged … Continue reading Murray Darling Debate-Summary of My Key Thoughts →

Poverty Progress -How the Left Hate it.

Progressives reluctant to recognise poverty progressAnis Rezae08 FEBRUARY 2019 | IDEAS@THECENTREIs the declining rate of global poverty simply a neoliberal lie, spread by the likes of Bill Gates?According to a British-based academic, the answer is yes — because the data on global poverty only ‘looks’ better because of communist China’s rapid development.This claim is blatantly wrong for … Continue reading Poverty Progress -How the Left Hate it. →

Cop This!

Climate hysterics skyrocket by Paul DriessenPosted: 20 Jan 2019 11:01 PM PSTIncreasingly absurd disaster rhetoric is consistently contradicted by climate and weather reality Call it climate one-upmanship. It seems everyone has to outdo previous climate chaos rhetoric.The “climate crisis” is the “existential threat of our time,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi told her House colleagues. We must “end … Continue reading Cop This! →

Mathematical modelling illusions

Mathematical modelling illusionsBy Jay Lehr and Tom Harris – posted Onlineopinion  Friday, 11 January 2019For the past three decades, human-caused global warming alarmists have tried to frighten the public with stories of doom and gloom. They tell us that the end of the world as we know it is nigh as a result of carbon dioxide emitted into the … Continue reading Mathematical modelling illusions →