Who established the VCE? Quadrant’s writers and readers are an […]

Tim Flannery has suggested that roses, plane trees and many other introduced plants are blights on the Australian landscape, asserting that change has made the ecosystem unstable. One again, reality is banished from view by a green-misted vision of the unattainable ideal

Most Australians know the song “Waltzing Matilda”:  Once a jolly […]

The Australian desert fringe has been greened like no other. […]

We see too much bad science, lack of scientific accuracy, […]

The G8, apparently meeting rather fruitlessly in L’Aquila, Italy, in […]

Agriculture has a bad name in Australia. We are told […]