Bjørn Storm Lomborg replies to Critics at the Canberra Press Club

ON BEING SELECTIVE WITH about the environment, they might STATISTICS actually have a point. We should This is obviously always an issue. certainly listen to them. But they It's certainly one of the more sub- also have an interest, and we should stantial criticisms that I've had. But remember that. Likewise, when the problem is that people don't ac- Greenpeace go out and say, we're tually say where I'm selective. Sta- all gonna die and we need to act tistics is about throwing away a lot now, they might be right too, and of numbers in order to get a few we should certainly listen to them. numbers that will tell us an impor- But they also certainly have an in- tant trend. So, when I show you an terest. average, on say food consumption The problem is that while few in the developing world, you don't people trust business organizations, see Burundi there with less, or Ni- most people actually believe Green- geria there with more. The problem peace over and above independent is, if you start trying to say every- scientists, university scientists and thing you lose oversight. So you things are better in the developing public organizations. That, I think, really have to bring together the world? Would you go back to a de- is problematic. most important data. That is what I veloping world country and say, a try to teach my students and what hundred years ago you were worse I've tried to do in my book. My crit- off?’ My answer was yes. But much more. She was shaking her head ics really have to come up with bet- ter than just saying I'm selective. while I pointed out that many chil-

dren died within the first five years.

ON DEMOCRACY AND FALSE They lived to only 20, 25 years on average, and virtually starved. To- IDEAS It is very, very good democracy day they have literacy and they have food. Things are moving in the for politicians to follow what peo- ple want. So the whole debate right direction. All the people who should engage the entire population. resort to name calling are betraying But we are dealing with a lot of themselves. If they had good argu- Bjørn Storm 1 people who believe that things are ments they would come out with going bad. And if that is wrong, them. Environment Unit 2 there is a really terrible personal There's a famous quote from the price to pay for it. So I think it is Harvard Law School that says if H V McKay Dinner 3 important to get a public debate on you have a good case, pound the the extent that things are going case, if you have a bad case, pound NGO Project 4 wrong and the extent that things are the table. getting better. For this, we need to Latest on Web 5 get the data out and continuously BAD FAITH AND GETTING IT confront people who say things are WRONG Forthcoming publications 5 getting worse. I think it's incredibly important to I was at the University of Queen- say that people don’t act in bad IPA Events 6 sland yesterday and a girl asked me, faith. When business organizations ‘how can you possibly say that go out and say, don't worry so much Stop Press 7 The IPA Environment Unit

dollar budget for an awareness rais- support the claims of deteriorating ing campaign that includes vilifying water quality. The Murray Darling your industry. Basin Commission concurred, stat- ‘In the case of the WWF Save the ing that average salinity had Reef Campaign, science was con- dropped over the last 10 years. tinually invoked to give authority to The IPA Environment Unit has the campaign all the while effec- focused on The Save the Murray tively creating a false impression of Campaign, as it will potentially im- environmental harm. ‘I see many pact on a region that generates similarities between the Save the about 25 per cent of Australia’s ag- Reef and Save the Murray River ricultural production, and remove Campaigns’ said Jennifer. ‘Not about the same amount of water as only do both campaigns involve the has been provided to the River sys- World Wide Fund for Nature and tem by the Snowy Scheme – the CSIRO, but they both falsely claim equivalent of three Sydney har- deteriorating water quality’. bour’s full of water worth over $1.5 Flagging the direction for the En- billion dollars. Jennifer’s concern Dr Jennifer Marohasy vironment Unit, Jennifer’s first pa- is not that $1.5 billion is spent on per with the IPA, Received Evi- the environment – but that if $1.5 dence for Deteriorating Water billion is spent, it should be on Dr Jennifer Marohasy joined the Quality in the River Murray, ex- something that does a lot of envi- IPA on 1 July 2003 as Director of posed the extent of the misinforma- ronmental good. the newly formed Environment tion that has been peddled by the In response to her paper, the Unit. She is a classically trained CSIRO Division of Land and Wa- CSIRO website substituted the text biologist who got her ‘hands dirty’ ter. Jennifer investigated the extent claiming rising salinity levels with spending a total of seven years in of the problem of rising salt levels the bland, ‘Land and water resource Africa in search of biological con- and found that the evidence did not managers in Australia are under in- trol agents for some of Queen- creasing pressure to meet stringent sland’s worst rangeland weed spe- environmental guidelines, and the cies, and later as Environment Man- health of rivers and estuaries is a ager for Queensland Cane Growers. Recent articles from key factor in the sustainable man- During the 1990s, Jennifer pub- the agement of Australia’s natural re- lished 12 papers in international and Environment Unit sources.’ Australian scientific journals and 2 The Environment Unit has much book chapters. work to do. Jennifer observes, Taking up the position of Envi- Received Evidence for De- ‘Why are resource managers under ronment Manager with the $2 bil- terioration in Water Quality increasing pressure? Who deter- lion Queensland sugar industry in in the River Murray mines the appropriateness of envi- 1997 was a big change. Jennifer ronmental guidelines? Shouldn’t we oversaw the development of an in- by Jennifer Marohasy be able to trust what we read on the dustry-wide best management pro- CSIRO website? At stake is our ca- gramme, endorsement of the first Property Rights and the pacity as a nation to make sensible commodity-specific code of prac- Great Barrier Reef decisions on environmental issues.’ tice under the Environment Protec- The Unit will continue its work in tion Act 1994 (Queensland), devel- by Jennifer Marohasy challenging the environment doom- opment of submissions to govern- sayers. An article has just been pub- ment enquiries and assisted region- The Green Movement: Time lished in the December edition of ally-based officers develop plans to Get Serious the IPA REVIEW analysing the dis- and strategies, particularly in the By Mike Nahan tortions in the Australian Bureau of areas of environmental management Statistic’s 2002 state of Australia’s and pest management. environment report, Measuring When the World Wide Fund for IPA's Submission to the Australia’s Progress. Nature (WWF) launched its Save Productivity Commission's Jennifer has also just published an the Reef Campaign on World Envi- Inquiry into Impacts of Na- IPA Backgrounder, Myth & the ronment Day in June 2001, Jennifer Murray: Measuring the Real State experienced first hand what it was tive Vegetation and Biodi- of the River Environment. like to be at the wrong end of the versity Regulations

stick when a global environmental by Jim Hoggett organization with a multi-million

2 TOUCH DECEMBER 2003 H V McKay Lecture and Dinner The Australian Club, Tuesday 30 September

Bjørn on Priorities

‘Typically we make very, very bad investments in the environment when our primary policy focus is to save human lives. We must state what it is Bjørn Lomborg with Hugh Morgan, AC Alan Wood gives a vote of thanks that's actually important, where it is that we should place our efforts, and make sure that we don't just do something that sounds good, that makes us feel good, but that actually has little effect in doing good in this world.’

David Young, Ian Hore-Lacey, Alistair Urquhart, Michael Foley and Bjørn Lomborg Mary Urquhart at the Melbourne dinner

Kris Stooke, John Simpson, Cathy Simpson, and Mike Stooke Rita Bentley and Kersten Gentle

TOUCH DECEMBER 2003 3 The Non Government Organization Project

stitute in June. The conference, liberal attitude to the nature of ‘We're Not from the Government, charity work is best balanced by a but We're Here to Help You. Non- disclosure by charities to donors of governmental Organizations: The two key concepts, the efficiency of Growing Power of an Unelected the charity and the nature of the Few’ opened up a series of fronts work undertaken in the name of to challenge the political activism the charity. Disclosure to donors, of NGOs. Papers are available at not limits to non-partisan advo- www.aei.org, edited papers will be cacy, is the answer to the scrutiny published next year by the AEI. required for the public support of The AEI also has an NGOWatch charity work. website which is worth viewing, In 2004 there will be two new as is the Capital Research Center Backgrounders, Informed Giving, site, www.capitalresearch.org, and and NGO Capture. The fundamen- their GreenWatch service, www. tal argument in Informed Giving is greenwatch.org derived from the Charities submis- The project made a detailed sion. The answer lies in providing submission to the Board of Taxa- the donors to charitable NGOs Gary Johns, Senior Fellow and tion in October on the Draft with sufficient information. Each head of the NGO Project Charities Bill 2003. It argued that charity should supply information charities – a major part of the about its activities, and make this NGO sector – have changed the information accessible to all do- The NGO Project has tackled a way they do business. The work of nors. The key pieces of informa- number of issues in the year, and charities is more ambiguously po- tion are the percentage of funds will expand its horizons in 2004. litical than was once the case, in- devoted to raising funds, a meas- The key arguments for the IPA deed the very notion of a charity is ure of the efficiency of the organi- interest in, and concern about, the problematic. None of this would zation and the percentage of funds NGO sector are the impact of par- matter if charity status did not expended by whatever methods, ticipative democracy on represen- carry certain tax assisted privi- including lobbying. tative democracy, and the need for leges. As it does, there is a need to Advocacy NGOs are vehicles an open relationship between gov- clarify and delimit the definition for political activism, and, like po- ernment and NGOs. These argu- of a charity. Ultimately, the com- litical parties, there is a perpetual ments were set out in some detail bination of public assistance and a contest among the members to in the foundation papers of the control them. Labor, Liberal and Project, NGO Way to Go: Political National party members, or more Accountability of Non-government Backgrounders likely, former members will some- Organizations in a Democratic produced from the NGO times bewail the changes to their Society, 2000, Protocols with Project parties; that they are not represent- NGOs: The Need to Know, 2001. ing the groups they once did, that A concrete outcome of these NGO Way to Go: Political their policies have changed, and so papers is a contract with the Prime Accountability of Non- on. This struggle to capture the Minister's Community Business government Organizations organization means capturing the Partnership to undertake a re- in a Democratic Society, label, and doing things under the search study entitled, ‘The Proto- 2000 label that may well vary from the col: Managing Relations with original purpose. NGOs’. The project aims to de- Protocols with NGOs: The The same struggle for control velop a ‘trial protocol’ for public Need to Know, 2001 can be observed in environmental, disclosure of NGO standing with The Good Reputation Index aid, welfare, human rights and a Government. A key objective of 2003 host of other advocacy NGOs in the project is to make information the past decades. The capture of about NGOs that have relation- Draft Charities Bill 2003 organizations, predominantly by ships with Government publicly the Left, as vehicles for ideologies accessible. The report is due for Planned for 2004 at great variance from the original completion by December 31. charter is a study worth undertak- The Project ventured to Wash- Informed Giving ing. The project aims to report on ington DC in a joint conference NGO Capture this issue later in 2004. with the American Enterprise In-

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IPA Backgrounder IPA Backgrounder IPA Backgrounder

AUSTRALIAN AID THE AL-JAZEERA MYTH & THE POLICY: A CASE OF BROADCASTING MURRAY: MEASURING LOSE/LOSE, NOT CORPORATION THE REAL STATE OF THE WIN/WIN RIVER ENVIRONMENT

by Tim Blair & by Peter Urban by Jennifer Marohasy James Morrow

This Backgrounder identifies the Why was the Australian public mis- The ABC’s coverage of the war in objectives of, and constraints fac- led into believing that salt levels Iraq was a war in itself—a war ing, Australia’s aid programme, are rising in the Murray River when against pro-Western perspectives, analyses how we provide our aid salt levels have actually been fal- with the points of view of those op- and to whom we give it, and re- ling at key sites for over 20 years? posed to the conflict endlessly pro- views the performance of the pro- What is the real state of the river’s moted above Coalition arguments. gramme overall. It concludes that environment in terms of fish, red Journalists Tim Blair and James Mor- we need fundamental reform of our gums and water quality? Dr Jenni- row have compiled an exhaustive entire aid programme—both in fer Marohasy explores these issues study of the ABC’s treatment of the terms of funding and in terms of in the context of what myth can war in Iraq. It makes damning read- AusAID’s structure and perform- reveal about our society’s preoccu- ing. ance. pations and prejudices.

A$13.20 December 2003 A$13.20 December 2003 A$22.00 TOUCH DECEMBER 2003 5 Serve Public Ends, held in Mel- bourne on 10 July. Gary asked why it is that the pub- lic become concerned about the in- volvement of profit-making firms in the delivery of public services. With many outstanding examples, TILTING AT WINDMILLS eas of economic life. People want he gave many reasons why private Even though the growth of wind change for the better, but are out- firms do indeed seek to do public generation has been rapid, the fact raged by any change that impacts good. remains that wind supplies a trivial on an entitlement. amount of the world’s energy. So SERIOUS TIMES FOR GREENS concluded Alan Moran in his sub- JUDICIAL INTEGRITY Society has failed to impose ac- mission, Wind Power and Other A breach of ethics can involve too cepted standards of representative- Renewables to the Review of the close a relationship between politi- ness, and deep Greens have ex- Renewable Energy (Electricity) cians and the judiciary. And it is a ploited our tolerance, said Mike Act 2000, May 2003. He ex- problem that is not just confined to Nahan addressing the Victorian plained, ‘Wind is intrinsically less third world countries. So explained Farmers Federation 24th Annual efficient than a more concentrated Judge J. Clifford Wallace from the Conference in Melbourne on the 22 form of solar energy, like coal or U.S. Court Of Appeals at a Dia- July, 2003. His talk, On The Green oil, or than nuclear energy. It is logue, Standing For Something: Movement: Time to Get Serious, akin to harnessing a hundred cats Ethics In The Law And Judicial In- outlined how environmental groups to achieve the same pulling power tegrity. claim to be, and are then given the as a horse. The Dialogue was generously status of, 'representatives' of the en- hosted by Mallesons Stephen vironment. POWER CHANGE IN IR Jaques in their offices in Melbourne Activists, often with a hatred of The key recommendation of the on Wednesday 18 June 2003. commerce and modernity, have Cole Commission to establish the Judge Wallace warned that, ‘In captured the institutions. Australian Building and Construc- the broadest sense, it’s something tion Commission (ABCC) and which can affect the legal profes- IMPOSSIBLE TASK give it powers co-jointly with the sion in Western nations, including A farmer would need a team of bi- ACCC over aspects of the Trade Australia. He concluded that the le- ologists and botanists to be sure that Practices Act, will have funda- gal profession should ‘stand for he was not damaging or destroying mental ramifications for the car- something’ rather than operate as individual plants of some listed spe- riage of industrial relations. moral relativists. cies, explained Jim Hoggett in a The IPA gathered a group of ex- submission for the IPA to the Pro- perts and major players to debate NO SCIENCE ductivity Commission's Inquiry into the proposal at an IPA Industrial The Great Barrier Reef was not un- Impacts of Native Vegetation and Relations Conference, The last der threat from agriculture, claimed Biodiversity Regulations in July. frontier: Making industrial rela- Jennifer Marohasy in a speech to Jim concluded that ‘we need to re- tions subject to the Trade Prac- the Mackay Production Society’s orient our thinking away from pro- tices Act, held in Melbourne on AGM on 3 July. Speaking on Prop- hibitions on activity towards a care- Thursday 22 May. erty rights and the Great Barrier ful use of the environment’. The seminar proved to be of vital Reef, she explained that ‘the restric- interest to human resource manag- tions being proposed by govern- HOW TO MINIMIZE BUSHFIRES ers, industrial relations advocates ment under the Reef Plan are, at There is in no doubt that there is a and many commercial lawyers, least in part, a consequence of a ‘need for prescribed burning’ if we policy analysts, policy makers and clever environmental campaign that are to reduce the massive bushfires business managers. generated over 7,000 new members like we had last summer, Peter Atti- for the World Wide Fund for Na- will said in a submission to the WELFARE BLOWOUT ture in 2001/2002.’ Environmental- House of Representatives Select Over the past forty years, spending ists appeal to science for the author- Committee Inquiry into the recent on welfare entitlements has in- ity it can give to an idea, but it is Australian bushfires in Ballarat on creased fivefold and the pressure really ideology masquerading as 30 July. We now have the technol- for more spending will continue to science. ogy to manage fire in a way that grow. Amanda Vanstone, Minister maintains biodiversity and mark- For Family And Community Ser- PRIVATE SECTOR edly reduces hazards to life and vices, was outlining the nature of Can private profit seeking compa- property. But first, we have to turn the welfare crisis in Australia at a nies have a public service ethos? around the ideological opposition to Dialogue, The Age Of Entitlement, This is the question that Gary L. prescribed burning. in Melbourne on Wednesday 4 Sturgess, Executive Director, The June 2003. Serco Institute, London, answered RIGHTS AND ENVIRONMENT The problem, she explained, was at a Dialogue entitled, To Join In- Environmental fundamentalism is that the idea of entitlement is not terest with Duty: Harnessing the driving policies that are eroding confined to welfare, but to all ar- Self-Interest of the Private Sector to property rights through variously

6 TOUCH DECEMBER 2003 increasingly the regulatory burden, Naumann-Foundation’s Fifth Eco- increasing the cost of production nomic Freedom Network Asia and restricting access to resource Meeting held in Jaipur, India, from use, warned Jennifer Marohasy in 24-28 September. Some representa- STOP a speech, The Exploitation of Sci- tives from Europe, Africa, NZ and ence for the Erosion of Property USA came. Mike Nahan was in- PRESS Rights, at the AGM of Property vited to speak on the Economic Rights Australia in Roma, Queen- Freedom Index within the Austra- sland, on 5 August. These devel- lian context, in particular concern- opments generally increase uncer- ing economic policy advice and ad- tainly and are not good for invest- vocacy. ment or business. IPA Media Profile DEBATE ON EVIDENCE MUDDY WATER … AND FACTS There was a case for substantial in- 22.3.03 Herald Sun Don’t go with the To the claims that the Murray tervention in, and resetting of, the flow Mike Nahan River has a major problem in dete- research agenda in Australia said 31.3.03 AFR Gamekeepers turn riorating water quality, Jennifer Jennifer Marohasy in a debate at poacher Ken Philips Marohasy says that the facts do the Sixth International River Man- April 03 Ethical Investor Ethics in- not support these claims, with sa- agement Symposium in Brisbane dustry’s ethical dilemma Mike linity levels halving over the last Nahan on 6 September. Titled, Is there 3.4.03 The Age Going green will not 20 years. Dr Marohasy was giving Sufficient Evidence to Warrant be Doyle’s salvation Alan Moran the keynote address, Received Evi- Substantial Intervention in and Re- 3.4.03 AFR New crop of Luddites are dence for Deteriorating Water setting of the Natural Resource doing us harm Mike Nahan Quality in the River Murray, to the Management Agenda in Australia: 3.4.03 3AK Liberal party policies dis- Second IPA Water Forum in Can- The MDB and Great Barrier Reef, cussed with Alan Moran berra on 25 August. Dr Marohasy Dr Marohasy argued that the inde- 5.4.03 Herald Sun Building on bad suggested that we ‘have institu- pendence of science needed to be form Mike Nahan tional failure of the highest order re-established. 9.4.03 AFR Avoiding an EBA’s when both sides of politics eagerly shackles Ken Phillips sign up to a myth promulgated by 9.4.03 AFR The process to assess ca- CAPACITY TO MANAGE pacity to manage Ken Phillips our most respected research insti- Since the release of the IPA’s Ca- 14.4.03 ABC Rural Radio Transport is tution, the CSIRO.’ pacity to Manage Index in Decem- discussed Alan Moran ber 2002, the term ‘capacity to 14.4.03 Radio National Peter Thomp- SUNDAY IN THE PUB manage’ has rapidly entered the son discusses electricity Alan Moran Our democratic system is chang- thinking of business managers and 16.4.03 Radio National US Free ing from a representative democ- regulators and has opened up a new Trade Alan Moran racy to a participatory democracy area of debate. The Institute organ- 21.4.03 Herald Sun Hey, big spender and this is giving power to new ized a half day seminar in Mel- Mike Nahan sets of players, particularly NGOs. bourne on 25 November, Capacity 22.4.03 The Australian Outside objec- Mike Nahan was speaking at the to Manage Index: A New Diagnos- tives not needed in Iraq Don D’Cruz 27.4.03 3RRR The Spin discusses Liberal party’s Sunday at the Pub tic Tool. There was an excellent Good Reputation Guide with Gary in Kew in October. He outlined line-up of speakers, including Rich- Johns some of the activities of NGOs ard Marles from the ACTU, Prof 3.5.03 Herald Sun Pills pop questions and warned that many of them are Richard Mitchell from the Univer- Mike Nahan neither representative of nor sity of Melbourne, IR Consultant 9.5.03 West Australian Government aligned with the values of the Mike Angwin and Ken Phillips. falls at biggest hurdle Mike Nahan groups they claim to represent. 15.5.03 The Age GM foods: how the NGOS TAKEN WITH SALT government is failing Mike Nahan WATER AND SUSTAINABILITY An associational revolution has 17.5.03 Herald Sun Beautiful set of Our economic health is dependent taken place over the last two dec- numbers Mike Nahan on environmental sustainability, 23.5.03 The Australian By their ades with the growth in the size and works, rank them [Gary Johns’ work Jennifer Marohasy argued at a influence of global NGOs. Don on Reputation Index] Jo Studdert Victorian Liberal Party Forum, D’Cruz was giving a paper, The 23.5.03 The Australian Abbott wants Parliament House, Melbourne on Power of NGOs, at the ‘Kooyong to hammer cartel [IPA IR conference] 17 October. Entitled Water – Eco- 200 Club’ in Melbourne on No- Robert Gottliebsen nomic and Environmental Sustain- vember, 2003. He went on to say 26.5.03 ABC Radio Brisbane Steve ability, the issue of water use effi- that to many people, this develop- Austin talks about the environment ciency was discussed at length. ment may be viewed as over- with Mike Nahan whelmingly good. But poor stan- 28.5.03 AFR [Letters] Mantra false ECONOMIC FREEDOM’S IMPOR- dards of transparency, accountabil- and perverse Mike Nahan 31.5.03 Herald Sun Opening up non- TANCE ity and governance within these or- profits Mike Nahan Around 35 delegates from market ganization should be a warning for 2.6.03 ABC 7.30 Report Queensland orientated research institutes and us to treat what these groups say mining discussed with Mike Nahan think tanks from 16 countries in with a grain of salt. 3.06.03 Herald Sun Your money Asia attended the Friedrich- Continued on page 8 ... TOUCH DECEMBER 2003 7 been stitched up Ken Phillips health’s heady brew Alan Moran 30.7.03 ABC Radio Adelaide Richard 30.9.03 Radio 2QN Interview with STOP Margettson Jennifer Marohasy Bjorn Lomborg 31.7.03 Environmental News Service 30.9.03 The Australian ‘Catastrophe’ PRESS (ENS) [IPA on NGOs] overheated Bjorn Lomborg 31.7.03 West Australian In the name of 1.10.03 ABC TV Landline Kerry Loner- charity, keep asking Don D’Cruz gan with Bjorn Lomborg 31.7.03 SunRaisaya News Denise 1.10.03 The Courier Mail Green ‘truth’ ...continued from McCarthy on the received evidence for just a load of hot air Alan Moran page seven Deteriorating Water Quality paper with 1.10.03 The Australian Earth to green Jennifer Marohasy Skeptic [About letters on Lomborg] 2.8.03 AFR Just cause: push comes to Jennifer Marohasy blown Don D’Cruz shove for the helping hand Gary Johns 2.10.03 SMH Giving the lie to all that 12.6.03 NGOWatch.org Iraq-Attack 4.8.03 Canberra Times Prescribed greenie gloom [Lomborg] Miranda Think Tank Turns Wrath on NGO’s burn-offs needed Peter Attiwill Devine [NGO conference in Washington] 5.8.03 Herald Sun Our forest must 2.10.03 ABC Radio Canberra Chris 14.06.03 Herald Sun Acting smart on burn Peter Attiwill Uhlmann with Bjorn Lomborg trade Alan Moran 6.8.03 The Advertiser Blazing a trail 2.10.03 SBS News Global warming 16.06.03 The Age Watchdog’s owner- back to the future Peter Attiwill poses no problems [Lomborg] ship guidelines an impediment for the 7.8.03 ABC Radio 3LO Tony Delroy 2.10.03 ABC Radio National Media power sector Alan Moran discusses Foreign Aid and NGOs with Program Senator Alston’s record with 20.6.03 The Australian Aboriginal Mike Nahan Mike Nahan separatism has failed, so let’s stop 8.8.03 The Age ‘Charities’ that are 2.10.03 National Press Club Canberra funding it Gary Johns really political lobbyists must be ex- Bjorn Lomborg 20.6.03 ABC Radio Canberra Ross posed Mike Nahan 2.10.03 The Courier Mail The sky Solley discusses ATSIC Gary Johns 9.8.03 Herald Sun Power in ACCC’s really is falling after all [Lomborg] Ian 27.6.03 ABC Radio National Austra- hands Alan Moran Lowe lian Magnesium Corporation Issue & 11.8.03 ConsumerFreedom.com 3.10.03 ABC Sydney Sally Loane with Government role in assisting firms [Report on Nahan article 8.8] Bjorn Lomborg discussed Mike Nahan 12.8.03 WorkplaceInfo EA restrictions 3.10.03 Radio 2GB Philip Clark inter- 28.6.03 Herald Sun Melting Public on management highlighted: study views Bjorn Lomborg Money Mike Nahan [Capacity to Manage Index] 4.10.03 Herald Sun Strong case for tax 30.6.03 ABC Rural Radio, Mackay 12.8.03 Townsville Bulletin Breath of cuts Mike Nahan Property rights and the Great Barrier Fresh Air [Marohasy & Cane Growers] 5.10.03 Channel 9 Sunday John Lyon Reef Jennifer Marohasy 15.8.03 Radio National Rural Discus- interviews Bjorn Lomborg 1.7.03 ABC Shepparton Liz Roddway sion on Electricity with Alan Moran 7.10.03 The Bulletin Continuing Crisis discusses Murray water issues with 15.8.03 ABC PM Stephen Long dis- [Lomborg in Sydney] Tim Blair Alan Moran cusses government policy toward etha- 10.10.03 AFR Letters Before you lob 1.7.03 The Australian Watchdog nol industry with Mike Nahan bricks [Quiggan 9.10] Mike Nahan whose bite was rabid Mike Nahan 19.8.03 Environmental Manager, Issue 11.10.03 ABC Radio National 2.7.03 AFR Go with the flow on river 450 [IPA and Marohasy work] Earthbeat Mark Horstman with Bjorn management Alan Moran 20.8.03 On Line Opinion Received evi- Lomborg 3.7.03 Queensland Country Life dence for deterioration of water quality Queensland sugar industry leader in River Murray Jennifer Marohasy steps down [Jennifer Marohasy’s de- 25.8 03 Herald Sun Bracks’ tunnel vi- parture from Canegrowers to IPA] sion Mike Nahan 3.7.03 ABC Radio, Tropical North 27.8.03 Weekly Times CSIRO claims Queensland Margaret El Sharmi Great challenged [Marohasy] Peter Hunt Barrier Reef Jennifer Marohasy 28.8.03 AFR Don’t give in to brand 4.7.03 AFR [Letters] [On Moran 2.7] mail Mike Nahan 7.7.03 ABC Radio Riverina Water 3.9.03 Yarrawonga Chronicle Murray issues discussed with Alan Moran River is healthy [IPA] 8.7.03 The Australian Vehicle blocks 6.9.03 Herald Sun Free concerns are hit head-on by dollar [IPA Capacity to just myths Mike Nahan In Touch is published every four months by the Manage Index] Robert Gottliebsen 11.9.03 Queensland Country Life Institute of Public Affairs Ltd 14.7.03 Herald Sun Into the fast lane CSIRO credibility under fire Mike Nahan [Marohasy] Michael Thomson (Incorporated in the ACT) ABN 49 008 627 727 18.7.03 The Advertiser Who are char- 16.9.03 Sydney Morning Herald An- ity donations really helping? Don other ‘heretic’ to be vilified D’Cruz Paddy McGuinness Level 2, 410 Collins St, Melbourne VIC 3000 19.7.03 The West Australian WA gets 18.09.03 AFR Energy market needs Tel: (03) 9600 4744 Fax: (03) 9602 4989 its share of Canberra pie Mike Nahan certainty Alan Moran 20.7.03 The Advertiser [Letters] Don 20.9.03 Herald Sun Lighter shade of E-mail: [email protected] D’Cruz green Mike Nahan Website: www.ipa.org.au 22.7.03 AFR NGO’s must become 20.9.03 Radio National Alexandra de Editor: Andrew McIntyre more accountable Don D’Cruz Blas’ Earthbeat on improving water 26.7.03 Herald Sun The great land quality Jennifer Marohasy grab Mike Nahan 27.9.03 The Australian The Bjorn 28.7.03 AFR Notebook A lot of talk Storm Leigh Dayton on higher education and no real out- 29.9.03 QCL Queensland Michael ISSN 1325-6564 comes [John Roskam, IPA Review] Thompson with Bjorn Lomborg Print Post Approved 34276/00075 30.7.03 AFR Clothing industry has 30.9.03 AFR Best person to handle

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