CSIRO serves up a muddled mealAfter copping flak for its previous meat-heavy diets, the CSIRO is now trying to please greenies and vegos as well with a confused new set of dietary recommendations that will probably annoy everybody.
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Oz Post and Medibank the cream of the public sector earners
The high salary earners of the public sector are streets ahead of the best paid politicians, write Bernard Keane and Crikey intern Emily Finlay.
Murray-Darling: same mess it always was
In the first of a two-part series, Bernard Keane looks at just how little has changed — and how much has been spent — in the fight to save the Murray-Darling Basin.
Why are CSIRO scientists spruiking for the coal industry?
Just when did it become normal for publicly-employed scientists to spruik for the coal industry? asks Clive Hamilton.
Deconstructing the mining industry’s ETS data
A panel of Crikey experts deconstruct the mining industry’s job data manipulation for Australia’s emissions trading scheme.
The coming global catastrophe: what will we tell the next generation?
A British Government advisor is predicting a global catastrophe by 2030 over diminishing food, water and energy supplies. What will you tell your children if he’s correct? asks Martin Flanagan.
Political snippets: What happened to the CSIRO?
CSIRO: a once great institution … Costello shows his merits … Browsing the Jacko collection
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GM food … World Youth Day … the Murray Darling … GM Food … global warming …
CSIRO scientist’s GM letter campaign ‘backfires’
A CSIRO scientist’s campaign to sway chefs from an anti-GM food stance has hit hurdles, writes Katherine Wilson.
CSIRO scientist asks chefs to leave GM foods alone
Deputy Chief of CSIRO Plant Industry, TJ Higgins, has written to more than 50 chefs asking (or should that be lobbying) them not to boycott GM products. Katherine Wilson explains.
“Fantastic plastic” to defuse extreme green causes
The CSIRO is part of this morning’s announcement of a “fantastic plastic” material that could make desalination much less destructive. Science has a way of overtaking extreme green causes and neutralising them, writes Ben Sandilands.
