The cloning era, which started with a sheep from Scotland, may have effectively ended with a mouse from Japan. 

It is time justice was done and rich countries took responsibility for the damage their actions had or will have on poor countries as a direct effect of climate change. 

Cut speed limits and get unnecessary, big, four-wheel-drive cars off the roads.

Changes to the way academics will be assessed and funded are a hot topic in learned circles, with the Research Quality Framework looming next year if the Government retains office in the upcoming federal election.

For a country of just 21 million, Australia has a huge impact on the global ecosphere and there is much we could and should be doing to address that. Unfortunately, our government has been a standard bearer for the “business as usual” lobby - preferring to deny, delay and dodge any movement to address the issues. 

If the 2007 election is about Australia’s future, then science is a major blank spot on the campaign maps of both sides of politics.

Tackling climate change is like ending slavery. Climate change threatens to wreck the lives of hundreds of millions of the world's poorest, least powerful people.

A comprehensive eradication program to rid Macquarie Island of rabbits, rats and mice is being delayed by a dispute between the Tasmanian and Federal governments over who will foot the bill.

Pirate fishing and poor management are threatening to crash fish stocks in the Asia-Pacific region over the coming 10-20 years.

We must assure ourselves that the National Water Initiative deals with real problems and needs, that its objectives can be secured, and that the whole approach is continually reviewed in the light of experience and feedback.

Australia’s food security is under threat if we end the moratorium on GM crops.

Sir Nicholas Stern has told us that Australia needs to set a target of at least a 60 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions on 1990 levels by 2050. That target has to apply to the transport sector where, according to the Allen report a few years ago, Australia was on track towards a 67 per cent increase in emissions by 2050.

How many people who are fat 'choose' to be so, and if the number is high, why do all the diet companies do so well?

If nothing is done to curb aviation emissions, we won’t be able to meet the targets that are necessary to deal with global warming.

Geoscience is the main discipline underpinning the current $100bn resources boom and the economic growth flowing from it. Geoscience is therefore a strategically vital discipline for Australia.