by kapow | Jun 24, 2021 | Blog, Legal, Miscellaneous
Property rights and boundaries In recent weeks I have been reading a book that highlights the evils of excessive use of the powers of property ownership while also ploughing through a trove of papers that defined a man’s commitment to securing those rights. The book...
by kapow | Jun 14, 2021 | Blog, Miscellaneous
UNIVERSITY RESEARCH—PERSONAL SADNESS I have benefited from a vocation that has offered opportunities to indulge in research. It has been such a privilege. The excitement of being able to go into the field, to observe, to test ideas of others and develop one’s own...
by kapow | May 29, 2021 | Blog, Miscellaneous
SEAHORSE MONITORING BY WOOLLAHRA COUNCIL, NSW Sydney Harbour is one of those estuaries along the NSW coast blessed with the occurrence of seahorses. One in particular is Hippocampus whitei Bleeker 1855. It was named after John White, the Surgeon General of the First...
by kapow | May 18, 2021 | Blog, International
King Tide Last week two articles appeared in the New York Times that revealed “times are a changing”. During the Trump years, federal agencies responsible for collecting and disseminating information on environmental and other indicators that show shifts from previous...
by kapow | May 8, 2021 | Blog, Government Policy
On 23rd April, the Prime Minister announced that the Australian Government “will make an additional $100 million investment to continue leading the world and our region in how we manage our ocean habitats and coastal environments and contribute to the global task of...
by kapow | Apr 25, 2021 | Blog, Miscellaneous
Bruce Thom atop Mount Canobolas on a mild afternoon Going west of the sandstone curtain is a rare event for me. The central west of NSW has long been an area outside my geographic range. So a recent visit with family and friends excited those old instincts...