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Welcome to THE THINK TANK. Where thinkers gather information and toss ideas about searching for solutions to contemporary problems based on what actually happens as opposed to what some would like to believe happens.

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Agmates Think Tank - A place For Serious Thinkers

Our Mission.

To regularly provide our thinkers with material based on empirical evidence so policy choices may be better understood.

Our Goal

To develop the economic foundations for sound policy prescriptions which provide economic and social and industrial outcomes which fit the Australian idea of a fair go.

Discussion Forum

Chapter 4. In 2011, has the potential value of salt land been forgotten or is it all just too hard? 15 Replies

Chapter 4Kevin Goss and others have identified the potential loss of 17 million hectares of agricultural land to salt encroachment within the lifetime of our grandchildren has become yesterday’s…Continue

Started by Roger Rankin Crook. Last reply by Cate Stuart Feb 1.

Weather Damage 3 Replies

Found this on the net today, will post more references as I find them.…Continue

Tags: damage, storm, panel, solar

Started by Colin J Ely. Last reply by Roger Rankin Crook Jan 18.

Nuclear Submarines 2 Replies

Recently the Australian Defence Association had an opinion piece in the daily paper regarding Nuclear Powered Submarines. They believe that rather…Continue

Tags: trash, white, submarine, nuclear

Started by Colin J Ely. Last reply by Ian Macrae Yeates Dec 31, 2011.

The Age of Stupid 9 Replies

In recent history we have had powered flight, the replacement of horses with horsepower and steam turbine powered ships. In my own lifetime, we have seen Man walk on the Moon, ColourTV, CD's and…Continue

Tags: technology, superstition, science, stupid

Started by Colin J Ely. Last reply by Roger Rankin Crook Dec 15, 2011.

Climate Change ? 3 Replies

May I express some thoughts regarding the vexed subject of 'Climate Change' and the Labour Government's rat-bag carbon tax?I come from a rural background and had a father who taught us to think for…Continue

Started by Elizabeth Gearey. Last reply by alan mikkelsen Oct 26, 2011.

Chapter 3, It's the farmers problem, ket them fix it. 2 Replies

It’s the farmer’s problem – let them fix it.It’s a fair question to ask why haven’t the landholders done something about salt? Why haven’t they adopted the products of research? After all it is their…Continue

Started by Roger Rankin Crook. Last reply by Roger Rankin Crook Sep 21, 2011.

A Conversation: Chapter 2. 3 Replies

Chapter 2The cost to Australia.Predicting the future is not possible. There are too many variables. What we can do is have a look at the importance or place, of Western Australia agriculture to the…Continue

Started by Roger Rankin Crook. Last reply by Roger Rankin Crook Sep 20, 2011.

Nature doing what Nature does best. 6 Replies

For those who haven't heard there is a farmer in the Shire of Kojonup who grew a GM canola crop in 2010. It was poor crop because of the drought. The crop was cut and windrowed. The wind came and…Continue

Started by Roger Rankin Crook. Last reply by Max Mitchell Sep 20, 2011.

A ‘Conversation’ concerning the Environment of Rural and Regional Australia and Mental Health. 1 Reply

I heard one of the authors of the following ‘Abstract’ The Hidden Health Burden of Environmental Degradation: Disease Comorbidities and Dryland Salinity, on the radio the other day and I was rocked…Continue

Started by Roger Rankin Crook. Last reply by Roger Rankin Crook Sep 18, 2011.

The Conversation.

The Conversation.Chapter 1.To start the conversation I need to take you back to April 1967.My first job in Australia was to clean out the septic tank of our ‘married quarters’ at a farm in Coorow. I…Continue

Started by Roger Rankin Crook Sep 18, 2011.

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Comment by Rae Billett on January 16, 2012 at 8:21am: Ohhhh. AGAIN

Comment by Michaelng Clayton on January 15, 2012 at 8:53pm: Hi Rae I don't have the link handy but you could Google it. Australian scientists have invented a paint on solar panel, guess this is why we sold China our old solar technology.

Comment by Roger Rankin Crook on January 15, 2012 at 1:43pm: They are the cause of them. Surprised you didn't know!

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Comment by Rae Billett on January 15, 2012 at 11:17am: I am interested in the solar panel ability to withstand a really good old fashioned hail storm, hail as big as golf balls or organes, not uncommon in this country, contrary to what some people seem to believe these days. Anyone have any feedback?.

Comment by Colin J Ely on January 14, 2012 at 5:17pm: We have recently had a major hailstorm in Melbourne, also WA has experienced a cyclone. Does anyone have any idea how peoples solar panels and solar hot water systems stood up to these extreme weather events?

Comment by Russell Paul Luck on April 30, 2011 at 8:45am: Having seen "Immigration" companies at work and how they Squeeze money after money after money from people to "Represent" and "Assist" them in their Visa or naturalisation claims/applications they are all most as bad as people smugglers. Taking gross advantage of people and treating them like cattle...

We have cultural issues as bad as any other country.

Our "Family" Courts encourage adversarial conduct and even condone false claims of sexual abuse and molestation to further the goals of the individual...

That is truely sickening and disturbing!

Comment by Russell Paul Luck on March 20, 2011 at 9:20pm: I found these good reports on the "Science" behind "Global Warming" and thought they would interest some in here

http://justgetthere.us/blog/archives/Climategate-U-turn-as-scientis...

http://justgetthere.us/blog/archives/New-mistake-found-in-UN-climat...

Comment by Dale Stiller on March 17, 2011 at 9:09am: I've started a discussion here in the Think Tank group about the situation in Japan.

The comment wall is good for a one off comment or for giving notice of an alert, event or whatever; but it does have the problem of sending an email to members of the group everytime a comment has been made.

Comment by Dixie Nott on March 17, 2011 at 8:25am: Great comment by pennie scott quote " Why is little value attributed to longitidinal observation - up to 30 years - by people who live in one spot and have seen and monitored changes over space and time? This is scathingly referred to as 'anecdotal' evidence".

I have noted this over the years of "consultation" by governments.

One thing we can do to support these observations is a good photographic record. In the scientific world there seems to be a more cordial reception to time series photography as a backup to careful observation. This tool, in vegetation studies at least,was given a help along by the careful collection of repeat photos published in the Darryl Lewis book" Slower Than the Eye can See" set in the Northern Territory.

Comment by pennie scott on March 17, 2011 at 7:16am: To have life there has to be death.

What we would like to know is how we are going to die but that's not often possible.

Having a belief system, philosophy, faith or any other thing which fills this gap can be helpful.

We are all going to die - simple.