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Mark S. Lawson

Mark Lawson has been a journalist for nearly 25 years. He has worked in trade publications (IT, travel, hospitality, printing ect), on suburbans in Melbourne and on regional Victorian newspapers. But the bulk of his career has been on The Australian Financial Review as editorial writer for several years, science columnist, Perth bureau chief, companies and business writer. One series of reports he edits is the AFR's Carbon Quarterly. He has freelanced for various other publications over the years, including the defunct Independent Monthly and specialist overseas newsletters in the diverse areas of accounting and biotechnology.

For two years up to mid-2001, before being forcibly repatriated to the AFR, he was editor of a specialised financial magazine CFO. While at CFO he wrote a column called 'Rave' in which he tried to offend as many people as possible. Mark's original training was in science at Melbourne University from which, after reading material on almost every subject except those pertaining to his course, he emerged with a rather sorry BSc in 1977.


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Super Heros should just let the action rip
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The feeble outcomes of Quixotic power crusades
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Wind storm of green energy is a flat calm
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Paris: promised cuts won't inflict pain on voters
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Couch soccer
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Climate change model environmental damage claims are just smoke
Environment - 9/07/2015 - 89 comments
Surfing gravity's waves still tough after decades of trying
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Don't waste words, write it down with a pen first
Science & Technology - 26/05/2015 - 6 comments
Fashion? You’re standing up in it.
Humour & Satire - 15/04/2015 - 2 comments
Rudd missteps on green energy blew away wind market
Environment - 2/04/2015 - 7 comments
Compact nuclear power units may blow wind away
Environment - 4/03/2015 - 83 comments
Giving up on international emissions control
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Sensible public projects? Tell 'em they're dreamin'
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The Asians are already here
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Darth Vader – the good guy who lost
Humour & Satire - 17/05/2013 - 11 comments
Wind power running out of puff
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Forecasting for disaster
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Floods wash away carbon tax support
Environment - 27/04/2012 - 41 comments
Breaking the Sheep’s Back: A review of the Australian wool industry and government intervention
Economics - 22/08/2011 - 36 comments
Rewriting Easter Island's history
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Wind power: not always there when you need it
Environment - 18/07/2011 - 56 comments
Media madness: blaming climate confusion on the fourth estate
Environment - 7/06/2011 - 36 comments
Big climate cycle means wet decades
Environment - 4/02/2011 - 63 comments
Paying the bill for carbon cuts
Environment - 26/10/2010 - 18 comments
Emissions already well short of forecasts
Environment - 8/10/2010 - 51 comments
Climate apocalypse postponed
Science & Technology - 1/09/2010 - 26 comments
Money makes the activists go round
Environment - 28/06/2010 - 15 comments
Blowing away money
Science & Technology - 20/05/2010 - 55 comments
Ice Age theories warming up
Environment - 30/04/2010 - 35 comments
Film review: 'Not Evil Just Wrong'
Environment - 14/10/2009 - 45 comments
A climate model for every season
Science & Technology - 25/09/2009 - 185 comments
Living with the market cycle
July 2009 Feature - 16/07/2009 - 1 comment
Flawed forecasting
June 2009 Feature - 11/06/2009 - 30 comments
Living in fear
Society - 11/05/2009 - 12 comments
Tilting at population windmills
Environment - 16/04/2009 - 37 comments
Wind energy blowing hot air
Environment - 20/03/2009 - 22 comments
Darwin: evidence is everything
Science & Technology - 18/02/2009 - 43 comments
Testing greenhouse
Science & Technology - 23/01/2009 - 40 comments
Kyoto - a lot of hot air
Environment - 8/12/2008 - 16 comments
Compared to ’87 this crisis is a dud
Economics - 28/10/2008 - 14 comments
Bad feelings become self fulfilling
Economics - 14/10/2008 - 6 comments
Activity is quiet on the sunspot front ...
Science & Technology - 29/08/2008 - 117 comments
Justice at all costs
Law & Liberties - 27/06/2008 - 5 comments
A whole new level of crazy
Environment - 23/06/2008 - 14 comments
Sceptics will have their day
Environment - 17/04/2008 - 66 comments
Selling out celebrities
Media - 22/02/2008 - 8 comments
Election 07: boredom will win
Domestic Politics - 13/11/2007 - 8 comments
Harry Potter will potter on
The Arts - 1/10/2007 - 6 comments
Encouraging R&D - forget about it!
Economics - 27/08/2007 - 5 comments
Climate change crystal ball clouds over
Environment - 24/07/2007 - 28 comments
Throwing stones in the glass greenhouse
Environment - 7/06/2007 - 13 comments
Hot air rises in greenhouse
Environment - 10/05/2007 - 19 comments
Going cold on climate change
Science & Technology - 2/03/2007 - 76 comments
Waterworld scenario sinks
Environment - 16/02/2007 - 21 comments
Even without WMD’s, war in Iraq was justified
International - 1/09/2004
Confessions of a Soccer Dad
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Humour & Satire - 8/07/2004 - 1 comment
Abu Ghraib and other prisons around the world
Law & Liberties - 11/06/2004 - 2 comments
The media put the worst possible spin on any event in military conflicts
Media - 11/05/2004
Machiavelli move over. In computer gaming, morality is for whimps!
Humour & Satire - 11/03/2004
The only thing certain is that the world’s oil reserves won’t last forever
Environment - 5/01/2004
Money, bombs and freelance terrorism - how is it all financed?
International - 25/11/2003
Book Review: Don Watson's flawed diatribe against consultant-speak
Media - 11/11/2003 - 1 comment
Why have Lomborg's detractors taken such a narrow view of his book?
Environment - 30/10/2003
The sublime futility of marching in the streets to protest unwinnable issues
Society - 1/10/2003
Coverage of Hanson and Iraq proved there's silliness in journalism culture
Media - 10/09/2003
Coming to grips with the long, slow march of ageism in the workplace
Society - 13/08/2003
The ACCC must continue to publicly oppose collusive business practices
Domestic Politics - 10/07/2003
Journalists may hate Howard but the PM gets his good news elsewhere
Domestic Politics - 25/06/2003
How hard would it be for me to defend an accusation of rape from my past?
Domestic Politics - 15/05/2003
Why did the pundits keep claiming the military campaign was in trouble?
Media - 17/04/2003
You shouldn't believe everything you see - especially when there's a war on
Media - 27/03/2003
Lots of reasons why removing Saddam is good for world peace and stability
International - 11/03/2003
Civilised reasons to do something about Saddam Hussein
International - 24/10/2002
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