Opinion

As the pumped-up spectre of climatic catastrophe continues to deflate, Ruper Darwall's new book makes a handy guide to the conceits, careerism, delusions and blatant misrepresentations that debased the good name of science and set the stage for economic ruin

The evidence is building and Tony Abbott is the clincher -- even the Prime Minister appears to be succumbing to the emasculating effects of climate change

A cash-strapped America no longer has the resources to continue as the world’s policeman, as its craven capitulation to Tehran makes clear. For Australia the message is chilling

Hare-brained schemes and profligate spending go together like, well, 'progressive' attitudes and the handy knack of turning a blind-eye to failure

A billion dollars this year, another billion the next and pretty soon, almost before you know it, the ABC is chewing through serious money. Thank heavens the national broadcaster operates under the indulgent eye of Malcolm Turnbull, feted and habitual Q&A guest, not to mention the favourite Liberal of those who will never, ever, under any circumstances vote Liberal.

PM Stephen Harper has three election victories under his belt and, from a conservative point of view, not much to show for them. Being nice to political enemies is all very well and good, but it leaves your supporters less than impressed

The ABC's charter makes interesting reading, not least because so much of the national broadcaster's fare is at odds with the obligation to provide fair, balanced and edifying content. Depicting a conservative pleasuring a dog falls somewhat short of providing "services of a high standard"

If a slick video and the IPCC's latest inaccurate and untruthful arguments are the best it can do to demonstrate a dangerous warming problem, its advice should be ignored and funding withdrawn

Tony Abbott's sanguine attitude to the national broadcaster will win him no friends, as John Howard must surely have told him. Worse, it is alienating those who cannot grasp why anyone would endure this crony-infested nest of salaried, sniping bohemians

When Joseph Stiglitz and Paul Krugman talk economics, what we hear are two men lost in the euphoric fantasies of the demand-side creed. Pity them, scorn them, ignore them -- but never, ever mistake their reveries for reality

As Australia slept on Sunday morning, confident of an Ashes win, players in another game on the opposite side of the world were trying frantically to snatch victory from the ashes of defeat

A New Zealand court has rejected the argument that one can claim asylum from the alleged ravages of climate change. For the plaintiff, it is back to teeming Kiribati, where the real problem is a booming population

If "Indigenous culture" is to be recognised in Australia's Constitution it is vital to understand what the term means. Rap songs and break dancing, perhaps?

Don't worry too much over those warmist predictions that millions of species will soon be lost to climate change. Judging by their methods it is the doomsayers who are the real dodos

In naming "the six wars China must fight" the Middle Kingdom has stripped even the fig leaf from its expansionist ambitions. That it feels free to do so testifies as much to US weakness as to Chinese aggression

The small republican movement and the large number of politicians who claim to be republicans are grasping at straws if they think Quentin Bryce's break with convention will in any way increase the chances of Australians changing our Constitution