Marsupials aren't generally reckoned among the more intelligent species, but the dim lights of their tiny brains still outshine the 'animal rights' activists who are their self-appointed defenders. Indeed, while your typical look-at-me-in-an-animal-costume protesters make a lot of noise, their ignorance of koalas, habitat and why the population rises and falls would fill volumes

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Like the Soviet geneticist, who bent the sail of his findings to the political wind blowing from the Kremlin, too many modern scientists demonstrate a distressing eagerness to mesh their pronouncements with the favoured narratives of the politicians and institutions who fund them. President Eisenhower warned such ethical bankruptcy was coming. Now it's here

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Generally speaking, one doesn't become the youngest-ever Governor of the Bank of England without having an above-average intelligence, which makes Mark Carney, now the UN's Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance, a very sad case indeed. He made the perils of soaking the brain in green piffle obvious to all when delivering this year's Reith Lectures

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The case to shut the walking track to the summit of Mount Warning is built on a foundation of lies and faux facts that, were they to be piled one atop the other, would soar far beyond the former volcano's spectacular peak. Once again, at the behest of activists and to the delight of bureaucrats, Australians are being denied and divided according to race and myth

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As the fires of recent decades have shown, especially last summer's inferno, mismanagement of the bush has become very nearly a diabolic art. But not to worry, champion of wind turbines, eco rorts and rent seekers Matt Kean has saved the Blue Mountains' Wollemi pines from further threat. Such are his powers it required but a simple stroke of his mighty green pen

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Even without his taxpayer-funded gig as a 'climate commissioner', Australia's most laughable climate hysteric still enjoys some advantages. No matter how flawed his diagnoses and ridiculous his remedies -- his latest book overflows with each -- he'll be feted by those who share the view that climate hooligans must be brought to heel

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Cast out by James Cook University, Peter Ridd has found time amidst his ongoing legal battles with the institution's taxpayer-funded lawyers to pen a book whose titular focus is on the science of the Great Barrier Reef. More than that, it is a summons to defend the scientific method, so often observed these days in the breach

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Even when our forests aren’t exploding in megafires they’re in very serious trouble, yet the required remedy wouldn't be difficult to implement. First, though, we need to divert a fraction of the expenditure wasted on the sort of self-perpetuating research that draws its funding from the pursuit of problems, not solutions

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In the immortal words of Victoria’s one-time premier Joan Kirner, education must be 'part of the socialist struggle for equality, participation and social change, rather than an instrument of the capitalist system'. Were Ms Kirner still with us, she would be mightily pleased with Education Services Australia's dark green Scootle portal

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Truly, we live in interesting times, the grand scheme to run an industrial civilisation without the 24-hour contribution of conventional power sources being the most interesting development of all. Given the legions of rent seekers and their shills in state and federal parliaments, it will pay to think ahead: get in early, beat the rush, install a diesel generator today!

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