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We are encouraged to rely more and more on government officials to do for us what we could equally well do for ourselves—and, maybe more importantly, not to do what might help us solve our own problems.
Sep 08 2024
10 mins
If we imagine a metric called the Pinocchio Scale, which measures the number of lies told by a politician as a percentage of his or her overall public statements, our current prime minister (for want of a better description), Airbus Albo, has moved well into uncharted territory.
Sep 06 2024
5 mins
The Miraculous Resilience of the Great Barrier Reef
I want to come back, and I want my daughters to be able to come back, and I want them to be able to bring their daughters or sons to visit [the Great Barrier Reef], and I want [it to still be] there fifty years from now. —President Barack Obama, at the University of Queensland, November 14, 2014
President Obama was reflecting the belief that has been spread around the world that the Great Barrier Reef is being destroyed by Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming (CAGW). Australian scientists have been dining out on such stories for decades, stories that are embellished by climate alarmists, and amplified by the mainstream media around the world. As a response to such alarms, the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) was set up in 1985 with the funds to monitor the Reef’s coral cover, which it has been doing ever since.
This essay appears in November’s Quadrant.
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Madam: Archbishop Fisher (July-August 2024) does not resist the attacks on his church by the political, social or scientific atheists and those who insist on not being told what to do.
Aug 29 2024
6 mins
To claim Aborigines have the world's oldest continuous culture is to misunderstand the meaning of culture, which continuously changes over time and location. For a culture not to change over time would be a reproach and certainly not a cause for celebration, for it would indicate that there had been no capacity to adapt. Clearly this has not been the case
Aug 20 2024
23 mins
A friend and longtime supporter of Quadrant, Clive James sent us a poem in 2010, which we published in our December issue. Like the Taronga Park Aquarium he recalls in its 'mocked-up sandstone cave' it's not to be forgotten
Aug 16 2024
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