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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
Barnaby Joyce’s Damp Squib
In proudly announcing his dam-building agenda, Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce said, “water is wealth and stored water is a bank”, adding that he wished to “recapture the vision and purpose of the Snowy Mountains Scheme.” They were noble words, but sadly what the Minister announced was neither visionary nor will it give Australia the “bank” of water we so desperately need.
On Joyce’s short to-do list are some puddle holes in Tasmania and Gippsland, where there is no immediate need for more water. Where the need is now urgent, if we are to produce the goods needed to honour our commitments to the China Free Trade Deal, there is nothing on his agenda.
Nor does Joyce recognise that our “water bank,” like our budget, is in the red because, while our population has more than doubled over 30 years, we have not provided water-storage capacity to guarantee our needs. This escalating water shortage has been further depleted by the needless and counterproductive…
Academics and others who dare to question the majority view are brutally told the science has been settled. Many such dissenters from catastrophist orthodoxy have lost their jobs, been denied promotion, or subjected to constant harassment and ridicule. This not the way science should be done
Aug 25 2024
3 mins
There's a veritable industry of academics raising alarm about how global warming and a polluted, dying planet will leave humanity and the animal kingdom in such a state that cannibalism will be a matter of survival. I'll spurn schoolyard puns and cheap gags except for one, and that by way of good advice: don't give them a big hand
Aug 09 2024
13 mins
I thought initially that this topic was a bit of fun. But it turns out that entomophagy, as the eating of insects is called, is an essential component of the Western lemmings' race to net-zero. Need it be said that one of the biggest and most enthusiastic lemmings is our very own climate crazies at the CSIRO?
Jul 31 2024
15 mins
