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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
Why Our Schools Produce Brainwashed Dolts
It was an evil day for conservatives when, in December, 2008, a pack of education ministers, Julia Gillard to the fore, signed their “Melbourne Declaration on Educational Goals for Young Australians”. This launched “sustainability” as one of three cross- curricula priorities throughout Australian schools, turning them into incubators for green/left activism.[1]
Eight of the nine ministers were Labor: Julia Gillard MHR; Andrew Barr (ACT), Verity Firth (NSW), Marion Scrymgour (NT), Rod Welford (Qld), Jane Lomax-Smith (SA), David Bartlett (Tas), and Bronwyn Pike (Vic). A ninth minister, Elizabeth Constable (WA) was a Liberal-leaning independent.
A decade later and school education is wholly captured by the Left. Kids are now drafted by teachers as activists for a panoply of Left causes masquerading as ‘sustainability’. (The big one currently is “Stop Adani coal”).
Teacher and educrat unionists don’t need to spruik in schools for their party – they just…
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
