Peter O’Brien’s highly readable vivisection of Dark Emu, author Bruce Pascoe’s best-selling and deeply flawed portrait of Aborigines as sedentary agriculturalists with ‘skills superior to those of the white colonisers who took their land and despoiled it’ has now been released by Quadrant Books. Order your copy here.

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The ever-modest James Delingpole, who has a nice word for Quadrant and climate scam roundsman Tony Thomas, on the tenth anniversary of Climategate: … What Climategate revealed, however, is that the climate change “experts” we’re supposed to trust just aren’t trustworthy. They lie, they cheat, they’re motivated more by grant-troughing and dodgy political activism than […]

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Mark Steyn on Washington’s ongoing impeachment burlesque: In a functioning system, the head of the government sets foreign policy and the diplomats enact it. So naturally there’s not a chance of that in Washington. When Taylor and Kent whine that there seemed to be a “shadow foreign policy”, the shadow is theirs; they spent a […]

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In his marking of Climategate’s tenth anniversary, Tony Thomas notes how in 2015 “Prime Minister Tony Abbott set in train an audit of Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology’s temperature adjustments that increased Australia’s apparent warming, but one of the first moves of his successor, Malcolm Turnbull, was to scuttle that audit.” Add another noxious legacy to […]

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The temptation when the Left gets very silly is to smile, perhaps shake the head and then put the latest idiocy, whatever it might be, out of mind. It does sensible people no good to dwell on the lunatic follies of others, and there are so many stunts and campaigns, protests and causes there is […]

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Much to what one imagines is the immense surprise of Australia’s finest legal minds — self-proclaimed or so regarded — the High Court has accepted Cardinal George Pell’s application for leave to appeal. Apart from presenting the Cardinal with his last, best hope of overturning an absurd conviction, it is also a moment to marvel […]

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Sympathy for those who are suffering, not to mention good manners, will generally stay the tongues of those whose private thought is ‘Serves you right’. But not if you are a Green, as product of the inner-city Adam Bandt demonstrated yesterday when he popped out from behind the Goatcheese Curtain to announce that the present […]

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In the SMH, catastrophist and member of the Climate Council Greg Mullins grants himself permission to score some carbonphobic points by linking the NSW bushfires to climate change, a theme Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack today dismissed as “the raving of inner city lunatics“. Bodies are being hauled from the ashes, a gross of homes […]

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When Victoria was ravaged by the Black Saturday bushfires in 2009 a royal commission set out to determine what led to 173 deaths and billions of dollars in property damage. Today more fires are raging, this time in NSW, and at least three people are known to have lost their lives, but there will be […]

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Misplaced optimism in 48-point Helvetica On Friday morning, as per the ER post below, it was widely reported that ABC Chairwoman Ita Buttrose had ordered last monday’s infamous episode of Q&A be removed from all the national broadcaster’s platforms. More than twenty-four later, despite it being the matter of a mere moment to strike an […]

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