For months now and largely unreported by a media more keen to promote the Voice, the remote Wadeye community has been in a state resembling civil war. What was once the peaceful town of Port Keats has seen more than a hundred homes torched, families driven into the bush and, just recently, bows and arrows […]

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We’ve endured a bit of an energy scare of late, what with AEMO suspending the market and broadcasters pleading with listeners not to run their dishwashers, the implication being that 21st century conveniences formerly taken for granted must now be regarded as conditional windfalls. Apparently this is good for the planet, or so the architects […]

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On January 24, 2012, an internal memo to Russell Taylor, Principal of the Aboriginal Studies Press (ASP), ended with a ticked box: ‘reject the manuscript’.  That manuscript was Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu, which had received anything but an enthusiastic appraisal by ASP’s reviewers. Obtained via freedom of information filings by investigatory website Dark Emu Exposed, […]

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Not so long ago, Victoria’s Liberals expelled from their party a member of the upper house Legislative Council, Bernie Finn, who greatly offended his now-former colleagues by speaking against legal abortion. Given that a considerable slice of the population — albeit a minority, according to pollsters —  still shares the quaint notion that killing babies […]

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To place an order click here ________________________ Audio: Keith Windschuttle discusses his book with the ABC’s Andrew West ________________________ The Persecution of George Pell chronicles how the highest levels of the police, judiciary and politicians in Australia, plus victim lobby groups, compensation lawyers, and journalists, used bogus accusations of child sexual abuse to persecute, convict […]

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When newsroom silverbacks and grey beards gather a frequent topic of rueful conversation is the inversion of the old order. Once, and not so long ago, hacks lived in fear of their editors, but no longer. These days, as woke staffers package their worldview in ink and pixels, it is a brave editor who challenges […]

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David Daintree, of the Christopher Dawson Centre, has brought supporters up to date on the latest consequences of inviting Ian Plimer to address a Hobart gathering. Regular readers will recall that he first encountered trouble when the venue originally booked for the event cancelled the reservation on the grounds that Plimer, a geologist, is “a […]

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Via No Tricks Zone, a six-point dismantling by German economist Hans Werner Sinn of the myths behind that ‘transition’ to wind and solar we keep hearing about … and paying for. Sinn’s point #5, illustrated by the chart above, notes  …using Germany’s current electric energy supply mix, electric cars are emitting far more CO2 over […]

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Which is greater, the vanity of Perth-based climate lobbyist “Dr” Bill Hare B.Sc. (Hons), Murdoch 1982, or the gullibility of ABC reporters like Perth-based ABCTV 7.30’s Rhiannon Shine? For more than a decade the ABC tribe has been bestowing a doctorate on Bill Hare, we assume to big-up his climate analytics credentials. After multiple complaints from […]

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John Reid, who blogs at Blackjay, takes a longer view of energy supplies and their future than the current shortage of gas. Looking much, much further ahead he writes: Wars and/or revolutions are inevitable once the man-in-the-street is severely affected by the coming energy famine.  The first symptoms are beginning to appear. Vladimir Putin is […]

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