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The Republican presidential contender is an acquired taste. Given the alternative, it's a taste persnickety conservatives should make the effort to acquire
Sep 09 2024
4 mins
The proportions of Aboriginal children and young people placed in a relative or kin placement or with an Aboriginal foster carer have decreased, and the proportion of Aboriginal children who were reunified with their families has declined.
Sep 09 2024
17 mins
April 1: Remembrance Day
“William York” is a well known contributor to OnlineOpinion. His friend Tom recently received a letter from him:
Sydney 1 April 2273
Dear Tom
It has been some time since I got back to Australia after twenty years in international banking in the West Indies although I hope you got my message from Tuvalu. I had a wonderful holiday there. What with walking up and down the coral cliffs from the hotel to the beach and back, I am now extremely fit.
Anyhow I am writing to report on the extraordinary recovery that has taken place in Australia. For much of the twenty-first century, the country resembled one of those South American economies of the twentieth century. It is an appalling record. It started with a semi-religious festival called “Earth Hour” where everyone turned off their electrical appliances for an hour to save the world from global warming. This was taken up by a charismatic political leader now referred to as “Malcolm of the Light Bulbs”. In the year 2007 he banned the…
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
