It's too late to do anything before the coming summer's heat sets in, but if we’re to avoid blackouts, lost jobs and an idling economy becoming the norm, the government will have to build those coal-fired power stations the Coalition was talking about before May's election. Since then, nothing -- and that's a recipe for disaster

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Sensible people should take heart from the kiddie climate strikers. Yes, come Friday, they'll block traffic and inconvenience productive citizens while hectoring all and sundry with visions of planetary doom, but don't let that fool you. When a cause depends on censorship, slanted coverage and terrified children, you can smell the desperation

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It is way too early to pronounce on the Prime Minister's career, his likely political legacy and stature. But the signs are not good at many levels and on many issues, as conservatives would have noted amidst his deafening silence on the Abortion Bill debacle in NSW. Being remembered as a vote-winning stump performer is all very well and good but principle is what really matters

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Imagine the shoe is on the other foot and climate sceptics produce a messianic moppet warning of blackouts and hardship if renewables continue to destabilise an increasingly unreliable grid. Do you think the green ideologues, rent-seekers and their shills wouldn't denounce those exploiting a challenged little girl? But Greta is on their side, so it's her promoters' critics who are damned

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A few years ago, I spoke at a conference on the prevention of sexual abuse against Aboriginal children, a huge problem and which inspired NITV to cover the gathering on its webpage. The topic attracted but a handful of reactions because, well, it's not as much fun as complaining about 'white racism', a subject guaranteed to draw comments by the hundreds

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Climateers are forever fretting about their 'tipping point', when it is said warming will become unstoppable. But look at my graph and you will see, comfortingly, how temperatures since 2008 have behaved as you would expect if the CO2 greenhouse effect were dwindling. Yes, dwindling -- as most of that warming has already occurred

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We now live in what many call a ‘post-Christian world’, with a considerable body of opinion insisting the benefits bestowed on society took place despite Christianity. That amounts to a scandalous misreading of history -- a misconception refuted by, to cite but one example, William Wilberforce and his supporters' crusade against slavery

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Bushfires have always needed three things: dry fuel, hot winds and a spark. Now there's a fourth ingredient, according to warmists, who have peppered news coverage of the recent blazes in NSW and Queensland with oracular pronouncements that catastrophic climate change is the catalyst. Pity they don't mention lousy forest management, irresponsible development and a wilful ignorance of history

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The Trump administration's bid to limit immigrants' access to welfare is one of the most important and reformative initiatives in seventy years. Many trends and movements begin life in the US and ripple out across the world. For my money, and that of all taxpayers, I'm hoping this one finds its way to our side of the Pacific

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The distinguished legal philosopher and jurist, and former Oxford don, Professor John Finnis, shows the three major areas where the Victorian Appeal Court’s majority judgment in the Pell case got it all wrong

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