You might be fortunate to live in a municipality with relatively sane councillors, but increasing numbers of Australians are cursed by evangelising eco fanatics keen to stop hazard-reduction burns, celebrate gender fluidity and, above all, stack town halls with fellow extremists. The City of Darebin in Melbourne is a case a study, complete with a how-to handbook

Read More

Were it not for Peter O’Brien’s comprehensive analysis of Dark Emu, this faux history would enter the mainstream uncontested. Now, with the whole cloth of Bruce Pascoe's fantasies being draped over the minds of schoolchildren and the ABC championing his compendium of nonsense, there is a refutation for those who still believe truth matters

Read More

For those who are not ‘woke’ the consequences can be immediate and dramatic. Last year, to cite but one example, the Melbourne Comedy Festival's humourless scolds renamed the Barry Humphries Award because Australia's greatest comedian dared to suggest a man 'transitioning' to a women will always be a man. That was enough to erase a lifetime of laughs

Read More

Three decades hence, according to our pundit's crystal ball, thrice-elected Senator Meghan Raglands-Sussex has lost her bid to join Chelsea Clinton's presidential ticket and a princess marooned on Beechey Island is still waiting for the North Pole to melt. What else for a footloose young man to do but return to the land of his birth?

Read More

Lacking shame and ever alert for fresh grant opportunities, the careerists and opportunists of the climate change movement began linking bushfires to global warming at the first whiff of smoke. That was good enough for gullible and/or activist reporters who, were you to quiz them, wouldn't know the Indian Ocean Dipole from a hole in the ground

Read More

For those driven to catastropharian despair by thoughts of what a trace gas is allegedly doing to life on earth, the solution should be obvious: go fill-tilt nuclear. They'll never agree to that, of course, which is why, if alarmists genuinely believe their own nonsense, all those carbonphobic green feet must be held to the fire

Read More

In a better world this is the speech our Prime Minister would have delivered long ago. Yes, it's a fantasy, and no, we'll not hear its like in this government's lifetime. But join me nevertheless in conjuring the scene as a leader lays out a fresh and better path to Australia's future

Read More

Sadly, like some pre-literate society mired in superstition and ignorance, we now appear to place more value on living memory, anecdote and the manufactured history of snake oil climate 'scientists' than the evidence of a previously warmer planet that is so readily available

Read More

If you are a premier whose state has been incinerated due to negligence, prefer the counsel of academic theorists fashionably opposed to widespread fuel reduction and indulge land-management departments riddled with green-minded ideologues, blaming 'climate change' rolls all too easily off the tongue. Especially a forked one

Read More

Those on the Left, being childlike in their unthinking enthusiasms, are mostly republicans and prone to the pursuit of instant gratification, hang the details and consequences. That said, I might -- stress on "might" -- back a republic, but only if the likes of Peter FitzSimons spell out in explicit detail what they have in mind

Read More