History, of its very nature, is subjective to some extent, with different writers putting different interpretations on events. But my quarrel with 'Dark Emu' is not a disagreement with Pascoe’s interpretation of history. It is with his shameless distortion of facts and sources. Here are yet more examples

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The Indian railway engineer, who died on Thursday, was the public face of climate science and richly rewarded as such. He was also a scoundrel, a dirty old man and serial slanderer -- character traits that, when you think about them, made him a natural to helm the global warming con

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The North Pole is melting, likewise Antarctica, as anyone who has endured the daily parade of catastropharian sermons from the ABC and other credulous outlets will have heard. Trouble is, the waxing and waning of ice at the top and bottom of the world is behaving pretty much as it always has

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Bid farewell to the addled Joe Biden, send Elizabeth Warren back to the reservation, accept that angry old man Bernie Sanders would never be able to carry the Midwest against Donald Trump and who is left? Just one Democratic primaries candidate with even the slightest chance, Amy Klobuchar

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Where would Laurel and Hardy stand on gender fluidity or Charles Laughton in regard to global warming? We don't know and, quite frankly, would only think less of them for shooting from the lip. It's a lesson the Oscars' dismal ratings should impress upon today's Tinseltown sermonisers if only they were bright enough to absorb it

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Cardinal Pell's appeal to the High Court: In prosecutor Mark Gibson’s hands at trial, the five-or-six-minute hiatus was transformed into something that began not immediately after Mass but five-or-six minutes later, after the exit procession. In an audacious manipulation he also shifted its location from sanctuary to the sacristy, where the choirboy said he had been abused

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Humourist Andrew Doyle created Twitter identity Titania McGrath as the satirical scourge of the hopelessly woke, yet admits in a recent interview that he still considers himself a man of the Left. There you have it: further proof that so-called progressives, even the sharpest of them, have no idea how and what conservatives actually think

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Some very unkind people checked out Frank’s family tree and not one little spot of whiteness could be found amongst his ancestors. They all had beautiful black skin, black hair and brown eyes, just like Frank. What they didn't have was the gall to identify for fun and profit as that which they were not

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The solitary confinement in which Cardinal Pell languishes, like the authorities' refusal to let him celebrate the Mass, strikes me as venomous spite. I am reliably informed, for example, that any letter addressed to 'Cardinal Pell' will not reach him in his cell. In Victoria, officially sanctioned humiliation is passed off as justice

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Bruce Pascoe has tapped a receptive audience and lucrative market in those who see a revised perception of indigenous society as enhancing the push for sovereignty and changes to the Constitution. Those who rank cause above truth and choose to remain diplomatically schtum do neither scholarship nor Aborigines any favours

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