Last year, climate alarmists were beside themselves to alert the world that an all-time high temperature was scorching Antarctica. Just lately they've tried the same con with the Arctic, this latest claim no more credible than its predeccessor. It seems the only thing reaching new heights is the climateers' shamelessness

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Lockdowns of any part of the economy offer no enduring value. COVID-19 can't be made to go away by hiding from it and will come roaring back, as it is doing in Victoria, whenever restrictions are eased. Rather than optimistic notions of an imminent vaccine, a strong dose of realism is the only efficacious prescription

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A recent NSW parliamentary panel concluded koalas are facing extinction, that verdict being the product of green myths, flawed research and political barrow-pushing. The only thing the committee got right was that koalas are in trouble -- in large part due to the catastrophic policies that, sadly, have just been given a further stamp of approval

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China’s leaders, including Xi, say in detail what they believe and what they plan to do. But few take note, strangely believing that a CCP leader must be placing empty rhetoric at the service of cunning political games. They could not be more wrong, as Hamilton's new book lays out in distressing detail

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In May, Hong Kong’s CEO, Carrie Lam, said that the new law would not affect the people’s ‘legitimate’ rights and freedoms, undermine the city’s rule of law or the principle of ‘one country, two systems’. That is not how the law reads

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If the government makes good on its promises to overhaul university fees the party is over. Universities will dramatically scale back the number of distinct study units, rearrange them into boutique majors, and hope to attract a small number of high-ATAR, high-income students. Simply put, Minister Tehan's initiative is a death blow

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Humour, like balance and square-bat reporting, is yet another concept the ABC no longer grasps. Brace yourself for a painfully unfunny experience, but do endure as much of 'At Home Alone' as you can manage. That such a show was conceived, let alone funded and broadcast, is one more argument for a sweeping review and reform

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While the Child Abuse Royal Commission spared no scorn for the Catholic Church, it pointedly neglected to investigate Victoria Police's well documented history of scuttling investigations, even to ending the career of a detective who was determined to see justice done. Will there be a reckoning or yet more dirt swept under the rug?

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We have no need to revise, let alone erase, Governor Hercules Robinson’s judgement when he unveiled Thomas Woolner's towering statue of James Cook’s statue in Hyde Park. Cook salutes a country full of promise. He welcomes all who look upon him, whatever their origins

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Perversely, while living comfortably in the hollowed-out shell of the humanities, tenured practitioners of these subjects have adopted as their mission the destruction of the humanities and humanism, along with Western Civilization in general. Meanwhile, their acolytes are tearing down a civilisation so they don’t have to learn about it

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