It may well be that you heard a recent ABC report about Hobart shattering a summer temperature record that had stood for all of 122 years. Well, an FOI request reveals the allegedly unprecedented spike lasted no longer than a single anomalous second and that the BOM cannot produce any data to prove that it happened at all

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Two over-the-hill figure skaters head for Alaska with camera crew and Stephen Fry in tow to find a frozen lake before Gaia melts them all. Light entertainment? Yes indeed, but also proof that, as with the B- and C-grade academics, riding the global warming bandwagon is a productive career choice

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The ABC's online archive lists 14 recent references to Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of Black Lives Matter, but by some strange oversight the national broadcaster has made no mention of her big-ticket real estate dealings or of her growing personal fortune. As the overseas reports the ABC ignores make clear, her finances are very much in the black

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If COVID takes the cake when it comes to hysteria, climate-change alarmism is not far behind -- the grim prospects each elicits keeping choirs of garrulous 'experts' before the cameras. Meanwhile, the virus of China's predatory ambitions rolls relentlessly along. A little perspective would not go astray

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Foresters, pastoralists and those working with the bush are gobsmacked by certain academics' notion that mild fire can threaten biodiversity in a landscape safely maintained by Aboriginal burning for 40,000 years. But that's the way the grant money goes -- and why we'll burn again and again and again

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Critics assumed Prince Philip's remark about Aborigines skewering each other was a manifestation of what they took to be his naked racism. Well let me set the record straight: prompting his question were memories of 1954 in Townsville, where local warriors entertained the royal couple by doing just that, throwing spears at each other

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Non-filling dams, ghost cities and geothermal projects that don't work have been the Chief Catastropharian's claim to fame, not to mention a nice little earner, for two fear-filled decades. Well working so hard at being wrong has finally paid off, with two fellow warmists ranking him among the world's top sources of unfounded climate doom

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The Duke of Edinburgh did not amass vast collections like those of Charles I and Catherine the Great, but in his own modest way he assisted numerous worthy artists, including more than a few spurned by the Establishment, to attain deserved public prominence. Until the end, his was an educated, independent and discerning eye

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The effect of this proposed change to the Constitution will be to remove one section which allows the Commonwealth to make laws with respect to Aboriginal people and replace it with ... another and wordier provision allowing the Commonwealth to make laws with respect to Aboriginal people

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Perhaps we need a new Isaiah, someone who can confront those who not only think bitter is sweet and sin a virtue but demand everyone else revel in the same delusions. There are some though, a few like Rod Dreher, who grasp how cultures decline when they fail to see there can be no light in darkness

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