In the immortal words of Victoria’s one-time premier Joan Kirner, education must be 'part of the socialist struggle for equality, participation and social change, rather than an instrument of the capitalist system'. Were Ms Kirner still with us, she would be mightily pleased with Education Services Australia's dark green Scootle portal

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Truly, we live in interesting times, the grand scheme to run an industrial civilisation without the 24-hour contribution of conventional power sources being the most interesting development of all. Given the legions of rent seekers and their shills in state and federal parliaments, it will pay to think ahead: get in early, beat the rush, install a diesel generator today!

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Given the deadly combination of drought, heavy fuel loads, many fires and vulnerable communities, the summer's disasters were ordained. These had nothing to do with climate change. Rather, they were the inevitable consequence of foolish policies, incompetent governance and culpable land management. The royal commission grasped none of this

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Is it mere ignorance that sees Australian journalists in the US providing only the most superficial coverage of the post-election contretemps between Trump's legal team and the various Democrat-run states where voting and counting, to put it mildly, was deeply suspect? We are poorly served by such reporters but, alas, it seems they are only kind there is

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Any ad campaign to promote the much prophesied 'decarbonised economy' will be a challenge indeed. Instead of the quick, convenient, comfortable and easy ways of modern life, the agency's brief would be to find positives in the slow, inconvenient and uncomfortable. Green lies are nothing new, of course, but this brief would defeat even the most gifted dissembler

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They quiet about it, but many Coalition MPs are on the same page as Craig Kelly in being aware of the economic demise renewable subsidies bring. Yet while they stay silent, NSW Energy Minister Matt Kean launches a report by the left wing Australia Institute calling for more renewables subsidies, which he believes will stop bushfires. Silence gives consent to such insanity

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No matter how much parents love them, children can be intensely and noisily annoying from time to time. Well that irritation factor is about to see a major boost as yet another well-funded effort kicks off to unleash a fresh legion of brainwashed kids on the climate sceptics in their families

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The Australian Energy Market Operator needs a replacement chief now that US import Audrey Zibelman is decamping for a new gig at Google. Applicants will find an engineering background helpful and, if recent hiring history is any guide, being female or identifying as such won't hurt either

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Emission measurement and abatement is a numbers game which, among countries like Australia that take it seriously, progressively focusses economic actions on measures that detract from building wealth. It is to be regretted, especially by future generations, that today's policymakers rate signalling their virtue more highly than the nation's good

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Al Gore is a bad enough climate hustler, but Cool Australia's insidious and habitually untrue scare stories being taught in the overwhelming majority of Australian schools are worse. If Johnny can't read it may well be because his attention has been captured by tall tales of climate refugees, wicked capitalists, the evils of eating meat and imminent planetary doom

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