Peter Ridd's epic battle is far more significant than one man's ultimate victory over an institution which responded to reasoned and civil criticism with bullying and banishment. Yes, the house-cleaning should begin there, but the broom of reform has many more fetid corners of academia in dire need of cleansing

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Spare a thought for company directors being forced to quantify the unquantifiable – 'exposure to the risks of global warming' -- under threat of legal action, for that is what the Network for Greening the Financial System has in mind.

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It would be noteworthy if the children who will take to the streets tomorrow had decided instead to make it a weekend protest on behalf of 'climate justice', foregoing the fun of ducking much-needed classes to play the wag for Gaia

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In addition to successful grant applications and a much-reworked paper that professed to have established Australia has never been hotter, climateer Joelle Gergis has now written a book. Tony Thomas went along to her WA Writers Week appearance, where his questions and curiosity went unsatisfied

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If you believe the Australian Conservation Foundation -- always a stretch, admittedly -- one woman in three plans to spurn childbearing lest Gaia take offence at the patter of those additional little feet. While the West elevates fashionable inanity, Hungary shows the way

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John Bradfield, the man who built the Sydney Harbour Bridge, wanted to turn rivers inland and flood Lake Eyre, believing it would green the surrounding country. We now know that wouldn't work, but a new and revised plan just might -- or so the scheme's latest disciples believe

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Being open-minded and impartial, as his tenure as a judge requires, we can take for granted that Mr Justice Preston read more broadly than the warmist epistles of alarmists and climate careerists cited in his judgment against the Rocky Hill coal mine. Alas, the views of less excitable climate scientists failed to get a mention

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Do Australians want our bushfire and land management planning done by professionals with front-line experience, or by campus intellectuals and ideologists? So far, despite two centuries of lessons in the need to reduce fuel loads, the official and tragic answer has been the latter

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Ten years ago today Victoria burned, an entire town was wiped off the map and 173 people perished. The subsequent Royal Commission established the disaster was the sum of a multitude of sins --not least inadequate fuel reduction that turned the state into a pyre awaiting only a spark. Here is the story of how five men and their esky survived that terrible afternoon

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Last week, NSW's Photios-aligned Arts Minister Don Harwin appointed Tim Flannery to the board of the Australian Museum. Days later, Olympics skier Zali Steggall announced the climate careerist would be aiding her independent bid to oust Tony Abbott from Warringah, a campaign that has already seen ex-Turnbull staffer Alice Thompson join the race. With friends like this, just what sort of a party have the Liberals become?

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