Scott Morrison has yet to utter a peep about the national broadcaster and its need for sweeping reform. His silence is especially curious, given that he must surely grasp the warmist propagandists suckling on the taxpayer teat will be among the loudest defenders of current climate-policy madness

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PM Scott Morrison’s split-brained endorsement of the Paris accords on one hand and his pledge to lower electricity prices on the other  does more than enshrine cognitive dissonance as official policy. It also validates Labor’s pledge to do an even better job of stuffing the economy

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The service was conducted by the high priests of alarmism, with politicians pledging their love for rent-seeking renewables promoters as a media choir sang of the wonders to come. Yes, we’ve seen wonders aplenty — obscene power prices, economic hobbles and the further corruption of science

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When the promotional materials for a geography teachers’ conference crows of being graced by guest speakers such as Tim Flannery, Bob Brown and the ABC’s snotty green shill Jon Faine, it’s a lesson in classroom bias. Alas, it’s no sort of way to educate young minds

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By any reasonable standard of environmental accounting, Snowy 2.0 is even more foolish than the prime minister whose brainstorm it was. Not only will it do nothing to lower electricity prices, the likelihood is that it will boost the emissions it is intended to reduce

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Groupthink among climate scientists —  ‘the science is settled’ brigade — has constrained public debate, which was  entirely to be expected. You see, believers are predominantly devoted to promoting ‘solutions’ and that, rather than open-minded inquiry, is the warmists’ objective

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With The Lodge flushed there is a possibility of post-Turnbullian sanity, with the first priority being to re-evaluate Australia’s commitment to the Paris Agreement. As a nation, we are pauperising ourselves in a cause demonstrably false and easily discerned as such

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Regulated prices, a royal commission, pumping water uphill, more wind — as politicians count numbers and the Prime Minister’s fate hangs in the balance, all these alleged ‘solutions’ and more are being tossed about by people who, quite frankly, should know the one-word solution: competition

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The PM has won a party room victory and must now run his NEG through the grinding mill of Bill Shorten’s opposition and the premiers, most of them fearful of offending greenists and apt to act accordingly. Liberals who backed him won’t find too many volunteers to hand out their how-to-votes

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While the Liberal party room was discussing the so-called National Energy Guarantee, Malcolm Turnbull’s operatives were briefing reporters against the man he knifed. Conservatives will take today’s events as confirmation that a party standing for nothing will fall for anything

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