'It was towards the end of a long drought, and the country was like tinder for hundreds of miles round -- the ground for miles and miles in the broiling scrubs as bare as your hand, or covered with coarse, dry tufts ...'

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Sometimes we are not allowed to hear or see things, not because the artist has committed a crime or sin, but because he has broken the new rules of wokeness. I don't need to approve of, say, Kevin Spacey's alleged off-camera predations in order to regret his character's censorious ouster from 'House of Cards'

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Why did it take so long for the Aboriginal community -- at least some of them -- to speak out, prompting what has now spawned a referral to the Australian Federal Police? Could it be that fake history is acceptable, but only if written by an 'Aboriginal'?

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New Zealand runs twenty-seven million sheep and six million dairy cows, so it can only strike the visitor as odd that the national museum is urging kids to cut way back on meat and dairy. Think Australian warmists are nuts? Ours can't hold an organic candle to those across the ditch

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A humble Michigan priest tells a gay parishioner she cannot take Communion while living in sin with her female partner. He is slandered, harassed and made the target of a media pile-on. This time, though, his bishop backed him and church teaching to the hilt. There's a lesson there for Australia's prelates

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Why would the Prime Minister, any Coalition MP for that matter, continue to subject himself to the indignity of being interviewed by the ABC's barrow-pushing presenters. More than that, why does the Coalition continue to underwrite the national broadcaster's bias with such lavish public funding?

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Hectored, interrupted and condemned as an advocate of planetary destruction by British talking head Piers Morgan, the one member of the Coalition prepared to publicly assail the climate hoax was immediately derided by Drought Minister David Littleproud. Could it be that the wrong man has the portfolio?

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When the current fires die down, as sure as eucalypts like to burn Australians will get yet another inquiry. Just who is appointed will signal the findings long before their report is drafted: ivory tower theoreticians and computer modellers or, let us hope, practical, hands-on field researchers

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Ten years ago, Ray Evans wrote in Quadrant of the Black Saturday fires which razed his beloved bush cottage, obliterated nearby Marysville and claimed more than 30 innocent lives. Today, as Australia burns, his account of sane forest stewardship subverted by green ideology is more pertinent than ever

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We can be certain the climate debate has reached the lowest ebb when children are made the pawns of rent-seekers and political panic merchants. As to what might remedy the problem -- if there is a problem, that is -- the prescriptions so far do more harm than the alleged disease

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