The scenario by George Pell’s accuser and accepted by the Victorian Appeal Court is not only open to reasonable doubt, it could not have happened. There was no time available in the priests’ sacristy for six minutes of sexual abuse to take place

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Donald Trump can try to play both the good cop and the bad cop, as we have seen in both his glad-handing of China's Xi and equally spirited condemnation of Beijing's trade policies and expansionist mindset. Getting rid of his ultra-hawk national security adviser may well weaken the US position, a prospect we can only hope does not come to pass

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The liberal elite deal in two currencies. Advocating open borders, for example, is a neat way of distinguishing oneself from the parochialism of the deplorably unenlightened. And second, they offer false choices. Don't believe in solar rorts and wind scams? By their definition you must want the planet to fry, which it isn't and won't

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Meteorologist and oceanographer Dr. Mototaka Nakamura boasts a lustrous CV, one that should demand his demolition of climate modelling be heeded. Sadly, that seems unlikely. With so many careers, budgets and compacts hanging on prophecies of doom -- the Paris accords not least of all -- there are simply too many vested interests intent on promoting faux science as fact

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The world needs young climate change warriors like you to show us, through principled example, how to lead responsible low-carbon lives. For instance, why not point out to all those hundreds of thousands of school students you influence that, individually, expecting to be driven to and from school each day is selfishly toxic?

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For once, the ABC's Patricia Karvelas was instructive although perhaps not deliberately so. When interviewing an Indonesian climate activist who also identifies as a journalist, it was all rising seas and pollution and emergency measures. Delicately ignored was any mention of Jakarta's real problem: a population that won't stop growing

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It is wicked, we are told, for those who simply cannot believe the Cardinal guilty to pray for the success of his appeals, the last hope now lodged with the High Court. While the prosecution's case was notoriously weak, motivations for convicting him were stronger. Our judicial system has been permanently compromised as a consequence

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In other words, endless "threats" that garner research funding, build careers and score headlines. Bowen Reef is one of the alleged victims of hum an depradation, so Peter Ridd, Jennifer Marohasy and I took a closer look. What we found were many, varied and healthy corals, plus evidence of a timeless cycle that sees destruction followed by regrowth and vibrant rejuvenation

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England was his source country. The Spectator and the London Daily Telegraph helped form him and most closely reflected his views, which there those of a well-read, intelligent conservative with literary interests in the Evelyn Waugh mode -- though his justifiable anger at outbreaks of social vandalism made him more of a Jeremiah than a light-hearted satirist

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It's too late to do anything before the coming summer's heat sets in, but if we’re to avoid blackouts, lost jobs and an idling economy becoming the norm, the government will have to build those coal-fired power stations the Coalition was talking about before May's election. Since then, nothing -- and that's a recipe for disaster

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