In its latest pandering to the inner-city voters it fears will give Greens their first preferences, the Andrews government has announced a 2030 phase-out of all timber-getting in state forests. And it won't stop there, with further dangerous and counterproductive restrictions on use and access in the pipeline

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When Melbourne University's Sustainable Society Institute's hosted Extinction Rebellion's pests and sundry other catastropharian crackpots, I thought it worth popping along to observe the hysterics at close quarters. They didn't disappoint

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In 1877, an extraordinarily imaginative artist at the 'Australian Illustrated News' depicted Aborigines by a towering circle of standing stones evocative of Stonehenge. Bruce Pascoe makes much of the image in 'Dark Emu' but his silliness is as nothing beside the web of sophistry and victimhood woven by a pair of Monash academics

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Those disinclined to credit Divine intervention in the affairs of men will scoff at the story of St Menas' appearance to Greek troops before the victory that marked, as Churchill put it, 'the end of the beginning'. Easy to dismiss, but not by Montgomery, who swore the saint also paid him a call

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British comedian Andrew Doyle's parodic creation, Titania McGrath, is so true to the addled, contradictory and ever-strident social-justice Left, one suspects he missed a more lucrative vocation. Armed with such insight, he would have made the perfect ABC producer

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Israel Folau's sermons aren't the real problem, unpleasant as many find them. The problem is the anti-Christian, woke, intersectional, censorious, cancel-culturing age we live in. That and failure to remember that we pay for our sins, down here at least, by the trouble they bring us

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The chronic mismanagement of the Murray-Darling, the diversion of otherwise productive capital into renewables and the black hole that is the NBN -- were you to list key instruments for hobbling investment and growth, they would be your three core items

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The thought of the government taxing the family home after it has already messed endlessly with your super, and is now trying to make you work into your seventies, is beyond galling -- not least because, as fifty- and sixty-somethings know, they're not wanted in the workforce

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Summer is coming and, unless we're very lucky, blackouts too, which is only to be expected in light -- or lack of it -- of the greater demand for electricity from a diminished base-load generating capacity. How bad could it get? If my experience in the benighted hellhole of Dubai is any guide, very bad indeed

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To mark the tenth anniversary of the Climategate papers being posted on the internet, and the subsequent whitewashings of the various correspondents' candid and damning admissions, Quadrant Online's Michael Kile sought the insights of eminent philosopher of science Jerome Ravetz

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