Enjoy global warming with seafront views at the beautiful Flannery Marina (previously known as Hahndorf) in the tropical Adelaide everglades.

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With this year being a celebration of the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth, and the 150th anniversary of his Origin of the Species, there has been much hagiography produced about Darwin. It seems many biographies are trying to paint Darwin as a secular saint. A brand new biography is willing to ask hard question about his life and teachings.

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What do you call a continent which cares more about the rights and wellbeing of crabs, lobsters, and even the common octopus, than it does about unborn babies? Just in case you cannot come up with anything, let me suggest a few possibilities: deranged, degenerate, despicable and delirious. And just to keep the alliteration going: dumb, really dumb.

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Given that Australia still has an emissions trading bill on the Senate table, is it not of public interest to know that climate science Minister Penny Wong is acting on the basis of flawed, if not incompetent, science advice?

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We are racist, sexist and homophobic – and that’s when we take time off from agitating for war, destroying the planet and plotting new ways to oppress the poor and disadvantaged. We’re not just wrong, we’re evil.

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On nearly every count, the evidence suggests that taking seriously the Green complaints about capitalism and science would be the worst thing for nature and humans particularly those in the developing world.

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Project Lexicon is a planned attempt to re-educate Australians in the use of language. That is the English language - as it is used to describe terrorists.  Apparently to use such words as “terrorist”, “jihad”, “martyr” and “the war on terror” is likely to offend Muslims, or at least give them bad press - so the Ministry of Love is about to teach us how not to offend Muslims. 

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Galarrwuy Yunupingu blames lack of resources for failures by many indigenous Australians to get jobs and claims that ‘the jobs that exist are usually taken by balanda’. Just how genuine indigenous autonomy can be achieved if people cannot fix their water bores or repair their roads and sewerage, he does not explain.

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Children are our future. The way our children develop determines how society develops. And when ideological battles are being fought in a culture, children are the trophy. Those who can control the children will be able to control a culture. That is why totalitarian states always seek to get control of children, especially from very early ages.

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I hadn’t seen Tracey for a while until I bumped into her the other day in Dick Smith’s looking at talking bathroom scales. I told you she had joined the Fabian Society. Well, she already seems a little over them.

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