Clive Hamilton: “A wave of environmental radicalism, of uncivil disobedience, will have succeeded when the conservative press begin praising Bob Brown and Christine Milne as voices of reason and moderation, as indeed they are.”
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A party process which resembles a cross between Lord of the Flies and the assassination steering committee from Julius Caesar does not represent the tone for which a political party seeking re-election should be aiming.
All of a sudden the contortions and backflips of this government make a certain sort of sense. Under whatever guise it can find it needs to bring in more revenue so that it can pretend to be economically conservative and responsible.
Bin Laden's death does not destroy al-Qa'ida. Others will take his place, but it is a mighty and symbolic blow against the leadership of this terrorist movement.
All the nay sayers, the cynics of the republican commentariat seem to have been swept aside in the tidal wave of enthusiasm and unashamed approval of the event. Both Kathy Lette and her pompous husband were swept aside as irrelevant.
How did we get to a point where Windsor and his regional sidekick Oakeshott are calling the shots on the CO2 tax and as complete mavericks who regard themselves as wiser than their constituents?
What a week. The unhappiness on the faces of Australia’s bourgeois progressives,who inhabit the sneering side of the nation’s media, made the royal wedding perfect.
There seems little logic when an Australian publisher offers an ebook in Australia at one price, yet sells it at less than half that price on Amazon.
The Australian: ‘The president of the Australian Conservation Foundation has attacked the “scientific bastardry” of climate change sceptics amid weakening public consensus that humans are to blame.’
The 2011 Australian/ Vogel fiction award has gone to a novel about our past built of blood and genocide. It’s timely to look again at this chapter from Keith Windschuttles’s book to see how the bloodshed the author dipped into was invented.
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