New Minister for Climate Change, Greg Combet, has started his term by calling for the application of commonsense to the debate over global warming policy. Even more important is the application of some independent scientific analysis to the alarmist advice rendered by the UN’s now discredited Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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I fully expected, even as a teen myself, to find the main cast irritating. I was wrong. They pull their roles off with aplomb, especially Caitlin Stasey’s Ellie, who, as the lead, carries the whole shebang on her shoulders.
Special delivery parcels, containing hair-dryers, frozen chicken dinners and high-dose Valium tablets are being rushed out by our Foreign Affairs Department to all Australian Embassies and Consular offices around the world.
On ABC’s opinion site The Drum, so called “Public Intellectual” Clive Hamilton suggests the ABC has been infested by a nest of climate “deniers”.
Quadrant Online has reached a remarkable milestone. Its readership now amounts to more than one million page views per year. This makes Quadrant Online by far the most widely read website of any of the Australian journals of ideas and literature with which it competes, on either the left or right of the political spectrum.
On my list of winners is Tony Abbott. This was a historic result for any Opposition leader in Australia. Mr. Abbott took the Coalition from certain, and devastating, defeat to within inches of victory. His stature in the party, and his strategy of actually standing for a conservative platform, is now wholly above question.
What Oakeshott and Windsor will soon begin to understand is that whatever difficulties they might have had in the past in dealing with the National Party, will now appear as a Sunday school picnic compared with dealing with Labor Party hardheads.
Another day, another case of child abuse. But this is politically correct child abuse. Thus it is condoned, approved of, favoured and celebrated. As long as it is done according to the laws of PC, then it is quite acceptable. And who gives a rip about the child anyway?
Ben-Peter asked young libertarians and conservatives - John Humphreys, Jai Martinkovits, and Alex Butterworth - to comment on the election result.
Influenced by pork barrelling, keeping their seats, blind faith that the people who gave us the home insulation disaster and the BER rorts are the best to deliver broadband, and of course, the trappings of a cabinet appointment, the independents Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott have missed a golden opportunity to make our system even more democratic.
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