One cost estimate for NSW's most recent lockdown runs to around $18 billion, a sum for which I figured there must surely be some official appraisal of the benefits seen as likely to be bestowed, given that the law requires any expenditure of $10 million to be justified. Much to my surprise it seems nothing of the kind exists or, if it does, is ever likely to be released

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The federal government has ordered a nationwide snap lockout of all residential and commercial buildings on the advice of the Chief Engineering Officer. Taking note of the recent apartment tower collapse in Florida, Professor Bernice Cumbersome said the threat to Australians was palpable and all who object want Granny to die beneath a pile of rubble

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It was immense bad luck for a Scottish backpacker and his companions to park their car unknowingly in the middle of a three-corner feud between two Aboriginal groups and, allied with the far less credible claimants on the basis of no evidence whatsoever and much against, the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service

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In October 2018 Parks Australia banned public access to the summit of Ayers Rock/Uluru on the basis of spurious safety and environmental reasons and contested cultural claims. They ignored the views of Aboriginal elders who had been born at the Rock, who had acted as climbing guides and encouraged people to climb and had made […]

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The public service stewards of Mt Warning National Park once urged visitors to make the 'fantastic walk' to the summit for 'dazzling views'. Today, it is the alleged hazards of visiting the peak that dominate the NPWS website, all to be taken with a bucket of salt. In banishing visitors, as is happening in other locations across the country, the bureaucrats' real intent is to make life easier for themselves

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The case to shut the walking track to the summit of Mount Warning is built on a foundation of lies and faux facts that, were they to be piled one atop the other, would soar far beyond the former volcano's spectacular peak. Once again, at the behest of activists and to the delight of bureaucrats, Australians are being denied and divided according to race and myth

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Most Quadrant readers will likely think poorly of Rudd & Co, but credit where it is due: when the panic merchants came calling with warnings of the megadeath the then-latest virus doing the rounds would wreak, Ms Roxon sent them on their way with the sheaves of dire predictions they rode in on. Alas that such good sense prevailed today

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The sign at the base of the western climbing spur asserts, “Under our traditional law climbing is not permitted”, which is a lie writ large. There is still time for access to the Rock to be preserved -- and with it the heritage of all Australians, not just Aborigines

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While humanities departments would seem the natural domain of the censors, scolds and arbiters of what is acceptable to utter in our postmodern age, that same contagion is spreading to the physical sciences. I discovered as much when my attempt to defend the right to climb Ayers Rock was pointedly spiked by the Geological Society of Australia's newsletter

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With facts in hand it comes as no surprise to learn that just about everything Parks Australia and the current stewards of Ayers Rock would have you believe is a lie. A mere few months from now the ascent made by millions visitors will be off limits and all of us, black and white alike, will be the poorer

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