Tony Thomas writes: 'I'm never slow to admit my own journalistic blunders, which I figure entitles me to to report the follies of others when they are as egregious as my own. Therefore I can only hope TV personality David Koch will forgive me for dredging up from 40 years ago his monster gaffe in purporting to report the names and contributions of the top 500 Liberty Party donors. Funny how a rock-solid scoop can change overnight into an editor's full-grovel apology

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Les Hiddins, better known as The Bush Tucker Man, has spent three decades investigating reports and folk memories of a 'white tribe' of Dutch shipwreck survivors said to have established a colony near the site of what became the Hermansburg Mission. It is so outrageous a theory, the same historians who allow Bruce Pascoe to go uncriticised won't even consider it. Yet archives and detective work keep turning up tantalising clues

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The Dark Emu grifter claims that, while flying over the desert beyond Birdsville, he just happened to look down and spy one of those stone-house villages he claims dotted pre-settlement Australia. If a few semi-circles of tumbled rocks testify to a vanished a city, a scoundrel is owed an apology. That's a big 'if'

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Ever wonder why the national broadcaster has devoted next to no coverage to Hunter Biden's scandalous laptop. Thanks to a lawsuit filed by Robert Kennedy Jr., we now know the ABC is a member of the Trusted News Initiative which unites Big Tech and Big Media in a consortium specifically intended to promote the sacrosanct orthodoxy of the Left while suppressing all critics

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The brains trust at ABC Education, where they dote on Bruce Pascoe, has found something slightly more odious to extol: poo transplants. Yes, it is an evolving and often useful medical treatment, but not in the way the national broadcaster describes it. Oh well, at least they're not telling kids it was invented by pre-settlement Aborigines

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NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet has copped wholesale grief for having worn a Nazi uniform 19 years ago at his 21st celebration. If only he were a careerist scaremonger and author of thoroughly discredited papers about the vengeance Gaia is planning, like the professional alarmists at Skeptical Science, a delight in Third Reich drag would have been a big yawn for mainstream media types

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Two proper nouns capture the rotten state of academia, the media generally and Their ABC in particular: Bruce Pascoe. While still filling his dilly bag with profits from Dark Emu and its spinoffs, the richly rewarded fauxboriginal scam artist is now urging Australians to save the planet by eating bandicoots and road kill

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When ACMA took Sarah Ferguson and Four Corners to the woodshed for 'omission of relevant facts', amongst other sins against balance and accuracy, the reporter who formerly beat up the Russiagate hoax reacted with the acidic disdain reserved for all who note the national broadcaster's bias and hackery. Thing is, though, ACMA didn't go half far enough

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Do climate-change careerists actually believe their own predictions of looming doom, the ones they extract from the same models they themselves concoct? Perhaps they do, perhaps their jeremiads aren't just let's-scare-'em bids for attention, headlines and grants. Whatever the academics' motives, a cadre of self-righteous public nuisances treat them as gospel

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Translating Macbeth into Noongar is, no doubt, an interesting academic exercise, but what good does keeping a dead language on life support do to improve the lot of young Aborigines in an English-speaking world? Not much, although for those who trade in the myth of 'decolonisation' and taxpayer-subsidised separatism, it has its perverse rewards

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