Actually, that's what the latest prize for dark green journalism should be called to honour the memory of the 20th century's greatest peddler of twisted reporting, in his case dispatches to the New York Times about the wonderful place that was Stalin's Russia. Today his heirs continue to be garlanded for no less spurious stories about 'the climate crisis', most recently at Their ABC

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The ABC host has set out to explain journalism, but how can anyone take seriously a book that hails the genius of the ABC cameraman who shot the broadcaster's biggest debacle of the current century? That would be 4 Corners' laughably breathless three-parter presenting Donald Trump as a urine-fixated Putin puppet. Alas, there is no chapter on the obligation to apologise and correct

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When deep green activists take a reporter on a free trip to Fiji, complete with overnight cruise, you can bet rational, reality-based outlets like Quadrant were never on the invitation list. For professional alarmists, the Nine rags offer a far better return on investment, as demonstrated by a recent report sounding all sorts of alarms about the non-crisis of Fiji's resolutely unrising seas

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Four physicists produce a paper that sees no evidence purported global warming is prompting larger and more frequent 'extreme climate events'. It's not what the high priests of the catastropharian creed want to hear, nor anyone else to read. So what do they do? Why, what they always do -- lean on a spineless and self-interested publisher until the paper is made to disappear

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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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Was it only 40 years ago that We of the NeverNever did boffo business at the box office, drawing audiences with its account of a bush bride's concerns for Aborigines on her station? Today, in order to get funding, the heroine would need to be smashing black babies' skulls and handing out poison flour

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No obstacle is a problem -- other than free speech, that is -- for the great minds charting our greener-than-green future. They are dead keen on electric vehicles and not worried in the least about where the power to charge those batteries will be found. And that's just one of the many otherworldly fantasies endorsed and extolled by the Academy's scientists-cum-politicians

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The chap running the IPCC for most of this century, much honoured by our universities' big-wigs, was a Harvey Weinstein-style brute who did to honest science what he tried to do with pretty much every and any fetching female underling who crossed his path. So congrats to UNSW for reviewing if Rajendra Pachauri should be posthumously stripped of his honorary doctorate

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