by PAUL COLLITS – EVEN the most casual observers would have noticed the now rampant mission creep moving progressively – and I do mean progressively – through our once august, now merely tedious, corporate, sporting bodies. First it was Essendon, egged on…
by PAUL COLLITS – JUST imagine if the Pope came to Lismore. That would be a story. Well, this week we were graced (pun intended) with a visit from the spiritual leader of the Anglican communion. He is not, technically, the head…
by IAN PLIMER – I DON’T have opinions. I have facts. They are repeatable and validated. Fact #1: No one has ever proven that human emissions of carbon dioxide drive global warming. For more than two decades I have been asking scientists…
by PAUL COLLITS – I USED to engage often with the climate change debate. I once even shared a stage with venerable climate warriors Ian Plimer, the late Bob Carter, and Alan Moran, then of the Institute of Public Affairs. I was…
by PAUL COLLITS – AUSTRALIA’S gullible politicians and their hired bureaucrats now favour “solving” non-problems – all while ignoring the nation’s real issues. Think virus-chasing, climate “emergencies”, republicanism and getting more women into politics. Non-problems, all. Self-interested ideologues achieve their policy outcomes…
SENIOR climate scientists have revealed that no evidence whatsoever exists to support wild claims of a pending global crisis. A peer-reviewed study published earlier this year in The European Physical Journal Plus has found that not a single physical metric can be…
by DAVID FLINT – WITH the former British chancellor, Rishi Sunak, openly wondering whether lockdowns were a good idea, when will the Australian political class and mainstream media admit that they were completely wrong, not only on lockdowns, but most other aspects…
by KEVIN DONNELLY – GEORGE Orwell argued that “some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them”. The recent floods and overflowing dams around Sydney prove the Australian climate activist Tim Flannery must have been in la-la land when arguing that…
by DAVID FLINT – THE saying “The only thing we learn from history is that men never learn from history” may be dismissed as a sweeping generalisation. But as the formidable general Sir John Glubb – Glubb Pashah – remarked, it is…
by PAUL COLLITS – ONE of the great scourges of the age is groupthink. Understanding its origins, manifestations and outcomes is key to understanding the imponderable policies that we have thrust upon us today without majority support. The three great lies of…
