by CRYSTAL-ROSE JONES – GEO-PHYSICIST Peter Ridd says an additional $5m allocated to the Great Barrier Reef in this week’s budget would be better spent on “genuine problems”. The funding was handed down as part of Labor’s 2024 May 14 Federal Budget. …
by ROGER CROOK – I HAVE just received a nice note from WA Premier Roger Cook to tell me he’s going to return some money I gave him in the first place; he hopes it will help pay our electricity bill. (His…
by DAVID FLINT – MOST Australian politicians, with notable exceptions, treat as infallible the discredited theory of anthropogenic global boiling. Yet few, if any, significantly curb their own enormous CO2 footprints. A good number probably doubt the theory. During the past quarter…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – OH THE irony. Here I was reading our local Noosa newspaper last Saturday morning and laughing when the power started to blink off and on half a dozen times before finally cutting out completely. And staying off for…
by KEVIN ANDREWS – WHEN he was prime minister, the Liberal Party’s John Howard regularly warned colleagues against hubris. I suspect that he was reminding himself as much as his fellow MPs. Hubris was a cardinal sin for the ancient Greeks. It…
IN A world of political irrelevancy, there are few people climbing higher, harder and faster than NSW Shadow Health Minister Matt Kean. The guy who grinned while dangling off the end of a tax-payer funded EV charging cable during his ministerial years,…
by PAUL COLLITS – FOUR of Australia’s most disturbing public figures – Mike Cannon-Brookes, Chris Bowen, Malcolm Turnbull and Wyatt Roy – are all in the news at the same time, and in the same story. They are dishonestly taking money from…
by DAVID FLINT – THE news that the Paris-based OECD has confirmed that Australia has suffered the biggest drop in living standards in two decades would be unknown to most Australians, including the voters in the recent Dunkley by-election. Nor would they…
by ROGER CROOK – AUSTRALIA is now inextricably tied to China. If for any reason trade between our two countries should be disrupted, Australia’s economy would rapidly deteriorate and China’s would not. In 1987 when President Ronald Reagan said “Mr Gorbachev tear…
by PAUL COLLITS – I STILL have a cherished coffee mug commemorating the leaked climate-gate emails of around thirteen years ago that implicated “climate scientists” in all sorts of (privately admitted) academic trickery. Like mis-using statistics, making methodological howlers, cancelling opponents, rigging…
