by DAVID FLINT – DOES Scott Morrison plan to lose this year’s federal election? Alienating Coalition rank-and-file by his surrender on net-zero emissions will result in many parking their first preferences with newer Parties supporting older values, just as Menzies did. The…
SCOTT Morrison’s awkward embrace of the Left’s policy agenda underpins the Coalition’s extended popularity slump. And while the radical Left, both inside and outside his government, attempts to blame this slide on the PM not going far enough, the opposite is provably…
IN A play for disaffected centre-Right votes, the Liberal Democrat’s 2022 federal election manifesto is an attempt to reverse Australia’s slide into socialism. Pitching a swag of centre-Right policies long discarded by Australia’s major Parties, the manifesto promises small government, personal freedom…
by DAVID FLINT – IN HIS lament that he is but a “climate confusionist”, former university vice-chancellor Prof Greg Craven wants the “posturing on both sides of the debate” to stop so there can be a dialogue. As a constitutional expert who…
SCOTT Morrison requires Labor to support his net-zero ambitions after his own Party members threatened to block his Greens-inspired policy direction. The prime minister appears to have gone all in with the Left’s climate project, ignoring protests from centre-Right Party colleagues. “That’s…
by IAN PLIMER – ACCORDING to green activists, climate change policies don’t need to be costed because they’re a moral issue. Do green activists have a household budget? Whether it’s their own money or that of taxpayers, there has to be fiscal…
AUSTRALIA’s elites are now engaged in a travesty of public policy, so-called net-zero emissions. Yet once Australians realise what it will cost, they are next to unanimous in their opposition. Meanwhile, the media have finally realised that most of the elites, especially…
MONARCHISTS are seething following Prince Charles’ COP26 speech where he described “climate change” as a life-threatening and existential threat requiring a military-style response. The doomsday prince told his Glasgow audience this month that time had already run out and a “military-style” campaign…
AUSTRALIA has had eight mega-droughts over the last 1000 years. The biggest was a 39-year drought between 1174 and 1212 AD during a century of aridity (1102-1212 AD) during the global Medieval warming. There was a 23-year mega-drought from 1500-1522 AD. It…
by IAN PLIMER – GREEN Left activists have successfully prevented the farming of golden rice, genetically modified rice with vitamin A precursor traits introduced from maize. There are 200,000 to 700,000 children who die prematurely each year because of vitamin A deficiency. …
