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Doomed Planet Emissions, error and innumeracy Peter O"Brien 2nd November 2021 icons/chatCreated with Sketch.Comments (3) If the global elite were serious about limiting global warming, rather than redistributing global wealth, they might for starters have invested a little effort in grasping the difference between the linear and logarithmic. Thus armed, they might then have drawn up what might be called a "carbon budget" charting future emissions. Had they done so, Glasgow"s hotels wouldn"t be booked to capacity Read More
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QED The much-wed queen of the mounting yard Mark McGinness 2nd November 2021 icons/chatCreated with Sketch.Comments (0) One of the great tragedies of the Australian turf scene is aristocrat and ardent horsewoman Etti Plesch, who never quite made it to the Melbourne Cup. Upon second thought, that is reason for wives and sweethearts to rejoice, as the woman born Maria Anna Paula Ferdinandine von Wurmbrand-Stuppach might well have departed with her winnings and a seventh husband Read More
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Editor"s Column The race to found Australia Keith Windschuttle 1st November 2021 icons/chatCreated with Sketch.Comments (14) Sir Joseph Banks lobbied without success to see the Union Jack planted permanently at Botany Bay. Then, suddenly in August 1786, intelligence indirectly obtained from American naval hero John Paul Jones saw all reservations cast aside and Arthur Phillip"s hastily assembled First Fleet dispatched in a mad scramble to beat the French to other side of the world. It was a close run thing Read More
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QED Sting, where are thy deaths? Peter Smith 1st November 2021 icons/chatCreated with Sketch.Comments (6) Suppose you have an untried, experimental, spike-protein vax in the back office with no takers. You need the right transmissible infection. Nothing too lethal, but not trivial either. Then, as if on cue, the right infection arrives wrapped in screaming headlines. Other treatments are banned and their advocates pilloried. Oh, see how the money rolls in Read More
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Public Health We"ll never vaccinate this pandemic away Robert Clancy 31st October 2021 icons/chatCreated with Sketch.Comments (30) It seems we are afflicted by a cognitive dissonance which sees policymakers grasp that current vaccines are of limited value -- and may even be counterproductive in the longer term -- while simultaneously demanding an entire nation roll up its sleeves. Follow the money and you"ll be led not only to motive but also to the sorry spectacle of a medical culture that has lost the resolute leadership it now so desperately needs Read More
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QED Bruce Pascoe deceives by degree Colin Jory 30th October 2021 icons/chatCreated with Sketch.Comments (23) If Dark Emu"s fabricator claimed in the written application for his professorship at Melbourne University that he holds a Bachelor of Education from that same university — a degree never offered there — then the authorities who confirmed his appointment could not have investigated the applicant, his claims and background with anything resembling due diligence Read More
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Sicktoria Victoria"s kingdom ofthe mad Kevin Donnelly 29th October 2021 icons/chatCreated with Sketch.Comments (17) When a farmer going about his solitary business in an empty paddock is obliged by law to wear a mask, the sanity of the man responsible for such an order should be of prime concern. When that same farmer could be locked up for two years at the Premier"s whim, the question is this: how much further will Daniel Andrews be allowed to go before the damage to Victoria is terminal? Read More
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QED Turnbull begats Morrison begats ... Albanese? James Allan 28th October 2021 icons/chatCreated with Sketch.Comments (28) That Scott Morrison can’t get out of bed without seeing what a focus group thinks has become patently clear, especially in light of the COVID pandemic. This saw him offload leadership and responsibility to the premiers lest he be required to make a hard decision. He is yet another reason to revile Turnbull for knifing Abbott and making inevitable the slide into today"s principle-free "conservative" government Read More
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Society The extreme Right"s debt to the extreme Left Mervyn Bendle 28th October 2021 icons/chatCreated with Sketch.Comments (9) The Left’s determination to demonize Australian history and to portray Western Civilisation in general as a long dirge of wickedness plays increasingly into the hands of a new generation of theorists on the radical Right who can readily embrace such iconoclasm as they conjure up their own anti-liberal and authoritarian ideologies. Read More
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Thier ABC The unusually coy and quiet Ms Milligan Barclay McGain 27th October 2021 icons/chatCreated with Sketch.Comments (12) On any normal day the ABC"s gift to libel lawyers is bold as brass in sharing her appraisals of others with the Twitter mob. But make an FOI request to see the emails that might explain why the national broadcaster"s top brass picked up the $780,000 tab for her defamatory tweets and it"s 161 blacked-out documents. What is the ABC hiding? Why isn"t the minister up in arms? Read More
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QED Bruce Pascoe, Melbourne Uni"s former Aborigine Tony Thomas 27th October 2021 icons/chatCreated with Sketch.Comments (24) When Dark Emu"s author was appointed enterprise professor of indigenous agriculture it seemed a perfect fit: a con man promoting the alleged riches to be made from daisy yams and kangaroo grass. Perhaps a sense of shame has penetrated the Parkville fog because the university no longer refers to Bruce Pascoe as "indigenous". He will, however, continue to be paid Read More
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QED Punchy President gasbags with Peronist Pontiff Christopher Akehurst 27th October 2021 icons/chatCreated with Sketch.Comments (10) When a senile opportunist bound for Glasgow stops off in Rome to chinwag with a Peronist schemer on Oct 29 we can expect each to outdo the other in lecturing us on what we should be going without for the sake of the weather. One hopes the wind of their utterances will be sustainably harvested to power the floodlighting of St Peter’s Read More
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Terrorism Terrorism and the Western mind David Martin Jones 26th October 2021 icons/chatCreated with Sketch.Comments (5) After 9/11 few films or novels took anything but a dark view of the US response, Kathryn Bigelow’s "The Hurt Locker" and Clint Eastwood’s "American Sniper" being two exceptions. The most common reactions, though, were equivocation, relativism, moral ambivalence and self-censorship, all of which are to be found in ever woke Richard Flanagan"s "The Unknown Terrorist" Read More
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QED COVID stats by dummies for dummies Peter Smith 25th October 2021 icons/chatCreated with Sketch.Comments (15) Two problems attend the use of statistics. The first is sheer statistical ineptitude among medical researchers and the media"s easily impressed scribblers. A second obstacle to the accurate interpretation of dry numbers is confirmation bias among researchers aiming for plaudits and publications rather than the truth Read More
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Sweetness & Light The Australian Bludging Corporation Tim Blair 24th October 2021 icons/chatCreated with Sketch.Comments (13) As Kabul was being effortlessly overrun, genuine news organisations dropped everything to produce history"s first draft. But at the ABC no such urgency was evident, as it took three whole weeks for Four Corners" taxpayer-funded layabouts to figure out how best to package Joe Biden"s debacle and America"s humiliation. No surprise, it was Donald Trump"s fault Read More
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Doomed Planet Antarctica"s lows get a cold, cold shoulder Michael Kile 24th October 2021 icons/chatCreated with Sketch.Comments (16) It was more than chilly in Antarctica recently, so disconcertingly frigid if you happen to be a professional warmist that hot, fast work was needed to place reports of record low temperatures in the correct context, especially for the mainstream media. Few challenges are beyond the ambitions of those who believe they can control the weather and to this challenge as a chorus they rose Read More
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Television "UndergroundRailroad": Down the rabbit hole Joe Dolce 23rd October 2021 icons/chatCreated with Sketch.Comments (2) Many slaves who made the dangerous journey to Canada would return, at great risk, to help others find their precarious ways out of bondage. These heroic souls became known as "conductors" and their stories are inspirational. Amazon"s "The Underground Railroad" is a work of fiction. Remember this and it will help keep your balance when the train goes off the tracks Read More
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Doomed Planet Eureka! They have clowned it Vic Jurskis 23rd October 2021 icons/chatCreated with Sketch.Comments (8) The fact of the matter is simplicity itself: the longer forest fuels are allowed to accumulate, the bigger and harder to control will be the resulting bushfire. And here"s another simple rule: you"ll never win a Eureka Prize by detailing a concept so blindingly obvious, not when global warming is both the preferred culprit and scapegoat for the fire bureaucracy"s massive failures Read More
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Health The rise ofa modern andglobal inquisition Elisabeth Taylor 22nd October 2021 icons/chatCreated with Sketch.Comments (6) The power exercised by the global health establishment in the name of saving lives makes a striking parallel with that of the medieval Church in the name of saving souls. Back then the clerical authorities" focus was on identifying and silencing heretics. Today, as US Surgeon-General Vivek Murthy and others have made clear, questioning their edicts is a burning offence Read More
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Society The new "good German" and totalitarian tech Augusto Zimmermann & Aramis C. DeBarros 21st October 2021 icons/chatCreated with Sketch.Comments (11) How far are we from unleashing a new and devastating totalitarian technocracy, in the mould of the Scientism embraced by the unwary, unquestioning and fearful majority of Germans of the 1920s and 1930s? There are lessons to be had, but the grave danger is that the modern State, its apparatchiks, propagandists, censors and courtiers are implementing the wrong ones Read More
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Bennelong Papers Pascoe"s ABC: enough to make you ropable Peter O"Brien 21st October 2021 icons/chatCreated with Sketch.Comments (18) Long after he was exposed as a charlatan -- a revelation in which I take no small pride -- the national broadcaster"s Education unit continues to present the fauxboriginal and his profitable nonsense as the genuine article. The real lesson to be taken from his demonstration of rope-making is that, when it comes to the ABC and truth, never the twine shall meet Read More
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Philosophy & Ideas Conservative thought in the time of covid Steven Kates 20th October 2021 icons/chatCreated with Sketch.Comments (16) The pandemic has become yet another crisis the political Left has employed to achievie its ends. Amongst the masks and the vaccines, the most obvious elements in dealing with the coronavirus has been the hobbling of the private sector and massive increases in government expenditure. This has not occurred by chance Read More
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Public Health Whose lungs are they anyway? Jeffrey A Singer 20th October 2021 icons/chatCreated with Sketch.Comments (9) Not yours, apparently, having been claimed by the nannies of the Therapeutic Goods Administration, which has banned nicotine-infused vaping products without a prescription. Apart from serving as a price-maintenance scheme for organised crime and "vape juice" black marketeers, the move actually promotes the use of traditional and far more harmful cigarettes Read More
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History Resentment history and Cook’s last secret Michael Connor 19th October 2021 icons/chatCreated with Sketch.Comments (19) Historian Tom Griffiths blurbs Henry Reynolds’s new book, Truth-Telling: History, Sovereignty and the Uluru Statement, as "a gift to his nation by one of our greatest historians". Given what is omitted it is a gift not worth the trouble of unwrapping Read More
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QED Yet again, the banality of evil Mervyn Bendle 18th October 2021 icons/chatCreated with Sketch.Comments (27) Proponents of Voluntary Assisted Dying may think they are acting in good faith, but it seems they are unaware of the unspoken and unconscious cultural factors that now determine how we conceive of death. After a century of industrialised slaughter, an individual"s life counts for little against the cost-benefit calculations of an increasingly intrusive administrative State Read More
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Doomed Planet Sadly, there"s no turning backthe green tide Peter Smith 18th October 2021 icons/chatCreated with Sketch.Comments (16) Western civilisation is on course to be drowned by sinister forces -- Marxist greenies, governments, corporates and the media -- while useful idiots in posh inner-city suburbs cheer uneconomic and unproven technologies whose deficiencies they lack the mental wherewithal to understand. Hold on to your hats, and your diesel generator if you have one. Read More
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Society Honoured rogues of theEstablishment Declan Mansfield 17th October 2021 icons/chatCreated with Sketch.Comments (5) Hillary Clinton wholesaled lies about the so-called Russiagate "scandal" while, closer to home, Tim Minchin revelled in the acclaim for his nasty little ditty about Cardinal Pell. Were there any justice each would be called to account, but that"s not the way of the modern world. Instead, having delivered the messages the Establishment wanted, each has been crowned with garlands Read More
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Reflections There is no kindness in euthanasia Mark Powell 17th October 2021 icons/chatCreated with Sketch.Comments (13) Patients being consigned to eternity without their consent. The elderly and frail feeling themselves under pressure to end the burden on their kin. Those are but two reasons of many why assisted suicide, always presented by advocates as a humane response to age and illness, is an afront to morality, ethics and the gift of life itself Read More
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Doomed Planet Green hydrogen: enough to give you the vapours Peter O"Brien 16th October 2021 icons/chatCreated with Sketch.Comments (20) Before our elected leaders write more cheques to finance the fashionable fantasy that "green hydrogen" can run your home, power the family car and save the planet from a carbon catastrophe, consider what happens when the gas is burned. The short answer: water vapour. And what do catastropharians label as the world"s most abundant greenhouse gas? Yes, water vapour Read More
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Asperities Boris Johnson jumps the shark John O’Sullivan 16th October 2021 icons/chatCreated with Sketch.Comments (1) The Tory party faithful of the post-Thatcher years have long been haunted by a sense of despairing inevitability: whenever a Conservative government reaches a fork in the road it will always turn Left. Boris Johnson"s recent performance in shredding his pledge not to raise taxes makes the point -- and may have made Labour a viable proposition at the next election Read More
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