Getting Ridd of junk science
As the High Court judges retire to consider the Science Case of the Year, Peter Ridd v James Cook University,…
Miss New Zealand
Male-born Laurel Hubbard’s admission to the women’s Olympic weightlifting competition as a representative of New Zealand is, of course, absurd. …
What keeps President Xi awake at night?
Australia has earned the international community’s respect — and got China’s attention — with our highly visible resistance to Beijing’s…
My New Year’s resolution: no more Mr Science guy
My New Year’s resolution for 2021 is to go full bore whacko religious on climate change. No more Mr Science…
There is no greater taboo than perceived insensitivity to Aboriginal Australia, so why the constant cries of racism?
“Burn the f…ing place down!” screams the angry young Aboriginal woman on the TV screen (in a red dress and…
Our genius universities: let’s fix discrimination against women by making them bigger targets
I didn’t realise the University of Technology Sydney is run by dummies. The university has received approval from the NSW…
We have a surplus, but it’s just been deployed against bushfire and coronavirus debt and deficit
Perhaps the best way to look at the budgetary effects of coronavirus is not that it has helped wipe out…
The Democrats will be butchered by their botched coup
The botched attempt at a coup against US President Donald Trump by the Democrats — and their anti-Trump supporters within…
Impeachment? As Bill Clinton once said, Mr President, I feel your pain
It’s excruciating. My eye rolls are so severe and unstoppable that my eyelids are sore. My forehead is red from…
Fluid factism grips the world
For holiday reading I have dived into non-fiction books filled with facts and hard evidence (cod, salt, volcanoes, earthquakes), to…
Damn due process, let’s impeach Trump anyway
We are witnessing America’s arguably most destructive political convulsion as the Democrats’ move to impeach President Donald Trump. It is…
Climate change – as it really is
The most important and useful essay this year on climate change is an op-ed by Dr Judith Curry written for…
We are only half-reconciled
Senator Pat Dodson, often called the ‘father of reconciliation’, said last week that political leaders had failed to reconcile with…
No knockout left hook from Mueller
The question I hurled several times at my TV during the six-hour-long Mueller hearing at the House Judiciary Committee yesterday…
If one scientist was enough for Einstein…
How many scientists do you need to demonstrate to policymakers in words they can understand that CO2 is not a…
It’s the stupid, economy
Trust Labor to get it arse about. Bill Clinton famously used the mantra, “It’s the economy, stupid.” to win the…
Death on the Derwent: a new witness cries foul
In as emotional 60 Minutes interview last night, Meaghan Vass told the truth. ‘The objective evidence backs it up,’ as…
unPresidented idiocy from the anti-Trump brigade
‘Not my President!’ can be heard echoing across the American leftscape, two years after Donald Trump’s inauguration, interspersed with ‘Let’s…
An incontrovertible truth (or two)
My address to the Climate Change Conference, Katowice, Poland, December 2 – 14, 2018: Special greetings to Al Gore Al,…
Do we want a nation run like a union – or a booming business?
The CEO of USA Inc, Donald Trump, has concluded the win-win-win US-Mexico-Canada trade deal; total US unemployment has dropped to…
How Ford denied Kavanaugh a defence
It isn’t that Dr Catherine Blasey Ford’s testimony to the United States Senate Judiciary Committee alleging attempted rape by Judge…
The media vs the people
‘The separation of powers means that the legal system is answerable to no one,’ I said, speaking at the Sydney…
