Wage inequality: us vs the bureaucrats
Note to Labour: One reason why the income gap widens in times of slow economic growth, I suggest, is surely…
Same old inconvenient drivel
Al Gore’s new film, An Inconvenient Sequel – Truth to Power, opens in Australia on August 10. What a pity.…
Sydney (pseudo) Science Festival 2017
The Sydney Science Festival (August 8-20, if you want to put it in your diary) has booked an Opera House…
The peaceful majority are irrelevant
Islam has exported its primitive, age-old and endless Sunni vs Shiite war of religious violence around the world, expanding it…
It just ain’t so
Writing at Climate Etc., esteemed climate scientist Dr Judith Curry has urged greater attention to the uncertainties of scientific research…
Terror targets? We have it in writing…
Are we in the West stupid, careless, uninformed or suicidal? It is now 10 years – that is a decade…
ASIO’s insult to the intelligence of Muslims
It’s an insult to the intelligence of Muslims, frankly to all of us, to keep claiming that terrorism today is…
Jihadi notes
Why the West is lost The shimmering mirage of an enlightened age across the West is shattered now, and it…
Sinking into oppression
We were saying things around the dinner table last Friday night and Gillian Triggs could not stop us. We were…
Democracy is not a la carte
In Australia, the new ACTU boss Sally McManus believes that unions can and should break any law they feel is…
March too much (for science)
Just days after more than 300 US scientists petitioned President Trump to withdraw from the U.N.’s climate change agency (February…
Renewables: stupid is as stupid does
Recent (and frequent) power failures and ever increasing renewable energy targets by Labor States makes it seem like Australia is…
Demockracy
Australia is becoming a mock democracy; a demockracy. It is observable on a daily basis as some politicians, journalists and…
It’s not racism, stupid
Those who accused Bill Leak of racism over his cartoon and see racism in Pauline Hanson’s policies on migration make…
It’s not racism, stupid
Those who accused Bill Leak of racism over his cartoon and see racism in Pauline Hanson’s policies on migration make…
The Big Con
In the wake of South Australia’s instant State-wide blackout on September 28, and the political storm that followed the physical…