Matt Canavan

London notes

18 November 2023 9:00 am

Against common perceptions most political functions are drably catered affairs. Cheap wine, nuts, chips, maybe of the gourmet Red Rock…

You Newton Denier, you!!

20 August 2022 9:00 am

Good news on the Great Barrier Reef challenges climate ‘science’

Green mischief

23 July 2022 9:00 am

From Sri Lanka to Holland, the road to hell is paved with emissions reductions

Net Zero nightmare

14 May 2022 9:00 am

We move away from fossil fuels at our grave peril

Australian notes

23 April 2022 9:00 am

As I was driving home on Saturday after a busy day, I realised that everything I had done that day,…

Gullible net zero fools cripple the West

2 April 2022 9:00 am

It’s the climate change policies, stupid

The little rainbow book

18 December 2021 9:00 am

Confused by the double standards of the Left? So you should be

It’s net curtains

23 October 2021 9:00 am

Empty shelves beckon in a net zero world

Australian notes

27 February 2021 9:00 am

Bullocks As you drive into our nation’s beef capital you are greeted by a statue of a bull emblazoned with…

Christmas notes

19 December 2020 9:00 am

Put some coal in our stockings Santa will be busy this year because 2020 marks the final year of the…

Emissions reduction targets stink

21 November 2020 9:00 am

The Paris agreement is all hot air

Virtual reality check

19 September 2020 9:00 am

It’s the modelling, stupid

NT diary

22 August 2020 9:00 am

The murranji frog is a desert amphibian that can survive long stretches without water. It is an apt name for…

What ‘oppressive monocultural society’ do we have to tear down?

16 July 2020 5:00 am

Hamlet summed up the problem of how to be good, “there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes…

Dictatorship of the alphabet

4 July 2020 9:00 am

Today’s so-called revolutionaries are hardly Marxists

Has Annastacia Palaszczuk closed the borders to keep out Bob Brown and his rabble?

20 May 2020 10:18 am

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has come under pressure this week to explain the continuing closure of Queensland’s borders. The case…

Movie buff notes

2 May 2020 9:00 am

Green ain’t green Normally I waste many hours of my working day sitting in a big red chamber while something…

How crying wolf over the Reef wrecks North Queensland

11 March 2020 3:30 pm

As passengers come into land at the Brisbane airport, few realise they are flying over a reef that has more…

Beware the ‘aspirational goal’

7 March 2020 9:00 am

The Left’s ‘net-zero’ push is a dangerous farce

We could be a superpower, too

22 February 2020 9:00 am

Back in 2008, Kevin Rudd announced a new ‘Green Car Plan’ which in his words would ‘make the automotive industry…

Fighting fires

15 February 2020 9:00 am

The richest man in Rome at the time of Julius Caesar was Marcus Licinius Crassus. Crassus made his fortune through…

Energy notes

16 November 2019 9:00 am

The world needs more Australian coal, not less Most fairy tales contain important life lessons and as the father of…

India notes

14 September 2019 9:00 am

A new golden age built with Australian coal Thanks to the British Raj, English has many words of Indian heritage.…

Vale Tim Fischer

31 August 2019 9:00 am

Tim Fischer’s penultimate speech in the House of Representatives was in response to a motion condemning the September 11 terrorist…

Australian notes

20 July 2019 9:00 am

Superglued to the Greens The great satirical novelist Evelyn Waugh once catalogued a fictional, remote and newly-converted Christian sect who…