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Koalas defy rumours of extinction by … doing extremely well

15 September 2023 5:00 am

New South Wales Environment Minister Penny Sharpe said, ‘The creation of the Great Koala National Park is essential to saving…

Snowy 2.0? Give Us a Break!

31 August 2023 5:00 am

I’m very proud of my heritage as a first-generation Australian. I also celebrate our world record, enduring ancient culture and…

The new Dark Ages: millions of animals die in the fires of environmentalism

15 August 2023 4:30 am

It was only 235 years ago when our European elders introduced modern civilization and technology to an ancient culture. There…

Big government, jobs, and productivity

1 July 2023 8:08 am

My mum arrived in Australia with the first boatload of second world war refugees at the end of 1947. She…

Australia’s big picture: climate change, nuclear energy, and defence

15 March 2023 3:22 pm

We are destroying our economy by shutting down baseload power whilst subsidising fake renewables, big batteries, and the incredible energy-gobbling…

Caught between three scams: ‘a delicate environmental conundrum’

24 February 2023 5:00 am

The Sydney Morning Herald’s Mike Foley tells us that 20 per cent of development applications relating to proposals ‘threatening koala habitat’…

Saving the planet at high speed

23 December 2022 10:00 am

Western Australian Premier Mark McGowan has saved his forests from the sustainable, renewable timber industry. (Saving our forests and controlling…

Repatriation...?

3 November 2022 10:35 am

As Mr Albanese cleared the way to repatriate jihadi brides, National Archives opened access to my mum’s naturalisation records. In…

How to fix the ‘extinction crisis’

7 October 2022 10:00 am

Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has announced the latest plan to ‘save’ our wildlife. Tanya Plibersek launches new Threatened Species Action…

The ‘incredible’ International Fire & Climate Conference

9 June 2022 4:00 am

Three consecutive extreme summers accompanied the Settlement Drought of 1790-93. Masses of flying foxes and lorikeets dropped dead in Parramatta…

Will the ABC tell the whole story about Mount Dispersion?

1 June 2022 4:00 am

I think ABC reached the zenith of Wokeism in a tall story supposedly Honouring Aboriginal History and Mourning an Atrocity…

Koala apocalypse? It ain't science

28 April 2022 12:00 pm

Koalas eat soft young shoots. They cannot survive on a diet of healthy mature eucalypt leaves. When Aboriginal people maintained…

It took a while, but green academics finally woke up!

25 February 2022 2:00 pm

It has suddenly become politically correct to acknowledge that disruption of Aboriginal burning caused megafires in Australia before any hint…

Our fairdinkum crisis

15 February 2022 2:00 pm

The Long March has reached its destination. Our world is governed by mass hysteria and Australia’s a world leader. There’s…

Saving our forests and controlling our climate

12 September 2021 6:49 pm

I’m all for saving forests. Unlike the climate change enthusiasts, I learnt how to do it by working as a…

Every industry has its own safety responsibilities, so why the fuss over jabs?

12 August 2021 7:08 pm

My kids’ grandparents all had small scars on their upper arms from compulsory vaccinations. They were delighted to receive them…

Our ABC, Aborigines, bushfires, climate change, koalas and rainforest

11 July 2021 5:04 pm

After CSIRO published my Ecological History of the Koala in Wildlife Research, the ABC made a rare mistake. Fran Kelly interviewed…

Don’t burn the budget. Bring back the firesticks

26 June 2021 5:17 pm

New South Wales Treasurer Dominic Perrottet has announced the latest fix for our bushfire problems. Unsurprisingly it involves big spending.…

Of droughts and fires and floods

24 March 2021 7:14 pm

We all know Dorothea Mackellar’s famous words. More recently, Tim Flannery has told us our dams would never fill again…

No, a great koala national park won’t help koalas

4 February 2021 8:16 pm

The only accurate information in Newcastle University’s newly touted “independent assessment” of koala conservation is the disclaimer: “no responsibility or liability for any information,…

Now the Nats are choosing cute 'n' cuddly with koalas over facts

12 January 2021 2:49 pm

New South Wales Deputy Premier John Barilaro has ‘kissed and made up’ with Environment Minister Matt ‘Green’ Kean after taking time…

Real Climate Science

6 December 2020 1:50 pm

According to Tim Flannery’s Climate Council, Aborigines ate the megafauna, so highly flammable scrub grew up and they had to…

The great koala capers continue

24 November 2020 8:31 pm

Multinational green corporations such as World Wildlife Fund are taking millions of dollars from well-meaning and naive people concerned about the welfare of…

There’s no koala crisis in NSW, just the Liberal left’s shameful shopping for soft green votes

10 September 2020 3:01 pm

Our Black Summer proved two things beyond doubt: The unprecedented fires were a consequence of the unprecedented accumulation of explosive…

The Bushfires Royal Commission: saving reputations, not lives and property

1 September 2020 7:14 pm

The Interim Observations of the Bushfires Royal Commission are extremely disturbing. Not because they reveal any frightening facts about climate…