Viv Forbes

Stop wasting water

31 January 2024 2:00 am

Australia’s population increases by one person every 50 seconds and they all need water

When the ice returns

16 December 2023 1:57 am

Earth is living in the latter days of the Holocene Warm Era. This is the latest short, fertile, warm interlude…

Time for Climate Exit

2 December 2023 10:59 pm

The world’s rich and famous – plus an army of publicists, hangers-on, and mendicants – are attending the COP28 meeting…

The Net Zero lemmings rush

27 November 2023 4:30 am

Australia’s ALP/Green government and their media mates are using subsidies, taxes, and propaganda in a lemming-style attempt to move the…

Cash beats electronic money

10 November 2023 1:31 am

The Optus crash in Australia showed the value of cash

Green, powerless, and defenceless

1 November 2023 5:00 am

As Net Zero strangles Australian industry, Australia is becoming green, powerless, and defenceless. History holds lessons that we ignore at…

Time to punish the Big End of town?

22 October 2023 5:51 pm

Australia’s Big End of Town gambled heavily in the Voice Cup. They lost. Only the Nanny ‘State’ (Canberra) voted ‘Yes’,…

The sad story of failed ‘Voices’

10 October 2023 1:03 pm

The Hawke-Labor government established ATSIC in 1990 ‘so that aboriginals could be involved in the processes of government affecting their…

Why I will vote ‘No’

4 October 2023 4:30 am

Australians are being asked to approve a permanent change to our Constitution. This change is racist in intent and divisive…

Predators and parasites prowl the Bowen Basin 

28 June 2023 4:30 am

After our great adventure helping Utah Development Co locate and measure their magnificent coal resources along the western edge of…

The Bowen Basin coal pioneers – Collinsville, Thiess, and Utah

18 June 2023 5:00 am

When they erect a huge monument to the coal pioneers of the Bowen Basin, three groups must be prominent: The…

The Bowen Basin pioneers: prospectors, squatters, drovers, and miners 

9 June 2023 5:30 am

Viv Forbes was part of a small team of geologists given the task of mapping the Bowen Basin over the…

Bowen Basin geological dramas

30 May 2023 5:30 am

Part 2 of the Bowen Basin Stories… Who says ‘geology is boring’? It is a story of floods and droughts,…

The Bowen Basin adventures

21 May 2023 5:00 am

I am one of the few survivors of a team of Bowen Basin pioneers who started the systematic exploration of…

Everyone forgot about Earth Hour

24 April 2023 6:00 am

Editor’s Note: Earth Hour is the creation of the World Wildlife Fund. It is an event during which companies and…

The green foods time bomb

1 April 2023 7:00 am

Green propagandists continue to inflict lethal damage to our electricity industry – it has become unreliable and expensive. Their intrusive…

The Federation Cross

9 March 2023 5:00 am

Away back in the good old days when men could find a job; When money was as good as gold…

Achieving Net Zero

6 February 2023 5:30 am

According to the clerics of the Green Cult, once we blow up our last coal mine, send all diesel engines…

The old man’s tale

15 January 2023 6:00 am

The councilman was adamant: ‘The Law must have its way, The shed you built is not approved It must come…

The coming crash of the climate cult

8 December 2022 12:17 pm

The Climate Cult worships two green idols – electric vehicles and wind-solar energy. This is part of a futile UN…

Not ‘green’ at all

14 November 2022 8:00 am

‘Green’ policies are destroying the natural environment and changing local weather. This is part of a futile United Nations scheme…

Living in the Latter Days

4 November 2022 11:00 am

Australians are living in the latter days of the Anglo/American Empire. For centuries, world power centres have been moving west…

Floods and droughts are nothing new

22 October 2022 12:09 pm

There is nothing unusual about floods, fires, droughts, homelessness, and hunger – they have always been part of the human…

Earth is not a Greenhouse

15 October 2022 8:00 am

Warming alarmists claim: ‘Earth’s atmosphere acts like the glass in a greenhouse.’ This is false. Glass is largely transparent to…

Ruled by fools

19 September 2022 8:00 am

Australia has become a nation ruled by fools. We have surrendered power over every aspect of our lives and industry…