The strong stink of an election on the nose
The Liberals cannot be trusted to control Australia without adult supervision, but to replace them with an ALP/Green/ABC/Teal government would…
It's time to vote for change
Politics has drifted a long way left since the days of Menzies and Fadden. Starting with Gough Whitlam, Malcolm Fraser,…
Same garbage – different flies
The Australian Budget was a profound disappointment. Not one useless law was repealed, not one tax was abolished, and not…
Power not poverty
‘The past was green and fuzzy – the future is black and ominous.’ – Richard Sebrof The green fairy-tale is…
Stop these ‘fuelish’ policies
‘God was on the side of the nation that had the oil.’ – Prof. Wakimura, Tokyo Imperial University. Russia is…
The stampede of green lemmings
No country on Earth relies entirely on wind and solar energy, but Australian politicians aim to achieve this miracle. They…
The destruction of Australia’s grasslands
It’s the season for green-money showers in Australia – the Coral Community just got one billion dollars of green bribes…
Australia’s giant green gamble on solar energy toys
By the time solar energy reaches Earth’s surface, it is spread very thin – even midday sunshine will not boil…
Whirling ‘Triffids’ are now cluttering our coastlines
‘I saw them now with a disgust that they had never roused in me before. Horrible alien things which some…
The electric highway – a ‘fuelish’ policy
Scott Morrison has had another green brainwave – spend a zillion dollars to build Australia’s electric/hydrogen highway. Naturally, this ‘Fuelish…
Send the Glasgow climate and canapés conference to Iceland
November’s COP 26 meeting should be shifted from Glasgow in Scotland to Reykjavík in Iceland. Twenty-five previous meetings of this…
All cows are green
Growing trees need three essentials – radiant energy from the sun, CO2 and rain from the atmosphere, and nutrients and…
Hydrogen hype and hurdles
Green Hydrogen is the latest “energy” fad from the global warming warriors. It is mainly hot air. Hydrogen will never…
Flood plains are for – gasp – floods
Natural flood plains form where floods spread silt and mud in river valleys. Being flat, fertile, picturesque and usually supplied…
All meat is plant based
Wandering recently through an arcade popular with the green smoothie set, I saw a sign boasting: “Plant Based Meat”. Someone…
No fuel, no fires.
The independent New South Wales bushfire inquiry — led by former NSW Police deputy commissioner Dave Owens and former NSW…
Coronavirus, climate and China: can we afford to fight three wars at once?
Australian politicians are trying to maintain their never-ending climate war on carbon fuels while waging a lockdown war on the…
Old King Coal doesn’t mind the cold
Before sunrise on Sunday, the grass temperature in Washpool, in the south-east of the supposed Sunshine State, was minus 1.7…
Rebuild muscle, not flab
In order to kill corona-wasps in the ceiling, politicians have knocked our economic house down. Now they dream of rebuilding…
What if we recover from coronavirus, only to die in poverty?
In their frantic attempts to delay the spread of coronavirus, governments are sowing the seeds of economic depression and currency…
Forget confetti money. What about creating real jobs?
Governments seek to revive “the economy” by scattering gifts of our own money wrapped in red tape. This encourages immediate…
The six shades of Australian fire lighters
Australian fire-lighters come in six colours – yellow, black, white, blood red, dark green, and light green. All are relevant…
Bushfire inquiry No. 58, pre-empted
Politicians hide behind enquiries – their magic answer to all problems, especially bushfires. Announcing enquiries give the impression of decisive…
The price of green folly
Green Folly locked up 11 per cent of Australia in a tinder-box of bushfire fuel, much of which is now…
Fighting fire with fires
The fire-lighter was the most powerful tool that early humans brought to Australia. Fires lit by Aboriginal men and women…
