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…
Brexit’s done, now for our Clexit
Thanks to Boris Johnson, Brexit will now occur. And thanks to Donald Trump, the United States will exit the destructive…
Want proper bushfire prevention policy? Draft the Greens into the RFS
No one should be surprised that our bush is ablaze and our cities are smothered in smoke. For decades now…
Forget Extinction Rebellion, how about an earth history education revolution?
We don’t need rowdy Extinction Rebellions on our streets. We need education on extinctions in our science academies, classrooms and…
Bushfire sense and nonsense
Bushfires are normal events in this season in tropical and subtropical latitudes of the southern hemisphere – in Australia, Africa…
Wasting our resources
Foolish politicians driven by extreme green ideology are wasting Australia’s resources. Australia’s nuclear resources are largely wasted. We have abundant…
More Gore guff and another wasted week of climate wars
Another week, another round of posturing from the virtue signallers on the climate wars. Pity their attacks on hydrocarbon fuels…
Fresh miracles in Galilee – the Galilee Basin, that is
The proposed Adani mine has been wading through a green swamp of political obstacles for nine long years. Other coal…
Election party 2022: chuck another possum on the barbie?
The Greens want to replace ancient grasslands and modern croplands with trees. They worship eucalypt weeds while chipping away at…
A polling week reminder on the size of Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions
Most politicians live in a green fantasyland where facts and numbers don’t count. They dream up fanciful figures for proposed…
Why the big miners turned green?
Big miners like Rio and BHP employ many geologists, chemists and physicists who can show that natural climate cycles have…
EXCLUSIVE: Your very own Flat White cut out ‘n’ keep how to vote card for every electorate nationally
Prepoll voting begins in all 151 seats in the House of Representatives and the Senate tomorrow, but this is the…
The Greatest Generation vs the Green
My grandfather was part of the Greatest Generation. Toughened by wars and depression, they were patriotic nation builders. Their monuments…
Cubbie Station is a scapegoat
Cubbie Station cops the blame for all of the problems of the Darling River, particularly by green journalists, politicians, and…
