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Reinventing energy policy
While the Liberal party tears itself apart over whether a Clean Energy Target as proposed by the Finkel report delivered…
Thou shalt not steal the truth
On 11 May 2017, under the auspices of Dialogue4Peace, I, together with Egyptian Copt, Nadia Ghali, were the main speakers…
Time bandits
‘Oooooo,’ coos the middle-aged box office lady with a wink, as I pick up my tickets to the World Science…
So it’s all about the, er, settlements then?
There has long been a conventional wisdom in some foreign policy circles that runs like this: solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict…
Excuse me, your cognitive dissonance is showing
On June 5 in Brighton, Melbourne, at a spot I have driven past countless times, there was a terrorist incident.…
Business/Robbery etc
The foxes have already been let into the henhouse. Led by the nastiest fox of all, the thuggish, serial law-breaker…
Down the social media rabbit hole
‘Whatever it is I’m against it,’ Groucho Marx sang in the 1932 film Horse Feathers. Bill Shorten’s Labor Party is…
It just ain’t so
Writing at Climate Etc., esteemed climate scientist Dr Judith Curry has urged greater attention to the uncertainties of scientific research…
Jihadism and the death cult
‘I don’t think we’re likely to get to know the Moslems very well, and I suspect that if we should,…
The wages of terror
The murderous, cowardly and unprovoked Muslim attacks on the West continue, the war for the Caliphate kills more innocents, but…
The incompatability of Islam
In the Australian on the 6th of June, a senior British Muslim politician, Sajid Javid, in response to the latest…
Barbarians and Marxists
The election of President Trump was, along with Brexit, one of the great events, not only of 2016, but of…
Filling Triggs’ shoes
The Human Rights Commission’s selective agenda does not include the protection of fundamental human rights like freedom of speech. For…
Gender quotas, blue collars and male suicide
Let me tell you about a couple of patients who illustrate how feminism can contribute to both domestic violence and…
Death penalty for wannabe martyrs
Sooner or later some deranged Islamic fundamentalist is going to kill a lot of Australians for the greater glory of…
Islands in the stream
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr said ‘I would not give a fig for simplicity before complexity, but for simplicity after complexity…
Abortion fantasies
Three weeks ago, Parliament voted decisively to reject a bill that would have decriminalised abortion. Members of the New South…
Business/Robbery etc
Guilty. It’s not just the political class wrecking Australia’s economic future. Beside them in the dock are the overpaid corporate…
Aux bien pensants
At war Australia, along with all of the West, is at war. The enemy is Islamic terrorism. What should we…
Who put the cult into multiculturalism?
A British General of the Raj, told that suttee was an Indian custom, replied: ‘We have a custom too. When…
Obamacare, Trumpcare… Mediscare?
In his joint press conference with Malcolm Turnbull in New York this month, Donald Trump said that Australia has ‘better…
Green power fantasies
The cool phrases among the proponents of green electricity are ‘distributed networks’ and ‘micro networks’ which, we are told, will…
Back to basics
At the end of law school you undertake ‘practical legal training’ to develop the essential skills of advocacy our adversarial…
Holy Land Diary
Last week, I was in Tel Aviv, to receive an honorary doctorate. The official party entered to the strains of…
Budget notes
Stealing Shorten’s shorts In 1845 Benjamin Disraeli said of Britain’s Tory Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel, that he had ‘caught…