Brittania has voted to divorce Europa, and whatever you think of the result, there are lessons for our political class. One is the strength of the coalition between the liberal middle class and the conservative working class. If you put the Tory party back together again, yet retain the themes of the Brexit campaign under […]

Gary Morgan is the first pollster out with a result, using his SMS methodology. His release is produced below. Despite my suspicion that Turnbull will have trouble with the blue-collar conservatives, this poll shows him doing very well with Ind/Other supporters – 68% Turnbull to 29% Shorten. The Liberal vote has also coalesced hard behind […]

With her back against a wall, faced with a decision she should have made two weeks ago, and after having tried to shovel that decision off onto the party secretary, Annastacia Palaszczuk has belatedly sacked “Billy” Gordon from her party and bizarrely claimed the decision is driven by “integrity”. Even if you believe that somehow […]

Last night I went to the presentation by the Melbourne based Alternative Technology Association. They did a report last year comparing domestic gas for heating, hot water and cooking with efficient electric. It is a fairly complex report, and considers many variables, including type of housing, location in Australia, local gas prices and local climate, […]

The Ancient Mariner ain’t seen nothin yet. Just a few items from the news. Of course mainstream media doesn’t cover these mere details that affect tens of millions. Not to mention what is happening in Queensland right now. 1. Brazil’s drought This week’s most popular story was Fabiola Ortiz’s account of life in Brazil as […]

Late summer, almost nightly showers keeping all green. An ocean warm and welcoming, if often wilder than my timid swimming skills would like. Amid all the bluster about the reality of climate change (internationally and locally in these blogs) I have quietly finished Naomi Klein’s book This Changes Everything. I am waiting for my fellow […]

I’m posting this lecture invite not because I think anyone who reads this blog is going to make the trip to London to hear it, but because it is a good and amusing summary of the quandary in which IPCC climate “science”, finds itself. A bit more attention to science rather than propaganda and things […]

From the Carbon Brief: Temperatures during the Iowa maize growing season are projected to increase by more than five degrees Celsius, causing yields to drop by 18 per cent, according to new research. In Southern Australia, 15 per cent less rainfall and temperatures 2.8 to 4.5 degrees warmer will see wheat yields decline by 70 […]