Gerry Harvey is taking a battering from the Internet. First from online competitors to his bricks and mortar retailing operation, now from online vigilantes who are organising a boycott of his stores because he is selling furniture made from legally (yes, you did read that right) harvested Australian timber. I’m still happy to talk to him, […]

Bob Brown tells us that because of global warming storms are getting more severe. Kevin Rudd told us that because of global warming we were in drought. Now the CSIRO tells us that we were in drought because storms were weaker. Dr Jorgen Frederiksen from the the CSIRO says there has been a 50-year decrease […]

On Line Opinion is currently running a feature Fight for Equality prefaced on the assumption that women aren’t occupying high office in the numbers they should. But perhaps we are a little behind the times. Debra Calder’s mum Florence Bambrick turns 100 this Friday (Debra is significant because she does the books for On Line […]

After an uneventful three week stay in New Jersey (except for the ambulance trip for my spouse and a number of mostly annoying family dramas, along with happy get togethers with friends) we headed for Germany in late May. There we spent a few very fine days with an ex-pat Aussie friend. Her lifestyle can’t […]

Reader John Robertson has provided me with this intriquing insight into the Garnaut report and sea level rise. It makes you wonder. “In its May 2011 report the ‘Climate Commission’ put the danger of ‘sea level rise’, allegedly caused by extra CO2, front and centre. It included a map which showed that ‘sea level rise’ […]

Australia has placed fourth in the world for open government according to the World Justice Project, which compares 66 leading countries on a variety of political indicators. We don’t do so well on other indicators, but our result is still very healthy – if you put a lot of store in these sorts of exercises. […]

Josh Fox filmed a documentary. Problem is it seems to have been a mockumentary, and he’s trying to cover the facts up. His solicitors have persuaded two organisations to take the video down that you can see by clicking on this link. Josh Fox disgraces the term “documentary maker”.

I haven’t seen Josh Fox’s Gasland, but I have seen the video clip where he lights water coming out of a tap. Now, thanks to legal action taken by him and his lawyers fewer people will be able to see it. Why would he do that?