A new British report pings the British education system for indoctrinating students on questions of climate change and sustainability. In this, Australia is no better. Climate Control: Brainwashing in schools lays out in detail instances not just of bias, but active coercion, at a number of levels from core curriculum down to the choices that teachers […]

Wind farms blight the landscape where they are erected, but apart from that, I was unsure whether they posed any real environmental, as opposed to economic, threats. That includes environmental threats to humans. Yet there has been a sustained campaign against wind turbines on the basis that they represent a threat to human health. In […]

Bill Shorten will claim today that the budget situation is not as bad as the government says, and will accuse them of “deception” according to the SMH. If he doesn’t spell out which promises Labor made before the last election he would jettison, then he is the one being “deceptive”. As Chris Bowen reveals, Shorten’s […]

The Twitterverse, and the ALP, are afire as George Brandis proclaims that it is a human right to be a bigot, as though this was some novel proclamation from a fascist government when it is in fact a well-accepted principle of human rights. If you don’t believe me check out Article 19 of the Universal […]

It seems that the Queensland government and the Senior Medical Officers at state government hospitals are still at loggerheads over pay and conditions with the Courier Mail reporting that over a 1,000 of them voted against the contracts at a meeting last night. This was after significant concessions by the government. There are a few […]

Queensland’s Integrity Commissioner David Solomon has been on the gravy train most of his life – a state he defines as “nepotism” – but now in his twilight years with a non-Labor government in charge, he’s decided the Queensland government has a nepotism crisis, and the ALP state leader agrees. Solomon is a lawyer and […]

“If the ‘end of the age of entitlement’ has come, why does the mining industry get so much assistance?” is a question I’ve seen raised lately by activists. It’s a curious question, because as the Productivity Commission shows, mining receives virtually no assistance at all, as you can see from the following graph and table […]

I said in some recent analysis that the Labor campaign in Griffith had been dishonest. Yesterday I received an email from the winner, Terri Butler, which is exhibit “A”. Her opening statement was: We’ve sent a strong message to Tony Abbott that Australians won’t stand for his cuts to healthcare, his cuts to super fast […]

The ABC’s role is to fill the gap where commercial news providers falter, and there is no bigger gap than that for good news. “If it bleeds it leads” has long been a maxim for newspaper editors. So most of the news that we get is about famine, flood, fire, war and pestilence, but little […]

According to his own account (published in On Line Opinion this morning), Bernard Gaynor’s commission as a major in the Australian Army Reserve is to be terminated because of his conservative Roman Catholic views on homosexuality and Islam. If his account is correct, and we’re happy to publish an Army response, then it appears to […]