I don’t like his chances, but for an Independent Travis Windsor looks to be making a reasonable fist of his run for Griffith. This includes focussing on the one issue that ought to concern most Australians, but generally seems to get lost in debate – unemployment. Travis has a list of policies to help in […]

Clive Hamilton is at it again – trying to stigmatise anyone who disagrees with his version of global warming as a “climate change denier”, and in this case likening them to opponents of vaccination. Clive’s a nasty piece of work, and once urged a boycott of On Line Opinion merely for publishing articles by people who […]

Kevin Andrews has announced an inquiry into the social welfare system, but has immediately ruled out considering the aged pension. This will be a waste of time and an unmitigated disaster. Total welfare spending in the last budget was predicted to be $138 billion, of which only $9.55B goes to the unemployed, while $25.5B goes […]

Midsummer, raging bushfires and record breaking heatwaves. But at Moruya Heads it has been mild, not passing 30C. We could use some rain now, but the tanks are holding up and my experiment with growing Warragul Greens has succeeded on the second try: It is safe to assume these interesting greens do not need protection […]

Australia’s credulous media is at it again, assisted by the Bureau of Meteorology and a smattering of academics. Australia has the warmest year in a hundred, and it is “proof” that global warming is on the way. Yet what would they say about global warming if we were having the coldest winter in 20 years? […]

Dick Smith will have the “best prime minister in the world” launch his Dick Smith Foods foundation tomorrow. The foundation promises to distribute $1 million next year from the sales of Dick Smith’s foods, but recent research suggests the foundation might have some culinary application as well. Researchers at the University of Gävle in Sweden in a […]

In politics media bias is a given, no matter which side of the fence you stand on. It is particularly worse for the non-Labor and non-Greens side of politics because most journalists fit on the left of the ideological spectrum so what they genuinely see as even-handed has a lean on it to start with. […]

Various news outlets are reporting that Bowman MHR, Dr Andrew Laming has backed down from comments he made about obesity after a storm on social media. I hope not, because Laming was right on the money. He was commenting on a photo on the a Newscorp site of Melanie Ward who is apparently the same […]

The UK government has reversed its position and now apparently intends to introduce plain packaging for cigarettes. At the same time one of the Labor taxes the Abbott government is apparently not going to give us relief from is the increase in the Tobacco Tax, according to LDP Senator-elect, David Leyonhjelm. The ostensible reason for […]

It has to be only a matter of time before the ABC is offering advertising on its website and programs as the federal government opens up government websites to commercial advertising. In the course of checking the weather to see how long the latest Brisbane thunder storm might last I went to the Bureau of […]