Is this a new development in the global warming debate?

The most recent Times Atlas, regarded in Britain apparently as the most prestigious atlas which is reflected in its cost of £150, has shaved 15% off the ice cover of Greenland.

No-one seems to know why as the ice loss has […] Continue Reading…

Labor has made it virtually impossible to appoint any sort of churchman to any sort of high profile government role. It did this by the disgraceful way it demonised Peter Hollingworth, former Anglican Archbishop, and drove him from the role of Governor-General.

Hollingworth was ostensibly crucified, not because he abused […] Continue Reading…

For a second, when I heard the news reports, I thought online media had risen in importance to the point where the government wanted to investigate them along with print. Closer reading of the terms of reference rebuts this presumption on my part. They’re interested in the Internet, but […] Continue Reading…

The government is establishing a media inquiry, but apparently it won’t look at divestment, despite the Greens demands that it do so. This is probably a good idea because I can’t see how you could actually execute a workable divestment.

News Limited owns 70% of the eastern seaboard newspapers, and […] Continue Reading…

The government and its supporters are currently putting a lot of effort into trying to discredit workplace reforms. They claim that work choices, or individual contracts, it doesn’t appear to matter which, actually decreased productivity, and therefore living standards, or had no effect on it.

The latest offering is from […] Continue Reading…

Shadow Attorney-General George Brandis probably did the ALP a favour by referring Craig Thomson to the NSW police. Now the government can claim that he has been exonerated.

Not that this is the smartest thing to do, but it is a stronger position than they were in before the referral.

Makes […] Continue Reading…

There is nothing in the doctrine of the separation of powers that says Julia Gillard can’t criticise a High Court decision after it has been delivered, huffing and puffing by lawyers and the opposition notwithstanding.

While the doctrine says that the legislature, the judiciary and the police must all act […] Continue Reading…

With particular apologies to Andrew Barton ‘Banjo’ Paterson
I HAD written him a letter which I had, for want of better
Knowledge, sent to where I met him on the Murray, years ago,
He was boating when I knew him, so I sent the letter to him,
Just on spec, addressed as follows, […] Continue Reading…