I went to a geoscience conference a while ago, which Ian Plimer, the darling of the climate change deniers, also attended. While some people were quite happy to be seen…
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Many political commentators tend to view Morrison as some political genius, the winner of the unwinnable election. But history may judge him differently: a Brezhnevian figure; the last of the dinosaurs, presiding over an era of stagnation at the head of a dying political class imprisoned within and believing its own vast raft of lies as the world lived a fundamentally different reality of economic decay, environmental pillage and social breakdown.
Rarely have I seen an article in which the point is so widely missed, as in the essay from Craig Emerson. He starts off with the statement that ‘tribalism is…
When the Labor Party announced their policy of having 50% of all new car sales being electric vehicles by 2030, the galloping stupidity of members of the Coalition front bench…
Not content with losing his contract with Rugby Australia and Rugby New South Wales because of his hateful tweet about homosexuals being condemned to hell unless they repent1, now the…
The government of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) has decided to withdraw from the Commonwealth School Chaplaincy Program. The program was started by the Howard government in 2007, and it…
Although it has been dealt with elsewhere1, this bizarre rant from Barnaby Joyce was just too hilarious to pass up. Surprisingly, Joyce initially said he accepted that the climate crisis…
Murdoch ‘ruperter’ Greg Brown has been a subject of essays in this series a couple of times1,2. In this one3, he is helped by the unlucky Olivia Caisley while he…