Australian notes
Bullocks As you drive into our nation’s beef capital you are greeted by a statue of a bull emblazoned with…
Christmas notes
Put some coal in our stockings Santa will be busy this year because 2020 marks the final year of the…
Emissions reduction targets stink
The Paris agreement is all hot air
Virtual reality check
It’s the modelling, stupid
NT diary
The murranji frog is a desert amphibian that can survive long stretches without water. It is an apt name for…
What ‘oppressive monocultural society’ do we have to tear down?
Hamlet summed up the problem of how to be good, “there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes…
Dictatorship of the alphabet
Today’s so-called revolutionaries are hardly Marxists
Has Annastacia Palaszczuk closed the borders to keep out Bob Brown and his rabble?
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has come under pressure this week to explain the continuing closure of Queensland’s borders. The case…
Movie buff notes
Green ain’t green Normally I waste many hours of my working day sitting in a big red chamber while something…
How crying wolf over the Reef wrecks North Queensland
As passengers come into land at the Brisbane airport, few realise they are flying over a reef that has more…
Beware the ‘aspirational goal’
The Left’s ‘net-zero’ push is a dangerous farce
We could be a superpower, too
Back in 2008, Kevin Rudd announced a new ‘Green Car Plan’ which in his words would ‘make the automotive industry…
Fighting fires
The richest man in Rome at the time of Julius Caesar was Marcus Licinius Crassus. Crassus made his fortune through…
Energy notes
The world needs more Australian coal, not less Most fairy tales contain important life lessons and as the father of…
India notes
A new golden age built with Australian coal Thanks to the British Raj, English has many words of Indian heritage.…
Vale Tim Fischer
Tim Fischer’s penultimate speech in the House of Representatives was in response to a motion condemning the September 11 terrorist…
Australian notes
Superglued to the Greens The great satirical novelist Evelyn Waugh once catalogued a fictional, remote and newly-converted Christian sect who…
Coal’s here to stay
There is a modern misconception that a modern economy will become less reliant on energy. A word association test on…
Diary
I hope one of my children studies law so at least he or she can read about me in Constitutional…
Energy robber barons
The car industry were amateurs compared to these guys. During the last great assistance package to the car sector, the…
Stan Grant’s papal bull
According to ancient legend, Alexander the Great was born on the day that the second Temple of Artemis at Ephesus…
