Viv Forbes

We need to curse less and dam more

5 February 2019 6:03 pm

Water conservation peaked in Australia in 1972. Our last big dam was Wivenhoe, in Queensland, built 35 years ago. Elsewhere…

Green energy vandals

28 January 2019 7:17 pm

Just as we have recharged this long weekend, our energy networks have had the opportunity to recover from the demands…

Monster fires: another gift from the greens

22 January 2019 4:37 pm

Carbon dioxide must be an almighty gas – it gets blamed for almost every human disaster. Now we have the…

Bugger the bush – and our agricultural industries too

9 January 2019 3:24 pm

The enemies of the bush (resident in green-and-pleasant Brisbane) plan to close the Queensland pastoral colleges in droughty Longreach and…

So much for the climate summiteers and all that Paris Accord

13 December 2018 12:29 pm

The climateers will soon be wrapping up their twenty-fourth annual shindig in Katowice – ironically, a city founded on coal…

We’re part of the revolt of the “Yellow Vests” too

5 December 2018 4:29 pm

For decades now, working people, tax payers and retirees have been battered by the Green elites who shelter in well-paid…

Australia should cop out of COP-24

2 December 2018 4:51 pm

Prime Minister Morrison should make no new commitments at the COP24 climate-fest this week in Poland. We do not trust…

What’s going to happen to Malcolm’s great green elephant?

23 November 2018 3:54 pm

Canberra breeds many white elephants, but now they are breeding a gigantic new breed of pachyderm in Australia’s Snowy Mountains…

Scorning our wealth

10 September 2018 5:19 pm

Back in the chaotic dying days of the Whitlam-Cairns-Connor government, Canberra was buzzing with Rex Connor’s grand plans for a…

Some priorities for a Liberal PM – any Liberal PM

22 August 2018 1:08 pm

Two messages for Canberra: Firstly, Australia does not have a problem with too much carbon dioxide going to the sky…

The Great Barrier Money Magnet

12 August 2018 4:22 pm

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has become a money magnet for those with green political agendas. The climax of this green…