It’s the same old cycle that’s been going on for almost as long as Australia’s been a nation: catastrophic bushfires result in an official inquiry. That inquiry invariably recommends that state authorities engage in vigorous fuel-reduction activity (i.e. controlled burning) during the winter months, to stop
Anyone who thinks we’ll keep on using fossil fuels forever is a fool. Anyone who says we’re on the cusp of abandoning them forever is either a bigger fool — or a liar. Fossil fuels by their very nature cannot last forever. But they’re not about to run
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Three polls within a week tell the story that many have been longing to hear: Labour’s bubble has burst, and they are now circling the drain. The latest Newshub/Reid Research poll reflects both the Taxpayers’ Union/Curia poll and the Roy Morgan Poll. The New Zealand public has
As Midnight Oil’s Peter Garrett so woefully demonstrated, it’s one thing to shout right-on slogans in catchy pop songs, quite another to deliver effective policy-making in the real world. The same could be said for Yothu Yindi’s 1991 hit, Treaty. Infectious dance-floor fodder, certainly. But as a
In an ominous sign for premier Dan Andrews, Victorian cross-benchers have unanimously backed a parliamentary inquiry into his government’s scrapping of the 2026 Commonwealth Games. These are the same cross-benchers who were rusted solidly onto “Dictator Dan” right through the pandemic. Now they’ve joined the opposition in demanded
The current parlous state of the Liberal-National coalition parties in Australia has the mainstream media and the green-left (a tautology: I apologise) cock-a-whoop. “This is the end of the Tories!”, they crow. Certainly, it may seem that way — at least, if you ignore 100 years of Australian election results — and
Just how much damage to so-called “puberty blockers” inflict on children? The first thing that must be considered is that one of the most common puberty-blockers, Lupron, is in fact a chemical castration drug, frequently used to punish sex offenders. That aside, though, what of the claims by transgender ideologues
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The major political parties agree on the importance of allocating funding to fixing substandard roads and developing new roading infrastructure. In 2017 the Ardern Government signed a “memorandum of arrangement” to develop a work plan for China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) within 18 months; and in 2023 the
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I’ve always suspected that Luxon was a Sinophile, just like his pal John Key. Yesterday he proved it without a shadow of a doubt by enthusiastically saying he’d take CCP cash to fund roads. National Party leader Christopher Luxon has said the party would “absolutely” accept Chinese money
Never have an inquiry, as the saying goes, unless you know in advance what it will find. But when a government commissions an inquiry and then keeps its findings secret for months, you can be certain that it found something they may or may not have expected, but don’t
