If the climate change and Wuhan pandemic debacles have taught us anything, it’s that computer modelling is garbage. Shiny, high-tech garbage, but garbage still. Climate models have consistently failed to match the real-world – and they’re getting worse. Pandemic modelling is an embarrassing farce that regularly exaggerates real-world events
It’s not often that Tasmania’s state elections garner much attention. After all, as I often say, Tasmanian politics is a blend of local council and Special Needs school. But, as the documentary Rats in the Ranks showed, local council politics can be every bit as vicious as Washington
As I’ve written many times, Black Lives Matter is nothing more than a barking-mad conspiracy theory. Leaving aside its unabashed racism and lunatic Marxist ideology, practically none of its claims of “systemic racism” stand up to serious scrutiny. The Australian left, sheep-like as ever, have naturally flocked to the
Despite the Philistine chest-thumping of the CodeBros and “IFL Science” types, the Humanities are essential to saving Western culture. Or, at least, they should be. The problem is that the Humanities have been subjected to a decades-long assault by the Long March left. To the point that Humanities faculties today
Joe Biden is the new ‘Pinocchio’. Pinocchio was a wooden puppet in an Italian children’s story written in 1883 by Carlo Collodi. Pinnochio wanted to be a boy not a puppet, and the “Blue” Fairy (Kamala Harris) by magic granted his wish. Jiminy Cricket (his conscience) was supposed to
All sorts of dodgy types seem to exploit Australia’s charity regulations and reap tax-free windfalls. Whether it’s hardline leftists who repeatedly harass and bully Coalition politicians or “fauxborigines” who leverage their dubious “Indigenous” status and run what appear to be little better than shelf companies milking millions in
On the face of it, Josh Bornstein would seem to be an ideal fit for a Labor candidate: member of a progressive think tank, union lawyer, prolific and often vicious tweeter But Bornstein’s bid for a Labor Senate spot is foundering between the Charybdis of Labor factional politics and
This week two politicians, one on each side of both the Tasman and the political aisles, announced that they had been diagnosed with aggressive cancers. Both announced that they would be stepping back from their political duties while they sought treatment. But the very different reactions to each spoke volumes.
The 2020 Pacific Islands Forum might in retrospect be seen as an opening skirmish in China’s diplomatic and trade war against Australia. The forum hosted an unseemly display of “gibsmedat” Pacific tinpot panjandrums lining up to harangue Australia while Chinese “wolf warrior” diplomats cheerfully threw wads of cash into
Tim Anderson is a hard-left academic. Naturally, Anderson is fervently opposed to Israel. Equally naturally, Anderson found a long-time academic home at the far-left University of Sydney. USyd has an unenviable reputation for left-wing anti-Semitism. Another USyd academic was filmed at a “protest”, screaming abuse and waving money in the
In what must be a truly galling plot twist for the left, their most hated Goldstein is being held up as a model for the world. No, not the hard border, turn-back policy that Europe has been urged to follow (and which would serve the US equally well), but a
Christian Porter’s defamation proceedings against the ABC have the potential to give the taxpayer-funded broadcaster the sort of clip over the ear it’s long deserved. ABC journalists have a deplorable habit of launching poisonous vilification campaigns against certain public figures – almost always conspicuously conservative. The biggest hurdle facing
