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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

Today’s face of the day is a one-eyed Tui chick that my daughter and I rescued during our walk on Monday morning. He walked up to us musically peeping and clearly in need of help. It was a very hot day and it was obvious that he had met

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More First World Problems for the Grauniad

More First World Problems for the Grauniad

Many years ago, I had a friend with the splendidly bourgeois name of Fiona. And bougie she was: middle-class, Arts degree, inner-city-living vegetarian, refugee-fancier and climate botherer. It was that last that eventually ended our friendship. Not on my part: I’m quite happy to be friends with climate alarmists.

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The COVID Lockdown Is a Practice Run for the Big One

The COVID Lockdown Is a Practice Run for the Big One

Viv Forbes saltbushclub.com Viv Forbes is a geologist, financial analyst and weather watcher with long experience in Australian rural and mining industries. If climate alarmists win the elections, our freedoms and prosperity will evaporate like CO2 from a warm beer. The fact that their green energy program is madness

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

North Otago farmer Jane Smith says she likes to “play the ball, not the man,” but when it comes to Environment Minister David Parker and his freshwater reforms – she’s willing to make an exception. “David Parker’s actually made this very personal, he’s on a personal crusade,” she

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Malthusian Environmentalists Are Still Losers

Malthusian Environmentalists Are Still Losers

In a classic sketch from Beyond the Fringe, a group of cultists gather for their predicted end of the world. When it fails to occur on schedule, the cult leader remarks, Well, it’s not quite the conflagration I’d been banking on. Never mind, lads, same time tomorrow… we

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Junkie Parrots Raid India’s Poppy Farms

Junkie Parrots Raid India’s Poppy Farms

The Norwegian Blue parrot might pine for the fjords, but some Indian parrots hanker for something completely different. 2020 has already given us Murder Hornets and Monkey Gang Wars. Now we’ve got Parrot Drug Crime to deal with. Farms in India have reached out to the authorities after repeatedly

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Leading Scientist Does Major Backflip on Methane

Leading Scientist Does Major Backflip on Methane

Press Release: F.A.R.M “It is almost unbelievable that one of the leading Methane scientists in the world, Dr Myles Allen, Professor at Oxford University who was a prominent designer of the GWP (Global Warming Potential), system has done a major backflip demanding the EU drop the long-touted

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Sweet Wintery Goodness

Sweet Wintery Goodness

Well the usual spring dump of snow has finally arrived. About a week late by my reckoning so maybe there is something in this Climate Change lark! Anyway, snow is pretty. So here’s a few photo’s from out and about near Arrowtown today. Please feel free to add

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Fork off With Your Plastics Policy

Fork off With Your Plastics Policy

Press Release: ACT Party “Labour’s policy to ban stickers on fruit and plastic knives and forks is nothing more than virtue signalling that will inconvenience New Zealanders,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “This is classic Labour Party policy. There will be no problem definition or cost-benefit analysis.“The Government’

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Queensland Opposition Takes Aim at Green Quango

Queensland Opposition Takes Aim at Green Quango

If you ever doubt that we live in a Clown World, just remember that Australian governments use taxpayers’ money to fund organisations whose specific purpose is to oppose government decisions. “Environmental Defenders Offices” exist purely to stymie developments already approved by governments. In effect, these quangos are taxpayer-funded green lobbyists.

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Greens Split on Tasmanian Wind Farms

Greens Split on Tasmanian Wind Farms

Driving along one of Tasmania’s two major highways (yes, we do have them!) the other day, there was a snarl of traffic banked up for kilometres behind a slow-moving load. Once the road reached an overtaking section (OK, we’re not flash enough to have dual carriageways all the

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clown fish on coral reef

The Inconvenient Truth About the Reef Will Out

Never hold an inquiry unless you know the outcome. Never ask a question unless you already know the answer. Both of these adages hold true with regard to two ongoing public inquiries in Australia. One, the Bushfires Royal Commission, has panned out more or less exactly as feared: a soapbox

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Save Us From the Koala!

Save Us From the Koala!

Koalas have become such a hot-button issue in NSW that they are threatening to split the state government. At issue is new state legislation that aims to preserve the creatures from supposed imminent extinction. In the wake of last summer’s bushfires, activists have claimed that koalas are in danger

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Late Night Musings of a Dairy Farmer

Late Night Musings of a Dairy Farmer

Suzanne Hanning Bristol Grove Dairies I can’t sleep. There’s a few things on my mind. I know farmers are supposed to be resilient and just get on with things, but I’ve been chewing over the new laws our government has just passed for a wee while now.

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An Open Letter to Ms Vicky Robertson

An Open Letter to Ms Vicky Robertson

Secretary for the Environment and Chief Executive Ministry for the Environment Dear Ms Robertson The role of the Environomics (NZ) Trust is to ensure that evidence-based science is at the forefront of discussion for policy development in New Zealand. I write regarding the Ministry for the Environment’s publication, “National

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