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Les Murray’s new book
QED, March 15, 2010
Les Murray is Australia’s leading poet and the Literary Editor of Quadrant. In April his new book of poems, Taller When Prone, will be publshed. More…
History of a tragedy
Patrick McCauley, March 15, 2010
Without The Fabrication of Aboriginal History: The Stolen Generations - Australian history would be so incomplete as to be a lie. In fact, without addressing the Keith Windschuttle hypothesis, we end up with a history of another country. More…
Unhealthy health care
Peter Smith, March 15, 2010
Cutting waiting times doesn’t necessarily improve treatment. I recently fell off the top of my washing machine (never mind why I was up there) and sought help from a local hospital. More…
Adelaide Festival sensation!!
J.M. Coetzee is not amused.
The Sorrow and the Pity
Philippa Martyr, Quadrant, March 2010
Indigenous Australians, far from languishing in brute savagery under white domination, appear in the archives—and consequently in this book—as lively, irrepressible, audacious, ambitious, clever, eager, talented. More…
Chavez good for murder
Michael Connor, March 12, 2010
Reuters: “Homicides in Venezuela have quadrupled during President Hugo Chavez's 11 years in power, with two people murdered every hour, according to new figures from a non-governmental organization.” More…
Prescription for chaos
David Flint, March 12, 2010
Even with the approval of all the states to the diversion of the GST, the Prime Minister’s hospitals plan has the potential to run up against serious constitutional obstacles. More…
Sell the ABC
Patrick McCauley, March 11, 2010
If Tony Abbot announced today, that a re-elected Liberal National Party Government would sell the ABC and SBS within three months of taking government, would they lose votes or gain votes? More…
Waking up the Liberals
John Bowers, March 11, 2010
In the culture wars, what some Liberals would prefer to see as an ideological de-militarised zone is actually the ideological high ground. And we as a Party have allowed the radical left to map it out and occupy it by default. More…
The Saved Generations
John Izzard, March 8, 2010
What a shabby thirty-odd years it has been as the self-appointed guardians of the nation’s history tear and rend at our country’s past. Not with historical facts, but confected campaigns and imagined events. More…
Obsession with genocide
Merv Bendle, March 8, 2010
Will they turn to violent denunciations and even hostile acts against Australia and its people and institutions, ideologically justified by a view of Australia as an irredeemable racist country that must be denigrated and perhaps even destroyed. More...
Our filmed “history”
Keith Windschuttle, March 8, 2010
While national myths and legends do not have to be historically accurate in all respects, they are more likely to endure if they are at least historically plausible. The story of the Stolen Generations told in Australia struggled to make that grade. More…
Paris postcard
Sophie Masson, March 8, 2010
It is a city where things, despite the grandiose scale of the public buildings and sweeping boulevards and windswept quays, are still lived on a small, intimate and human scale, in the back streets and neighbourhoods where Parisians actually live. More…
Speaking of Say’s Law
Steven Kates, March 8, 2010
To accept that Say’s Law is valid is the equivalent amongst economists to the denial of global warming amongst those who believe climate change is taking place. More…
Doomed Planet
Flannery nags Launceston
John Izzard, March 15, 2010
Without being rude or discourteous, Professor Tim’s lecture would have to have been the worst presented, most head-bangingly-boring and uninformative address that this writer can remember. More…
Six myths about “deniers”
Bill DiPuccio, March 15, 2010
Though “deniers” unanimously agree that CO2 is not the main driver of climate change, they represent a diversity of scientific viewpoints on issues of climate change, green energy, and the environment—perhaps a greater diversity than scientists who are in lock-step with the consensus. More…
Climatescam and coral growth
Walter Starck, March 15, 2010
Unfortunately the corruption revealed by Climategate is not restricted to climate science but is endemic across the environmental sciences which have become more of an ideology and a scam than they are a science. More…
The Hockey Stick Illusion
Doomed Planet, March 15, 2010
Matt Ridley: “As a long-time champion of science, I find the reaction of the scientific establishment more shocking than anything. The reaction was not even a shrug: it was shut-eyed denial.” More…
Smearing Steve McIntyre
Michael Connor, March 13, 2010
John Quiggin: “Looking over the evidence that is now available, I think there is enough to point to Steven McIntyre as the person, along with the actual hacker or leaker, who bears primary moral responsibility for the crime.” More…
The Impossible Dream - balance at the ABC
Melbourne’s nuclear non-debate
Tom Quirk, March 8, 2010
The best response came from Dr James Hansen who quietly said that more people had been killed by ice flying off wind turbine blades than from nuclear accidents. More…
The price of dissent
Michael Connor, March 8, 2010
Larvatus Prodeo: “They can howl and hurl faeces to their heart’s content, but all that demonstrates is that they’re a bunch of monkeys.” More…
Green loans “hijacked”
Doomed Planet, March 5, 2010
The Australian: “The $175 million green loans scheme was 'hijacked' by opportunists, overseas call centres and companies that specialised in making homes environmentally friendly, leading to a raft of dubious assessments.” More…
Where to from here?
Marc Hendrickx, March 4, 2010
The role of the scientist in this debate, is as it has been: to continue to diligently report the facts, test the theories, to be honest, to be skeptical, to avoid hyperbole, to properly outline the errors and uncertainties, to avoid activism. More…
Lysenkoism and James Hansen
Bob Carter, March 3, 2010
Hansenist climate alarmism has also damaged the standing of many leading science journals and science organizations, which have replaced their formerly careful editorial and organizational balance with environmental alarmism and naked global warming advocacy. More…
What's On
15 March: CIS discussion - Is Obama this century’s Wilson, Nixon, Kennedy or Carter?: Sydney.
16 March: Simon Schama at the Sydney Institute Annual Dinner: Sydney.
25 March: Greg Melleuish on “The History Wars, the New Curriculum, and the Road Ahead”: Sydney.
8 April: CIS discussion - Explaining Big Government: By the People or Against the People?: Sydney.
13 April: CIS Tax Forum with Robert Carling, Sinclair Davidson and Alex Robson: Sydney.
Details here...