Quadrant Magazine, November 2009
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Quadrant Magazine, November 2009
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Quadrant Opinion
Where does it all end?
Steven Kates, November 24, 2009
Our success relative to others is built not on our own increases in public spending, which are now a debt weight cost to the economy, but on the stimulus package introduced in China. More…
Other people’s books
Sophie Masson, November 23, 2009
You sometimes hear writers say they never read the work of other authors. Underlying this is a deeper fear: that you may discover that those other writers' books are actually vastly better than yours, leading to a major paralysis in imagination and the feeling that as they've said it all anyway, why bother? More…
Disaster movie delivers
Philippa Martyr, November 23, 2009
The nice thing about disaster movies is that you can show things that could never happen in real life, like having the US government take the heads of European nations seriously. More…
Time to stand up
David Flint, November 23, 2009
There are some Liberal voters who feel so strongly about an ETS they say they will not forgive their party if it betrays them. The enactment of a Rudd-Turnbull ETS before Copenhagen would be viewed as such a betrayal. More…
Shopping trolley economics
Peter Smith, November 23, 2009
Economic recovery, when set against the wasteful government expenditure we are having and the winding back of labour market flexibility by Julia Gillard, sets the scene for inflation. But it isn’t happening yet and is unlikely to break out in the immediate future. More…
Law's long and short arms
John Izzard, November 23, 2009
In Western Australia a 12 year old Aboriginal boy was charged by police with receiving a stolen Freddo frog worth 70 cents. In South Australia a man was charged by police with driving without a licence (he didn’t have one), when he lent over to steer a runaway car, to avoid the car crashing into a structure. More… 
Failure of reconciliation
Mark Moyar, November 15, 2009
In much of Afghanistan, armed insurgents are present more often than armed counterinsurgents, and the insurgents usually outperform the Afghan National Police in both fighting and governing. More…
Not happy, Clive!
Stephen Murphy, November 18, 2009
The climate sceptic candidate in Higgins responds to Clive Hamilton: “There is some irony in being accused of personal aggrandisement by a Canberra based ‘public intellectual’ who seems to be using the Higgins by-election as little more than a promotional vehicle for his next book.” More…
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Doomed Planet
When are we going to wake up?
Walter Starck, November 23, 2009
Both temperature and sea level rises have decreased over the past few years. The average global temperature is within a fraction of a degree of where it was a century ago. The rate of sea level rise is around 1.7 mm per year, which is also very close to what it was a century ago. More…
Ending Climatemania
Bryan Leyland, November 23, 2009
Recent statements from leading politicians concentrate on suppressing debate and ridiculing sceptics of dangerous global warming. Yet anyone who studies the evidence will realize that the science is most uncertain. Objective, unimpassioned debate is desperately needed. More…
Climategate
Doomed Planet, November 23, 2009
As more and more evidence appears that most of the hacked emails from the East Anglia Climate Research Unit are genuine, attention is passing to analysing the documents. The theft of the emails was illegal, yet what is documented (beyond the purely personal) seems equally troubling. More…
Dr Tim Ball, historical climatologist, on Climategate.
Flawed research revealed
Doomed Planet, November 23, 2009
Stewart Franks: “A key concern is that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - which advises governments around the world - has used the Murray Darling Basin and incorrect science as an example of CO2 induced climate change.” More…
Klive’s Kampf
Merv Bendle, November 23, 2009
Clive Hamilton has now compared climate change skeptics to Holocaust deniers, and predicted that the effects of climate change would be a hundred or even two hundred times worse than the Nazi Holocaust. More…
Second Skeptics Handbook
Doomed Planet, November 23, 2009
Joanne Nova has just released Part II in the Skeptics Handbook series – the bluster and bluff, the deceit, and the money. Also available on Joanne’s site artwork for badges and tee-shirts with a Copenhagen flavour. 
Quadrant TV
Max Raabe does "Cheek to Cheek"
Patti LuPone from Gypsy
New Lloyd Webber opera, Love Never Dies (sequel to Phantom), opens London, March 2010.
Preview: Ramin Karimloo with "Till I hear you sing".
What's On
2 December: Book launch. Lessons from the Global Financial Crisis by Richard M. Morgan: Melbourne.
3 December: Chris Berg on John Locke’s Two Treatises on Government: Melbourne.
3 December: Bess Nungarrayi Price will present the inaugural Peter Howson Lecture: Melbourne.
3 December: Scroogenomics with Stephen Kirchner: Sydney.
4 December: Book launch. The Howard Era - new from Quadrant Books: Sydney.
17 December: Julie Novak on Gordon Tullock’s The Vote Motive: Melbourne.
More details here...