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Its about the wind droughts, stupid!
This is a series of pieces in The Australian Spectator over the last few months. A picture is forming of gross negligence on the part of the meteorologists of the world, headed by the World Meteorological Organization. It was left to independent wind watchers in Australia to find the wind droughts that severely impact the…
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Who really wrote this?
Don’t tell me it was Scott Morisson. He was one of our most disappointing Liberal leaders. Admittedly he inherited a chalice that was poisoned by Malcolm Turnbull, but he was one of the gang of 57 (?) who assassinated Tony Abbott. Correction it was 55 and Morisson was not one of them. and he was…
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Transphobania, Here I Come
Read an article earlier in the week about Queensland health executives dismissing a call for a review of its children’s hospital gender services. A paediatrician was reported as calling for an immediate moratorium on the use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. Reportedly, a senior staff psychologist at the hospital has been stood down for…
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Open Thread – Weekend 17 June 2023
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WolfmanOz at the Movies #75
Tourists on the menu. The first time watching of a favourite film can be a particularly memorable event, and I will always recall my first viewing of Jaws when the family went to see it way back in the summer of 1976. It would have to rank as one of my top five most purely…
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Barnes on the federal Trump indictments
Excellent overview of the constitutional issues raised by the recent federal indictments againt Trump, the leading challenger in the 2024 Presidential election. It all appears to hang on Article II powers conferred on every President, including classified material.
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Open Thread – Tues 13 June 2023
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The King Alfred the Great Awards
These awards recall the memory of the warrior/educator/administrator and ruler Alfred, generally acknowledged as “the Great” (849-899) who expelled Danes from Wessex and eventually from England. He used to be known to every primary school child, if only for the legend that he went to sleep in a humble cottage while he was on the…
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Guest Post: Muddy – Who Wrote That? Round 2
Nothing except my faith in humanity has changed since the first round. To participate, nominate a Cat or Kitteh as the author of a specific quote. i.e. ‘48, Muddy.’ You can include the number and the quote itself if you wish, or just the number. All quotes have been sourced from an Open Thread. After…
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Roundup June 12
Our fellow travellers at work The Energy Realists Vagabond Jo Nova The Monarchists Quadrant The Free Press Bettina Arndt Menzies IPA The Sydney Institute Mannkal CIS Taxpayers Alexandra Marshall ` Australian Inst for Progress The Energy Realists (again). Check out the briefing notes that were sent to 800 state and federal reps and over a hundred journalists…