Warning. This is the answer to a question about Tom Wills addressed to Chat GPT, an AI platform. Some of the details are wrong, see if you can pick them. I will fix this when time permits after a busy day. Tom Wills was born on August 19, 1835, in New South Wales, Australia. He…

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…

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…

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…

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…

How convenient

With the closure of Liddell power station we have crossed the line into uncharted territory. Now it actually matters whether the wind blows continuously, or at last between sunset and sunrise.  it does not, although continental wind droughts have only been studied since about 2010 when Paul Miskelly and others started to look at the…

In the Centre for Independent Studies quarterly Policy magazine. EXTRACTS DE Soto. Only about 5 per cent of Peruvians belong to labour unions and more than 60 per cent are operating as entrepreneurs in the informal or black ecoqomy. Informal operators do not regard themselves as either the private or the public sector because they…

From CIS Policy quarterly in Winter 1989

Drop in and see what the usual suspects are up to CIS   The Energy Realists     The Conservative Vagabond Jo Nova    The Monarachists Quadrant on line The Free Press IPA Climate and energy program      The Sydney Institute Mannkal     Menzies Research Centre    Taxpayers   Alexandra Marshall  Advance Australia     Australian Inst for Progress Bettina Arndt REMEMBERING JOHN HYDE. His…