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Open Thread – Weekend 2 March 2024
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Open Thread – Wed 28 Feb 2024
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Open Thread – Mon 26 Feb 2024
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Being gay isn’t anything to write home about
I see that a new museum has just opened in Darlinghurst in Sydney in a disused police station. Its focus is queer history and culture. Qtopia it’s called. Apparently some gay demonstrators were thrown into the cells at the very same police station in 1978. So it’s a bitter-sweet sweep of history which, no doubt, will…
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Open Thread – Weekend 24 Feb 2024
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How many green jobs can we afford?
Keith Pitt, a Queensland MP, compiled a lists of green projects, most in Qld, with the capital cost, the number of workers involved in the construction and the number of permanent jobs. The projects included the Kaban wind plant, costing $37M with 250 construction workers and 5 permanent staff, Clarke Creek wind, 1.5Bil, 350 construction…
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Open Thread – Fri 23 Feb 2024
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Open Thread – Wed 21 Feb 2024
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Rafe’s Roundup Feb
ADDITIONS Western Heritage The Free Speech Union of Australia Australians for Science and Freedom Quadrant The Energy Realists IPA Net Zero Aust Spectator Jo Nova Centre for Independent Studies Conservative Vagabond The Monarchists The Free Press Bettina Arndt Menzies Research Centre The Sydney Institute IPA Mannkal Taxpayers Alexandra Marshall ` Australian Inst for Progress The Conservative Party CPAC
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A dunkelflaute day in Sydney town
It’s Monday 1pm in Sydney. My flat is dark as the rain comes down from a heavily clouded sky. I look out my window. It’s still. There is no movement of leaves on the trees. I’ll guess. Any wind and solar power in the vicinity is generating a fat zero. I am in the dark…