• 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…

  • The ABC does not exist in a vacuum

    Gerard Henderson regularly and rightly criticises the ABC. A “staff collective” he calls it, which has not one single conservative commentator presenting a prominent show. I can’t speak first hand these days. I neither watch nor listen to the ABC. I suppose episodes of Four Corners, e.g., on the Trump “Russian collusion”, the 7.30 report…

  • May you live in interesting times

    You already probably know Mearsheimer’s view of the conflict, at least in respect of its cause, which he largely places at the feet of the US (and NATO) and the decision of Bush Jr. to move to have Georgia and Ukraine enter NATO. He again goes over this terrain but also looks at the prospects…

  • WolfmanOz at the Movies #74

    I think it would be fun to run a newspaper. It is with some trepidation that I write about a film that is often considered one of the greatest film ever made – Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane, released in 1941. This quasi-biographical drama examines the life and legacy of newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane, brilliantly played by…

  • Brereton’s Backup

    Note: this article was written in January of 2021, after publication of the Brereton report. It didn’t find a publisher at that time. Cats may appreciate this and a companion article. Note that the Brereton report has been moved. The most interesting, and in many ways the most useful, part of the Brereton report is…

  • No officers were harmed in the making of this report

    Note: this article was written in January of 2021, after publication of the Brereton report. It didn’t find a publisher at that time. Cats may appreciate this and a companion article. Note that the Brereton report has been moved. It’s like this, in the gospel according to Brereton… All that said, it was at the…

  • Insanity Reigns

    Chris Bowen, Minister for Climate Change and Energy, is gung-ho for more wind despite rising power prices and evidence of frequent and extensive wind droughts across the whole of Australia’s National Electricity Market (NEM). Apropos the period from 11 am on August 7 until 4 am on August 9. For 42 hours wind delivered just…

  1. Maybe, Cohen. Maybe Biden knows he won’t be able to dodge a debate without looking cowardly and/or incapable, so he’s…

  2. Hippipoisonouses. Like hippopotamuses only uglier and with a nastier bite.