On 26 April, IPA Executive Director John Roskam sat down with Gerard Henderson to discuss whether mainstream media can be trusted or saved for our monthly show IPA Encounters. Below…
While Australians were ensconced in the Easter long weekend, the Albanese government announced that would not be extending the low- and middle-income tax offset (LMITO) in the upcoming budget. LMITO…
Three years ago, I was approached at a pub in Brisbane by a television station reporting on the mask mandates to be put in place by our state premier, Annastacia…
In the five years following the installation of probes in automatic weather stations (AWS) as they replaced mercury thermometers across Australia, the annual frequency of extremely hot days increased by…
A report that recommended profound changes lacked any evidence to show it was not a set of solutions in search of a problem. The long-awaited review of the Reserve Bank, released to…
At Cape Otway Lighthouse overlooking Bass Strait, the highest daily January temperature ever recorded is 43.3°C on 24th January 1982, and the lowest January temperature ever recorded is 3.3°C on…
Sweeping disagreements under the rug will not get the party back into power. It’s argument that drives policy creativity. When you believe you’re the party of government and you’re not…
The Australian Bureau of Meteorology has replaced most of its mercury thermometers with platinum resistance probes in automatic weather stations. My assessment of nearly twenty years of parallel data from…
How accurate is the official temperature history for your city or town? Statistical analysis of 3 years of maximum temperature data for Brisbane airport shows the temperatures recorded from the…
Well-meaning Australians have no idea what they are voting for Opponents of the Voice to Parliament have argued that it is inherently wrong to enshrine race at the centre…
Australian families are feeling the pinch of the cost-of-living crisis gripping the nation as inflation, record energy bills, and housing costs and rents skyrocket. The federal government is throwing fuel…
There is no surer proof that people are losing faith in the scientific establishment than the recent Rasmussen poll of Americans which found 60 per cent of respondents agreeing that, ‘Climate change…