Coral Catastrophes Imagined
Exactly one year ago yesterday,* I was getting off a train in Proserpine, looking to pickup a hire car to drive to Bowen. I wanted to know if the coral there was all dead, or not. Bowen is a...
Cut Environmental Red Tape For Australia’s Jobs
Kurt Wallace explains how environmental activists are exploiting a special legal privilege which has put over $65 billion of investment and thousands of Australian jobs at risk. Read the...
Running Out Of Rice, While Wasting Water
Australia was once self-sufficient in rice. We now grow less than 25 percent of domestic rice consumption. The SunRice Group has been importing rice from Vietnam and repackaging it to make-up the...
Originally appeared in Jennifer Maroshasy Blog
A Simple Stimulus Step That Won’t Cost A Cent: Stop Green Lawfare
Over $65 billion of investment, mostly in regional Australia, has been put at risk by a small group of environmental and inner-city activists who have exploited a special legal provision to engage...
Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
University O-Week Censors Excel Themselves
“Free speech crisis? What crisis?” Uttered in freaky unison, this frequent denial from university vice-chancellors has allowed them to resume normal programming. That consists of VCs putting...
Originally appeared in The Australian
SBS Is Mocking “Your Right to Know”
In October last year, the SBS joined the Your Right to Know Coalition, a push from the major media outlets to put pressure on parliament to improve freedom of information and other laws so that...
Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
Section 487: How Activists Use Red Tape To Stop Development And Jobs (2020 Update)
Legal activism by environmental groups has put $65 billion of investment at risk in Australia by holding major projects up in court for a cumulative total of 10,100 days (28 years) since the year...
Green Activism Puts $65 Billion Of Investment At Risk
“A small group of green activists are using a special legal privilege to delay and disrupt $65 billion of investment, which is disproportionately damaging regional Australia,” said Kurt Wallace...
Outback Australian Town ‘Robbed’ Of 100yo World Record Due To Figure Fudging
Institute of Public Affairs Senior Fellow Jennifer Marohasy spoke to Alan Jones on 2GB about how the Bureau of Meteorology has adjusted its records, stripping Marble Bar of its record temperature...
Warming Marble Bar
MY friend Craig Kelly – the Federal member for Hughes – attempted to raise the issue of the world’s longest heat wave record in the Australian parliament last Wednesday. He was shut down by Tony...
Originally appeared in Jennifer Marohasy Blog
Climate Wars Are The Aussie Brexit
Climate change is to Australia what Brexit is to Britain. That’s because, just like on Brexit, perspectives on climate policy are as much about one’s views on the future of the economy and society...
Originally appeared in Australian Financial Review
Cooling the Past: Made Easy for Paul Barry
It is not disputed that Blair Trewin under the supervision of David Jones (both working at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology) remodel all the historical temperature data generating trends and...
Originally appeared in Jennifer Marohasy Blog
Tragic, But Unprecedented? Not Yet
The word unprecedented is applied to almost every bad thing that happens at the moment, as though particular events could not have been predicted, and have never happened before at such a scale or...
Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
No Data On Coral Growth Rates For 15 Years
CORALS are animals, closely related to jelly fish, but they differ in having a limestone skeleton. This is hard-stuff, calcium carbonate, and it can persist in the environment and provide an...
Originally appeared in Jennifer Maroshasy Blog
What Can You See, Indicating Sea Levels Are Rising?
Many Australians are fearful of catastrophic human-caused climate change because this is what the state-sponsored propaganda on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (the ABC) tells us. In...
Originally appeared in Jennifer Maroshasy Blog
Academic Agitators Rely On The Public Purse
On Sunday the ABC published an article stating that masculinity is the biggest obstacle to climate action. The highly offensive piece, which was steeped in misandry and titled “Is fragile...
Originally appeared in The Australian
Bureau ‘Cooling The Past To Declare Record Heat’
In September 2017, the Bureau declared the hottest ever September on record for the state of Victoria based on temperature data from Mildura. I’ve since shown that this was helped along by the...
Originally appeared in Jennifer Marohasy Blog
The Kids Are Not Alright
This article from the Summer 2019 edition of the IPA Review is by psychiatry registrar Dr Junjie Ling and retired psychiatrist and IPA member Dr Robert Lyndon. In September 2019, a record 7.6...