Boris Johnson is a well-known climate sceptic, and fellow sceptics are pointing this out to suggest that his victory means that climate scepticism isn’t a political handicap afterall.
I haven’t been paying a lot of attention to the UK local government elections, and we obviously don’t do any polling there, […] Continue Reading…
May 04, 2008 | Graham
How could climate sceptic Boris Johnson beat true believer Livingstone?
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May 01, 2008 | Graham
Hospital pass
First we have Wayne Swan promising a Robin Hood budget which will take from the rich and give to the poor. Then, almost simultaneously we have elite sportsmen in Australian football, rugby league, rugby union, cricket, swimming, netball and basketball demanding a tax break.
I don’t like their chances. Talk […] Continue Reading…
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May 01, 2008 | Ronda Jambe
This time Chris wasn’t Masters-full
What was this week’s Four Corners all about? Chris Masters, an icon for investigative journalists in Australia, delivered a squishy program that was all fluff. Was it a travelogue about the gentrification of Harlem? Was it a very vague look at race relations in the US, 40 years after […] Continue Reading…
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April 30, 2008 | Graham
George Pell at the Brisbane Institute
I heard Cardinal George Pell speak at the Brisbane Institute last night and Jack Waterford in the Canberra Times has a pretty good precis of what he said.
The Brisbane Institute billed it as:
Cardinal Pell considers questions such as: Is democracy only secular? What role can the Catholic Church and […] Continue Reading…
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April 29, 2008 | Graham
Brickbats to Queensland Rail and Citizen Journalism
I’ve just walked back to the office from Central Station after standing on a train for 15 minutes and deciding it was more likely that I would arrive at Brunswick Street Station than it would. During the 15 minutes that I was on the train waiting for it to […] Continue Reading…
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April 29, 2008 | Graham
The Australian takes up Williams’ comments
Robyn Williams’ misuse of a Spectator review gets a run in today’s Australian – Cut and Paste.
They also add some cautionary remarks about peer review from Terence Kealey who is VC of The University of Buckingham. The full text of Kealey’s piece is at http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article3827719.ece, and that of the […] Continue Reading…
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April 28, 2008 | Graham
More crony capitalism
Last July the Queensland Government instituted the “Urban Land Development Authority” which amongst other things would have the right to compulsorily acquire land from private land holders and sell it to developers who could then make a profit from it.
The idea has spread to New South Wales, as this […] Continue Reading…
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April 27, 2008 | Graham
Robyn Williams misrepresents The Spectator
In my previous post I referred to an introduction that the ABC’s Robyn Williams gave to an Ockham’s Razor presentation by Don Aitkin. He used a quote from a piece in The Spectator to suggest that Aitkin’s view should be taken with caution, if not disregarded.
Here is the part […] Continue Reading…
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April 27, 2008 | Graham
Who the hell is Robyn Williams? Can anyone help?
This morning’s Ockham’s Razor broadcast was by Don Aitkin on global warming. Presenter Robyn Williams introduced him in these terms:
It is one of the disappointments of my life as a broadcaster that I’ve never managed to interview Nigella Lawson. How would she fit into a science program you may […] Continue Reading…
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April 24, 2008 | Ronda Jambe
Under the Moruya Moon (4)
A continuing saga of a coastal adventure. Or: how to convert a goat-shearing shed into a semi-sustainable habitable space.
In any case, today is a good time to divert attention from the circus of the Olympic torch run in Canberra. Chinese have bused down overnight by the hundreds, perhaps thousands, […] Continue Reading…
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