Of course environmentalists believe climate change caused this summer’s devastating fires. It causes most other catastrophes, doesn’t it? By Nick Cater.
Read MoreIn these hyper-politicised times, even a debate about devastating, lethal bushfires will quickly spread to include the issues of climate and power. By Nick Cater.
Read MoreDespite a vicious, deceptive campaign against it, an application to explore for oil in the Greta Australian Bight was today given environmental approval. By Fred Pawle.
Read MoreThe ‘national experts’ who gave Australia a woeful ranking in the latest list of climate pariah states are not exactly impartial analysts, says James Mathias.
Read MoreWhile the West squabbles over unreliable ‘renewable’ energy, China is quietly developing the world’s best nuclear energy and military sector. By Henry Ergas.
Read MoreSome of our beaches will be inundated this weekend by avid oil consumers demanding the expulsion of a Norwegian oil company from the Great Australian Bight.
Read MoreAn abstract debate about the unproven cause of exaggerated climate change is not particularly useful while brave fire fighters are still busy saving other people’s homes, says Nick Cater.
Read MoreIt may be counterintuitive to a free-market liberal, but the Snowy Hydro 2.0 might be the best investment in infrastructure we could make, says Nick Cater.
Read MoreTaxpayers have been funding research into lethal sharks for 20 years but all they’ve received in return are dangerous beaches. By Fred Pawle
Read MoreThere is increasing consensus that the Government must alleviate the effects of the drought. But its policy must be based on facts, not emotion.
Read MoreDespite wishful predictions from the anti-mining lobby, demand for coal continues to increase, especially from nations that are delivering millions from poverty. By Nick Cater
Read MoreProof that ‘clean’ energy is expensive, destroys industries and cannot alter the weather is mounting. But don’t tell the Victorian Government, says Nick Cater
Read MoreIf climate protesters were serious they would demand higher sustainability from the companies that are cashing in on the crisis. By Will Jefferies.
Read MoreA confidential submission from the Labor Environmental Action Network tells the party what voters already knew: Bill Shorten should have costed his renewables policies.
Read MoreThe Victorian Government’s commitment to renewable energy will cost the state dearly in jobs and power bills. But who will pay to keep the state running?
Read MoreThe Four Corners investigation into the Murray-Darling scheme typically targeted big business while ignoring the benefits to the river and small operators, says James Mathias.
Read MoreIt doesn’t matter how much information you share with environmentalists, their conclusions are the same: fossil fuel miners are destroying the planet. By Fred Pawle.
Read MoreThe activists who swung the election in Corangamite ironically are heavy consumers of the product against which they were protesting. By Fred Pawle
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