Flat White Getty Images Flat White 4 September 2023 2:08 PM According to the Discovery Channel, there are around 400,000 individual wind turbines in operation. Every single one of these will be looking for a grave in the nearest landfill within 20 years (or sooner). What’s the carbon footprint of this mess? Who knows. TheContinue reading “‘Repowered’ wind turbines to ‘suck carbon dioxide’ from the atmosphere”
Category Archives: Absurdity of Woke
Alex Greenwich’s bill set to erase sex-based rights in NSW
Katherine Deves Flat White Getty Images Katherine Deves 26 August 2023 4:00 AM On August 24, 2023 Alex Greenwich, independent gay MP for the inner-city electorate of Sydney, introduced his private member’s bill to erase women’s sex-based rights in New South Wales. As commonly understood, no longer will a woman be a person of theContinue reading “Alex Greenwich’s bill set to erase sex-based rights in NSW”
Trouble at t’woke mill
Have we hit peak ESG? Judith Sloan Features Australia Getty Images Judith Sloan 26 August 2023 9:00 AM Call me an optimistic, but I think we may have reached peak woke in corporate land in Australia. Don’t get me wrong, there will still be plenty of woke/ESG stuff around. Virtue-signalling is very addictive for theContinue reading “Trouble at t’woke mill”
Who’s the Coalkeeper now?
The renewables disaster rolls on… Rebecca Weisser Features Australia Getty Images Rebecca Weisser 26 August 2023 9:00 AM ‘Victoria joins NSW in saying no to “Coalkeeper,” ran the headline in Renew Economy in September 2021. ‘Coalkeeper’ was the disparaging name that Big Renewables and their political champions gave to a proposal to pay fossil fuelContinue reading “Who’s the Coalkeeper now?”
The woke desire to ‘get Trump at all costs’
Rod Lampard Flat White Getty Images Rod Lampard 23 August 2023 5:00 AM The fourth indictment against Donald Trump is what I like to call ‘Woke bigotry weaponising bankruptcy’. Of the people sucked into ‘get Trump at all costs 4.0’, the majority may struggle to cover the exorbitant legal fees for their defence. Dubbed ‘co-conspirators’, the groupContinue reading “The woke desire to ‘get Trump at all costs’”
Intellectual child abuse
The Spectator Australia Leading article Australia Getty Images The Spectator Australia 26 August 2023 9:00 AM One in three Australian school children, according to the latest Naplan results, are falling well behind in literacy and numeracy. A cynic might be tempted to compare that number with the approximately one in three Australians who voted forContinue reading “Intellectual child abuse”
LGBTQ+ activist tribe declares war on conservatives
Minny Jackson Flat White Minny Jackson 22 August 2023 5:30 AM In May of this year, Binary advocate, Kirralie Smith, was served with two applications for APVOs (apprehension personal violence orders) and two vilification complaints. Her alleged crime? She identified two male soccer players in the women’s league in NSW. Former Australian Christian Lobby managing director, Lyle Shelton, hasContinue reading “LGBTQ+ activist tribe declares war on conservatives”
Ireland’s bonkers plan to kill cows to save the planet
Ian O’Doherty World (Photo: iStock) Ian O’Doherty 20 August 2023 5:45 PM You have to hand it to the green movement. When it comes to their increasingly farcical and delusional race towards the illusory target of net zero, they’re never short of ideas. Bad ideas, that is. E-bikes and E-scooters that have an unfortunate tendencyContinue reading “Ireland’s bonkers plan to kill cows to save the planet”
QED
The Idiocracy That Reigns in the West Peter Smith Frequent contributor That we in Australia, and those in most of the rest of the Western world, are in the hands of idiots is surely beyond any reasonable doubt. Hmm? What is ‘beyond reasonable doubt’, asked one juror in a trial in which I happened toContinue reading “QED”
Of droughts and fires and floods
Vic Jurskis Flat White Vic Jurskis 24 March 2021 7:14 PM We all know Dorothea Mackellar’s famous words. More recently, Tim Flannery has told us our dams would never fill again and former fire chief turned Climate Council member Greg Mullins warned that we’ll be incinerated by holocausts as a consequence of dangerous climate changeContinue reading “Of droughts and fires and floods”
The new Dark Ages: millions of animals die in the fires of environmentalism
Vic Jurskis Flat White Getty Images Vic Jurskis 15 August 2023 4:30 AM It was only 235 years ago when our European elders introduced modern civilization and technology to an ancient culture. There was no nation in Australia, just a large number of tribes – sometimes friendly and sometimes fighting with their neighbours. Governor ArthurContinue reading “The new Dark Ages: millions of animals die in the fires of environmentalism”
Truth-telling: the dark side of Queensland’s gender clinics and affirmation care
Edie Wyatt (Getty Images) Edie Wyatt 10 August 2023 4:30 AM Last month in Cairns the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) held a Queensland Branch Conference at which there was a stark admission by a prominent Queensland psychiatrist to the lack of evidence for the controversial gender transitioning of children thatContinue reading “Truth-telling: the dark side of Queensland’s gender clinics and affirmation care”
The truth about ‘gender-affirming care’
Brendan O’Neill World Chloe Cole, a ‘detransitioner’, who regrets undergoing surgery to remove her breasts (Credit: Getty images) Brendan O’Neill 9 August 2023 8:52 PM ‘My breasts were taken away from me (and) the tissue was incinerated.’ Every word of destransitioner Chloe Cole’s testimony to the US Congress was harrowing. But it was her calm,Continue reading “The truth about ‘gender-affirming care’”
Global boiling. Ouch!
The Spectator Australia Features Australia Getty Images The Spectator Australia 5 August 2023 9:00 AM It’s been quite the week for overblown climate hyperbole and preposterous exaggerations, so we thought we may as well join in the fun: ‘New Ice Age to arrive by summer 2023. Australia prepares for a White Christmas.’ In reality, ourContinue reading “Global boiling. Ouch!”
Eat beef, save the planet
Flat White Ian Plimer Getty Images Ian Plimer 13 August 2022 7:00 AM Yet again, farmers are under attack. This time, it is the beef industry because, apparently, cattle burp and fart out methane and we’ll all fry-and-die because of the accelerated global warming produced by this methane. Is this fact or fiction? In myContinue reading “Eat beef, save the planet”
When vegans are worthy of our disdain
World Teresa Mull Supporters of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and Aashray Foundation appeal to the upcoming G20 working group during a campaign in Mumbai on May 19, 2023 (Getty Images) Teresa Mull 27 June 2023 11:14 PM Celebrity chef John Mountain made headlines last week for banning vegans from his restaurant,Continue reading “When vegans are worthy of our disdain”
Predators and parasites prowl the Bowen Basin
Flat White Viv Forbes The Salt Bush Club Viv Forbes 28 June 2023 4:30 AM After our great adventure helping Utah Development Co locate and measure their magnificent coal resources along the western edge of the Bowen Basin, Utah wanted to embark on metals exploration. Geologists were in great demand in those days so (againstContinue reading “Predators and parasites prowl the Bowen Basin “
Food security and property rights under threat in Western Australia
Flat White John Gideon Hartnett and Augusto Zimmermann Getty Images John Gideon Hartnett and Augusto Zimmermann 24 June 2023 4:00 AM The Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act (ACH) comes into effect on the July 1, 2023, in Western Australia (WA). Ostensibly it is to protect Aboriginal cultural sites across Western Australia. And yet, there is aContinue reading “Food security and property rights under threat in Western Australia”
Healthy’ Pornography for Kiddies
Cafe Culture Bella d’Abrera [Getty Images] Bella d’Abrera 22 June 2023 5:30 PM One of the many disturbing features of our modern secular world is the realization that there is an active cohort of adults who are simply desperate to talk to children about sex. And they don’t want to talk to them about boringContinue reading “Healthy’ Pornography for Kiddies”
Thorpe: The King’s position is to wipe us out
Flat White Alexander Voltz Getty Images Alexander Voltz 21 June 2023 5:30 AM Yesterday, the Australian Senate passed legislation enabling the Voice to Parliament referendum to take place in the next 6 months. Constitution Alteration (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice) 2023 passed its third reading with 52 votes for and only 19 against. Regrettable, to sayContinue reading “Thorpe: The King’s position is to wipe us out”
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