RIDICULOUS – AND TERRIFYING

I agree with every word of this! I am reminded of the old saying-You can fool some of the people all the time,and all of the people some of the time. But, you can't fool all the people all the time. CHRIS KENNY-06.08.2022-The Weekend Australian For a moment there, one of the teals could have … Continue reading RIDICULOUS – AND TERRIFYING →

The Place Where I Live

I love where I live. If you drive up (north) the Pacific Highway from the Sydney CBD, the road and the railway run almost in parallel, sticking to the ridge. It reminds me, on a somewhat smaller scale, that the first settlers took twenty-five years to find their way over the Blue Mountains. They expressed … Continue reading The Place Where I Live →

The Environment

I have a head of steam!  Let me begin  by explaining that for 80 years I have had extensive "grass roots" exposure to rural Australia from the Snowy Mountains (schoolboy) to the Murray Darling and Lake Eyre Basins and a year each in South and Western Australia. I spent the second half of May this … Continue reading The Environment →

Climate Change and Renewables

I am astonished at the number of highly intelligent people who continue to take climate change as a “given” and the pursuit of renewables as the solution. Can’t they read and see what is happening in Germany, Britain, Sri Lanka and many other countries? Countries that have realised at the present state of technology (particularly … Continue reading Climate Change and Renewables →

Land Values

My friend Trevor Johnston has a great ability to succinctly communicate in his regular ”Cotton Wires”. People often ask me about agricultural land values. But I am an out of touch “has-been”. I liked the clarity of this- Australian farmland values continued to grow rapidly in 2021, with the national median price per hectare increasing by … Continue reading Land Values →

Richard Alston:Beware Existential Angst of the Climate Alarmists

The Australian, 29 June 2022 The term existential was popularised in the 20th century by French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, who believed that because there was no god, existence was absurd, life had no meaning and the individual therefore faced an existential crisis. In psychology, existential crises are inner conflicts characterised by the impression that life … Continue reading Richard Alston:Beware Existential Angst of the Climate Alarmists →

Oh For More of This Common Sense!

Left media keep public in dark on renewablesCHRIS MITCHELL The left media’s reaction to Labor’s win has been eerily similar to that after the 2007 win by the Rudd government. Picture: Getty Images 9:08PM JUNE 12, 2022 Many media commentators have welcomed the election of the Albanese government as the beginning of the end of … Continue reading Oh For More of This Common Sense! →

Jonathan Sumption With John Anderson

I was tremendously impressed with this "Conversation" - https://johnanderson.net.au/conversations-lord-jonathan-sumption/ Sumption's clarity of mind and mastery of expression, together with John's incisive direction, had a great impact. I was, however, astonished to hear Lord Sumption say that he believed human caused climate change was "a potentially terminal problem" and he accepts the scientific basis of this … Continue reading Jonathan Sumption With John Anderson →