March 2023 – The Saltbush Club

One More Indigenous Voice?

By Viv Forbes

Australian Aboriginals already have many voices funded by taxpayers.

The loudest is their ABC – just watch Landline, or see: https://www.abc.net.au/indigenous.

Look up NIAA for a start. https://www.niaa.gov.au/

And listen here:
https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/outsiders/australia-already-has-a-voice-to-parliament-with-the-national-indigenous-australians-agency/video/acda9b2fa37a02e2f60183503c192e5f

And at least one state (South Australia), aims for its own Indigenous Voice:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-11/south-australia-first-jurisdiction-indigenous-voice-parliament/102082662

Divisive Voices:

Australia already has an Indigenous Voice to Parliament:
https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/03/rowan-dean-we-dont-need-a-voice-because-we-already-have-one/

Giving Racism an Aussie Voice:
https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/09/giving-racism-an-aussie-voice/

According to the clerics of the Green Cult, once we blow up our last coal mine, send all diesel engines to the wreckers, stop using concrete, reinvent sailing clippers, cover the grasslands with solar clutter and the hills with wind machines and then slaughter all of our cattle. . . global climate will become serene – not too warm, not too cold. Wild weather will cease, and there will be no more droughts, floods, cyclones or snow storms and no more plant and animal extinctions.

But the records written in the rocks tell a far different story about climate changes. Even when nature was in full control, it was not a serene place.

Long before the first steam engine puffed along the first railway, earth was periodically battered by natural disasters – earthquakes, tidal waves, pole shifts, magnetic reversals, volcanic eruptions, wild weather and droughts. Huge areas were covered by suffocating continents of ice, desert sands, massive flows of mud and lava, beds of salt and thick coal seams. Thousands of species disappeared including dinosaurs, mammoths and Australia’s megafauna.
Continue reading “Achieving Net Zero”

The Fatal Flaw of Net-Zero: EROI

By Nick Hubble

Renewable energy is not renewable, it is rebuildable. And the energy cost of building, rebuilding, and recycling means that renewable energy often does not provide enough electricity to sustain itself, let alone power civilisation.

The Australian Government has joined the global push to net-zero by 2050. Well, sort of global. But what does this really mean for us in practice? And is it even possible to achieve that goal?

Continue reading: https://www.dailyreckoning.com.au/the-fatal-flaw-of-net-zero-eroi/2023/03/11/

Wikipedia’s Climate Change Bias: A Response

Dr John Happs By Dr. John Happs

According to Wikipedia the scientific method involves careful observation, rigorous scepticism about what is observed … formulating hypothesis … testing and refinement etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method

A number of entries in Wikipedia appear to display an absence of the above principles when it comes to reporting about climate change, with little criticism of the catastrophic anthropogenic global warming (CAGW) narrative. Thus, we have excellent examples of why this online source should be closely examined for possible bias when providing information about climate change and influencing factors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_conspiracy_theory

Close inspection suggests that Wikipedia has deleted a list of the many well-qualified scientists who have rejected the catastrophic anthropogenic global warming meme:

http://joannenova.com.au/2020/03/wikipedia-deletes-the-list-of-scientists-who-are-skeptics-of-the-sacred-consensus/print/

William Connolley was noted for promoting Wikipedia’s climate alarmist views whilst suppressing any rational, skeptical information that he didn’t like. Lawrence Solomon noted how:

“He rewrote Wikipedia’s articles on global warming, on the greenhouse effect, on the instrumental temperature record, on the urban heat island, on climate models, on global cooling. On Feb. 14, he began to erase the Little Ice Age; on Aug.11, the Medieval Warm Period. In October, he turned his attention to the hockey stick graph.”

https://redstate.com/diary/bs/2009/12/20/climate-cultist-william-connolley-sabotages-wikipedia-n168196

Read the full article: https://papundits.wordpress.com/2023/03/09/wikipedias-climate-change-bias-a-response/

The Night the Leaves fell from the Bullshit Trees

By Joanna Hackett

It was a clear and balmy night when the first stirrings of revolt began. It was the sort of night when dreams could come true and the leaves fall like dandruff from the bullshit trees. This is what happened.

All the people in Australia who thought Chris Lilley’s shows were hilarious went outside, waved Australian flags in the air and flashed torches into the night sky. They didn’t know how else to protest at the poor treatment of this great Aussie comedian. Then all the people who loved ‘Gone with the Wind’ and believed it to be a fine example of a particular movie genre also went outside to wave and flash. This was after they’d bought copies of the book for all their children, grandchildren, friends and neighbours, and downloaded the movie before it was removed from public viewing. Australians are a little perverse that way and don’t like being pissed on by the irrational left. They were soon joined by thousands of Fawlty Towers fans laughing and yelling, ‘don’t mention the war’ while goose-stepping about doing Hitler salutes and making Hitler moustaches. The humourless Cancel Culture had already had a bash at their Basil and they weren’t going to allow that to happen again. Continue reading “The Night the Leaves fell from the Bullshit Trees”

A Second Voice?

Sky News host Kel Richards says people in favour and against all call the Voice to Parliament “the Voice” but they are “wrong”. “The truth is it will not be ‘the Voice’ but ‘the Second Voice’ that Indigenous Australians will have to our parliament,” Mr Richards said. “Because Indigenous Australians already have the same voice to parliament you have. “What they are asking for is a second Voice, over and above our democracy.”