The Voice – I’m Over it!

By John Mikkelsen

The Voice debate – like many Australians I’m over it, and I decided a long time ago it’s a big NO from me.

I’m reminded of a question posed decades ago by American physicist, Professor Julius Sumner Miller in TV ads promoting a famous brand of chocolate, “Why is it so?”

There’s an easy answer. The Voice is a move to enshrine an unelected advisory body in the Australian Constitution which will further divide our great nation on racial grounds. QED, Julius, to sum up: It’s racist. Continue reading “The Voice – I’m Over it!”

Geoffrey Blainey on “The Voice”

The Uluru Statement from the Heart is a vulnerable document. It is sometimes silent when Aboriginal failures are visible, but vocal in condemning Australian people for misdeeds that never happened.

Without doubt, the Indigenous people have had many legitimate grievances about their sufferings and slights ever since British convicts and marines arrived in 1788. Hosts of Aboriginal people were killed in frontier conflict, though the historians’ statistics of death tend to contradict each other. Most Indigenous people died from diseases to which they had no immunity, and such deaths far exceed those suffered in warfare since 1788. Continue reading “Geoffrey Blainey on “The Voice””

Would You Ask the CSIRO or the BOM for Reliable Information about Climate Change?

Dr John Happs

By Dr John Happs

Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) started life as the Advisory Council of Science and Industry in 1916 and has long been respected for its innovations in science, such as the Hendra vaccine, Barleymax, polymer heart valves, WiFi, insect repellent, to name just a few of its outstanding achievements – (https://csiropedia.csiro.au/our-top-10-inventions/).

Unfortunately, it appears that the CSIRO is fast losing respect when it comes to reporting on climate science with problems starting some time ago when a number of CSIRO scientists actually praised the climate alarm nonsense that was kick-started with Al Gore’s discredited movie An Inconvenient Truth.

Continue reading here: https://papundits.wordpress.com/2023/06/28/would-you-ask-the-csiro-or-the-bom-for-reliable-information-about-climate-change/

Save the Children

By Graham Pinn

Something is going seriously wrong with our children; standards are declining in education, manners and respect are forgotten, ignorance, expectation and entitlement abound. Where have we gone wrong? The US Surgeon-General has announced that social media are harming children’s development, the recent “copycat” gun assault at a Perth school is a reality-check for the future.

Even at an early age, the concept of play has now been taken over by activism, requiring it gender neutral; boys playing with tanks and girls with dolls encouraged stereotypes and has become unacceptable to academia. Some bizarre parents are even choosing to cross-dress their children, from an early age, to encourage diversity – surely child abuse? In any case, playtime has become device time, with little opportunity for imagination, or development of manual or creative skills. Continue reading “Save the Children”

Green Australia: where Industry is on Edge, the grid “precarious” and electricity prices up 25%

By Jo Nova

The land that is the Renewable Crash Test Dummy is holding its breath.

This time last year, the Australian energy market turned into a kind of Hunger Games spectacle with daily feeding-fest at dinner time where prices were so burning hot that unhedged smaller retailers begged their own customers to leave them and then the whole market was suspended. The bonfire was so big we’re still paying for it, and retail electricity prices are set to rise another 25% in a few weeks.

So it’s no surprise that as the cold weather arrives downunder, everyone involved in energy is “on edge”. Suddenly Australian corporate leaders are telling it like it is — the Alinta Gas chief says there is just no way we can build enough renewables in time — he can’t even “see a way” of building enough renewables to compensate for the coal units that are being closed.

The man who used to run the Snowy Hydro Scheme agrees (and then some) — saying we need to build a “Snowy” every year, and we are being lied to (his words) and it will take not 8 years, but 80 years to get there.  The head of EnergyAustralia says shutting down the Liddell coal plant means the system is “exposed”. These are people at the top (or formerly) of our biggest energy companies.

Read More: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/06/green-australia-where-industry-is-on-edge-the-grid-precarious-and-electricity-prices-up-25/

The Past and Future for Coal Ports in Queensland

By John McRobert BE (Civ)

In looking to the future, we must first understand the past.

The Great Barrier Reef (GBR) was well named. Queensland’s coastline is over 5,000 km long, further than the distance from London to Newfoundland. For approximately half of the Queensland coastline, the GBR provides a barrier not only to the dreaded tsunamis, but to invasion – one of the decisive events of WW II was fought and won outside the GBR in the Battle of the Coral Sea.

But the GBR doesn’t provide total protection from huge ocean waves – these can be generated inside the reef by severe tropical cyclones – and the current selection of offshore ports is not only ill-prepared for future storms, but totally inadequate for future shipping demands. As for defence, while we spend billions on submarines in Adelaide to defend the country from iceberg attack, there is no naval base on the north-east coast of the continent to service and maintain a naval fleet where it could be best deployed.

Read the full document: https://saltbushclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/pilotage-conference.pdf [PDF, 4.5 MB]

Should You Really Be Alarmed About The Climate?

By Michael Spencer

Click the image above, or this link [PDF, 7 MB]: http://www.galileomovement.com.au/media/SaveThePlanet.pdf to access the full document.

Other files referenced by the document:
Reconsidering Climate Change http://galileomovement.com.au/media/ReconsideringClimateChange.ppsx [PowerPoint format, 113 MB]

Should You Really be Alarmed? http://www.galileomovement.com.au/media/ShouldYouReallyBeAlarmed.pdf [PDF, 20 MB]

Should You Really Be Alarmed Addendum http://www.galileomovement.com.au/media/ShouldYouReallyBeAlarmedAddendum.pdf [PDF, 19 MB]

Should You Really Be Alarmed Extra http://www.galileomovement.com.au/media/ShouldYouReallyBeAlarmedExtra.pdf [PDF, 21 MB]

A Voice? No all about power

By David Barton

In 1983, as a naïve youth worker and concerned by what I had been reading since the early 1970s about what was happening with Aborigines in Alice Springs, I moved there to see what I could do to help. All told, I spent six years in Central Australia, leaving both depressed and convinced that the situation could never be fixed. One thing that bothered me then and still does is the constant calls for ‘self-determination’, not so much by Aborigines but by whitefella activists, some I later learned to be card-carrying members of the Communist Party and others who now hold senior positions in academia and the bureaucracy.

The contemporary definition of ‘Aboriginal self-determination’ is not about fitting in with the mainstream, of integrating or assimilating, but of splitting from mainstream Australia. Meanwhile, the rest of us get to pay for it whilst the rent seekers contribute very little to the community and Aboriginal lives, including those of children, continue to be ruined.

Continue reading at Quadrant: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/aborigines/2022/12/always-was-always-will-be-about-power/