Book Review: Surviving the 21st Century
Surviving the 21st Century Humanity’s Ten Great Challenges and How We Can Overcome Them is Julian Cribb’s latest book. I was halfway through Chapter Two […]
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Honour The Sabbath, But Clearly In A Clearly Optional Way OR Why Tony Is The Only True Conservative Left!
Recently I’ve speculated on how the Christian Right have found clear evidence about the Bible’s opposition to gay marriage based on highly ambiguous readings of […]
The Phone Call – Turnbull Is Assured Or So I’m Led To Believe By Someone Who Shall Remain Nameless!
From “The Sydney Morning Herald: “Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has received Donald Trump’s personal assurance that a deal for the US to resettle refugees from […]
Jobs And Grr… Sorry, I meant to say Jobs and Gr…
Sorry, that was meant to be “growth” in the title but for some reason “growth” just stopped, and I think we all know the reason […]
Speaking Of History: Though I Disagree With What You Say, I Am Doomed To Repeat It!
Ok, let’s have a little think about Dutton last week, but before we do that, let me just state that I’m an angry white male […]
Dystopian Reality – a Climate Change Future
A Climate Change Future Predicting the future is a no-win scenario. There are so many variables that virtually anything is possible. Futurism inevitably becomes a […]
We have failed.
There is no need to spend more than a very few words on this post. For the first time in recorded history, probably the first […]
No, I’m not rejoycing
1 The day has finally arrived. Barnaby Joyce has become Deputy Prime Minister of Australia. Now we have a Prime Minister who firmly believes in […]
Fighting climate change is critical to controlling the spread of the Zika virus
By Dr Anthony Horton News of the Zika virus outbreak in Brazil has prompted me to consider two environmental aspects affecting the control of infectious […]
Malcolm Turnbull – Would You Buy A Used Government From This Man?
In the 1960 US presidential elections the Kennedy camp used a photo of Nixon with the caption, “Would YOU buy a used car from this […]
Malcolm Turnbull And The Ballad Of The Flat Earth Rapper
Ok, B.o.B makes a lot of sense. He’s the rapper insisting that the earth is flat. B.o.B, real name Bobby Ray Simmons, started Tweeting photos which […]
Day to Day Politics. Climate Change: A lay person’s dilemma
Wednesday 9 December. 1 The Paris Climate talks are now in their third week. The coverage of this most important and crucial event in the […]
South Australia’s pathway to a low carbon future
By Dr Anthony Horton South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill and Minister for Climate Change Ian Hunter have recently released a report outlining how the state […]
‘Day to Day Politics’ with John Lord
Thursday 26 November 1 I have reached the conclusion that we have a Government of talkers, not doers. One might easily call them wafflers. They […]
The price of solar in India could fall below that of coal within 5 years
By Dr Anthony Horton According to a KPMG report published this month, the price of solar power has declined more than that expected by many […]