Spiros, your image of smoke issuing forth from Professor Bolt is one I could have done without. But I’ll keep an eye on “Insiders” just to check. It’s important to use empirical observations.

You mean to feminism, right?

Gerard Henderson recently had a go at the credentials of Robin Williams (of the ABC Science unit) to speak about climate change, on the grounds that Williams’ degree is in biology, not climate science. Maybe so, but anyone with a degree in any science will know about the process of how scientific theories are tested and falsified, how scientific knowledge is accumulated, and when a scientific theory is settled. This, as much as the content of climate science, distinguishes the people who know what they are talking about, from those who like Andrew Bolt who are merely blowing smoke out of their arse.

There’s also the usual misunderstanding of scientific progress, scientific hypotheses and science’s position on the “knowable”. As posters on another thread indicated, science does NOT claim perfect knowledge or perfect theories.

A statement isn’t scientific unless it is (in principle) falsifiable.
History is littered with scientific theories that were the best guess of an era and were later modified, improved, or discarded. Those theories were the best they had, and were later found incomplete or false. But in MANY areas we stupid apes have to use the best available knowledge (not only in science); we have no other choice.

I’d like to see the MSM teach Scientific Methods 101, as an adjunct to the AGW debate, but I won’t be holding my breath.

Decades ago I met a young Armenian, in his twenties. He was consumed by the story of the Armenian Genocide. I was puzzled not to have heard of it, though the Turks at Gallipoli had featured in our secondary school curriculum. Apart from occasional mentions in the MSM of the controversy in Turkey and the EU over that genocide, the next mention was last year, when a statue was completed in a small rural Victorian town, commemorating an Aussie hero. He had helped Armenians after WW1.

They don’t get much press.

Victorian ALP MPs include Italian, Greek, and a few from Asia I think. Bracks family was in Australia for several generations berfore Steve’s ascendancy.

Does the ALP have more Southern European and Asian MPs than Libs or Nats? If so, why? If not, why not? Let alone Hispanics from South America, Germans, French, etc. Africans?

I recall that Neville Bonner was a Liberal. I’m not sure that the Nationals are less Anglo-Celtic-ally focussed than the Libs.

Joh was Danish via NZ, wasn’t he? My very word, those Danes and those Afghans… troublemakers to a man. cheerio, just off to feed the chooks.

Correct me if I’m wrong but wasn’t it old Joh that referred to Katter Snr as “that Afghan”?