By Kim on August 17, 2010
Remember when Nick Minchin started frothing at the mouth on Four Corners over the left wing conspiracy that is climate science? At the time the Coalition’s official position was to negotiate amendments with the Labor Party on the ETS, and [...]
Posted in Climate change, federal election 2010 | Tagged ALP, Climate change, climate science, denialism, Federal Election 2010, four corners, ian plimer, Labor, Malcolm Turnbull, Nick Minchin, skepticism, Tony Abbott |
By Phil on March 4, 2010
All sorts of dark conspiracies are alleged at Quadrant. Quadrant Online previously reported that the ABC had invited Bob Carter to contribute to an online debate on The Drum following their publication of a series of five articles by Clive [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Climate change, Environment, Ethics, Markets, Media, Science | Tagged ABC-Australia, AGW, balance, bias, Bob Carter, denialism, editorial policies, Jonathan Green, Quadrant Online, skepticism, spiked, the drum |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 16, 2010
Naomi Parry reviews the reception (and content) of Keith Windschuttle’s new book at New Matilda: Late last year Keith Windschuttle released another book questioning the existence of the stolen generations. But this time, nobody cared. Very few people would be [...]
Posted in History, Indigenous, Politics, Race | Tagged Australian history, Culture Wars, denialism, Fabrication of Aboriginal history, History wars, Indigenous history, John Howard, keith windschuttle, Naomi Parry, New Matilda, robert manne, stolen generations, The Monthly |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 20, 2009
In the wake of his avowal of climate change denialism on Four Corners, Nick Minchin has spent the second last week of the Parliamentary year stoking the fires of Coalition opposition to the CPRS. Tony Abbott, previously a ‘skeptic’ who [...]
Posted in Climate change, Economics, Energy, Howardia, Immigration, Politics | Tagged asylum seekers, Barnaby Joyce, boat people, brown jobs, climate change policy, Coal industry, Copenhagen, cprs, denialism, emissions trading legislation, employment, green jobs, John Howard, liberal leadership, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, Nationals, Nick Minchin, Penny Wong, polling, refugees, Rudd government, Tony Abbott |
By Robert Merkel on February 26, 2009
One of the key predicted effects of climate change in south-eastern Australia is increased bushfire danger from the warmer, dryer, weather; the DSE report on this Victorian state government page states that: Relative to the climate of 1974 to 2003, [...]
Posted in Climate change, Disasters, Science | Tagged barry brook, black saturday, bureau of meteorology, bushfires, Climate change, denialism, skeptic, william kininmonth |
By dk.au on December 19, 2008
So GetUp has raised $93 000 in just 24 hours to get the Spot the Difference ad (( These interviews and this ad make for interesting viewing a year on )) on the air during the boxing day test, suggesting [...]
Posted in Activism, Climate change, Economics, Energy, Environment, Ethics, Government, History, Howardia, International, Law, Life, Markets, Policy, Politics | Tagged Climate change, cprs, denialism, emissions reductions, emo, global warming, Government, governmentality, Karl Polanyi, Markets, white paper |
By Robert Merkel on November 27, 2008
As far as I understand it, Thabo Mbeki’s exit from office was not directly attributable to his reprehensible policies on AIDS. But, on their own, they are sufficient grounds to disgrace his legacy. The New York Times reports on an [...]
Posted in Developing world, Medicine, Poverty | Tagged aids, denialism, south africa, thabo mbeki |
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