Energy sense? Tom King’s defence of coal (News Weekly, Letters, June 3, 2017) makes good sense – apart from advocating carbon dioxide sequestration. Carbon dioxide is an essential part of our life cycle on earth. With more of it, plants grow faster, need less water and farming is more productive. Palaeontology shows that carbon dioxide…
THE SECRET COLD WAR: The Official History of ASIO, 1975–1989 by John Blaxland and Rhys Crawley Allen & Unwin, Sydney Hardcover: 522 pages Price: AUD$49.99 Reviewed by Chris Rule This is the third volume of the official history of ASIO and covers the period from 1975 till the fall of the Berlin Wall in…
Childhood gender dysphoria is reaching epidemic proportions as hundreds of children present every year to special clinics in our children’s hospitals. But is the “disease” real, and is medical intervention helpful? Proponents attest that 1 per cent of children suffer from contradiction between their physical and imagined sex. The so-called Safe Schools program even claims…
Making movies out of historical matter is a fraught business. The “facts” may be “correct”, but they may be presented in such a way that they completely alter the meaning of an event. Or a story may be mostly invented, but still have great psychological and philosophical insights about its subject. Moreover, due to the…
