Junk science trumps the real thing in koala inquiry
by Chris McCormack Coalition agreement reached over SEPP Junk science cited in koala inquiry findings Inquiry ignored evidence koala numbers are rising The recent Coalition spat between the NSW Nationals and Premier Gladys Berejiklian over the Koala Habitat Protection State Environmental Planning Policy (SEPP), has highlighted how junk science is being used as a weapon…
Trump and Covid: How the U.S. states compare
After three years of strong economic growth in the United States, the covid19 pandemic has caused a contraction of the global economy that has hit the the U.S. too, impacting President Donald Trump’s bid for re-election on November 3. In fact, the Democrat challenger, Joe Biden, along with Democrat state governors, have targeted Trump’s failure…
Trump’s Covid19 diagnosis changes campaign dynamics
by Peter Westmore President Donald Trump’s covid19 infection and subsequent hospitalisation have overshadowed the U.S. election campaign, including the first presidential debate and President Trump’s nomination of an outstanding woman, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, to replace feminist icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Supreme Court. The course of Trump’s Covid19 diagnosis will not be…
Trump vs. Biden: What is at stake in the U.S. Presidential Election?
by Patrick J. Byrne and Peter Westmore In just over a month, Americans will go to the polls to elect the country’s president for the years 2021-24, in an election where the dividing line between the incumbent Republican, Donald Trump (pictured), and his Democrat challenger, Joe Biden, is extraordinarily wide. Trump vs. Biden shows us…
Divided Democrats will help re-elect Donald Trump
by Peter Westmore Deep divisions between Democrat contenders for the 2020 presidential nomination have helped position Donald Trump in the race, to be decided at the election on the first Tuesday of November 2020. As the incumbent President who has just been strengthened by a failed impeachment, President Trump is unchallenged for the Republican Party…