Monckton Lecture, Melbourne Feb 1, 2010

Obama’s science advisor hates science

This transcript shows that Holdren is a publicist for fashionable apocalypses with little sense of proportion or respect for evidence that might get in the way of his hyperbole. He could reasonably ask, of course, to be excused for the mad exaggerations of his twenties. But to cling, today, to a baseless claim of 30 years…

Diving into… Dromography

Time to brush up our dromography, don't you agree?

Myopic NBN economics

Bill Glasson is an opthalmologist from Winton in Western Queeensland who now chairs the Regional Telecommunications Independent Review Committee. His Committee is doling out more than $60m in subsidies for rural satellite phone bills, indigenous phone services and remote broadband. His view on Telstra's proposal to upgrade it's urban…

A spoon-full of toxin

The Geitner Plan for the U.S. banking system appears on the surface to be a way to create and isloate bad banks. These new institutions will be built by a partnership of government and private investors who will buy-up and hold the 'toxic' assets pending the market placing a firm and less panicky valuation on them.…