Evidence-free policy on cars
His Telstra term has apparently left Ziggy Switkowski with a taste for Gaullist illogic. He reckons that the absence of a rationale — other than rent-se...
Tag: evidence
What new evidence for a carbon tax?
A tax has been announced—contrary to earlier promises—that has no justified role in climate mitigation. It is being held up as a “correction” the car...
Feather duster ambush
Of course, the Labor party would not have needed to “back down” if it hadn’t inflated the issue with worse-than-WMD hysteria, religious zeal (cf. Ross Ga...
Led by lunatics
Mark Lawson’s new book “A Guide to Climate Change Lunacy” (ConnorCourt Publishing, 2010) arrives with brilliant timing, just as Australia gets anothe...
Revisiting the climate evidence
Julia Gillard’s determination as Prime Minister to revisit the debate about an Australian response to the potential dangers of climate change calls fo...
Counterfeiting data is phoney
Ottawa University Professor of Law, Michael Geist, points to a new U.S. Government Accounting Office report that concludes the U.S. government—and they mi...
Evidence on State hospital administration
Adam Cresswell in The Aus. offers us the data instead of spin. The impression of 'excellence' in Victoria fades in the light of the evidence. "...[H]ealth expe...