The evidence for ‘stolen generations’
The so-called 'history wars' are disputes about research, historical data and the interpretation of events. As such they should be approached like any other dis...
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A call for evidence-based policy
Excellent! "Many social, educational and economic policies are the modern equivalent of Dr Spock’s advice that babies should sleep face down: well-meanin...
Discounting the Intergenerational Report
"[H]ow often does the IGR [Intergenerational Report], in five pages vaunting public investment in infrastructure, use the term 'cost benefit analysis'? Not once...
Shorting common sense
I've previously noted that the policy of banning short-selling looked just like the sort of hunch driven regulation that hurts both the economy and common sense...
Rahmstorf rebuffed
The Potsdam Institute physicist whose 2007 paper Ross Garnaut relied on for his assertion that "on the balance of probabilities" CO2-driven warming was accelera...
Let’s look at the data
This is a very fine summary of the case that nothing very unusual is happening to the global climate and of the evidence—direct data, not proxies—...
Why Australia should not adopt an ETS
The mainstream media offer us nothing but politics on the question of whether the proposed Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) legislation should be adopted. Politica...