The Journal
All writing
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Canada – An Object Lesson
Canadian blogger Publius questions the priorities of government spending. While refusing treatment for a 35 year old mother of two with cancer (cost $40,000), Canada manages to find $42,000 to fund extra classes in French for…
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Wart Girl Bumped
On Monday March 7th Tim Blair alerted his readers to the work of blogger Alene Composta. Andrew Bolt picked up the story the following day. Alene’s writings were a mixture of demented rantings about current political debates, meditations on her…
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Quadrant Magazine
I have a 700 word piece about the proposed National Curriculum on Quadrant Online. I agree with Kevin Donnelly of the Educational Standards Institute that the National Curriculum is a fluffy and disconnected mess. I suggest…
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What Happened at Dallas Primary School?
Dallas Primary School in Broadmeadow, Victoria, went from well below national standards in the 2008 NAPLAN test to well above in 2010. How? Former education department bureaucrat John Nelson said the Dallas results were ”gobsmacking”. Despite a…
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Dyson Freeman on AGW
Dyson Freeman is probably the most important 20th Century scientist not to win a Nobel Prize, and more important than many who have. He is certainly the world’s leading theoretical phycicist. James Delingpole reports today on a…
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Busy Today, But…
Just a few things. 1. I note that Channel Ten newsreader Ron Wilson is under attack for suggesting that some parts of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras were an exploitation of sexual imagery, and…
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Jennifer Jones And The Corridors Of Time
I have finally finished my teen fantasy novel Jennifer Jones and the Corridors of Time. It will be published under the pen name Wynford Wilde. Now begins the process of finding an agent! This is the…
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Sigh. Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Tonight
Mardi Gras means fat (or big) Tuesday. It is the day before Lent. It is also called Shrove Tuesday because it is a day to be shriven, that is, to confess your sins and ask for…
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Bickering Babies
Well, bickering mums really. Bonds Baby Search, an online competition to find babies and toddlers suitable to model Bonds brand of babywear, has been rocked by the discovery that not all babies, and not all parents, are…
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Pricing Carbon
I noted last August that people seemed to be confused about how much carbon dioxide there was in the atmosphere. Some people thought that CO2 made up half of all the gasses in the atmosphere. One…
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Jamie Larcombe And Afghanistan
Jamie Larcombe was a quiet, decent young man from a hardworking and honest family. He lived on Kangaroo Island, as I do. Jamie was a sapper (military engineer and infantryman) in the Australian army. He was killed by…
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Tell Us Please, Mr Wilkie, Why We Should Not Be Worried…
Let’s be clear about this. Most Muslims are decent people. That does not mean there is no problem with Islam. Consider some of the brutal attacks carried out in the name of Islam over the last few…
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JBC Global, CFS Live, ESL Trader Stock – Share Trading Scams
I have written a couple of times about the JBC stock trading – stock market – share price prediction scam. Nearly two years later, and after many complaints to regulatory authorities, they still seem to be in business. JBC…
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A Letter to Andrew Wilkie
Dear Mr Wilkie, I have been disappointed by your claims of racism in the Liberal party. As far as I am aware, no Liberal or National Party member of Federal Parliament has made disparaging claims or…
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Legs Chopped Off – Surgeon Fine
Um… An Australian surgeon who amputated a trapped man’s legs in Christchurch, using only a hacksaw and a multi-purpose tool, is “doing okay” despite her harrowing ordeal. Speaking in Sydney on Friday, the president of the…
