Divine intervention for Clubs Australia campaign. Clubs Australia hinted that it had a trump card up its sleeve, but we couldn’t have predicted this one. The clubs have managed to get one of Sydney’s most respected religious leaders to front their campaign against Andrew Wilkie’s poker machine reforms.
Father Chris Riley, Youth off the Streets founder and NSW Australian of the Year, has put his name to a new Clubs Australia flyer in which he declares that mandatory pre-commitment technology for poker machines will not help problem gamblers and will strip money from charities. — Angela Priestley (read the full story here)
Howard to launch Ian Plimer’s new book. If you’ve got $60 spare and are free on Monday night, you can splurge on a night out with former prime minister John Howard and king of the climate sceptics Ian Plimer. Plimer, a professor of mining geology at Adelaide University, has written a new book: How to Get Expelled from School: A guide to climate change for pupils, parents and punters.
Howard will launch the so-called “anti-Warmist manual for the younger reader” at the Tattersalls Club in the Sydney CBD. — The Power Index (read the full story)
Megaphones watch: Bolt, Albrectsen, Jones. Andrew Bolt slides down the slippery slope, Janet Albrectsen goes to the movies and Alan Jones talks climate change with Ian Plimer. Here’s what Australia’s most powerful megaphones have been up to over the past week. — Matthew Knott (read the full story here)
I think I’ll give the opportunity of hearing both John Howard and Ian Plimer a miss.
Hopefully, Ian Plimer’s latest book will be better than his atrocious last book ‘Heaven and Earth’. On second thoughts, it would be impossible for it to be worse, so by definition it would have to be better.
It was extremely painful to read ‘Heaven and Earth’. The mangling of science, not just climate science, was a wonder to observe. I was surprised to read that the Sun is a pulsar star. The reference was one from I think ‘Nature’ in 1983 entitled ‘Is the Sun a pulsar star?’. A pulsar is a rapidly rotating neutron star, not to be confused with a quasar, which is a super massive black hole sucking up surrounding matter at light speed.
I think he meant ‘variable’ star.
Anyone who thinks it was a good book is a fool. He had the most confusing explanation of the Milankovich cycles. And he commits a climate science howler when he asserts that as the Earth goes into an ice age, ice caps form, sea levels drop and the exposure of continental shelves will lead to a mitigating warming, since the exposed land will absorb more heat from the Sun. Nope, that’s 100% wrong, oceans absorb more heat from the Sun than land. So it would lead to increased cooling. It’s just a matter of the respective albedos.
Father Chris Riley should be ashamed with himself.
I used to respect Chris Riley – not any more! He’s upholding the cc addiction to gambling and you beaut profits at other peoples’ expense. Shame on him indeed! I won’t be donating to his charity from now on, as I will not give Woolworths any of my money either – as they own the largest number of poker machines in the country apparently! They can get lost too!
7 people kill themselves in Australia every day. this stat is much higher than from car accidents. I wonder how many people think this is their only solution when they’ve lost everything and everyone that they love from gambling? This should be a high priority of all responsible people, particularly those who assert that they care about poor people! Shameful indeed!
Whenever I think Clubs Australia can’t get any lower in the gutter they prove me wrong.