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2017 August 12 Archives - News Weekly

Issue 2017 August 12

Articles in this issue:

  • BOOK REVIEW The rightness of goading the left
  • LETTERS

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    LETTERS

    Editorial TeamAug 12, 20175 min read

    Calder exonerated In an otherwise excellent article (“The prophets of eco-doom: a perfect record of failure”, News Weekly, June 3, 2017), author Hal G.P. Colebatch refers to Nigel Calder in a somewhat sloppy fashion: “One Nigel Calder”. Actually, Nigel Calder was a well-known science writer, as described in Wikipedia: “Between 1956 and 1966, Calder wrote for the magazine New Scientist, serving as editor…

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    BOOK REVIEW The rightness of goading the left

    Editorial TeamAug 12, 20176 min read

    WAY BEYOND SATIRE by Rowan Dean   Wilkinson Publishing, Melbourne Paperback: 281 pages Price: AUD$34.99 Reviewed by Hal G.P. Colebatch   I have had the pleasure of reading collections of articles and essays published by Tony Thomas, Andrew Bolt and now Rowan Dean, all published within a short time of one another. If not a Golden Age, it is at…

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