Articles from THE BLOT REPORT

Just
over two months ago, I wrote a piece on where the Religious Discrimination bill
was likely to go, given the content of the recommendations from the Ruddock
review into ‘religious freedom’. As I demonstrated then, most of the likely
provisions were to do with the continuation of discrimination by the religious
with a little dose of protection of hate speech thrown in1. While I

Tuvalu is a small South
Pacific island nation just a few degrees south of the equator, just on the western
side of the International Date Line, and about half way between Australia and
Hawaii. It has a small population of just over 11,000 and consists of a series
of islands totalling about 26 square kilometres in area. Surprisingly, it was Spanish
navigator Álvaro de Mendaña

Serial recidivist in
the Murdoch stable of liars and obfuscators, ‘ruperter’ Geoff Chambers1,2
 has now come out with more drivel topped
by a ludicrously misleading headline3. He states in Murdoch’s The
Australian that, in the eastern states, electric vehicles are responsible for
more carbon dioxide emissions than ‘regular’ petrol vehicles. One presumes this
ham-fisted statement means on a ‘per vehicle’ basis, as plug-in electric cars

While I rarely, if ever,
miss an opportunity to stick the boot into creationists, it is reporting of
science in the mainstream media which also needs the occasional kicking to try
to make them stop spouting abject drivel. Their latest efforts concern human
evolution.