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NEW RESEARCH SAYS TOO MUCH LEARNING MAY HARM CHILDREN’S DEVELOPMENT
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Issue 148
Feb/Mar 2015
08 Waitangi Daze
The tribunal has ruled Ngapuhi never ceded sovereignty, is it telling the truth? IAN WISHART argues no, and lays out the evidence
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Baby Einsteins
We’re told we should be educating kids younger and younger, but new research says pushing toddlers academically can stunt their mental development in other areas. SARAH SPARKS has the intriguing story
20 Sugar Me
Just how poisonous is sugar?
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Reese Goes Wild
Witherspoon draws inspiration from new role
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Formalities
04 Miranda Devine 06 Chloe Milne
Health & Beauty 26 28 30 34
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Cuisine & Travel 36 Kitchen wars 38 Lake Como
Books & Movies 42 Michael Morrissey 44 Avoid Bruce Willis
Family & Music 40 Lana Del Rey 46 Rules for life
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HERS
DEVINE
By Miranda Devine
Climate of fear
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igh-profile climate alarmists such as Wal- burn dung and wood to cook and keep warm. Three laby flanker David Pocock and IPCC author million a year die prematurely from breathing the Professor Colin Butler are the useful idiots polluted air inside their homes. How many people of green hypocrisy. die from climate change? Along with the other “fly in-fly out” activists at Greenies seem convinced the planet is going to mining sites across the state, they are doing their fry and we are all going to die if we don’t cut the best to destroy the coal industry, which underpins carbon dioxide emissions which come from fossil Australia’s wealth. fuels. Yet they oppose the only viable low-emission “How can we try to prevent catastrophic climate alternatives, coal seam gas and nuclear energy. change while opening coal mines?” Pocock wrote Nuclear is the only option with zero emissions, in a rambling essay on his “tumblr” site. and you only have to look at how the US fracking The pair were arrested last month after bolting boom has slashed its emissions to see the potenthemselves to machinery at Whitehaven Coal’s tial of coal seam gas. But most greenies are just as Maules Creek Mine, near Boggabri, 750km from opposed to these greenhouse-friendly alternatives their Canberra homes. Chances are they didn’t as they are to coal. walk there. The same professional activists locking themselves Their protests are only possible because of the on equipment at Maules Creek turn up at anti-CSG energy provided by fossil fuels, whether it’s the coal blockades and anti-uranium protests. which provides the electricity to charge the smart Australia has a lot of uranium but, unlike Europe, phones Pocock used to tweet a picture of himself we haven’t resorted to nuclear energy because we “locked on” to a digger, or the fuel that powers the have been spoiled by the easy availability of cheaper cars and planes they use to travel around. fossil fuel. They are convinced of the evil of Big Coal, our But as Foreign Minister Julie Bishop sensibly second biggest export, yet they offer no alternative pointed out, the nuclear option is the “obvious conto keep the lights on. clusion” if we are serious about They want Australia’s abuncutting emissions. With honourdant coal resources kept in the able exceptions like economist ground. They demonise the Ross Garnaut, climate alarmenergy source which has created ists refuse even to consider the They want our prosperity and which allows nuclear option, and instead cynius the luxury of creating a clean Australia’s abundant cally exploit community fears. environment. They offer no plausible subcoal resources Worse, they want to deny that stitute for the fossil fuels which kept in the ground. provide 81 per cent of the world’s prosperity to millions of poor people across the world. energy needs. Wind and solar is They demonise As Danish statistician and their mantra, and they demand the energy source climate realist Bjorn Lomborg billions of dollars in subsidies keeps pointing out, billions of to prop up renewable industries which has created which just cannot replace coal people around the world are so our prosperity desperately poor they have to for baseload power.
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But greenies don’t trouble themselves with details, which Carlton says is “sheer fiction”. Referencing as long as they feel good. Wikipedia, Carlton says the Americans did not fly Just like the bien pensants who made that silly the Vultee Vengeance in combat. But Colebatch only Live-Aid style video about children in immigration says they were American planes, that is, Americandetention, it’s not really about solving the problem, made. As the same Wikipedia entry records, the but about parading their virtue. The “We’re better planes were used by the RAAF, and as a history of than this Australia” music video featuring celeb- RAAF memoirs, another of Colebatch’s sources, rities from actor Bryan Brown and author Tom confirms. Keneally to the Human Rights Commission presiColebatch: 2, and Carlton a big fat zero. dent Gillian Triggs should have been made years ago. No one likes a sore loser. “We’ve all read a lot (about this issue) over these As one commenter wrote: last few years and been very troubled by it and not really known what to do,” Brown admits. “As for the Vultee Vengeance dive bomber planes, Lo and behold, now a conservative government I can assure you that my father flew those planes is fixing the problem, they know exactly what to do. for the RAAF in dive bombing operations in New If it were really about the children, activists would Guinea. The details of all this are within the Ausnot have stayed silent during the Labor years. And tralian War Memorial records and silly old Carlton if it were really about the climate, greenies would can access those records which will prove Colesupport coal seam gas and nuclear energy. batch’s history. Instead their model is North Korea, the world’s Furthermore, my father was ordered/volunteered most successful nation at reducing greenhouse to fly from New Guinea to East Coast Ports in Ausgas emissions – by two-thirds – thanks to famine, tralia at extreme danger to himself and his aircraft disease and general economic collapse. The lights to secure basic supplies of food and ammunition have literally gone out. Pocock and friends should being denied the troops in New Guinea by the move there. Unions as set out in Colebatch’s important book. If anyone cannot accept what he has written, 2 then do get off your lazy and ignorant backsides and research at the Australian War Memorial in Great news that Hal Colebatch won a Prime MinCanberra and other places available to you. For his ister’s Literary Award for his best-seller, Australia’s small part in this disgraceful episode, my father’s Secret War, which exposes the shameful secret of how war records are also available in Canberra.” Australia’s unions sabotaged our troops in WWII. The award will only drive more sales. But not everyone is delighted, especially not former Fairfax columnist Mike Carlton, who began a tantrum on twitter. “Naturally I’ll be accused of sour grapes” he wrote, as he railed against Colebatch. Well, yeah. Carlton had entered a book in the same category and hadn’t won. So he tried to trash the winner. Yet the attack piece he wrote in December for Crikey proves only that Carlton is a sloppy researcher. He cites two incidents from the introduction of Australia’s Secret War: 1. The arrival of HMS Speaker into Sydney in October, 1945, which Colebatch says was delayed by strikes, but which Carlton claims, “simply did not happen”, citing an online history of HMS Speaker’s service written by one of its officers. Yet this is what that history says: “It was unfortunate for us that this period should have coincided with a wave of strikes ashore which put Sydney on a real austerity basis for lighting, cooking, transport and entertainments and made it difficult for many men to get away on leave.” Colebatch: 1; Carlton: 0. 2. The crash of a squadron of Vultee Vengeance dive bombers after they made a raid on Rabaul, Feb/Mar 2015 INVESTIGATEMAGAZINE.COM 5
HERS GEN-Y
By Chloe Milne
The art of impatience
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t was on a broken down train between Stansted me appreciate things at home. New Zealand may airport and London’s Kings Cross Station that I be a country of only 4.5 million, but we still like decided patience is overrated. Not only had I just to make things happen. We talk fast, we walk fast flown into London’s most inconvenient airport, I and if the recent road tolls are anything to go by, had also just spent the last 5 or so hours trying to we also drive fast. get from Lisbon to London with Ryan Air; possibly If something is broken we fix it, if there’s an issue the worst airline on the planet, (although I’m yet to we solve it and if there’s something to be done – we fly Turkmenistan Airlines) and now, after running do it. We don’t tend to stand around, look at the through immigration to reach the train in time, I issue, talk about the issue and then ponder if we wanted badly to be home. should “call someone.” The driver informed us that there was something One of the most frustrating phrases I heard wrong with the train and that he would “look into while living in the UK was “Oh, that’s not in my it”. Looking into it obviously didn’t mean what I job description.” It’s no wonder that New Zealanders think it meant, because 15 minutes later he got back with our DIY, “give it a go,” attitudes, are thought onto the intercom and said he was now going to of as hardworking around the world. get off the train and “take a look” at the tracks. I’m Personally I would have rather helped to fix the not exactly sure what he was looking into for the train than endure the 45-minute wait and I’m sure previous 15 minutes, but taking most other Kiwis would have selfies for his Facebook timeline been in the same boat. My fellow does spring to mind. train mates, however, seemingly It was another 40 minutes until unfazed by the delay sat glued to we were told that the issue (details their Apple technology, without Slow-moving of which were lightly skimmed) so much as a sigh or eyebrow Europe makes me raise to the other passengers. could be ignored and that we did have permission to continue to people are the movappreciate things at ersImpatient London. By that time I had writand shakers of this world, home. New Zealand they are the ones who will invent ten half of this article, fantasized about getting a private jet and a better way, push themselves to may be a country living in a city less inconvenient the limit and get things done – of only 4.5 million, at least that’s what I’m telling than London and made a small bed for myself on the seats of the myself. but we still like to half empty carriage. Slow-moving Europe makes make things happen www.chloemilne.com
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