Aiming to follow up on his disastrous Q&A performance, Senator Steve Fielding elaborated on his views about asylum seeker policy this morning. At a doorstop interview he made an announcement about his “idea” for handling boat people. You can listen to the audio here (courtesy of 2UE’s Latika Bourke), but the essence of his reasoning [...]

Here’s a bit of entertainment from this morning’s AM: STEVE FIELDING: This is a bill whose introduction would see visa, you know, who would see visas, who have volitated (phonetic) their visa leave Australia debt free while Australian workers are left to pay for the mess. I do not think that word means what Senator [...]

Steve Fielding has published an article at The Punch today, explaining his decision to “fight” in the Senate on the issue of climate change. Let’s follow on from yesterday’s climate change thread with a discussion of Fielding’s latest offering. On my first reading, I have two immediate reactions: He seriously loves that graph, and equally [...]

Two academics in an atmospheric science department write a paper that has been accepted for publication in a journal. One of the authors is invited to write a guest post about the paper at a climate science blog that is run by fellow academics. Andrew Bolt reads the blog post and then writes his own [...]

A couple of days ago, Family First Senator Steve Fielding published an op-ed in The Australian. After a visit to a climate change conference in Washington, Fielding has returned with concerns about the scientific evidence for global warming. As noted in today’s open thread, he is continuing to call on Kevin Rudd and Penny Wong [...]