The counter-consensus to quasi-scientific hype and induced panic on climate change is at last assembling. Climate: the Counter Consensus examines, with thoroughness and impartial expertise, the so-called facts of global warming that are churned out and unquestioningly accepted, while the scientific and media establishments stifle or deride any legitimate expression of an opposing view.
Bob Carter is an adjunct research professor in the Marine Geophysical Laboratory at James Cook University in Queensland.
Rodney Hide is the Leader of the ACT New Zealand Party.
Location: Hinton & Associates, Level 18, 114 William Street, Melbourne
Date: 7 October 2010
Time: 5:15pm to 6:15pm
James C. Bennett is the author of The Anglosphere Challenge: Why The English-Speaking Nations Will Lead the Way in the Twenty-First Century and The Third Anglosphere Century.
Location: IPA, Level 2, 410 Collins Street, Melbourne
Date: 5 October 2010
Time: 12:30pm to 2:00pm
In conjunction with Connor Court Publishing and Mannkal Economic Education Foundation, the IPA is launching 100 Great Books of Liberty, a comprehensive and accessible guide to the books which made liberty the most important idea of Western Civilisation.
The launch will involve a fascinating panel discussion with four of Australia’s leading commentators:
Michael Kroger – Leading Australian political commentator, Director – IPA
Peter van Onselen – Contributing Editor – The Australian
Sally Warhaft – Former Editor – The Monthly
Hosted by Chris Berg, Editor – IPA Review; Columnist, The Sunday Age
Location: The Celtic Club, 316 Queen St, Melbourne
Date: 11 August 2010
Time: 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Professor Geoffrey Blainey is recognised as one of Australia’s most significant and popular historians. He’s published 32 books, including his highly acclaimed, ‘A Short History Of The World’.
Tuesday 13 July @ 5:30 pm
Presented by: Richard Allsop – Research Fellow, Institute of Public Affairs
It is widely asserted that the Victorian sages attacked classical economics from a humanistic or egalitarian perspective, calling it “the dismal science,” and that their attack is relevant to modern discussions of market society. David M. Levy here demonstrates that these assertions are simply false: political economy became “dismal” because Carlyle, Ruskin, and Dickens were horrified at the idea that systems of slavery were being replaced by systems in which individuals were allowed to choose their own paths in life.
Tuesday 8 June @ 5:30 pm
Presented by: Louise Staley – Director, Food and Environment Unit at the Institute of Public Affairs.
William Ewart Gladstone stands alone as the only man who was four times Prime Minister. Roy Jenkins examines the manifold activities of Gladstone’s life and uses it to relate the political rhythms, travel patterns and religious assumptions of Victorian England to the 1990s.
Tuesday 11 May 2010 @ 5:30 pm
Presented by: Charles Richardson
