Beneath the Wisteria

“Sometimes if you wait for advice that is beyond doubt you can end up with very disastrous consequences,” so said former Australian Prime Minister, John Howard.

That observation was among the justifications the former PM listed that took Australia in the Iraq war in 2003.

Interestingly the world and Australia, in particular, is in precisely that position today – we know climate change is real, we know it is happening, the disastrous consequences are understood and known, but still, we prevaricate and procrastinate as the responsible men await “advice that is beyond doubt.”

Read Richard Ackland’s story in The Saturday Paper - “Gadfly: Where the truth lies.”