Headed for the Senate with a host of conspiracist theories

One Nation's Malcolm Roberts -
he's boumd for the Senate and
takes with him a host of
bizarre and troubling theories.

Malcolm Roberts, the Queensland One Nation candidate who seems set to be elected to the Senate, sees the world through the eyes of the archetypal conspiracist. Dark forces move with malign intent behind world events.

Climate science is a conspiracy cooked up by a secretive alliance of leading scientists and scientific bodies, including the CSIRIO and the Bureau of Meteorology that function as the Australian arms of a wider global plot centred on the UN and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Roberts has a background in the mining industry and serves as the project manager of the Galileo Movement, the central denialist organisation in Australia. Its patron is broadcaster Alan Jones, and its panel of advisers is stacked with all of the usual suspects – Gina Reinhart favourite Ian Plimer, blogger Jo Nova, monarchist David Flint and even Lord Monckton. It claims the Sydney PR company Jackson Wells as its media adviser. Jackson Wells lists “reputation management” among its core services.

Read the piece onThe Conversation  by the Professor ofPublic Ethics at the Centre For Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) at Charles Sturt University, Clive Hamilton  - “One Nation, Climate Denial and those Jewish Bankers.”

Only 'discomfort' can be found in The Galileo Movement

Alan Jones is the patron of
 the rather suspect Galileo Movement.

We should be finding comfort in such things as “The Galileo Movement” according to a fellow who recently called a Beneath the Wisteria supporter.

That “comfort” is to be found, according to the caller, in the beliefs and values of the movement, which bluntly denies and rejects the unequivocal science and evidence that clearly tells us that earth’s climate is changing and you and I, humans, are distinctly responsible.

A story published in 2011 by Scientific American headed: “’Galileo Movement’ Fuels Climate Change Divide in Australia” instantly alerts readers to the movement’s beliefs and stance.

In fact the first red flag goes up upon reading that the movement’s patron is Sydney shock-jock, Alan Jones, and those affiliated with the organization include News Ltd columnist, Andrew Bolt, discredited scientist, Fred Singer, and public speaker, Christopher Monckton.

The movement has been backed by Australian mining billionaire, Gina Rinehart