However, The Guardian on 28 October 2014 indicates that his views may have veered even further to the right than the CIS and MPS:
Tony Abbott’s top business adviser, Maurice Newman, has lashed out at the UN response to the Ebola outbreak and labelled the world body a “refuge of anti-western authoritarians bent on achieving one-world government”…..
“The IPCC is an advocacy group dedicated to wealth redistribution,” he writes. “Its links to Greenpeace and WWF [World Wildlife Fund] are deep. It panders to gender balance and regional representation, not scientific excellence.”
Newman has chaired the advisory council since the group’s formation in September 2013, just days after the federal election…..
Earlier, in December 2013 The Guardian reported that Newman had:
accused the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of “dishonesty and deceit” as it focuses on “exploiting the masses and extracting more money” in a climate crusade.
While in October 2014 The Sydney Morning Herald 1 October 2014 observed:
Mr Newman questioned the way the bureau adjusts historical data, which he equates to manipulation of Australia's temperature records.
This rhetoric is suspiciously reminiscent of a far-right clutch of domestic nutters, the Lavoisier Group which apparently believe that forces of darkness control the science journals, government departments, public institutes and universities and is rabidly anti-United Nations.
This group was started by Ray Evans, a former Western Mining Corporation executive who before his death this year had been a member of both the CIS and MPS.
It is looking more and more like Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott is drawing his advice from individuals and organisations which have parted company with reality.
Background
The Sydney Morning Herald, 5 July 2024, Maurice
Newman, the million-dollar smiler
North Coast Voices, 7 January 2014, So
who is this Chairman of the Prime Minister's Business Council?
* Photograph from The Sydney Morning Herald
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