As conviction becomes rarer in politics, and politicians become sales people for the ideas of others, in too many cases, the role of think tanks and those funding them deserves closer investigation.

For a bloke on a very large pension, former Prime Minister the not-so-honourable Tony Abbott is working very hard for the Institute of Public Affairs these days. His latest IPA speech in London was outrageously stupid, playing down the climate crisis even as his own country burns and the international numbers confirm the situation is more dire than ever.