Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The University of Western Australia has cancelled the contract for a policy centre that was to be based on the methodology of controversial academic Bjorn Lomborg after a "passionate emotional reaction" to the plan.
The Federal Government had pledged to contribute $4 million to the Consensus Centre, a think tank that was to use methods similar to those used by Dr Lomberg's Copenhagen Centre.
Dr Lomborg has attracted controversy for suggesting that the dangers of climate change are overstated,...