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Flat White

Australia’s power paradox

12 July 2022

11:00 AM

12 July 2022

11:00 AM

Energy, energy everywhere,

And all the lights did dim;

Energy, energy everywhere,

Nor any watts to glim.

 

Or so a modern-day (albeit less eloquent) Coleridge might lament the peculiar energy crisis facing Australia, a first-world country, in 2022…

Despite promises by the Labor Party prior to its election win to save $275 a year in energy cost cutting, prices have been shooting up without a ceiling in sight. 

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