Forty years ago, John Cain’s Victorian government commenced an era of extravagant expenditure turbocharged by the Victorian Economic Development Corporation (a…

The recently deceased Charlie Munger of Berkshire Hathaway was arguably the most successful investor ever. He was noted for his…

In December 2021, Anthony Albanese announced his ‘plan’ to reduce electricity prices by $275 per household by 2025. He said…

Mr Albanese is announcing a new protectionism with the government driving a ‘new competition’ approach centred on a Net Zero…

The UK Reform Party, whose President is Nigel Farage, is campaigning for a referendum on ‘Net Zero’. However, YouGov polling…

According to NSW’s Ausgrid, the most recent AEMO draft Integrated System Plan (ISP) for electricity supply will require $325 billion…

The ‘transition’ of the electricity supply industry has been forced by government subsidies to renewable energy generators with increased impositions…

Australian governments are in denial but it’s clear that the great green revolution they planned for energy supply has failed…

Studying last month’s Davos meeting of the world’s (largely self-appointed) elites, Walter Russell Mead sees an inflection point. He says that when…

Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Louis XIV’s celebrated Finance Minister, is reported to have said, ‘The act of taxation consists in so plucking…

‘Wholesale electricity prices on the East Coast have halved from 2022 levels, reflecting the increasing role that low-cost renewables are…

Plans for the elimination of coal require increasing regulatory measures and ever-escalating levels of government spending. Federally, the ALP has…

It is now just over 20 years since John Howard introduced a renewable energy policy which required wind/solar-generated electricity to…

Just before Christmas, the CSIRO presented the government with an analysis in support of their beliefs that wind and solar…

The 28th annual scourging of fossil fuel users, the Conference of Parties (COP28), has been and gone. Like the previous…

Market regulation is designed to modify the outputs of, and inputs to, goods and services. In doing so, they will…

Twenty-five years ago, initiating a pattern that is now commonplace, a group of radical environmentalists calling themselves scientists launched a…

The Australian Financial Review’s Michael Read demonstrated how Australia experienced a sharp reduction in living standards during the third quarter of 2023,…

Last month, the Paris-based OECD published its latest assessment of the Australian economy. Nobody read it other than those people paid to…

Both the ALP and the Coalition, ostensibly as a means to reduce national emissions of CO2, espouse wind and solar…

If we looked at the picture for Australia in the mid-90s, the electricity industry was massively overstaffed and the gas…

The contrast between the ALP’s most successful government – the Hawke-Keating government – and that of Mr Albanese is easily…

The Prime Minister, the Treasurer and the Energy Minister were supposedly somewhat trained as economists, but all three fail to…

Manipulated estimates of Levelised Cost of Energy tables showing wind and solar to be the cheapest supplies of energy are…

Although in 2011, the Commonwealth Budget papers compiled all the measures that were being implemented to foster renewable energy, that…