Like the onset of bankruptcy, great awakenings come slowly at first then rapidly. So it is with the global warming…

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has declared ‘the era of global boiling has arrived’. Australia’s Teals and Greens no doubt eagerly…

At this time, the attack on fossil fuels, particularly coal, is at a crescendo. In North America with the dishonestly…

Yesterday, Opposition leader Peter Dutton called for Australia to embrace nuclear power to secure a clean, cost-effective, consistent electricity supply. …

Throughout history, interactions of supply and demand have driven ‘transitions’ – think horses to cars and trains; whale oil to…

Gas has had a boomerang trajectory through green misanthropists’ ‘lexicon of evil’. In 1990, at the dawn of climate alarmism,…

The World Bank has a great cosmopolitan air to its name – not like one of those parochial institutions like…

Pressure to replace controllable and low-cost coal and gas with an intermittent and high-cost wind and solar alternative continues, but…

Charles Mackay’s 1841, titled Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds has enduringly served to refute claims of collective…

The forerunner of democracy – a post-medieval one-man-one-vote – was propelled by radicals seeking greater freedom of trade, speech, and…

The Commonwealth budget surplus stems from the nation’s resource assets, and to a lesser degree its agricultural strengths. But, rather than…

Paul Broad, the former head of Snowy Hydro, resigned amid, according to the Australian Financial Review, an escalation of tensions…

Last month the Productivity Commission (PC) revealed that Australian productivity growth on the decade to 2020 was the lowest in…

Two cheers for democracy! So wrote E.M. Forster speaking for the Bloomsbury set, the affluent intellectuals who were the leading ‘Wokes’ of…

And so, the Greens have joined the ALP in imposing additional carbon taxes on the top 215 greenhouse gas emitting…

The world’s leading funds manager, BlackRock, has argued the collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) may start a ‘slow…

The basic question to ask about the collapse of the $200 billion Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) is, why did it…

Gary Banks in The Australian notes how government regulatory measures are destroying our vital comparative advantage in energy supply and promoting inefficient labour…

The environmentalist creed in context Environmentalism, more particularly its prevalent global warming strain, dominates politics. It is the fourth such…

Coal supplies a quarter of the world’s energy, oil and gas account for a half, and renewables – in spite…

Combatting the perceived incidence of global warming is driving government policies. In Australia this has been obvious for many years,…

Jim Chalmers is proving to be the most iconoclastic Treasurer since the Whitlam government’s Jim Cairns, a man who only…

Australian governments have made energy policies focused on achieving higher shares of renewable energy that they claim is the cheapest…

Last week saw the collapse of Sun Cable, a pie-in-the-sky $35 billion plan by alternative energy enthusiasts, Andrew Forrest and…

Recent years have seen a strengthening dominance of politics over individual and commercial decision-making. This is readily evident in the…