With the virus abating, and with the confected anger over supposed government inadequacies for compensation owed to those harmed by…

We are seeing unprecedented prices in the Australian gas and electricity wholesale markets. The first five days of May saw…

Stung from previous election losses, the ALP is at pains to deny that it will introduce a carbon tax. The…

Both the ALP and the Coalition have the same Net Zero goal for 2050, but that time frame is, at…

Energy Minister Angus Taylor noted that the Commonwealth Budget added $1.3 billion to assist uneconomic renewable energy, bringing the total…

Ever since socialism’s credibility collapsed in 1990, environmentalism has increasingly dominated the political agenda. Central to this was the global…

Faced with implacable opposition from the Senate, Sarah Bloom Raskin, President Biden’s pick for supervising banks within the Federal Reserve…

The shock of the Russian invasion of Ukraine is that it demonstrated a form of aggression most people thought belonged…

Fresh gunpowder in everyone’s nostrils has brought a new political reality. It was only this month that US Army Secretary,…

If software billionaire Mike Cannon Brookes is Australia’s latest corporate raider, his bid for AGL redefines the whole notion of…

Today’s announcement of the early closure of the Eraring power station means that, with the Liddell station scheduled to close…

Increasingly, climate change is coming to dominate energy supply and indeed the whole economy. Modest changes to the climate are…

Over many years now, superannuation funds have been orientating their investments towards options that avoid unapproved Environmental and Social goods…

Issued last Friday was a new Victorian government review of ‘embedded networks’, which act as the electricity retailer to co-located…

The appearance of Covid brought a resurgence of fears of Armageddon. Conscious of mankind’s imperfections, ancient settled societies envisaged a…

Josh Frydenberg was pleased with last week’s midyear economic review issued by Treasury. He preened himself, opining that the Covid…

With COP26 a recent memory, the looming federal election has again pushed renewable electricity into the limelight. Despite the campaign…

With the collapse of the Soviet bloc came a disenchantment with socialist planning as an alternative to market capitalism. Environmentalism,…

Adam Smith in his Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, published in 1776, marvelled at…

Seventeen Nobel winning American economists have said that the Biden Administration’s $1.7 trillion “Build Back Better” program, will increase growth…

The government went to Glasgow to sell its net zero emissions by 2050 policy to world leaders.    The policy was based on…

British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, in addressing the fashionable fiction of human-induced climate change used the hackneyed phrase “It’s one…

Scott Morrison is heading off to lead Australia’s team at the Glasgow climate change meeting. He goes with a formula…

Like MPs from other political parties, the Nationals are motivated by self-interest with rare infusions of the public interest represented…

Nowhere in the world can wind and solar compete without subsidies which drive out more competitive supplies and eventually raise…