Politicians have sabotaged the energy market
‘After a decade of denial and delay, Australia deserves a better future – one with cheaper power, more jobs, and…
Customers won’t like the new energy game
Right now in Australia, we are seeing some smaller electricity retailers being forced out of the market and voluntarily shedding…
This is worse than we thought
It’s much worse than we thought. The ALP will govern in its own right, but will be forced into extreme…
The Seinfeld election: a show about nothing
With the virus abating, and with the confected anger over supposed government inadequacies for compensation owed to those harmed by…
The politics of an energy dystopia
We are seeing unprecedented prices in the Australian gas and electricity wholesale markets. The first five days of May saw…
Stoking the fires of energy policy
Stung from previous election losses, the ALP is at pains to deny that it will introduce a carbon tax. The…
Scomo, Albo, and their fantasy Net Zero policies
Both the ALP and the Coalition have the same Net Zero goal for 2050, but that time frame is, at…
Renewables subsidies: $22 billion by 2030
Energy Minister Angus Taylor noted that the Commonwealth Budget added $1.3 billion to assist uneconomic renewable energy, bringing the total…
You can’t save the world with Net Zero
Ever since socialism’s credibility collapsed in 1990, environmentalism has increasingly dominated the political agenda. Central to this was the global…
Will war end the climate alarmist zeal of the central banks?
Faced with implacable opposition from the Senate, Sarah Bloom Raskin, President Biden’s pick for supervising banks within the Federal Reserve…
Practicalities in addressing autocrats’ aggression
The shock of the Russian invasion of Ukraine is that it demonstrated a form of aggression most people thought belonged…
Fresh gunpowder in the nostrils of politics
Fresh gunpowder in everyone’s nostrils has brought a new political reality. It was only this month that US Army Secretary,…
Closing coal? The real victims are Australian energy consumers
If software billionaire Mike Cannon Brookes is Australia’s latest corporate raider, his bid for AGL redefines the whole notion of…
Let’s remove government regulations that undermine electricity
Today’s announcement of the early closure of the Eraring power station means that, with the Liddell station scheduled to close…
Can Big Tech remain as the arbiter of politics?
Increasingly, climate change is coming to dominate energy supply and indeed the whole economy. Modest changes to the climate are…
The re-enthronement of capitalism: are ‘woke’ investment funds falling behind?
Over many years now, superannuation funds have been orientating their investments towards options that avoid unapproved Environmental and Social goods…
Australians mugged by taxes and regulations
Issued last Friday was a new Victorian government review of ‘embedded networks’, which act as the electricity retailer to co-located…
The four horsemen of the economic apocalypse
The appearance of Covid brought a resurgence of fears of Armageddon. Conscious of mankind’s imperfections, ancient settled societies envisaged a…
Is Frydenberg’s post-Covid economic optimism justified?
Josh Frydenberg was pleased with last week’s midyear economic review issued by Treasury. He preened himself, opining that the Covid…
There will be a reckoning for renewables
With COP26 a recent memory, the looming federal election has again pushed renewable electricity into the limelight. Despite the campaign…
Is the ALP ‘powering the future’?
With the collapse of the Soviet bloc came a disenchantment with socialist planning as an alternative to market capitalism. Environmentalism,…
Remembering Adam Smith before it’s too late
Adam Smith in his Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, published in 1776, marvelled at…
Why are we borrowing from Build Back Better?
Seventeen Nobel winning American economists have said that the Biden Administration’s $1.7 trillion “Build Back Better” program, will increase growth…
ScoMo’s climate modelling is even dodgier than his climate policy
The government went to Glasgow to sell its net zero emissions by 2050 policy to world leaders. The policy was based on…
COP26 and the climate cult’s schizophrenia
British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, in addressing the fashionable fiction of human-induced climate change used the hackneyed phrase “It’s one…
