Do we want to follow St Jacinda and price our industry out of existence?
Rio Tinto’s announced closure of its aluminium smelter in New Zealand due to uncompetitive power prices this week is a…
Power companies must decide: are they about virtue signalling or cheap, reliable energy?
Yesterday, The Australian reported dissent within the Australian Energy Council (AEC), the industry association that represents electricity generators. Of its 24…
Albo’s Claytons climate policy switch
In the media today, we see two contrasting ALP position papers, by Kevin Rudd in the AFR, and by Anthony…
Like it or not, Australia needs Donald Trump
It is difficult to imagine a more critical juncture in Australian history: We confront a world downturn, accompanied by a…
If we want to rebuild manufacturing post coronavirus, we need to cut the cost of energy
In one of the most challenging commentaries by a senior politician, former resources minister Matt Canavan, advocates leaving the Paris…
Why is the Morrison Government leaving the back door open to a carbon tax?
As part of the ABC’s climate conspiracy agenda, Four Corners this week highlighted the “anger” at the government from the…
Whatever happened to economic leadership from business?
Having reached the pinnacles of their profession, business leaders have earned the right to speak with authority and have become…
Revealed: the true cost of our stimulus spending
Relative to GDP Australian government spending to address COVID-19 has been among the highest in the world. The Morrison…
The coronavirus can’t stop the windpower blowhards, let alone economic reality
For Australian energy, 2020 started precariously. The bushfires showed the vulnerability of the nation to its subsidy-induced reliance on renewable…
Scott, Josh and Mathias: here’s how you get us out of this mess
The Morrison government has flagged tax cuts and aggressive deregulation as part of a pro-business road to economic recovery. A…
Does the Morrison government have the skills to lead us out of the recession it has created?
The $320 billion in costs the Australian government has incurred to sustain and stimulate the economy in light of the…
ScoMo’s gone as crazy as Kev, but we can still save the economy
When the Prime Minister and Treasurer appointed Stephen Kennedy as the Treasury Secretary, they opted for a bureaucrat who had…
Revealed: the Deep Green State
A story in the Guardian has demonstrated the impotence of government against the Deep State — Deep Green State — machinery…
Danandrewstan: two steps forwards, one step back as energy security matters more than ever
The latest energy policy from the Victorian government is to place a constitutional ban on fracking and coal seam gas exploration but once again permit the…
The coronavirus stimulus package: not just another trip down the Swanee?
We have mixed messages on coronavirus: Angela Merkel has said 60-70 per cent of Germans will contract the disease, while the latest data from…
The last thing we need now is more costly climate virtue signalling
Desperate to attend the September 2020 Glasgow climate change summit with a positive program, the Coalition government continues to promote,…
Revealed: the sickly state of the National Electricity Market
This year’s annual report from the regulatory collective that is the Energy Security Board awards itself gongs for overseeing a…
How the rise of environmental politics is threatening traditional allegiances – and world trade
Some 172 years ago Karl Marx opened the modern era of politics in proclaiming that a spectre was haunting Europe.…
Renewables rent-seekers aren’t interested in bushfire prevention – or cheap efficient energy
No amount of mouth-frothing by Piers Morgan or artful deception by the legions of renewable energy warriors published by the…
Madrid: the climate catastrophe juggernaut trundles on
As well as nation-states, an astonishing well-funded 2,330 NGOs, many with multiple delegates, fronted up to this month’s Madrid climate…
Cheaper power coming? Blink and you’ll miss it if our Paris goals remain
There is a panoply of agencies regulating energy at the Commonwealth level and not all of these seem to be…
The return of Ross Garnaut and climate nirvana?
This week, the Financial Review has featured a return of Ross Garnaut to the climate policy advisory role. Soothingly, he…
We should be afraid of rising fuel costs, not climate claims
With the children’s week-long climate crusade now approaching its end, the United Nations meeting on climate change, accompanied by the…
Standby for next week’s UN doomfest for climate crazies
The push is on ahead of the upcoming UN Climate Summit to be held next week in New York. Although…
Subsidies, bureaucrats, blackouts and bills: inside our electricity disaster
The Australian Energy Market Operator is one of the half dozen different government institutions responsible for planning and managing the…
