Nobbling the new gold rush
The rising price of gold is stimulating a boom in new activity. However, Victoria is one state government standing firm…
Farming, fibs and Four Corners
From little things, big things grow. And so, for the 60 odd years until the nineteen-nineties, we saw the land…
The Clover Moore catastrophe
Clover Moore’s Sydney, with its Climate Emergency clarion call, is far from the first city to adopt the zero-emissions-by-2050 mantra. …
Angus Taylor: fighting for coal and cheap power, but is it too late?
In contrast to his predecessor, the eminently likeable Josh Frydenberg, Angus Taylor can be abrasive and has managed to antagonise…
Our hard-won prosperity – and how to keep it
The different rates of change in world income levels have provided Australia with a magnificent base on which to build…
Forget the “watergate” conspiracies: here is the truth about the Murray
The Murray Darling River is facing a plethora of publicity: fish deaths due to mismanagement of flows by the responsible…
The scare is settled? Have the climate catastrophists won?
Evidence does not seem to matter in the debate on human-induced climate change. Hardly anyone is listening to reason. Minds…
Energy policy: the $72 billion fair dinkum disaster
Energy and climate change policy in Australia and other western democracies is now, along with immigration and its associated fear…
The myths of the Murray
Over the past century, the Murray Darling river’s naturally highly irregular flows have been transformed to convert it into the…
Liberal luvvies for higher power prices
Politicians as targets of the French gilets jaunes are omnipresent in Australia and have, with their climate change-driven energy policies,…
Labor’s energy deal: Shorten facts, but you’ll pay more
Sucked in by spurious claims of the loss of 99 per cent of all coral reefs, mounting natural disasters, a…
Socialism will impoverish you, but it won’t solve climate change
Writing in The Guardian Australia, Geoff Sparrow is not the first person to call for a socialist “dictatorship of the…
Liddell is just part of a bigger battle
Like a border skirmish that develops into a global conflagration, John Howard’s policy to require “two per cent additional energy”…
Tariffs and trade: not that simple
The attention attracted by US import duties is important on many dimensions. Alan Kohler, in the process of suggesting that…
The Snowy scam, the Donald and death of Australian industry
It seemed too good to be true: Snowy being bought by the Commonwealth from state governments in what appeared as…
The politics is proven, but is the science?
Work conducted by highly respected NASA scientist Roy Spencer estimates a maximum increase of 1.54°C in global temperatures from greenhouse gases, less than half that…
AGL: impoverishing the nation to boost its bottom line
The supporters of renewable energy continue to claim – as they have for the past 30 years – that wind/solar…
Turnbull’s energy policy proposals: more steps forward than back?
The Government has now received but not yet released a report into the energy market plans it wants to put in place. …
End the renewables rorts now for cheap power
The government’s abandonment of the expanded renewable energy target that the Finkel report recommended represents a careful compromise. The Prime…
Escaping the renewable energy subsidy trap
An endgame is now underway in the renewable energy scam that has been responsible for destroying the nation’s electricity industry…
How to turn cheap power back on
Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg claims that renewable energy is a disruptive force in the energy market in the same way as the…
Renewables, 18c and the many paradoxes of Tony Abbott
In his address to the Young Liberals in Adelaide over the weekend, Tony Abbott once again demonstrated how wonderful he is…
Follow Trump: dump the renewable energy target
The Trump victory came with his pledge to take the US out of the Paris agreement on climate change. This…
Hazelwood closure: higher costs and lower reliability
A little over two decades ago, as the deputy secretary responsible for Victoria’s energy policy, I accompanied the then Coalition…
The dangers of underestimating coal
According to research commissioned by The Australia Institute if we ban all new coalmines, allowing coal production to fall from…
