A brown coal plan that’s worse than Finkel?
The Victorian Government’s new Statement on Future Uses of Brown Coal, released earlier this month, is further proof that there…
The fuel that must not be named
The lengths to which some policy makers go in a democratic society to ensure that other points of view aren’t…
If only Trump were Australian
Amongst the recent brouhaha about US President Trump’s late-night tweeting habits, a lot of people missed a major speech he…
What will they Finkel next?
The greatest contribution the Finkel Review makes to Australian public policy may, in fact, be a new verb. From June 2017, to ‘finkel’…
We are the boiling frog
The growing influence of the state throughout the western world, buttressed by technological development and a crisis of confidence in…
At least the British have a choice
There has already been much debate about British Labour’s election manifesto commitment to re-nationalise the UK’s energy, rail, water and…
Budget 2017: energy policy’s gushing wounds won’t be fixed with a mop and bucket
If you had a wound that was gushing blood onto the floor and your doctor prescribed a mop and bucket,…
Let’s put people in charge of their own super
Imagine if your boss called you into their office to tell you they had decided who you could bank with.…
Young people need hope and jobs, not gesture politics
Calls from two Nick Xenophon Team parliamentarians and Independent Member for Indi Cathy McGowan to establish a Federal Minister for Young…
Like it or not, coal is still king
On Wednesday, Greenpeace, the Sierra Club and CoalSwarm released the 2017 edition of Boom and Bust: Tracking the Global Coal…
