The great surge in Australian productivity took place in two decades during the early years of the present century. It…

Reprising Kevin Rudd’s Monthly essay 14 years earlier, at the beginning of 2023, Treasurer Jim Chalmers outlined a new economic…

A common mindset held by too many on the left is that production is inevitable, and will be maintained irrespective…

In the US, the Clean Investment Monitor has estimated the effects in investment of the Biden government’s Inflation Reduction Act…

Nations achieve high standards of living by having a productive workforce and high levels of investment. Either they produce the…

The film VICE traces the rise of Dick Cheney to the position of US Vice President under the administration of…

The Commonwealth Treasury is developing a ‘taxonomy to support the flow of capital into sustainable opportunities and the achievement of…

A new One Nation cartoon speculates that when it comes to superannuation funds which are union-controlled, ALP donors support renewable…

Finally, the Opposition has announced it is going to develop a nuclear power future for Australia. The government, along with…

In March this year, Treasurer Jim Chalmers asked the Productivity Commission (PC) to assess competition-enhancing reform options to reinvigorate the…

The Australian house building (though not apartment building) industry is mainly non-unionised and therefore has low costs. But building a…

Australia has seen a 20-year downward trend in productivity. Many other nations have seen similar trends and the cause is…

The public is receiving the Budget with a sense of bored irrelevance. People are pleased to see a $300 cut…

Forty years ago, John Cain’s Victorian government commenced an era of extravagant expenditure turbocharged by the Victorian Economic Development Corporation (a…

The recently deceased Charlie Munger of Berkshire Hathaway was arguably the most successful investor ever. He was noted for his…

In December 2021, Anthony Albanese announced his ‘plan’ to reduce electricity prices by $275 per household by 2025. He said…

Mr Albanese is announcing a new protectionism with the government driving a ‘new competition’ approach centred on a Net Zero…

The UK Reform Party, whose President is Nigel Farage, is campaigning for a referendum on ‘Net Zero’. However, YouGov polling…

According to NSW’s Ausgrid, the most recent AEMO draft Integrated System Plan (ISP) for electricity supply will require $325 billion…

The ‘transition’ of the electricity supply industry has been forced by government subsidies to renewable energy generators with increased impositions…

Australian governments are in denial but it’s clear that the great green revolution they planned for energy supply has failed…

Studying last month’s Davos meeting of the world’s (largely self-appointed) elites, Walter Russell Mead sees an inflection point. He says that when…

Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Louis XIV’s celebrated Finance Minister, is reported to have said, ‘The act of taxation consists in so plucking…

‘Wholesale electricity prices on the East Coast have halved from 2022 levels, reflecting the increasing role that low-cost renewables are…

Plans for the elimination of coal require increasing regulatory measures and ever-escalating levels of government spending. Federally, the ALP has…