The broken water politics of the Murray Darling Basin
Twenty-five years ago, initiating a pattern that is now commonplace, a group of radical environmentalists calling themselves scientists launched a…
Labor cannot escape blame for economic woes
The Australian Financial Review’s Michael Read demonstrated how Australia experienced a sharp reduction in living standards during the third quarter of 2023,…
The Paris crowd
Last month, the Paris-based OECD published its latest assessment of the Australian economy. Nobody read it other than those people paid to…
The Bowen delusion
Both the ALP and the Coalition, ostensibly as a means to reduce national emissions of CO2, espouse wind and solar…
Chasing idiocy: how subsidies power our energy price hikes
If we looked at the picture for Australia in the mid-90s, the electricity industry was massively overstaffed and the gas…
Albanese’s heavy-handed government
The contrast between the ALP’s most successful government – the Hawke-Keating government – and that of Mr Albanese is easily…
Labor in office: time to take stock
The Prime Minister, the Treasurer and the Energy Minister were supposedly somewhat trained as economists, but all three fail to…
Unexpected costs
Manipulated estimates of Levelised Cost of Energy tables showing wind and solar to be the cheapest supplies of energy are…
Spinning the myth of Global Warming for corporate gain
Although in 2011, the Commonwealth Budget papers compiled all the measures that were being implemented to foster renewable energy, that…
The onset of bankruptcy: from green to red
Like the onset of bankruptcy, great awakenings come slowly at first then rapidly. So it is with the global warming…
Global Boiling: Net Zero hysteria catches fire while Greens meltdown
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has declared ‘the era of global boiling has arrived’. Australia’s Teals and Greens no doubt eagerly…
The $10 billion cabal of renewable subsidies killing coal
At this time, the attack on fossil fuels, particularly coal, is at a crescendo. In North America with the dishonestly…
Why Dutton needs coal not renewables or nuclear
Yesterday, Opposition leader Peter Dutton called for Australia to embrace nuclear power to secure a clean, cost-effective, consistent electricity supply. …
The failure of forced transition despite public lust for green energy
Throughout history, interactions of supply and demand have driven ‘transitions’ – think horses to cars and trains; whale oil to…
Jumpin’ Jack Flash: gas joins the ‘lexicon of evil’
Gas has had a boomerang trajectory through green misanthropists’ ‘lexicon of evil’. In 1990, at the dawn of climate alarmism,…
World Bank woes
The World Bank has a great cosmopolitan air to its name – not like one of those parochial institutions like…
Slowing down environmental craziness
Pressure to replace controllable and low-cost coal and gas with an intermittent and high-cost wind and solar alternative continues, but…
Political and corporate defeatism
Charles Mackay’s 1841, titled Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds has enduringly served to refute claims of collective…
Upshots from politicians delivering more free stuff and regulations
The forerunner of democracy – a post-medieval one-man-one-vote – was propelled by radicals seeking greater freedom of trade, speech, and…
Recessions are bad news for super funds
The Commonwealth budget surplus stems from the nation’s resource assets, and to a lesser degree its agricultural strengths. But, rather than…
Energy: drowning in subsidies
Paul Broad, the former head of Snowy Hydro, resigned amid, according to the Australian Financial Review, an escalation of tensions…
Australian productivity growth lowest in 60 years
Last month the Productivity Commission (PC) revealed that Australian productivity growth on the decade to 2020 was the lowest in…
Two cheers for democracy!?
Two cheers for democracy! So wrote E.M. Forster speaking for the Bloomsbury set, the affluent intellectuals who were the leading ‘Wokes’ of…
The unsafe Safeguard Mechanism
And so, the Greens have joined the ALP in imposing additional carbon taxes on the top 215 greenhouse gas emitting…
Slow rolling crisis or banking wildfire?
The world’s leading funds manager, BlackRock, has argued the collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) may start a ‘slow…
