Alan Moran

Econocide: green subsidies are hastening our energy demise

17 February 2025 10:12 am

In addition to bringing reduced emissions of supposed planetary warming CO2, government plans for wind and solar to dominate electricity…

Trade wars: risks and opportunities for Australia

6 February 2025 11:53 pm

President Trump’s weaponising of trade may simply be applying pressure to correct what he sees as unequal access for goods…

Abandon net zero, rescue the economy

30 January 2025 10:07 am

‘To rescue our economy,’ Trump signed day-one orders ‘to end all Biden restrictions on energy production, terminate his insane electric…

Is Peter Dutton listening to Trump?

8 January 2025 1:00 am

Government efficiency is an election-winning issue for those with courage

Trump’s energy policies are a game changer for renewables

4 January 2025 1:40 am

The lonely crusade to kill-off coal may be coming to an end

Nuclear cannot match coal as a competitive electricity supply

17 December 2024 7:09 pm

The debate between the Coalition and the Labor Party has long had an ethereal dimension. They are in furious contention,…

Even climate fanatics are having doubts

13 December 2024 9:42 am

Time for another review of the electricity market…? Commonwealth and state ministers have established a new four-person commission, the NEM…

The Department of Inefficiency and Public Waste

5 December 2024 10:38 am

How spending on Renewable energy is costing us a fortune

A very very very bad government

28 November 2024 10:55 am

According to Anthony Albanese, ‘We came to office of course in 2022 with a number of challenges.’ His problem is…

Australia’s energy policy is all coming badly unstuck

21 November 2024 8:41 am

To cap all Labor’s woes, the Starmer and Biden governments have announced a major u-turn to nuclear as their strategy…

Trump a portend for Australian politics

16 November 2024 11:25 pm

Trump might have only won 51 to 49 per cent of the popular vote, but the victory is assessed by…

The world has changed

7 November 2024 9:01 am

(Outgoing) Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says Net Zero is necessary to combat the ‘existential threat’ of climate change at a…

Astonishing cost, miserable return

27 October 2024 1:12 am

It will take a long time to undo the damage done to our energy grid

Can subsidies help Australians make more babies?

22 October 2024 7:52 pm

Previous fears of overpopulation in nations with high population densities have been replaced by concerns about a declining and ageing…

Vic Libs: four years of power in 25 since Kennett lost

13 October 2024 11:04 pm

Recent polls show that the Liberals are more popular in Victoria (or less unpopular) than Labor for the first time…

Monopolies in the labour market

6 October 2024 7:56 am

See Saw Margery Daw, Jacky shall have a new master; Jacky shall earn but a penny a day, Because he…

West and East divide along the economic green line

21 September 2024 4:20 pm

Dismantling reliable power is crippling Australia

The rise of social regulations

9 September 2024 6:33 pm

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

The Albanese government has become a parody of itself

3 September 2024 1:11 am

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

Albanese’s inevitable slide into a Whitlamesque economy

24 August 2024 9:21 pm

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

Kamala, the ‘Yas, queen!’ of energy subsidies

14 August 2024 2:40 am

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

Bleeding Australia dry

4 August 2024 7:18 pm

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

Trump will change the (energy) world

23 July 2024 2:30 am

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

Yet another government plan to destroy the economy

15 July 2024 2:00 am

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

Superannuation funds and green energy

6 July 2024 10:19 pm

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