The Trump Liberation Day tariffs and Australia
Trump has variously made the case for support for domestic production of goods, like semiconductors, that are of military importance.…
Chalmers is wrong about energy costs
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has defended the government’s pledge to lower electricity prices by a third. He said: ‘If you look…
Trump’s autarkic ambitions
The rationales Trump offers for his trade policy include those with some legitimacy which seek to put pressure on Canada…
Labor’s debt apocalypse is upon us
The Albanese government has spectacularly failed on every level. Instead of pricking the Covid-inspired spending balloon it inherited, Labor has…
Whyalla: a leading edge in Australian industrial econocide
The attempts of the Commonwealth and South Australian governments to rescue the Whyalla steelworks is the latest ad hoc measure…
Econocide: green subsidies are hastening our energy demise
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
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
‘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?
Government efficiency is an election-winning issue for those with courage
Trump’s energy policies are a game changer for renewables
The lonely crusade to kill-off coal may be coming to an end
Nuclear cannot match coal as a competitive electricity supply
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
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
How spending on Renewable energy is costing us a fortune
A very very very bad government
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
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
Trump might have only won 51 to 49 per cent of the popular vote, but the victory is assessed by…
The world has changed
(Outgoing) Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says Net Zero is necessary to combat the ‘existential threat’ of climate change at a…
Astonishing cost, miserable return
It will take a long time to undo the damage done to our energy grid
Can subsidies help Australians make more babies?
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
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
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
Dismantling reliable power is crippling Australia
The rise of social regulations
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
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
A common mindset held by too many on the left is that production is inevitable, and will be maintained irrespective…
