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…

It is now just over 20 years since John Howard introduced a renewable energy policy which required wind/solar-generated electricity to…

Just before Christmas, the CSIRO presented the government with an analysis in support of their beliefs that wind and solar…

The 28th annual scourging of fossil fuel users, the Conference of Parties (COP28), has been and gone. Like the previous…

Market regulation is designed to modify the outputs of, and inputs to, goods and services. In doing so, they will…

Twenty-five years ago, initiating a pattern that is now commonplace, a group of radical environmentalists calling themselves scientists launched a…

The Australian Financial Review’s Michael Read demonstrated how Australia experienced a sharp reduction in living standards during the third quarter of 2023,…

Last month, the Paris-based OECD published its latest assessment of the Australian economy. Nobody read it other than those people paid to…

Both the ALP and the Coalition, ostensibly as a means to reduce national emissions of CO2, espouse wind and solar…

If we looked at the picture for Australia in the mid-90s, the electricity industry was massively overstaffed and the gas…

The contrast between the ALP’s most successful government – the Hawke-Keating government – and that of Mr Albanese is easily…

The Prime Minister, the Treasurer and the Energy Minister were supposedly somewhat trained as economists, but all three fail to…

Manipulated estimates of Levelised Cost of Energy tables showing wind and solar to be the cheapest supplies of energy are…

Although in 2011, the Commonwealth Budget papers compiled all the measures that were being implemented to foster renewable energy, that…

Like the onset of bankruptcy, great awakenings come slowly at first then rapidly. So it is with the global warming…

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has declared ‘the era of global boiling has arrived’. Australia’s Teals and Greens no doubt eagerly…

At this time, the attack on fossil fuels, particularly coal, is at a crescendo. In North America with the dishonestly…

Yesterday, Opposition leader Peter Dutton called for Australia to embrace nuclear power to secure a clean, cost-effective, consistent electricity supply. …

Throughout history, interactions of supply and demand have driven ‘transitions’ – think horses to cars and trains; whale oil to…

Gas has had a boomerang trajectory through green misanthropists’ ‘lexicon of evil’. In 1990, at the dawn of climate alarmism,…

The World Bank has a great cosmopolitan air to its name – not like one of those parochial institutions like…

Pressure to replace controllable and low-cost coal and gas with an intermittent and high-cost wind and solar alternative continues, but…

Charles Mackay’s 1841, titled Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds has enduringly served to refute claims of collective…