Australia: suffocated by regulation and raided by greedy politicians
Gary Banks in The Australian notes how government regulatory measures are destroying our vital comparative advantage in energy supply and promoting inefficient labour…
Climate change: short on proof, drowning in nonsense
The environmentalist creed in context Environmentalism, more particularly its prevalent global warming strain, dominates politics. It is the fourth such…
Is coal making a comeback? Australian mining’s uphill battle
Coal supplies a quarter of the world’s energy, oil and gas account for a half, and renewables – in spite…
Climate ruminations: the markets reject Chalmers
Combatting the perceived incidence of global warming is driving government policies. In Australia this has been obvious for many years,…
‘Chalming’ no one: Labor romances communism
Jim Chalmers is proving to be the most iconoclastic Treasurer since the Whitlam government’s Jim Cairns, a man who only…
Energy chaos: the shape of things to come
Australian governments have made energy policies focused on achieving higher shares of renewable energy that they claim is the cheapest…
Collapse of the $35 billion Sun Cable
Last week saw the collapse of Sun Cable, a pie-in-the-sky $35 billion plan by alternative energy enthusiasts, Andrew Forrest and…
Dark money
Recent years have seen a strengthening dominance of politics over individual and commercial decision-making. This is readily evident in the…
Batteries not included
Renewable energy battery farms threaten to cripple the economy with cyclic costs
Chris Bowen’s rendezvous with bad ideas
Back in July 2022, Chris Bowen the Minister for Climate Change and Energy, launched the latest CSIRO electricity costs report which…
Energy collapse: it all begins with a market cap
Thousands of years of experience – from the ancient Babylonians and Roman Emperor Diocletian, through to modern times – have…
ESG: climate virtue bleeding super dry
Business, where the profit motive is explicitly dominant and where the hundreds of millions of direct and indirect owners want…
Dan enters the pantheon of ‘great’ leaders
Now the hurley burley’s done, and Dan Andrews is in the pantheon of the state’s great leaders, it’s time to…
Victoria’s looming energy disaster
A centrepiece of Victorian Premier Dan Andrews’ campaign is to renationalise Victoria’s privately owned electricity businesses. He claims that the…
Our retreat from rational economics
In today’s world, government spending accounts for up to and (in the EU) over 50 per cent of GDP –…
Greta and her green-communism
Many breathed a sigh of relief when Greta Thunberg announced she was not going to attend COP 27 Climate Change…
Andrews’ Leninist approach to power
Last week, Victorian Premier Dan Andrews paraded his inner Lenin. He attacked Victoria’s privately owned coal generation businesses, claiming that…
Dirty dependency: superannuation and ESG
There is nothing green about the big end of town pursuing ESGs instead of energy solutions
Dead-weight drowning productivity
The green investments that threaten our future with their failures
The price of environmental activism
The myth of cheap renewables is starting to add up
Argentina’s socialist demons are coming for the West
How did we arrive at the position where, throughout the Western world, political decisions to undermine the cheapest and most…
The sharp decline since Paris
Returning from the 2015 Paris Agreement, former Clinton Energy chief Joe Romm, proclaimed: ‘You know, change happens slowly, until it happens…
Dangerous energy politics
Electricity has properties that require supply and demand to always balance every few seconds. This means, firstly, that there has…
Transition teething problem or permanent disaster?
Politicians, regulators, and subsidy-seekers portray the present difficulties in the energy market as being part of the transition from fossil…
A mild case of split portfolio disorder
As a one-time senior public servant, I find the debate over Scott Morrison’s supposed power seizure of separate ministries to…
