Alan Moran

Labor’s Climate Bill is an economic precipice

8 August 2022 4:00 am

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Politicians destroy nuclear when the world needs it most

25 July 2022 4:00 am

Human advancement has rested on harnessing increasingly dense sources of energy from non-human origins. Animal power, burning wood, wind technology,…

Europeans punished by expensive renewables backed by Russian gas

14 July 2022 1:03 pm

Europeans are now paying heavily for their shift in abandoning coal and nuclear and adopting renewable energy supported by Russian…

The (expensive) brave new world of ‘clean energy’

9 July 2022 4:00 am

The market was working pretty well 20 years ago and is not expected to be much larger by 2030. It…

Climate Justice? Victoria’s fresh assault on businesses

1 July 2022 12:57 pm

Last week’s restoration of the electricity market, following the regulator assuming full control on June 15, means the energy crisis…

Climate Change's 'Pigouvian' tax

27 June 2022 7:00 am

Rod Sims, formerly head of the ACCC, advocates a carbon tax as a ‘Pigouvian’ solution to the global damage which he…

Standard of living to fall sharply

24 June 2022 7:30 am

In the pre-Covid days, strike activity was fast disappearing. In Europe, the average days lost from strikes more than halved.…

Albo's war against Capitalism

21 June 2022 4:00 am

Seeking to disabuse critics of the notion that his interest and expertise in economics were Whitlamesque, Anthony Albanese released a…

Politicians have sabotaged the energy market

13 June 2022 9:00 am

‘After a decade of denial and delay, Australia deserves a better future – one with cheaper power, more jobs, and…

Customers won't like the new energy game

3 June 2022 10:00 am

Right now in Australia, we are seeing some smaller electricity retailers being forced out of the market and voluntarily shedding…

This is worse than we thought

24 May 2022 1:00 pm

It’s much worse than we thought. The ALP will govern in its own right, but will be forced into extreme…

The Seinfeld election: a show about nothing

17 May 2022 12:00 pm

With the virus abating, and with the confected anger over supposed government inadequacies for compensation owed to those harmed by…

The politics of an energy dystopia

10 May 2022 2:00 pm

We are seeing unprecedented prices in the Australian gas and electricity wholesale markets. The first five days of May saw…

Stoking the fires of energy policy

26 April 2022 9:00 am

Stung from previous election losses, the ALP is at pains to deny that it will introduce a carbon tax. The…

Scomo, Albo, and their fantasy Net Zero policies

15 April 2022 4:00 am

Both the ALP and the Coalition have the same Net Zero goal for 2050, but that time frame is, at…

Renewables subsidies: $22 billion by 2030

5 April 2022 9:00 am

Energy Minister Angus Taylor noted that the Commonwealth Budget added $1.3 billion to assist uneconomic renewable energy, bringing the total…

You can't save the world with Net Zero

24 March 2022 12:00 pm

Ever since socialism’s credibility collapsed in 1990, environmentalism has increasingly dominated the political agenda. Central to this was the global…

Will war end the climate alarmist zeal of the central banks?

21 March 2022 9:00 am

Faced with implacable opposition from the Senate, Sarah Bloom Raskin, President Biden’s pick for supervising banks within the Federal Reserve…

Practicalities in addressing autocrats’ aggression

11 March 2022 12:00 pm

The shock of the Russian invasion of Ukraine is that it demonstrated a form of aggression most people thought belonged…

Fresh gunpowder in the nostrils of politics

2 March 2022 9:00 am

Fresh gunpowder in everyone’s nostrils has brought a new political reality. It was only this month that US Army Secretary,…

Closing coal? The real victims are Australian energy consumers

23 February 2022 2:00 pm

If software billionaire Mike Cannon Brookes is Australia’s latest corporate raider, his bid for AGL redefines the whole notion of…

Let’s remove government regulations that undermine electricity

17 February 2022 12:00 pm

Today’s announcement of the early closure of the Eraring power station means that, with the Liddell station scheduled to close…

Can Big Tech remain as the arbiter of politics?

4 February 2022 2:00 pm

Increasingly, climate change is coming to dominate energy supply and indeed the whole economy. Modest changes to the climate are…

The re-enthronement of capitalism: are ‘woke’ investment funds falling behind?

26 January 2022 12:00 pm

Over many years now, superannuation funds have been orientating their investments towards options that avoid unapproved Environmental and Social goods…

Australians mugged by taxes and regulations

18 January 2022 4:00 am

Issued last Friday was a new Victorian government review of ‘embedded networks’, which act as the electricity retailer to co-located…