How the rise of environmental politics is threatening traditional allegiances – and world trade
Some 172 years ago Karl Marx opened the modern era of politics in proclaiming that a spectre was haunting Europe.…
Renewables rent-seekers aren’t interested in bushfire prevention – or cheap efficient energy
No amount of mouth-frothing by Piers Morgan or artful deception by the legions of renewable energy warriors published by the…
Madrid: the climate catastrophe juggernaut trundles on
As well as nation-states, an astonishing well-funded 2,330 NGOs, many with multiple delegates, fronted up to this month’s Madrid climate…
Cheaper power coming? Blink and you’ll miss it if our Paris goals remain
There is a panoply of agencies regulating energy at the Commonwealth level and not all of these seem to be…
The return of Ross Garnaut and climate nirvana?
This week, the Financial Review has featured a return of Ross Garnaut to the climate policy advisory role. Soothingly, he…
We should be afraid of rising fuel costs, not climate claims
With the children’s week-long climate crusade now approaching its end, the United Nations meeting on climate change, accompanied by the…
Standby for next week’s UN doomfest for climate crazies
The push is on ahead of the upcoming UN Climate Summit to be held next week in New York. Although…
Subsidies, bureaucrats, blackouts and bills: inside our electricity disaster
The Australian Energy Market Operator is one of the half dozen different government institutions responsible for planning and managing the…
Nobbling the new gold rush
The rising price of gold is stimulating a boom in new activity. However, Victoria is one state government standing firm…
Farming, fibs and Four Corners
From little things, big things grow. And so, for the 60 odd years until the nineteen-nineties, we saw the land…
The Clover Moore catastrophe
Clover Moore’s Sydney, with its Climate Emergency clarion call, is far from the first city to adopt the zero-emissions-by-2050 mantra. …
Angus Taylor: fighting for coal and cheap power, but is it too late?
In contrast to his predecessor, the eminently likeable Josh Frydenberg, Angus Taylor can be abrasive and has managed to antagonise…
Our hard-won prosperity – and how to keep it
The different rates of change in world income levels have provided Australia with a magnificent base on which to build…
Forget the “watergate” conspiracies: here is the truth about the Murray
The Murray Darling River is facing a plethora of publicity: fish deaths due to mismanagement of flows by the responsible…
The scare is settled? Have the climate catastrophists won?
Evidence does not seem to matter in the debate on human-induced climate change. Hardly anyone is listening to reason. Minds…
Energy policy: the $72 billion fair dinkum disaster
Energy and climate change policy in Australia and other western democracies is now, along with immigration and its associated fear…
The myths of the Murray
Over the past century, the Murray Darling river’s naturally highly irregular flows have been transformed to convert it into the…
Liberal luvvies for higher power prices
Politicians as targets of the French gilets jaunes are omnipresent in Australia and have, with their climate change-driven energy policies,…
Labor’s energy deal: Shorten facts, but you’ll pay more
Sucked in by spurious claims of the loss of 99 per cent of all coral reefs, mounting natural disasters, a…
Socialism will impoverish you, but it won’t solve climate change
Writing in The Guardian Australia, Geoff Sparrow is not the first person to call for a socialist “dictatorship of the…
Liddell is just part of a bigger battle
Like a border skirmish that develops into a global conflagration, John Howard’s policy to require “two per cent additional energy”…
Tariffs and trade: not that simple
The attention attracted by US import duties is important on many dimensions. Alan Kohler, in the process of suggesting that…
The Snowy scam, the Donald and death of Australian industry
It seemed too good to be true: Snowy being bought by the Commonwealth from state governments in what appeared as…
The politics is proven, but is the science?
Work conducted by highly respected NASA scientist Roy Spencer estimates a maximum increase of 1.54°C in global temperatures from greenhouse gases, less than half that…
AGL: impoverishing the nation to boost its bottom line
The supporters of renewable energy continue to claim – as they have for the past 30 years – that wind/solar…
