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Originally published in Spectator Australia, 19 June 2024: Treasurer asked the Productivity Commission to recommend solutions in the context of ‘adapting to the Net Zero transition’ (code for forcing the displacement of low-cost coal with high-cost wind and solar).. Read here
Originally published in Spectator Australia, 6 June 2024: Australia has seen a 20-year downward trend in productivity. Many other nations have seen similar trends and the cause is common: burgeoning growth of government squeezing out productive investment and an unrelenting surge in regulations, especially and notably so in Australia, covering fossil fuel both in its extraction and in its domestic use. ….. Read here
Originally published in Spectator Australia, 29 May 2024: Energy and climate issues were front and central in the latest Commonwealth budget. ….. Read here
Originally published in Spectator Austraila, 16 May 2024: The public is receiving the Budget with a sense of bored irrelevance. People are pleased to see a $300 cut in their electricity bills, hoping that someone else is financing this, but eyes glaze over at the billions of dollars of taxpayer money with which the government promises to catapult the economy into the nirvana that is the green energy transition. And nobody seems concerned that spending is at its highest since the Hawke-Keating years of the early 1990s. ….. Read here
Originally published in Spectator Australia, 10 May 2024: ….. READ HERE
Originally published in Canberra Daiy, 26 April 2024: the investment in clean energy is already destroying the low-cost electricity and gas that have underpinned our industry and agriculture. And it is doing so with subsidies extracted from consumers and taxpayers that amount to $15.5 billion a year. ….. READ HERE
Originally published in Spectator Australia, 22 April 2024: In December 2021, Anthony Albanese announced his ‘plan’ to reduce electricity prices by $275 per household by 2025. He said he was certain of such a price reduction, ‘because we have done the modelling’.. READ HERE
Originally published in Spectator Austraia, 15 April 2024: Mr Albanese is announcing a new protectionism with the government driving a ‘new competition’ approach centred on a Net Zero energy policy. It is to combine ‘market tools, with government action’ with the economy no longer ‘being left to market forces or trusted to the invisible hand’ ….. READ HERE
Originally published in Spectator Australia, 4 April 2024: The UK Reform Party, whose President is Nigel Farage, is campaigning for a referendum on ‘Net Zero’. However, YouGov polling has 71 per cent of all voters (63 per cent of Conservatives) supporting the overall Net Zero target. ….. READ HERE
As of March 2024, cost of subsidies for renewable energy and associated needs for storage and installation ….. List of costs
Originally published in Spectator Australia, 26 March 2024 ….. Read here
Originally published in Spectator Australia, 20 March 2024 ….. Read here
Published in Spectator Australia ….. Read here
Epoch Times 15 February 2024 read here
Originally published in Spectator Australia, 19 February 2024 ….. READ HERE
Originally published in Spectator Australia, 8 February 2024 ….. READ HERE
Originally published in Spectator Australia, 31 January 2024 ….. READ HERE
Published by Canberra Daily, 20 January 2024 and 23 January 2024 (online) ….. READ HERE
Originally published in The Spectator Australia, 16 January 2024 ….. READ HERE
Article published in Spectator Australia, 27 December 2023 ….. READ HERE
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