by FRED PAWLE – THERE are two possible explanations for our government’s preoccupation with the weather in 2050. The most likely one says it has nothing to do with science. If politicians, scientists and the media are correct, climate change is an…
by NAZIYA ALVI RAHMAN – ENERGY Minister Chris Bowen has warned the Opposition to end division over climate policy, saying that uncertainty around net-zero was delaying the transition to green energy. In his first announcement since being re-sworn in on May 14,…
by ROGER CROOK – US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has decided that many nations who trade with his country, do not trade fairly; he uses his definition of fairness. This statement and the threats of 25 per cent tariffs on Australian steel and…
by VIV FORBES – A SPIRIT of madness exists in today’s Labor-led bureaucracy – the bureaucratic instinct is to kill every animal in any threatened herd to ensure all sick ones die. There’s a fatal flaw in the scorched earth disease control…
by VIV FORBES – WHY are we always putting green energy assets in all the wrong places? The main electricity demand comes from big cities and their industries, so the electricity generators should be nearby – thus reducing capital costs and transmission…
by FRED PAWLE – HAS anybody seen Energy Minister Chris Bowen lately? The man who was central to Labor winning the 2022 election has suddenly gone uncharacteristically quiet. After single-handedly losing the election for Bill Shorten in 2019, Bowen was one of…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – THE speed at which Chris Bowen and Anthony Albanese’s green dominoes are falling is truly breathtaking. When Queen front man Freddie Mercury belted out the chorus to Another One Bites the Dust back in 1980, he would never…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – A FEW short years ago, Australia was known as The Lucky Country; now in the eyes of the developed world, we are rapidly becoming the dumb country. Much of that is down to the fact that our Federal…
by ALFRED BUI – A PARLIAMENTARY committee has been told the latest Integrated System Plan – that incorporates renewables – that underpins Australia’s energy grid for the next 20 years is a “work of fiction”. At an inquiry hearing, former Australian Nuclear…
by SEAN BURKE – MATT Kean’s renewable energy “Fantasia” is accelerating a disaster, not reducing energy prices, according to former Deputy PM Barnaby Joyce. Mr Joyce has warned Australians they would be “mugged by reality” if Labor’s newly-appointed energy tsar accelerates the…
