Great Leaps never land well, Mr Bowen
A comparison can be drawn between Chris Bowen’s 2030 target and the arrogant folly of Chairman Mao’s attempts to mobilise the Chinese population.
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If Labor’s Climate, Clearing and Cows push becomes government policy, graziers and croppers will find themselves in the corner with coalminers facing unreasonable regulation, restricted capital and heavier taxes.
The anti-nuclear lobby is losing power
When activists start veering off on moral tangents it’s a sign they’ve given up arguing the facts. The policy choice at the next election will be between a clean-energy future founded in reality or one infected by wishful thinking.
Anti-nuclear Chris Bowen is a costly waste of energy
The renewable industrial complex and the ideological intransigence of the left, are the biggest obstacles to lifting our nuclear moratorium.
Renewable fairytale is running out of power and cash
Successful countries in the future will be those led by governments that realise the old rules no longer apply. That is to say, governments more worldly and street smart than ours.
Immigration policy is being conducted by stealth
Labor’s judgment on immigration has been skewed by its indebtedness to the union movement and its misunderstanding of what constitutes social justice.
Shorten’s ‘problem child’ is out of control
The NDIS needs more than the rebooting Bill Shorten is promising. It requires re-engineering from the bottom up.
Labor’s cash blitz reeks of political cowardice
Soon there’ll be little doubt about how profligate government spending is damaging our children’s future: the kids entering high school today will be carrying an obese government on their backs.
Shoddy strategy behind green hydrogen fantasy
A head somewhat cooler than the one sitting on the shoulders of the Energy Minister might conclude that this isn’t a fight Australia needs to be in.
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