Even with a price tag, our renewables future is already broken
Broken Hill plight exposes the gap between the promise of renewable energy and what it actually delivers.
Nick Cater
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Green anxiety is a poor excuse for the collapsing birthrate
Our best hope is to persuade the environmentally anxious millennials and Generation Z to stop fretting about stranded polar bears and get busy making babies. If present trends continue, the next great extinction may be our own.
Blind justice can’t bow to ‘inherited trauma’
Across almost four decades, the NSW Judicial Commission has drifted off script into the field of social justice. It has reinterpreted its mission as raising awareness of climate change, cultural diversity and therapeutic jurisprudence.
Community of citizens has been shattered by this ugly tribalism
A failure of leadership has led to a cascade of pusillanimity on our campuses and streets, where university authorities and police have given ground to tribal forces.
We’re losing touch with nuclear revival
The implications of the nuclear renaissance abroad are clear for Australia, which, as things stand, will miss out.
Conservation groups fall silent as renewable chimera wreaks havoc
There are signs we may be reaching peak madness, as opposition to cowboy renewable energy developers grows in regional and rural Australia, and people in the city begin to latch on.
Canberra’s fiscal splurge has infected the states
The outbreak of fiscal incontinence afflicting Canberra has spread to Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney and other capitals, where the imperative to balance the books appears to have been forgotten.
Blayney gold mine buried under Labor’s short-term myopia
The curse of short horizons can afflict even the best prime ministers. Yet the Albanese government betrays no ambition for long-term reform. It betrays little ambition for anything beyond winning the next election.
Right to disconnect is all about politics and populism — forget productivity
The idea that a law that creates more red tape can boost productivity is counterintuitive, to say the least. Yet Anthony Albanese claimed exactly that last week.
The sun is setting on our renewables ‘superpower’ fantasy
There is increasing evidence the US has reached the point of peak renewables, as the pool of private investors shrinks and winning community approval becomes harder.
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