Nick Cater

Nick Cater is senior fellow of the Menzies Research Centre and a columnist with The Australian. He is a former editor of The Weekend Australian and a former deputy editor of The Sunday Telegraph. He is author of The Lucky Culture published by Harper Collins.

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For The Weekly Times AgJournal November. Differing opinions on the use of prime agricultural land for the purpose of energy farming. Simon Barton has a property at Badangora near Wellington NSW, which has energy producing wind turbines installed for added income. Simon rounding up sheep on a quad bike. Picture by Dean Marzolla

‘Engagement’ a lost cause: regions fed up with green fantasy

If Chris Bowen attends a protest rally in Canberra on Tuesday, the reception will tell him more about the country’s mood on renewable energy than any number of engagement reviews.

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11/01/2024: Climate Change and Energy Minister, Chris Bowen with Tattarang Chairman Dr Andrew Forrest at Uungula Wind Farm in central west NSW. Picture: Supplied / Squadron Energy

Climate of naivety our greatest danger

Andrew Forrest’s hubris is laid bare in declaring that investing in wind and solar would make us safer in a world where bad actors want to control fossil fuel supplies.

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24-01-2023 - Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Pat Dodson (L) and Linda Burney (R) meet with community groups, local council, the NT Government and frontline services in Alice Springs to discuss crime in Alice Springs. Picture: PMO

Spinning platitudes as Alice burns

If Anthony Albanese were to return to the Northern Territory town this week he would discover youth crime has not declined while government-funded programs have proliferated.

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BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos JANUARY 12, 2024: Woolworths stores have withdrawn the sale of Australia Day merchandise. Pictured is a Choice store with merchandise. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Tertius Pickard

Woolworths needs to rethink its half-baked Australia Day ban

Peter Dutton captured the popular sentiment by suggesting customers boycott the store until the decision is reversed. When our shared sense of national pride is being eroded, we need leaders who are prepared to shout ‘stop’.

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7 December, Dubai UAE. AustraliaÃ¢â¬â¢s Minister for Climate Change and Energy Chris Bowen with The Australian ambassador to the UAE Heidi Venamore (r) and Fortescue executives on board Green Pioneer, the worldÃ¢â¬â¢s first ship which runs on green ammonia, in Dubai at COP28 Photo: Jacquelin Magnay

What Bowen could learn from Keelan on energy

Keelan has been running an electricity grid, albeit small, for two and a half years. His YouTube videos would be helpful viewing for Energy Minister Chris Bowen.

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2023/12/11 Climate change Minister Chris Bowen at the COP28 in Dubai on Monday. Photo:Jacquelin Magnay

Indigenous mastery of ecology is a historical delusion

For 21st century progressives, romanticising the ‘primitive’ was never an exercise in improving the lot of Aboriginal Australians any more than the hopes of ennobling the savage inspired by Rousseau.

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Christmas Eve 2023 Carols by Candlelight at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne has been interrupted by pro-Palestine protesters storming the stage. Picture: @JessicaWestcot8/Twitter

Ignorant activists make a profanity of joyous celebration

The profanities committed in Bethlehem and Melbourne on Christmas Eve were not the worst sacrilege driven by the dogma of Islamism against the imagined enemy of Christianity.

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05/05/2023. Energy Minister Chris Bowen holds a press conference at Lake Liddell recreation area, with view to Liddell power station, south of Muswellbrook in NSW, announcing Australia's Net Zero Authority. Britta Campion / The Australian

Scrounging for power? No worries, says Bowen

For a delicate 30 minutes late last Thursday afternoon, the NSW electricity system went through a near-death experience.

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WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND - DECEMBER 06: Prime Minister Christopher Luxon speaks while Deputy Prime Minister and New Zealand First Leader Winston Peters looks on following the State Opening of Parliament on December 06, 2023 in Wellington, New Zealand. The ministers of the 54th Parliament were sworn in on November 27th, 2023, after a lengthy delay in forming a governing coalition between The National Party, ACT and New Zealand First. (Photo by Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images)

New political trio restores public sanity to NZ

The re-anglification of civic life is part of the ruling coalition’s plan for the restoration of sanity after the destructive experiment conducted by Jacinda Ardern.

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(FILES) Argentine presidential candidate for the La Libertad Avanza alliance Javier Milei waves to supporters after winning the presidential election runoff at his party headquarters in Buenos Aires on November 19, 2023. A visit on November 27-28, 2023, in New York to the grave of an ultra-Orthodox rabbi shows the peculiar spiritual journey of Argentina's president-elect, Javier Milei, between Catholicism and Judaism and no certainty of an eventual conversion. Milei, a 53-year-old ultra-liberal, has mentioned several times that he studies Torah. In the past, he has clearly defined himself as a Catholic and a believer in God. He has declared that somehow the natural and spontaneous order is "anarcho-capitalist", and that God is a "libertarian", as he is. (Photo by Luis ROBAYO / AFP)

‘Dinosaurs’ rise from the ashes of green madness

To the intelligentsia, Javier Milei is Argentina’s Donald Trump, one of a breed of politicians from the imagined far right, winning fair elections at will.

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