Election will define our destiny
The election ought to determine if the power comes on when you flick the switch and if you can afford it. Longer term, it should determine how much we determine our own destiny, at home and abroad.
Letters
Lucky country needs policy shift to reliable electricity system
The reliability of renewables backed by dispatchable gas is significantly higher than when backed by batteries along. For industries that can’t afford power interruptions, reliability is key.
Incentives get the vote, leaving the nation’s welfare far behind
Incentives win over a critical percentage of the voters, allowing the party offering the most incentives and having the least regard for the welfare of Australia to gain power.
Pearson a voice of clarity on need for curriculum reform
Noel Pearson speaks with clarity and wisdom over the continued shortcomings of the national curriculum
Wong gives Coalition a shot in the arm with support for a renewed voice
Penny Wong conflates wholehearted Australian support for same-sex marriage with some sort of potential future support for the voice.
Iberian disaster highlights danger of our net-zero folly
It took just five seconds for an electricity grid, supplying nearly 60 million people, to collapse in Spain and Portugal. That’s what is in store for us if the Albanese Labor government is re-elected.
Iberian blackout shows the importance of energy reliability
The sooner we have a government committed to a pragmatic and balanced energy mix to save us from the inevitable disaster from the renewables superpower fantasy the better.
Election spendathon puts economic security at risk
Australia’s economy is in dangerous territory exactly because of all the Labor policies, and rating agencies know it. All the budgeted decade of debt will soon be at higher interest rates.
Spain’s blackout could well be our pain too
What happened in Spain might happen here if Labor continued its zero-emissions policy. Perhaps it is time to start referring to solar and wind as “unreliables”.
Election looks like a game of smoke and mirrors
Anthony Albanese’s skilful displays of smoke and mirrors and deception, cunningly obscuring or concealing the truth, demonstrate that he could have made a marvellous magician.
Do we need gesture of welcome to country in a nation of equals?
One cannot expect to have the financial and moral support of hardworking Australians while devaluing their citizenship. Without them, Indigenous people would not have so many life choices.
Deal-making, not good policy, key to modern politics
Doing deals, not good policy, will be the future parliamentary brawl of the day, pleasing media which has been correctly blamed as major contributors to our accelerating political decline.
Nothing welcome about failure to address Indigenous plight
Peter Dutton was spot-on in the fourth debate to link the proliferation of welcome to country ceremonies to Anthony Albanese’s failed voice referendum.
Voters are facing tsunami of half-truths and falsehoods
We keep hearing Labor is on the nose but people feel the Coalition is not ready to govern. I would say to those of that opinion: How ready do you have to be?
Penalising those who work, knowing the price of eggs
Anthony Albanese is like the skipper of a boat in the ocean with a hole in the hull. He is bailing furiously but the water comes in faster than it goes out.
Bad news for our future, whoever wins
You can be sure that after the election there will be a list of bad news for our future, whoever wins.
Anzac Day protest was wrong, but Welcome to Country an insult
It is time for us to have a conversation about the Welcome to Country.
Sleepwalking our way into national security disaster
Renowned historian Geoffrey Blainey reminds readers that Australia was ill-prepared for war in 1941 and that we are making the same mistake in 2025.
Our voting system seems to be preferencing hung parliament
Compulsory voting adds disparity by including large numbers of first choice votes that are essentially blind guesses from people who really don’t want to make a decision.
Defence of the nation primary responsibility of our government
The first responsibility of a national government is the security of the nation. The Labor government has shown it is incapable of this and makes false promises of increased defence funding.
Polling campaign of fast promises rolling on
This election campaign promises bread and circuses. Unfortunately, the price of bread is rising and the circuses are moving offshore to get a reliable supply of cheaper power.
Preferential system has facilitated a spiteful, morally corrupt game of numbers
All Australians lose and the carpetbaggers, mostly overseas operatives selling our renewable future, are off with the heist.
Coalition the only ones getting serious about defence
For its wilful neglect of defence and all aspects of national security, the ALP deserves to lose this election on this issue alone.
Dutton can’t be afraid to be ambitious with important policies
It has been clear in last three debates Peter Dutton and the Coalition need to present much more strongly and not be afraid of offending some groups.
Pope Francis will be a hard act to follow on climate concern
Pope Francis described climate change as a “profound moral crisis” and recognised its effects on humanity, especially disadvantaged people.
Defence gets much-deserved focus during poll campaign
Commentators have rightly signalled the urgent need for increased defence spending. It is disturbing that the need for this reminder for both the government and the opposition should be necessary.
Voters must take stock of the government’s value delivery
Anyone who bothers to think about the nation’s defence will surely feel the chill winds of vulnerability starting to blow around their ankles.
Pope Francis was prescient in warning of ‘world war in pieces’
Pope Francis consistently warned that we were “close, almost, to a world war”, that the “third world war in pieces” was turning into a “real global conflict”.
Economy will bear the sorry results of high spending
What a shame that no member of the government, the teals or the Greens is old enough to recall the disastrous big-spending policies of the Whitlam Labor government that destroyed our economy.
No defence for a campaign that ignores nation’s priorities
The government’s major failings are these: defence and electricity supply failures are promised to continue; and quick declines in our standard of living are rendered invisible by blame games.
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