Labor’s spin on energy has not matched people’s experience
Obfuscation prevailed as recently as the budget, when the Treasurer claimed power prices had fallen by 25 per cent in 2024 but failed to mention the reductions were the result of subsidies.
Obfuscation prevailed as recently as the budget, when the Treasurer claimed power prices had fallen by 25 per cent in 2024 but failed to mention the reductions were the result of subsidies.
How can the PM crack down on so-called price gouging by supermarkets when his own investigative body, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, has found no evidence of it?
Australians are looking forward to the deja vu moment when Chris Bowen comes out of hiding and suggests to voters that if they want nuclear power in the energy mix then don’t vote Labor.
To channel Mark Twain and Benjamin Disraeli: ‘There are lies, damn lies and Mediscare’.
As a society we have become addicted to this largesse and there does not appear to be any politician of conviction on either side of politics who is prepared to call this out.
The approval for this vandalism needs to be withdrawn now, the destruction required to be rectified immediately and the transmission lines forced underground at whatever the cost.
Amid a prevailing belief that coal-fired power stations have to go, there is little incentive for their owners to spend the millions of dollars required to keep them maintained.
We can’t allow the ALP to be in opposition. The last time they were there, they allowed Josh Frydenberg to run up a national debt of three-quarters of a trillion dollars.
There are no exceptions to the history of go woke, go broke. Bombarded voters could be assisted by understanding the drivers, the underlying belief systems of rival parties.
There are now two sacred cows on the Australian political scene, Medicare and the NDIS.
The amazing courage and bravery displayed by those many Gazans who are joining anti-Hamas protests and calling for an end to the war with Israel, is the greatest news I’ve read for a long time.
So, Peter Dutton does love temporary sugar hits after all. For the LNP, which always proclaims to be the party of lower taxes, now confined to the dustbin of history!
For our long-term financial future, Australia needs a sustainable and responsible fiscal plan that reflects greater budgetary control whereby spending is needs-based.
As unrestrained government debt approaches $1 trillion and energy policy runs out of gas, cost-of-living pressures will remain embedded, hurting many Australians.
Peter Dutton needs to come out swinging against this budget and give the voters a choice between policies designed for Australia to climb out of its financial hole or continue to dig the hole deeper.
The only intellectually honest action for a university embarrassed by its colonial origins is to demolish its entire structure and scatter those carefully hewn sandstone blocks in the desert.
Given that the prospect of Palestinian Authority reform is low, perhaps a local clan-based leadership entity acting on its behalf could be involved in a new governance framework for Gaza.
Our schools and kids have become ripe pickings for the whims of political puppetmasters. This so-called intellectual takeover of our society correlates nicely with the dumbing down of education.
Economists are correct in urging the incoming Australian government to tackle debt. Our households must control debt, so why not our government?
Our spending is out of control, our productivity is going in the wrong direction and we are generating many more jobs in the public sector than in the private sector.
Donald Trump will come and Trump will go. And after he departs, traditional conservatism will continue to dominate. Plus head-knock dementia, university intolerance, Hamas resurgence and nuclear deterrents.
Labor’s energy transition is failing. It’s held together by subsidies, secret contracts and relief packages – otherwise it would collapse.
Taxpayer-funded power bribes, rising costs and taxes, Janet Albrechtsen on universities and Steve Waterson’s sense of the ridiculous.
There has long been a push to have an Indigenous element in every subject as a condition of accreditation. There are subjects where that makes sense, but others in which it makes no sense at all.
Plugging for the sale of EVs is one thing, then finding enough renewable energy-powered plugs with which to charge them is an entirely different, and very flawed, proposition.
People’s choices can’t be legislated or be the subject of arbitrary targets. Australians will come to the climate action trough when they buy all of the arguments. As of now, most are not convinced.
Kerry Packer said that you only get one Alan Bond in a lifetime. No doubt Vladimir Putin must have similar thoughts about Donald Trump.
It’s concerning that Chris Bowen claims the government’s natural gas policy is a success simply because forecasts now predict possible shortages further down the track.
I commend Damien S* for his bravery in exposing the activist doctrines being forced on law students at Macquarie University.
Trump deserves credit for cajoling the Europeans into spending money on their own defence. Australia too should substantially increase its defence budget.
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