Open Thread – Mon 18 Sept 2023
1,013 responses to “Open Thread – Mon 18 Sept 2023”
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10 million views in a month. Wow.
Peter Santenello:
The Man With No Legal Identity – Off the Grid in Appalachia ??
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Why does the USA have such a huge drug problem? It isn’t just about availability, there must be cultural issues involved.
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This article about the wheat exports from the Ukraine to western Europe was interesting. The Poles etc were fed up with the cheap imports destroying their own farming industry. Also the Russians are targeting the ports to add to the problems and are trying to divide the EU countries.
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The Russell Brand allegations are serious.
The non-consensual sex allegations will subside as there are contemporaneous accounts of the alleged victims being willing participants.
The under aged one will not go away & looks like it might be his undoing.
If true, it doesn’t matter who TF you are.
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Matt Gaetz Exposes The Squad For The Frauds They Are
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MOg7nQzZmk
I read about Gaetz holding McCarthy to account.
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Michael Malice has spent the weekend re-tweeting RFK Jr from not that long ago.
RFK Jr is not a fan of the 2nd amendment.
And until COVID, he wasn’t so on board with the 1st amendment either with the usual arguments like “safety” being the reason.
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After running dead on the Qantas travel credit expiry, the ACCC is now getting on its hind legs over Virgin’s plans to do the same.
It is good that the ACCC is protecting consumers.
But why run dead on Qantas & then only put pressure on Virgin after Qantas folds because of the Joe Aston megaphone? -
It is good that the ACCC is protecting consumers.
But why run dead on Qantas & then only put pressure on Virgin after Qantas folds because of the Joe Aston megaphone?Because the ACCC just like ASIC are only very good at closing the stable door after the horse has bolted.
Failed legal people the lot of them.
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Tim Blair in today’s Tele:
PRICELESSWORDS FROM JACINTA’S SMALL STAGE
TIM BLAIR
Monday 1 Sep 2023An Aboriginal woman of note arrives for a major engagement in Canberra. Instead of the impressive venue used previously for similar events, however, she is shown to a much smaller room.
Nevertheless, the young woman speaks at the engagement, as had been arranged. A photographer is there. He takes many excellent, expressive shots of the woman as she delivers her speech and answers questions from
the crowd.But the photograph his newspaper runs the next day on its front page doesn’t show the Aboriginal woman. Instead the newspaper’s selected image – from probably hundreds of options – primarily depicts three white dignitaries in the front row of the audience.
The preferred image was obviously taken when the photographer’s back was to the venue’s stage. For that matter, it was shot even before the invited Aboriginal speaker had appeared. Not the photographer’s fault, of course. As mentioned above, he’d likely have submitted hundreds of pictures. But that was the one his editors picked. In a front-page story about an Aboriginal woman speaking in Canberra,
the Aboriginal woman herself was rendered invisible – only appearing several pages deep in that edition of the
paper.All of this sounds very 1950s or 1960s, when even Aboriginal public figures – such as they were – generally existed at the media’s margins. Some connection with prominent white figures often helped. A 1968 picture of Lionel Rose mock-sparring with Elvis Presley is, outside of Australia at least, possibly the most famous image ever taken of the great Aboriginal boxer.
But here’s the thing. That story about an Aboriginal woman speaking in a small room and being cut from the front page didn’t happen in the 1950s or 1960s.
It happened just last week – to Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, who on Thursday delivered one of the most significant National Press Club speeches of the past 50 years. The significance wasn’t diminished at all by the fact Price was prevented from speaking in the Press Club’s main hall – closed, as Press Club director and Sydney Morning Herald political correspondent David Crowe explained, due to “renovations we’re doing downstairs”.It didn’t matter. If anything, the power of Price’s words was magnified by her dinky surroundings, which gave her an opportunity in her opening remarks to turn a potential negative into a charming positive.
“I actually appreciate,” she told her crowd, “the intimacy of the room.”
But Melbourne’s Age newspaper didn’t quite see things in such a sunny way.
The Age is very much in the Yes camp on the proposed Indigenous Voice to Parliament. Price is a powerful proponent of the No case. This may explain why The Age declined to put Price’s picture on the front page, instead running an audience
photograph with the caption: “Coalition MPs Barnaby Joyce, Michaelia Cash and Bridget McKenzie at the National Press Club.”As for Price herself, she was shoved away to page four or so. Consider the historical aspect here. In assembling this front page, nobody at The Age apparently recalled
another occasion, nearly 70 years ago now, when a black woman was moved backwards so as to make room for white folk.It was a big deal at the time. A suggestion to our Age friends: look up “Rosa Parks”, “1955” and the “Montgomery Alabama bus boycott”. Read about it, learn about it and you’ll never move a dissenting black woman to the back of a bus, a building or
a once-celebrated Melbourne paper’s rubbish news section ever again. Guaranteed.Returning to Canberra and the events of last week, Price next offered a friendly rejoinder to master of ceremonies Crowe’s introduction: “Just a correction. Colin is my husband, not my partner. Just for the record.”
Right there is one of the most potent declarations of values you’ll see, and it took just 14 simple words.Thereafter followed a speech that was the opposite in every way to recent public announcements from the Yes camp’s Marcia Langton. Although characterised by a rattled Yes media as negative and dangerous, Price was actually optimistic and
defiant. She spoke with the strength and confidence of someone who has endured, but not been defeated.She took aim at tomorrow’s fixable concerns rather than continuing a class conflict that should have been buried in 1883 with Karl Marx.
And she was properly funny, which always deeply wounds the left.
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I didn’t really pay much attention to Russell Brand before. He just seemed a grotty British comedian. I assumed he took the bog-standard lefty position on everything. A member of the establishment.
The Coof looked to be his Road to Damascus moment.
Which is why I wonder whether the accusations of shagging an underage girl go back to the time before coof. (The left are very forgiving with regards to underage sex – they still bemoan the travails of Roman Polanski. Then there was Epstein and his little venture.)
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Another example of outside non accountable agencies poking their bloody noses in where they are not wanted:
<a href="https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/fairness-slips-through-alps-gillnet-policy/news-story/f0a0bda53f6a0b936bc300b9daa57824″>Fairness slips through ALP’s gillnet policy
NICK CATER
Monday 18 Sep 2023If Anthony Albanese planned to price wild-caught barramundi off the menu before last year’s election, he forgot to mention it to the electorate. However, it probably had yet to enter his mind before he flew to Paris to talk to UNESCO in July 2022.
Closing the gillnet fishing industry was one of the things UNESCO insisted must happen to stop the Great Barrier Reef from joining the “in danger” list. The Prime Minister and his Environment Minister, Tanya Plibersek, have bent over backwards to comply. French newspaper Le Monde recently quoted sources close to UNESCO saying the difference between the new government’s attitude and the old one was “like night and day”.
Gillnet fishing for wild barramundi in north Queensland will end when the season closes on October 31 and will be illegal from the start of next year. It was banned at the insistence of a supranational organisation without any discussion in federal parliament or consultation with the industry. To describe it as undemocratic would be an understatement.
There is no credible scientific evidence showing how an annual catch of 200 tonnes of wild barramundi in onshore waters could damage the Reef. There have been no reports that stocks of wild barramundi are depleting. On the contrary, local fishermen say they have seldom been more abundant.
Yet from the end of next month the only place Australians will be able to buy Queensland wild barramundi will be on the black market. Gillnetting will continue in the NT and WA, but since two thirds of the national catch comes from Queensland, wild-caught barramundi will be priced out of reach for most consumers. Everything else will be farmed and much of it will be imported.
The sentence on gillnet fishing came out of the blue. Commercial fishers in Queensland reportedly found out less than an hour before a general announcement released by Plibersek and the Queensland government on June 5. The announcement was apparently timed to coincide with World Oceans Day, but no one had considered it worth warning the people whose livelihoods were about to be destroyed.
“It was just gut-wrenching to have that told to you in a press release,” gillnet operator Neil Green told me at the weekend. “No one in Queensland who managed the fishery was ready for this. Here we are three months down the track and we have no idea whether we’re going to get compensated, we’re going to be bought out or what the future is.”
Neither government had given much forethought to the impact on towns such as Ayr, where a thriving fishing industry operates around the mouth of the Burdekin River. The local ice producer is wondering if his business will survive. Business for the suppliers of marine services has tanked. Licence holders are stranded with expensive boats for which there is no longer a market.
It’s unclear whether Plibersek has visited the region, so far as anybody can tell. The decision and the announcement were made in the safe confines of Canberra, a city where the major industry is messing with other people’s lives.
“We know one of the most immediate threats to health of (the) Reef is unsustainable fishing practices,” read the June 5 press release in a section headed “Quotes attributable to the federal Minister for the Environment and Water”. She said dugongs, turtles and dolphins are caught in nets and drown.
If Plibersek could spare time to spend a morning with Green and his daughter, Sienna, working the creeks and mangrove swamps near the mouth of the Burdekin River, she would have learned the allegations in her press release were pure fiction.
She would have watched Green release his nets meticulously weighted at the bottom and with corks at the top, at locations and at a depth where almost half a century of experience has taught him he’ll catch barramundi and nothing else.
No licence holder looking for a return on their investment in their boat, equipment and red tape would contemplate not complying with the reporting regulations. Green has never had to report the catching of dugongs, turtles and dolphins, let alone their drowning, because he has never had the misfortune to catch one in 47 years of commercial fishing.
The Queensland government keeps a record of wildlife deaths for which humans are responsible. The total number of dugongs caught in nets since 2012 is six. The total of koalas killed on Queensland roads is more than 3000. Cars and trucks remain legal, at least for now.
Green has repeatedly asked for scientific evidence to support the minister’s claims. He said the best answer he’d been given was that fish absorb carbon dioxide and hold it in the ocean. “I’m happy to consider the science, but I’m not going to cop this rubbish,” Green told me.
UNESCO’s jihad against gillnets began in April last year when a delegation of special investigators flew to Queensland to look for evidence of damage to the Barrier Reef. Like Hans Blix, the hapless former Swedish diplomat sent to Iraq to search for weapons of mass destruction, the delegation was hardly likely to return with a report declaring fears were misplaced.
The boundries of the Great Barrier Reef world heritage area.
The delegation spent 10 days in Queensland meeting more than 100 people, including politicians, bureaucrats, academics, representatives from tourism and the ever-expanding reef conservation industry. None of them worked in the kind of jobs where you get your hands dirty. They met representatives from the World Wildlife Fund, Queensland Conservation Council and the Australian Marine Conservation Society, whose organisations had joined the confected campaign against gillnets.
They apparently met nobody from the commercial fishing industry, let alone the licence owners whose worlds they were about to destroy.
When the Hawke Labor government banned logging on the Atherton Tablelands in 1987, then environment minister Graham Richardson had the decency to show up at Ravenshoe and look squarely at the faces of the workers who were about to lose their jobs. That is not the Albanese government’s style. It rubberstamps decisions made in Paris with little consideration for the dignity of working Australians, incomes, communities or fairness.
It is the same approach it has taken to develop the industrial-scale wind and solar plants blighting scores of regional communities from Tasmania to far north Queensland.
The pattern is clear. Albanese is dancing to the tune of the inner-city elites who call for greater action on climate change, knowing they’re exempt from paying the cost. His government is making costly decisions in energy and environmental policy without bothering to ask if they are needed or will be effective.
It is perfectly understandable. When the Prime Minister and his Environment Minister represent adjoining inner-city seats that are both under sustained attack from the Greens, the dignity of working people in regional communities is probably the last thing on their minds.
Nick Cater is senior fellow of the Menzies Research Centre.
NICK CATER COLUMNIST
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Of course the BOM has issued a heatwave warning, for parts of the south coast and Illawarra districts. For a couple of days around 35.
Reading the definitional wording for severity on the “National Heatwave Warning Service” (instigated on the 4th Oct last year), I can predict that for this summer circa 30%+ of days will be classed as some sort of heatwave.
Heatwave intensity
For each part of the country, we compare the forecast maximum and minimum temperatures for each three-day period in the coming week (e.g. Monday-Wednesday, Tuesday-Thursday) to what would be considered hot for that location, and also to observed temperatures over the last 30 days.Heatwaves are classified into three types, based on intensity.
Low-intensity heatwaves are more frequent during summer. Most people can cope during these heatwaves.
Severe heatwaves are less frequent and are likely to be more challenging for vulnerable people such as the elderly, particularly those with medical conditions.
Extreme heatwaves are rare. They are a problem for people who don’t take precautions to keep cool—even for people who are healthy. People who work or exercise outdoors are also at greater risk of being affected.This is pure brainwashing.
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Meme; this great meme is probably the truth!
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FYI
Total Victorian government payments per year for each kilometre on the western transmission links will only amount to a little over three million dollars.
That’s about $600 per hectare for the easement for land in our parts that’s valued at $16,000 per hectare, not to mention the value of spud growing land around the route outside Ballarat of course.
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I just think that calling it a “flying bomb” is stupid. Based on lack of knowledge of the subject.
Aha. So that’s what so upset you, Bill P. I’ve looked at the videos, heard all of your commentary, made my own (I’ve heard it all before as this crash generated interest at the time), and I still wouldn’t voluntarily get on a Corcorde to go anywhere. Not with those fuel tanks. Yes, there was an attempt to spuriously shut it down, international squabbling between France and Britain, and with the Continental Airlines role, tangentially introducing the US safety standards too.
The ‘puncturing debris’ accident however did happen and could happen again if Concorde was still flying. Now maybe that’s just me, so I’ll let it rest. I’m flying to Singapore tomorrow and then on to Milan and that’s it for me with air crash investigations till I return home safely.
xx (fingers crossed)
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Let me just state this here, I have never liked Brand, not even during the last few years since he’s gone ideologically rogue. I have always found him sordid and grubby. But that mean he’s guilty of any crime, in fact I suspect he’s had to fight off women.
So the reason for these allegations? Make no mistake, it’s ideological. It’s to bring down his YT channel and destroy him.
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Russell Brand is acting no more sleazy than the average person.
He was married to another celebrity. She was enamoured with him.
Women throw themselves at celebrities. The idea that a woman stays with a casual link that has raped them is laughable. It’s not the same as living with an abusive partner.
The dating market is horrendous.
I heard one “complaint”. The audio was ridiculously clean, no static, no breathing, emotion, robotic cadence and the voice has an accent of someone raised in more than one country.
I’m calling bullshit. It sounded like AI.
I’d love to see the chat logs of the journalists involved.
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132andBush
Sep 18, 2023 8:02 AM
Of course the BOM has issued a heatwave warning, for parts of the south coast and Illawarra districts. For a couple of days around 35.When I was a kid it wasn’t a heatwave until temp reached 38 or 100 on the old scale. The people BOM is out to scare don’t know that since they were born into the irrational age.
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Heatwave or no, we had an excellent lunch yesterday with ten couples, old friends of long standing, overlooking still blue waters on one of Sydney’s finest days. No wonder the early convicts wrote home about the amazing weather, before they settled the land and then had to write poems about floods and fires. It could have been Lake Como, but it was just another of Sydney’s multitude of glorious waterways where restaurants allow everyone to have a share of it. Two of the husbands are now in slow cognitive decline, as they are in their eighties. One barely realises it, the other hates it, the searching for words that won’t come and irritated by his attempts to get out coherently the sensible thoughts he still has. Their wives, a little younger, shepherd them out as we all leave. As we gather for goodbyes, till next time, we all say as you do, knowing that time is moving on, we are all travelling furiously, which makes hard to get everyone together, and that some will see each other sooner, separately, by choice.
Every day is a gift.
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ABC is now doing an advertorial for Gentari, a Malaysian renewable company with big investments in Australia, now pushing into the EV car charging point business.
ABC reporter helpfully points to problems with the NIMBY attitude in Australia.
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Only 26 here today Bush.
I remember wearing a jumper at home early one harvest, then travelling to Birchip to pick up a part from the Mallee Mafia and there were kids in town pool.
The Mallee Mafia – *chuckle*
Long story short, I’ve had a rare social weekend in Bendigo, with members of the alcohol and good cheer squad including family both local and overseas and a higher ranking member of emergency services.
Overseas rellos are from England and are quite amazed at seeing 30+ temps at this time even in Australia and asked “have I noticed a change in the climate?”. Answer- No and cited many examples from personal experience of it being just as hot, as well as earlier in spring than now, 2002 being the stand out. Then there are the local temp records going back to the 1890’s which clearly show these temps happening quite frequently.
The emergency service bloke was the best though. Obviously being fed propaganda from other agencies he was almost wild eyed when I stated the above, so much so I had to search for temp records to prove my point!Everyone has been marinated in this crap for so long that it’s even affecting the supposedly “calm and sober”.
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feelthebern
Sep 18, 2023 6:18 AM
Michael Malice has spent the weekend re-tweeting RFK Jr from not that long ago.
RFK Jr is not a fan of the 2nd amendment.I have been trying to tell the fan-bois here for a while.
He is not the Messiah.
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Crossie, it had to be a hundred degrees fahrenheit before we were sent home from school early in our serge tunics back in the day.
Sometimes they relented at ninety-five. Then there was the long hot trip home.
Life didn’t completely stop. Men still worked outside with knotted-handkerchief hats on if they didn’t have a proper hat. The dunny bin men still came with their weird berets on. -
Just a reminder.
Piers Morgan interviews falsely accused man – identity of false accuser was protected (March 2023).
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Mark Ames
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Amazing this even has to be argued. Shows the power of concerted Washington-London disinformation campaigns— when you pump the same false message through the same thinktanks, media outlets, social media accounts over and over, quantity becomes propaganda quality.
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Here’s NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg admitting Russia informed NATO before the war that it could avert it by denying membership to Ukraine.I had seen the text of this speech but not the video:
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Colour me Fascinated – I can read https://sputnikglobe.com/ on my Samsung Note 8 Android using Chrome
But only loads very spasmodically (every 3rd day say) on Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Brave on Apple iMac MacOs Ventura 13.5.2
Is Apple blocking https://sputnikglobe.com/
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In Chocolate Teapot news:
Rugby World Cup.
Fiji 22: Australia 15Lineout aside, Fiji played sensational rugby, although they were greatly helped by bring gifted a constant stream of idiot penalties.
Barring the improbability of Fiji being touched up by Georgia or Portugal, the Cadbury Wallabies now have to beat Wales (probably in a high scoring game) to stay in the competition. To do that, they have to completely remake their game and learn to play for most of 80 minutes.
Without Skelton and Tupou.
By next week.My London son, who was at the game, reports that the Frogs were all in behind Fiji.
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Regarding gill-net fishing on the “reef”:
Has anyone here ever used a gill net?
No sane person uses a net anywhere near a reef, be it coral or rock, for reasons that are obvious to the sentient.
Barramundi happily transition from salt to fersh water; I have line-caught them in both. Furthermore, the Barramundi is NOT an exclusively Australian species. Check out their range; just across South-East Asia.
This is just another Death-Cultists, eco-nazi ploy to destroy fisheries and agriculture.
Looking forward to the next Barra and Buff BBQ.
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Colour me Fascinated – I can read https://sputnikglobe.com/ on my Samsung Note 8 Android using Chrome
I can see it on my android with Firefox.
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ABC is now doing an advertorial for Gentari, a Malaysian renewable company with big investments in Australia, now pushing into the EV car charging point business.
Sky News too, four stories on their website early this morning, but down to two now. I won’t link them. I figured that they were getting their imposed-from-on-high religious commitments out of the way.
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Many are now saying that this video clip might be why Russell Brand is “being attacked.” WATCH
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I agree with Cassie about Russell Brand. He’s not an attractive personality, but he’s constitutionally anti-establishment, as am I, and he’s finally worked out who the current establishment are. And so they are going for him in the usual fashion.
I don’t think it’s going to work the way they want. They’re an oppressive bunch of bastards, and they prove it every day. -
exceptions will always be made if you’re a pillar of the left.
Flaws become virtues.
While he has a point, I doubt George Monoblot would’ve been
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SA business ramps up nuclear plea amid spiralling power surcharges
Angela Macdonald-Smith – Senior resources writer
The face of South Australian business says nuclear is a “logical solution” and could be introduced in little more than five years, after being collectively slugged hundreds of millions of dollars from the energy market operator’s interventions to keep the lights on.
The South Australian Chamber of Mines & Energy, whose biggest member is uranium miner BHP, has told the SA government it needs to put immediate effort into developing an energy transition road map for the state.
“Given the scale of the energy transition challenge, nuclear provides a ready solution to the problem of decarbonising while preserving key industrial sectors, subject to the exercise of necessary political will,” SACOME said.
SA holds about 23 per cent of the world’s uranium resources, including at BHP’s Olympic Dam. However, all its uranium output is shipped overseas due to Australia’s ban on nuclear energy, a prohibition that is now increasingly under debate amid the country’s faltering transition to low-carbon energy.
Australia’s commitment in March to a nuclear submarine program has further fuelled the discussion, despite pushback from the Albanese government, which argues nuclear power is too expensive.
Extra charges to cover intervention needed to keep SA’s power grid stable have more than tripled in three years and now account for up to 30 per cent of some industrial companies’ bills, according to analysis carried out for SACOME to be released on Monday.
The spiralling prices are causing some to consider offshoring operations, sources say.
The experience in SA – at the forefront of Australia’s energy transition since it switched off its last baseload coal plant seven years ago – should be worrying businesses across Australia because it points to what is to come amid the “disorderly” energy transition taking place, said Rebecca Knol, chief executive of SACOME.
“There are only so many costs industry can absorb before it becomes untenable,” said Ms Knol, whose business group also includes critical minerals miner Iluka, grain handler Viterra, Metcash and irrigator Central Irrigation Trust.
‘Beyond our control’
SA’s power system, which has had no baseload electricity generation since May 2016, is frequently the subject of orders by the Australian Energy Market Operator, which often must step in to direct gas plants to start up to keep the system stable amid surging renewable energy generation.
The analysis for SACOME found that such direction charges, which are largely borne by commercial and industrial energy users, have jumped from an average of $6.15 million in the December quarter of 2019 to almost $20 million in the fourth quarter last year.
On top of that are costs for frequency control, reliably between $1 million and $3 million per quarter, but now escalating and commonly in the tens of millions of dollars.
“These costs are increasing and it’s beyond our control,” said Greg McCarron, chief executive at Central Irrigation Trust, which paid about $870,000 in energy market support and transition costs last financial year out of its $4.5 million energy bill.
“The concern we have is that it’s becoming a reasonably fixed part of business, and the concern is that as the transition to renewables occurs… it is increasing costs for all users on the system and at this stage there doesn’t seem to be an end in sight.”
SA’s wholesale power prices are among the highest in the National Electricity Market, averaging $124 per megawatt-hour in the June quarter, compared to $89/MWh in Victoria. The state also accounted for almost all the $21.7 million power system management costs in the NEM in the quarter, due to AEMO directions to keep the system secure.
AEMO directions were in place in the state for 36 per cent of the time in the quarter, almost twice as often as a year earlier, while the costs of directions almost trebled to $21.7 million, according to AEMO’s June quarter report.
Ms Knol said the SA government’s target of net 100 per cent renewable energy generation by 2030 sets an important decarbonisation goal but is silent on how government and heavy industry can work collaboratively to meet those while also achieving economic ambitions.
“South Australian businesses cannot continue to operate in an environment of unpredictable and escalating market interventions, unprecedented market reliability gaps and government delay in coordinated planning.”
She said SACOME had long believed that all low-emissions technologies, including modern nuclear produced from small modular reactors, should be considered as part of the future energy mix to ensure rapid decarbonisation and energy reliability.
“Modern nuclear energy offers a zero-emissions energy source with the ability to provide safe, affordable, reliable and dispatchable baseload power in extremely large quantities,” Ms Knol told The Australian Financial Review.
Nuclear ‘front-runner’
“Coupling modern nuclear technology with South Australia’s abundant uranium, gas and renewable energy sources would facilitate rapid decarbonisation while providing huge economic benefits for our state.
“South Australia has the opportunity to maintain its position as a front runner in the race to decarbonisation by embracing nuclear energy as a credible option.”
Mr McCarron said he was mostly indifferent as to how energy was generated, so if nuclear was to prove its mettle on the costs front then it should be looked at.
Regulators and governments should “consider all sources of energy to make sure in the long term we are putting in place the best option, and that option should consider the total cost of supply to end consumers,” he said.
SACOME contrasted the lack of political will on nuclear with the support for green hydrogen, in its submission to the SA government’s green paper on the energy transition.
“Were nuclear to receive the same levels of regulatory support and government subsidy as has been provided to renewables and hydrogen development, this timeframe could be expedited,” it said.
Meanwhile Blackout Bowen Strikes Again
ALP Blows Up Small-nuclear power option
Chris Bowen has targeted Peter Dutton’s pro-nuclear agenda, releasing new estimates that converting coal-fired power stations to 71 reactors would cost $387bn.
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Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Sep 18, 2023 8:57 AM
Sancho, thanks for your observations from Japan.
The beauty of travel.
People the world over are very similar but quirky little local customs and behaviours are interesting.
We are now in Shinjuku.
You know how Japanese are tidy and polite to a fault?
Well, this is where they come to forget all that.
First sign of rubbish in the streets and a certain brashness and pushiness by some.
Blaring speakers wound up to eleventy and monster garish video screens.
There were groups of people dressed in similar traditional garb carting little shrines on wooden poles, sedan chair style.
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On Russell Brand:
His heavily publicised sexual wild man promiscuity has always been his schtick – a proper naughty boy that makes the girlies all moist.
The rape/sexual assault claims have arisen through ‘media investigations’ not complaints made to Plod. (Not to say that the constabulary won’t become involved if sufficiently provoked.)
It looks like management at the BBC and Channel4 are now shitting themselves that they might have an unsurvivable Jimmy Saville incident on their hands – while Tabloid World happily fans the flames.
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DEBUNKING THE CLIMATE CRISIS NET ZERO PUSH:
“Net Zero would kill at least 50% of the population,”
-Dr. Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace.
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Russell Brand was always a revolting example of the worst of the media class. That means he was always a hostage to past behaviour if he stepped away from the Party line.
But I have to say, #Me-me-me-too and the many media examples on the table, I would now alter my principles in a flash. If, I mean WHEN a busload of 15-year-old supermodels suddenly decide I am as yummy as a Korean boy band I will no longer send them packing as before.
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Survey reveals 83% of Australian teachers nominate mental health as the biggest issue facing students:
‘Braemar College wellbeing specialist Emma Grant said the novelty of returning to the classroom following Victoria’s lockdowns had worn off.
She said spending years in isolation had left many young people lacking a sense of purpose, as well as the social skills they would normally build in school.
“They’re not learning social awareness. They’re not learning how to read emotions. They’re not learning body language,” Ms Clark said.
“A 16-year-old is not where you would typically see a 16-year-old, for example. Same with a 14-year-old. They’re missing some of those socio-emotional key skills.”‘
– Connor Duffy, ABC
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“They’re not learning social awareness. They’re not learning how to read emotions. They’re not learning body language,” Ms Clark said.
“A 16-year-old is not where you would typically see a 16-year-old, for example. Same with a 14-year-old. They’re missing some of those socio-emotional key skills.”‘
And would the ABC make their mental elf better, or worse?
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Farmer Gez
Sep 18, 2023 8:33 AM
ABC is now doing an advertorial for Gentari, a Malaysian renewable company with big investments in Australia, now pushing into the EV car charging point business.
ABC reporter helpfully points to problems with the NIMBY attitude in Australia.
Gosh!
The ABC lionising Malaysians billionaires and denigrating Aussie farmers.Part of the great political reversal underway.
The former leftards have now become what they claimed to despise, leaving a large block of votes available to the political grouping that is willing to provide a combination of social conservatism with moderate economic policies.
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As to Russell Brand, even Austin Powers could not resist adding this to his Bucket List –
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Farmer Gez
Sep 18, 2023 8:14 AM
FYI
Total Victorian government payments per year for each kilometre on the western transmission links will only amount to a little over three million dollars.
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How much did they piss up against the wall for the Comm Games fiasco?Unfortunately the commonwealth games piss up is just chicken feed compared to what’s coming. There was a propaganda piece in the Spencer Street Soviet (aka the Age) on the weekend about the activities of the newly resurrected State Electricity Commission. You know, the one with no engineers on its advisory board which is well staffed with lawyers and climate “experts”. Our simpering energy minister D’Ambrosio announced that it’s about to announce tenders for a billion dollars worth of grants to develop so called renewable energy projects for this failed state. No doubt this will be a feeding frenzy for grifters, rent seekers and carpetbaggers.
We’re stuffed.
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And would the ABC make their mental elf better, or worse?
Well, young people don’t watch the ABC for starters, so that is a moot question, but…it’s notable that they are publishing stories on the consequences of lockdowns, along with the reports on increased mortality rates and the public hospital surgical backlog. They’re not sweeping it under the carpet, as I gather commercial media are.
It’s all grist for the mill.
I post it here for others to file away for use when the prospect of lockdowns comes up again, as it probably will.
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