Peter Dutton’s nuclear policy gives renewables investors a shock
Nick Cater 24 Jun 2024
Peter Dutton gave us more than a routine policy announcement last week. He delivered a credible threat of competition to a featherbedded industry that has grown lazy on government largesse.
If renewable energy was the cheapest electricity source and nuclear the most expensive, the green energy barons would have nothing to fear from a nuclear competitor.
Yet the market reaction to Dutton’s intervention proved investors don’t buy the government’s spin. They know that in a competitive market, nuclear generation will eat renewables’ lunch, just as coal once did before wind and solar were showered with subsidies and the market rules were altered in renewables’ favour.
The shift in the opposition’s policy settings would deter future investments and prompt today’s investors to reassess their positions, Clean Energy Investor Group CEO Marilyne Crestias told The Sydney Morning Herald.
Prices in relatively free markets like ours are not determined by ministerial decree, nor can they be accurately predicted by scientists at the CSIRO, however good their spreadsheets.
Prices are a mechanism that coordinates fragmented knowledge and spreads it instantaneously, allowing investors to allocate scarce capital for the most productive purpose. If the prospect of nuclear power is causing financiers to go cold on renewables, then the price signal has done them a favour by saving them from making a dud investment.
The Clean Energy Investor Group is hardly a disinterested observer. It is the peak body for major renewable investors, including Macquarie, Blackrock, Neoen and Tilt Energy. Together, they own 76 clean energy assets worth $38bn. The present value of those assets is now hostage to the electoral fortunes of Anthony Albanese, which is why cashed-up renewable energy investors are accumulating a war chest of hundreds of millions of dollars to keep Labor in power.
The influence of this powerful, crony-capitalist enterprise is one reason Dutton has only an outside chance of turning nuclear into an election-winning issue. Polling on public support for nuclear has been trending Dutton’s way, and the evidence from around the world is stacked in his favour.
The history of bad ideas shows them to be most potent when entrepreneurs discover ways of making a buck out of them, however. The influence of the cashed-up renewable energy sector in global politics and cultural institutions has made the net-zero narrative all but impossible to dislodge.
‘It is hard to find a single Western economy remotely on track to meet 2030 commitments, let alone the big one in 2050.’
Protecting the present value of trillions of dollars of global capital rests on maintaining the fiction that wind and solar power, backed up by numberless batteries yet to be built and pumped hydro yet to be installed, is the key to rescuing the planet. Trillions of dollars of capital have been misallocated to this purpose thanks to perverse incentives provided by politicians whose most pressing concern is not to save the planet, but to survive the next election.
Labor’s target of 82 per cent carbon-free electricity by 2030 was derived from the same RepuTex modelling that gave Albanese the confidence to stick his neck out on power bills by promising a household saving of $275 by this time next year. It is beyond the bounds of probability that either target will be met. Coal and gas generated 75 per cent of the electricity in the National Electricity Market over the weekend, a proportion that has barely shifted since Labor came to power.
Investment in renewable energy infrastructure is at its lowest level for eight years, and the rollout of new wind turbines, grid-scale solar, transmission and storage is hopelessly behind schedule.
The latest quarterly accounting report from the Climate Change and Energy Department shows Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions fell by 0.5 per cent last year. At that rate, the government won’t reach its 2030 target until 2051.
Australia is not the only country that was caught up in the exuberance of the 2019 Paris climate conference and promised more than it could possibly achieve. It is hard to find a single Western economy remotely on track to meet 2030 commitments, let alone the big one in 2050.
In a report published last month by the Fraser Institute, Czech-Canadian scientist Vaclav Smil outlined the task ahead. More than 4 terawatts of electricity-generating capacity must be replaced, and almost 1.5 billion gasoline and diesel vehicle engines must be converted to electricity.
Almost all the world’s agricultural and crop-processing machinery must be replaced, including 50 million tractors and more than 100 million irrigation pumps. New heat sources must be developed to smelt iron, manufacture cement and glass, process chemicals and preserve food. More than half a billion domestic, industrial and institutional gas furnaces must be abandoned. Novel forms of motive power must be found for 120,000 merchant vessels, and we’ll need to develop a carbon-free way of keeping 25,000 jetliners in the air.
All this must be achieved in a single generation, even though we have yet to reach the peak of global fossil fuel consumption and deploy any zero-carbon large-scale processes to produce essential materials.
For Smil, the most disturbing thing about the net-zero fallacy is what it tells us about the economic, numerical and scientific illiteracy of a generation that is, on paper, the most educated in history. As Smil told American author Robert Bryce in an email exchange, we live in a fully post-factual world.
The net-zero fallacy has taken root “because the soil is receptive: utterly brainless mass of mobile-bound individuals devoid of any historical perspective and any kindergarten commonsense understanding”.
The cartoonish reaction to Dutton’s nuclear announcement last week was evidence of Smil’s point. If there is a solid argument against legalising nuclear power in Australia, Chris Bowen failed to produce it. Until he does, Dutton can safely regard the debate as won.
Yet politicians are not rewarded for winning fact-based arguments. They are rewarded by winning elections. As Thomas Sowell points out, one of the differences between economics and politics is that politicians are not forced to pay attention to long-term consequences.
“An elected official whose policies keep the public happy up through election day stands a good chance of being voted another term in office, even if those policies will have ruinous consequences in later years,” Sowell wrote in Basic Economics.
Yet the test of Dutton’s policy is whether it will increase competition in the market, offering a credible alternative to the untrodden renewable-only path on which we are embarked.
The squeals from the renewable energy establishment last week suggest he is on the right track.
Nick Cater is a senior fellow at the Menzies Research Centre and a visiting fellow at the Danube Institute.
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m0nty
June 24, 2024 6:01 pm
Nuclear power will completely collapse the wholesale price of energy AND displace both wind and solar with their idiotic requirement that we must over-build to make them useful
The timeframe for building a single nuke plant is at least eleven years, says Dutton himself, and at least sixteen according to Frightbat Michaelia. So it’s sixteen minimum.
By 2035, the energy market will be dominated by renewables, let alone 2040. Nukes are just not needed.
They are a distraction, a radioactive squirrel released by Dutton to keep you lot occupied while he busies himself remaking the LNP according to Trumpian racism and policies nicked from the DLP.
You are a total thickhead if you get sucked in by his obvious nonsense. Of course, Cats are all over it like flies on a cowpat.
The timeframe for building a single nuke plant is at least eleven years, says Dutton himself, and at least sixteen according to Frightbat Michaelia. So it’s sixteen minimum.
The ‘nuke plant will still be way ahead to be finished before the ruinables are supposedly ready and ruinables have to be replaced every 20 years. Ending up as landfill.
Lysander
June 24, 2024 6:02 pm
There has got to be a legitimate reason as to why Elbow has given the GG an extra $200Gs.
1) Maaaaaaaaates,
2) GG is Overworked and underpaid.
Or, more likely…?
3) He (or his party) is still planning to hold a referendum on a Republic in 3-4 years’ time. What better way to say “Look! The King’s Representative, basically a foreign sovereign, gets paid $800,000… surely that should go to a President?”
Apparently the ‘top up’ is to compensate for the fact she hasn’t accumulated other benefits not having devoted a lifetime of public service, like say an ex military chap. Has she not been earning super or something?!
The present value of those assets is now hostage to the electoral fortunes of Anthony Albanese
Thats Cthulhu level of horror for the carpet baggers.
“Heres my testicles, the only thing stopping them from going through the mincing machine is the stalwart intelligence, charisma and common sense of Handsome boy and his party”….
I note Monty has declined to opine on the time frame/cost/location for the big batteries needed to remove all fossil fuels to provide baseload 24/7.
Those timeframes and costs are not in the daily lefturd talking points, and mUntyfa lacks the intelligence, much less the knowledge, to make any even unreliable estimates.
Australia’s Department of Defence has been slammed for asking applicants about the pronouns they use, whether they are “non-binary”, and whether they identify as LGBTIQ+.
Sounds like a great way not to get any actual applicants.
renewables are only considered cheaper to build on an LCOE basis … which is a confected crock of shiite
the instantaneous wholesale electricity price is weighted artificially toward renewables by burdening the CO2 dirty generators with extra costs artificially imposed via legislation … which is also a confected crock of shiite
nuclear is not CO2 dirty
game-over
Lysander
June 24, 2024 6:15 pm
A man has been arrested after police found him in possession of capsicum spray and a knife inside a church in Sydney’s east overnight.
Hmmmmmm this will happen more and more…
About four years ago a ME looking man came up to me in our Church carpark and said:
“Do you believe in Jesus?”
“Yes, why do you think I’m here” I retorted, a bit angrily.
Then he said the most alarming thing:
“A day will come soon when the blood of all of those who do not follow the Prophet will flow through the streets.”
Me: “Oh f-ck off pedo apologist”
Also me (later): Hello ASIO…(the cops came out and scoped the Church for “exit points” and later our priest put in a whole bunch of new glass doors, fences around the perimeter of the church, bolstered with bougainvilleas.
Bougainvillea? Like women, beautiful and dangerous at the same time. Be careful you’ll get scratched.
Pogria
June 24, 2024 6:16 pm
Lizzie,
re, slipping and falling on the ice, OUCH!
I broke my tail bone when a horse I was riding reared and flipped over backwards. Landed on me. I had broken my pelvis in two places, a vertebrae and my tailbone.
Funny thing was, docs said if the tail bone didn’t knit, they would have to remove it. I said NOOOOO. At that age, I believed that if my tail bone were removed, my bum would drop! hahahaha
The fact that if my pelvis moved, instead of healing, I may have been a paraplegic, didn’t bother me at all. The supreme confidence of youth. Lol.
A few years later, same thing happened. Horse flipped over, broken collarbone, and broken tailbone. Poor little tailbone has had a rough life.
Chortle.
Pogria, did you have ongoing pain with any of the tailbone breaks, and has your tailbone settled down? Mine seemed sore in January when I did it in 2023 but then settled but since November 2023 has been painful again and now there’s a grating sensation whenever I lean back. Cortisone deep injection seems to have fixed the pain, and I am charging around now (Wednesday) on such a high that I think the Fentanyl is still working, but now it’s 8pm and I’m sinking back into exhaustion and the grating of displaced bones is still there.
thefrollickingmole
June 24, 2024 6:19 pm
Poor Irish.
50 years of climbing out from “stupid Paddy” jokes undone in an instant.
I remember years ago when people were investing in Geodynamics, thermal energy carpet-baggers who Rudd gave $90M of our money on the advice of “No Rain” Flannery.
They were laughing about how clever they were getting in early and they kept chanting “peak oil man, peak oil” at anyone who asked them why.
They really believed the hype.
They all lost their money.
There was an online forum (Graham Young’s) where people were sinking all their super money into GeoDynamics, because Rudd/Flannery wouldn’t be lying would they? Probably still is a forum …
FMD and no wonder people get scammed.
Miltonf
June 24, 2024 6:26 pm
The fukwit doesn’t even understand the difference between power and energy.
Coopers XPA, in purple tins, is the winter beer here.
Then Emu Ex between Grand Final Day and Anzac.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 24, 2024 6:31 pm
Scrymgour to sue Thorpe over ‘damaging’ commentsRhiannon Down
Labor MP Marion Scrymgour says she will sue Independent Senator Lidia Thorpe for comments she made about the Lingiari MP’s history with the Northern Land Council.
Ms Scrymgour accused Senator Thorpe of seeking to harm her reputation and taking her attacks outside of parliament by posting on social media, in a personal explanation after Question Time.
“Senator Thorpe does not respect the institute of parliament or what it stands for,” she said.
“But she is happy to use it to attack people she sees as her political opponents – especially when they are other First Nations women.
“What I don’t expect is to have one aspect of the system deliberately weaponised through social media in relation to something that has nothing to do with my performance as an elected member and by someone who seeks to augment her First Nations identity and credentials by claiming association and relationship with Aboriginal territorians.
“She has nothing to do with us. I have engaged lawyers in relation to the social media posts.”
mUnty, batteries are not rated in GW
you sound like an clown
Yeah, well…There would be a reason for that.
Farmer Gez
June 24, 2024 6:36 pm
The bush is going to destroy the renewable scam.
We’ve already put it years behind and we’ve only just begun. The WRL transmission line was meant to be in construction by now and they haven’t even managed to do an environmental effects statement to this point.
Ausnet managers have resorted to skulking around the zone in unmarked cars because they know they will cop abuse and be chased off as soon as they try to “consult”.
Ditto, what can an armchair warrior do? I already write to pollies and sign petitions, but how to get factual info out into the brains of the brain-dead !
On the “unanswered questions” issue re: nuclear, such as costings, Dutton should just point to nuclear overseas, say that we aren’t doing anything unusual, so expect similar results.
If he puts his own figure on things, no doubt Bowen will have AEMO or the CSIRO fabricate lies that claim to be based on overseas costs to supposedly debunk him.
AEMO and the CSIRO should look to their own reputations, or else they will be eliminated. In fact, other entities might think of superceding their roles.
132andBush
June 24, 2024 6:38 pm
They are a distraction, a radioactive squirrel released by Dutton to keep you lot occupied while he busies himself remaking the LNP according to Trumpian racism and policies nicked from the DLP.
You are a total thickhead if you get sucked in by his obvious nonsense. Of course, Cats are all over it like flies on a cowpat.
Remember, the Uniparty subverted the Tea Party, so Trump was the People’s answer.
Now the People are going to insist in being heard.
Rockdoctor
June 24, 2024 6:39 pm
Ta for all the yummy data on renewables & nuclear today I just went through and cut & paste into a word doc for future use.
My tussle the other day in another forum amounted to nothing, whoever was at the other end of the keyboard was just trolling. I worked out after an insult and no actual argument other that that one was wrong it wasn’t worth it.
Why don’t you set up an annual bet with Fatboy? Along the lines of annual progress towards Nett Zero. You could have him buying annual steak lunches until 2050.
I don’t recall Keating unleashing an untested, experimental medical procedure onto the Australian public.
Of course, our current intellectually challenged leader, said more than 25 times in the lead up to the last election, that the death jabs were not being pressed into arms, quickly enough.
A curious media would simply ask Paul Keating how much the Chinese government — a.k.a. the Chinese Communist Party — has paid him on the past 30 years.
I’m guessing it’s in the tens of millions.
The Chinese Communist Party owns Paul Keating, who is a traitor to his homeland.
The poisonous mediocrity even more poisonous and spiteful than usual tonight. What ails it I wonder. Lotsa lies and false accusations too I see.
132andBush
June 24, 2024 6:53 pm
With Turnbull a close second.
Dr Faustus
June 24, 2024 6:53 pm
renewables are only considered cheaper to build on an LCOE basis
… which is a confected crock of shiite
Harsh. But fair.
When you look at the assumptions sitting behind the GenCost LCOE, a few things stand out:
Nuclear power plants only have a 30 economic life – apparently. The same as solar, and only 5 years more than wind. (Grudgingly, the report admits the life could go a little longer, but commercial operators would likely not amortise over a longer period.)
Nuclear power plants have an ‘efficiency’ of 33% – compared to 100% for renewables. The term ‘efficiency’ here appears to mean ‘fudge factor’.
The life and replacement cost of storage batteries is secret AEMO modelling business.
https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/2622.svg wait ’til the 10 million aussies living under a solar array find out their solar panels will have to be turned off routinely to accomodate the inflexibility of nuclear.
He is literally touting the variability of solar as a strength. ?
I see the resident Nazi is here spraying his excrement.
I wonder how many Nazis he’s punched today? I wonder how many mirrors he’s had to replace in his home? Because the only Nazi our resident Nazi puncher will ever see is the one reflected back at him when he looks in the mirror.
https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/2622.svg wait ’til the 10 million aussies living under a solar array find out their solar panels will have to be turned off routinely to accomodate the inflexibility of nuclear. are slowly degrading and leaching toxic materials onto their house and down the drains.
We’ll all be glowing in the dark by then, apparently.
Dr Faustus
June 24, 2024 7:10 pm
wait ’til the 10 million aussies living under a solar array find out their solar panels will have to be turned off routinely to accomodate the inflexibility of nuclear.
These poor souls will experience exactly the same under large-scale renewables. Robber Barons aren’t going to invest just to have negative pricing, or curtailment for the convenience of homeowners.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 24, 2024 7:11 pm
WA Labor Senator Fatima Payman weighs up future as pro-Palestine stance leaves her on the outerDan Jervis-Bardy, Katina Curtis and Josh ZimmermanThe West Australian
Mon, 24 June 2024 1:34PM
Fatima Payman’s future as a WA Labor senator is under a cloud as her strong pro-Palestine position ostracises her from the party.
Senator Payman has stopped talking to senior colleagues amid rumours she is considering quitting Labor and voting in support of a pro-Palestine motion from the Greens in Federal Parliament later this week.
Labor rules prevent its MPs from crossing the floor except on rare matters of conscience, meaning the Afghan-born senator would face expulsion if she backed the Greens’ motion while still a member.
Expulsion would also mean losing access to party-provided services, including electorate databases and most likely Labor-aligned staff from her office.
The West Australian has contacted Senator Payman for comment.
The 29-year-old has become increasingly isolated internally after breaking ranks in May to accuse Israel of carrying out a “genocide” in Gaza.
While some colleagues – including cabinet minister Ed Husic – publicly expressed support for the first-term senator, many others were privately seething at a shock intervention that distracted from the Government’s post-budget sell.
Sounds like Fatima Payman is about to jump the Labor ship and join the Greens.
I hope so, that means WA Labor machine will destroy her. The only reason this Jew hater is in parliament is because the stupid effing Liberals preferenced this Jew hater above PHON.
The Sky News on air talent have taken management to the cleaners.
Peta Credlin returned to work tonight after swanning around Europe in the northern summer for the past three weeks.
But Sky’s original prima donna Andrew Blot has extracted a deal from management that allows him a four-week holiday mid-year on top of the six weeks he takes of over Christmas-New Year.
Meanwhile, Sharri Markson is the only Sky host who sees her role as an actual journalist who breaks stories. ? While Sky News’s daytime journalists are lazy leftwing activists, the nighttime crew are even lazier.
Tom I’ve found the Bolt spot to at least be watchable now.
Rosie
June 24, 2024 7:20 pm
“solar panels will have to be turned off routinely to accomodate the inflexibility of nuclear.”
As though that doesn’t happen now.
Not to mention it’s the ‘flexibility’ of solar that’s the problem numbskull.
Bungonia Bee
June 24, 2024 7:21 pm
I suspect Dutton has screwed up future investments in renew balls and possibly totally fcked the Liars plan. It would be hard to imagine anyone making any future large-scale investments in the sector with this albatross hanging over everything. Albatross. Would that be the big bird missing its head when the offshore wind farms start spinning up? After all the Polar Bear b/s and after all the dams and mines kyboshed because of some insignificant fauna discomfiture, the silence of the climate lambs has been deafening.
Rosie
June 24, 2024 7:22 pm
“The only reason this Jew hater is in parliament is because the stupid effing Liberals preferenced this Jew hater above PHON.”
Give Labor some credit for selecting someone who hates Jews even more than she hates Australians.
wait ’til the 10 million aussies living under a solar array find out their solar panels will have to be turned off routinely to accomodate the inflexibility of nuclear.
Err, you mean like coal plants have to dial down now when the sun comes out and the wind blows, but be prepared to crank up when the sun goes down?
Cry me a ribba, Simon.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 24, 2024 7:28 pm
Somebody tell me why Fatima Payman can wear a hijab in the Senate, yet Pauline Hanson is not allowed to wear a scarf with a Star of David?
Had it been simply the Star of David, a symbol of Judaism, you might have found an hypocrisy. No doubt a hijab is religious garb. But Hanson was actually wearing an Israeli flag (it had the blue stripes too). See photos https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/remove-israel-scarf-pauline-hanson-told-as-keffiyeh-also-banned/asr7omi2x
Why that should be against the rules is nonetheless a good question in an institution that has parliamentary privilege of commentary. It was, perhaps you’d agree, a touch insensitive given the event being commemorated?
The Qur’an recognized that women covered their heads,14 adopted that custom as part and parcel of the religion, and then extended that practice to include covering everything but the hands and face. In this way, the practice of women covering their heads is no longer a customary consideration alone; it transforms into a divine commandment that one should try their best to fulfill.
The timeframe for building a single nuke plant is at least eleven years, says Dutton himself, and at least sixteen according to Frightbat Michaelia. So it’s sixteen minimum.
You’re such a liar dickless; unless of course you are as stupid as blackout.
Bill Gates’ Terra Power is building in Wyoming on an old coal power plant site a .5GW Natrium plant for $4 billion which will take 5-6 years to build. This is a new type: Natrium is not water cooled, but uses molten salts MSR, less uranium, less waste. Other Gen IV reactors include gas-cooled fast reactors (GFR), lead-cooled fast reactors (LFR), sodium-cooled fast reactors (SFR), supercritical-water-cooled reactors (SCWR), and very high-temperature reactors (VHTR). China already has a natrium reactor, a small one, which started in 2021 and since 2020 and by 2025 will have added another 19GW of nuclear power to their grid.
In the West delays and cost blow-outs are caused by green tape and law suits by dickless greenies.
There’s some technicality about renouncing her Afghan citizenship – the Labor Party claim to have legal advice that she had taken all measures to renounce her citizenship.
wait ’til the 10 million aussies living under a solar array find out their solar panels will have to be turned off routinely to accomodate the inflexibility of nuclear.
What’s the current feed-in tariff for domestic solar? Nowhere near what they were 10-15 years ago. And who is responsible for dialling back those rates? Sure as shit ain’t the noocular generators. To paraphrase some soaring oratory from the past, “If you like your panels, you can keep your panels”. When he says “turned off” what does he mean? That some Noocular Police are going to turn up and stop you using your own panels.
Sancho Panzer
June 24, 2024 8:08 pm
The timeframe for building a single nuke plant is at least eleven years, says Dutton himself, and at least sixteen according to Frightbat Michaelia. So it’s sixteen minimum.
Not if you declare a special economic zone and keep the CFMEU out.
Liberal Senator Dave Sharma says the University of Sydney capitulating to the demands of “activists and protesters” sets a “terrible precedent”. The University of Sydney in a deal with its Muslim Students Association has committed to disclosing defence-related research publicly online “I’m very concerned about it,” Mr Sharma told Sky News Australia. “What we’ve seen here is a group of activists and protesters … basically hijack the university’s policies and interrupt or threaten academic freedom. “The heart of that concept [academic freedom] is the notion that university researchers can establish research partnerships with other countries. “It sets a terrible precedent.”
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 24, 2024 8:30 pm
Peter Dutton’s son Tom pictured holding bag containing ‘white powder’
Tom Dutton pictured holding a bag containing ‘white powder’
Peter Dutton said: ‘This is a private matter for the Dutton family’
Based on other drug, alleged, incidents involving pix only evidence you’d have to assume plod will be “investigating” .. one to watch as to does the law apply to all or just thosewithout “influence” ….!
Could be crushed pain killers just like The Duck at Crown Perth that went nowhere. What a coincidence.
Sancho Panzer
June 24, 2024 8:32 pm
Just checked.
In round terms the solar feed-in in Victoria is 4 cents a KwH.
It is higher in early evening and overnight (10 cents in round terms) but, of course, you would need a decent battery set-up to access that tariff.
With retail rates at over 20 cents a KwH, the days of refund cheques lobbing in the letter-boxes of those with rooftop solar are long gone.
Rooftop solar is solely for those trying to avoid ballooning retail electricity costs, no longer a cash cow to feed into the grid.
Four cents isn’t really going to cut it.
In mUntyfa world, if you have a 1Kw appliance on, it costs 20 cents whether you have it on for a minute or for 24 hours.
Boambee John
June 24, 2024 8:41 pm
JC
Why don’t you set up an annual bet with Fatboy? Along the lines of annual progress towards Nett Zero. You could have him buying you annual steak lunches until 2050.
wait ’til the 10 million aussies living under a solar array find out their solar panels will have to be turned off routinely to accomodate the inflexibility of nuclear.
Wait ’til the millions of Aussies in the workforce find out their jobs will stop and start irregularly to accommodate the unreliability of wind and solar generation that does not have reliable backup.
Started watching the Paramount offering, “A Gentleman in Moscow” and have to admit my knowledge of the 1st years after the Revolution isn’t a strong point but I can’t recall ever reading about the, noticeable, numbers of “persons of colour” not only in Moscow but holding positions of influence in the revolutionary gummint …..!
It seems it’s not only Disney & Netflix that luv .. diversity .. LOL!
Rooftop solar is solely for those trying to avoid ballooning retail electricity costs,
And to avoid blackouts; which of course requires a battery and a generator.
Further to Mark Scott’s arse licking of the Sydney uni muzzie students, there was an excerpt on Sharri with the students (sic) giving a gloating press conference after Scott presented his arse for fuking. All of the students (sic) were thick gutted, full bearded guttural slurping caricatures, dressed in the robes and kufis. There is no better image of the capitulation of the Australian and Western intelligentsia and ruling class to the camel fukers than that image.
Is there any reason why Dutton can’t drop the GG’s pay back to previous levels if elected?
IIRC, the remuneration of the Governors & the Goveror-General is fixed, that is, during their term of appointment their remuneration can be neither reduced nor increased.
The rules on recalling (or whatever the word is for sacking a G-G) I know very little of, & they may be a different matter.
The sum of my knowledge is that Whitlam, when he got wind of what Kerr was up to, attempted to have Her Majesty recall the G-G before Kerr could sack him. Whitlam wasn’t quick enough off the mark, & the rest is history.
After “The dismissal”, Whitlam had the Speaker of the House write to the Queen, urging her to dismiss the Fraser caretaker Government, reinstall the Labor Part as the rightful Government, and cancel the forthcoming elections.
Her Majesty replied that she could take no part – the whole matter was one for Australians to resolve under Sect 51(?) of the Constitution.
Knuckle Dragger
June 24, 2024 9:24 pm
Ronnie RAAF, justifying his use of cable TV in the aircon, and once again from the nested comments:
There was no “going outside the wire and hunting the enemy” by ANY nation, during my “deployment”
This would be Somalia in 1993, for interested observers. This is from the AWM site itself:
Strength: Approx 1,500. 1 RAR Group +, HQ Australian Forces Somalia (UNITAF), HMAS Tobruk, HMAS Jervis Bay, RAN Clearance Diving Team 1, RAAF elements.
Note carefully – RAAF ‘elements’. Also, and far from being Bomber Command, 9 Squadron in Vietnam or Top Gun:
The RAAF were also used to move the Australian Forces to and from the Area of Operations from Australia and conducted regular resupply missions.
So – FIFO resup pilots, and glorified bus drivers to and from Straya.
Tell ‘your ‘nobody went outside the wire’ horseshit to 1RAR and the reinforced 2/4RAR company supporting it, you mincing light blue poodle.
You are Captain Darling from Blackadder, no more.
Keep going, and you will deservedly earn the handle of Liability Bob 2.0.
The Army Group were stationed in Baidoa you fuckwit, about 120 miles NW of Mogadishu.
They were UNOSOM I.
We were part of UNOSOM II, stationed in Mogadishu, Oct 93-Apr 94.
The Army Group had returned to Australia prior to our “deployment”.
At least have the decency to bit of research before making a complete idiot of yourself.
Mogadishu was not Tobruk, patrolling would have ended in disaster, similar to the fiasco that was portrayed in Blackhawk down.
Even people I knew “deployed” to Baghdad, a few years later, could explore large chunks of the city.
Not only was that specifically banned in Local Instructions, it would have been suicide.
Whenever we were required to go to our HQ, in the Uni complex, we had to travel by helo, (via the “safe route”), or by convoy, with armour in support, via the “safe route”.
The US/UN NEVER had control, of even the majority of the city.
They controlled the New Port, the Old Port, the Airport and the University complex. That is all!
The rest of the city, (about 1 million in popn.), was controlled by the War Lords.
To get it through your thick skull, I’ll say it again.
No detachments, were patrolling through the city, none.
One “Special Forces Op”, (which included our SAS), not a patrol, was conducted to capture Mohammed Farah Aideed.
Perhaps it would be a good idea, if you didn’t treat John Wayne movies as the basis for your ideas on military strategy.
Your blinding ignorance appears to know no bounds.
You are unaware of the fact, that the Battalion Group you mention, was stationed in Baidoa, NOT Mogadishu. FMD!
Baidoa is about 120 miles NW of Mogadishu.
That Battalion Group was part of UNOSOM I.
We were part of UNOSOM II, in Mogadishu, Oct 93-Apr 94.
By the time we arrived in Mogadishu, their tour had finished and they were back in Australia.
They had some bad times in Baidoa, including at least one fatality, via UD.
They probably staged through Mogadishu, but they were never stationed there.
The US/UN controlled only a few parts of Mogadishu:
Old Port,
New Port,
Airport and
University complex.
The rest of the city was controlled by the war lords, including Mohammed Farah Aideed, who was captured in a Special Ops raid, assisted by SAS.
This is why it was so dangerous.
Just to confirm, there was never any patrolling, by any detachment, in Mogadishu during our tour. Even the yanks had stopped by then.
Now, your reference to Baidoa was correct, I saw footage of the Australians there.
Nice rant though, maybe do some research next time, so you don’t look like a blithering idiot.
I am curious, what mustering would accept such a buffoon such as yourself.
OIC Latrines I guess.
Would you like me to send you a map of Somalia, so you can see where we and they were?
Or, maybe a Dick and Dora reading book, to help you with comprehension.
Have a nice evening wannabe!
calli
June 24, 2024 9:33 pm
When he says “turned off” what does he mean?
I’m intrigued by how this can be achieved. My array isn’t remotely controlled. Never really thought much about the measly tariff payback. My sun-power goes into keeping the swimming pool toasty warm via the heater. And running the w/m and dishwasher and stove.
I have the panels cleaned and checked regularly, as most sensible people with a substantial investment would do.
calli
June 24, 2024 9:36 pm
Batteries for domestic use still don’t pass the cost/benefit test. The Beloved ran the figures about a year ago.
And I don’t want one of the stupid unstable things anywhere near the house. EVs ditto.
All of the students (sic) were thick gutted, full bearded guttural slurping caricatures, dressed in the robes and kufis. There is no better image of the capitulation of the Australian and Western intelligentsia and ruling class to the camel fukers than that image.
Is there a picture of that Cassie?;
and do the Hamas lot still do regular runs through Jewish suburbs?
In that case, perhaps a couple of handfuls of caltrops under the front and rear vehicles will create a financial incentive to not do it. Done correctly, it would also provide an amusing traffic jam.
Gabor
June 24, 2024 9:59 pm
calli
June 24, 2024 9:36 pm
Batteries for domestic use still don’t pass the cost/benefit test. The Beloved ran the figures about a year ago.
And I don’t want one of the stupid unstable things anywhere near the house. EVs ditto.
That makes me think, we have a holiday shack in a remote area but have electric.
Couple of weeks ago lightning struck the main line, single wire earth return, and caused damage to the house wiring, not yet fixed.
I was thinking of going off line with solar and batteries.
Storing the batteries in a shed away from the house.
People in the know, would it be better to use deep cycle batteries like the old Telecom discards instead of the new fangled ones and just how dangerous are they, I mean % wise?
I read about the fires frequently but it has to be seen in proportion of the numbers in use surely.
I heard an explanation tonight ( via Paul Murray – not sure now) that the apparent large increase in renumeration for the GG has occurred because the current gent had a military pension already, so his GG dollars were”reduced” accordingly ( at his request). So it looks as if there is a sudden big increase in pay, but not really.
One of the conditions of service DFRDB (Defence Force Repatriations and Death Benefits) To qualify you had to do 20 years full time effective service. Not 19 years 363 days, but 20 years effective service. If you had taken leave without pay, been AWOL or served time in the slammer that counted as non effective service. When you elected to take discharge, you made sure that you had done 20 years to qualify, otherwise you got nothing except your contributions. A certain defence contractor had more than a few ex military personnel working for them that had their DFRDB/Com Super pensions and when it was time to negotiate for increased wages, they would vote to ‘defer pay rises’ or a reduced pay rise because, ‘it will put us in the next highest tax bracket and we don’t want to pay more tax on our DFRDB/Com Super.’ The management were quite happy to go along with it. That really pissed off the ex military that had not done 20 years for what ever reason and non ex military employees that wanted a full pay rise.
A mate told me at his interview for the job he got management brought up his DFRDB. Words to the effect ‘my DFRDB is none of your business and I am not using it to off set or supplement wages.’
The 20 year DFRDB/Com Super is now no longer and it is now onto its third or fourth version and now it is based on age 55. I think.
Steve trickler
June 24, 2024 10:10 pm
What a effin joke!
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Crimea is also a large military camp and warehouse, with hundreds of direct military targets, which the Russians are cynically trying to hide and cover up with their own civilians. Which in turn are considered to be… civilian ooccupiers.
Wally Dalí
June 24, 2024 10:49 pm
Blimmin’ flip, the GG gets an office and staff; a house, and servants; a limo, and driver; and a plane, with pilot and peanut girls.
They should not get paid a single red cent.
I wholly believe that the amount of money being created and funnelled to the “public service” of pollies, unions, super funds and NDIS administrators will soon lead to a savagely leveraged urban elite, and an impoverished class of paysant serfs who work only to catch up to inflation and rent their land for the privilege of hosting transmission lines and carbon offsets.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 24, 2024 10:55 pm
“Sliante” to you horrible mob.
I’m having a few single malts, watching Billy Joel “We Didn’t light the Fire”, and thinking it’s a rather depressing exercise when you understand all the historical references…
Princess Anne has been rushed to the hospital after suffering minor head injuries and a concussion following an incident at the Gatcombe Park Estate Sunday night.
Doesn’t seem to be anything serious.
She is the only sane one of the lot, would be a pity to lose her.
I think she best give up horse riding at her age.
I gave it up aged 80 after a not very long or difficult trip on an Icelandic pony. They have a special jolting gait called a ‘toit’. It finished me off, especially when fording a deep stream of water, for I found myself near to voiding some more into it. The elderly pelvis declares desist. Sad for Anne though, but even aging princesses must face harsh realities.
So good. I would have swapped the labels ‘Industry Super Funds’ and ‘Green Investors’’, since the former affects almost all Australians ( though a lot of them don’t have any idea that it does).
Industry super funds, IMF Investors and Liar maaaate Garry Weaven have been over represented in renewables from the get go. Massive transfer of wealth from the many to the few. Would put the average milk co-op to shame.
Humans can be the most cruel beings, but most of us also are kind and caring to people and animals.
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From;
Soulful Illumination ·
· Jimmy the Donkey was born in the trenches at the Somme, when a German shell fatally wounded his pregnant mother.
British soldiers were forced to deliver Jimmy in the mud of the battlefield. The baby donkey was raised by the troops of the Cameronian Scottish Rifles who fed him condensed milk and rations.
They even taught the animal to salute by raising one hoof. Jimmy would spend the years with the regiment, hauling supplies and keeping his human comrades’ spirits up.
He was wounded three times before the end of the war, but went on to become a mascot of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in the 20s and 30s. He died in 1943 and was buried in Peterborough’s Central Park. A monument was erected to commemorate him.
Steve trickler
June 25, 2024 6:03 am
That was a BIG hit!
John force the worst day ever the crash in full Prayers for John
By presenting his ambitious nuclear plan, the Liberal leader has wonderfully exposed the hysterical and irrational attitudes of Australia’s substantial anti-nuke kook community.
Perhaps you include yourself among that increasingly tense and jittery societal sector. But although a kook you may be, the precise nature of your leftist-infused nuke-frightened kookiness could still at this point be undetermined.
Perhaps this causes anxiety. Everything else does.
Well, fear not and worry no more – even though fear and worry are leftoid factory settings – because one of the following antinuclear categories is bound to match your own progress-opposing personality:
The Basic Fraidy Cat. This is the anti-nuke hierarchy’s lowest tier. Fraidy Cats sometimes cite events at Chernobyl, Three Mile Island and Fukushima, but their real opposition to nuclear energy dates back to the 1950s. They’ve been scared since the first radiation-enhanced B-movie monster smashed a scale model city.
The Wild Exaggeratrix. A boutique category dominated by Australia’s veteran anti-nuke campaigner Helen Caldicott, who in 2011 wrote: “By now close to one million people have died of causes linked to the Chernobyl disaster.”
Caldicott, who at 85 is 17 years older than the entire global commercial nuclear industry, also claimed that 2011’s Fukushima nuclear accident could “far exceed Chernobyl in terms of the effects on public health”.
Wrong. As environmental analyst Michael Shellenberger concluded in 2019, “the best-available science clearly shows that Caldicott’s estimate of the number of people killed by nuclear accidents was off by one million”.
The Cartoon Kids. Caldicott’s peculiar life mission was inspired by Nevil Shute’s 1957 end-of-the-world novel On the Beach. Inheritors of her antinuclear mania are now inspired by a 34-year-old episode of The Simpsons that showed a nuke-mutated three-eyed fish.
Thus continues an ancient leftist tradition of swapping science for fiction. Incidentally, as a few onliners have noted, the town depicted in The Simpsons seems to have since enjoyed endless affordable and safe nuclear power with no additional mutants.
Even in cartoon-land, nuclear wins. Yet Labor assistant minister Andrew Leigh is waving around a three-eyed Blinky Bill and asking: “Is this what Peter Dutton wants Blinky to look like in 50 years?”
The ACTU is running a straight steal of the old three-eyed fish and Victorian Labor Premier Jacinta Allen is doing the same. Bring on the copyright lawyers.
The Proximity Panic Person. This type uses the word “backyard” in every single mention of nuclear energy. Apparently Australian backyards have grown so much in size that they now include current and former locations of coal power plants.
A tip to our proximity people: for the sake of your own peace of mind, please don’t look up how surprisingly close Brittany Higgins’s French chateau is to the nearest nuclear reactor. It’s not exactly in her village’s backyard, but it’s possibly backyard adjacent.
The Eternal Questioner. Step forward, Guardian reporter Amy Remeikis, who variously claims of Dutton’s nuclear plan: “We don’t know how much it would cost, we don’t know what reactors they would use,” possibly right up to we don’t know what colours they’d be, we don’t know how many Hamas goons will turn up if we screen Israel’s flag on the side of them and so on, forever. This is a delaying tactic. You could do the same thing to put off purchasing a replacement radial for the Kia: we don’t know the tread depth, we don’t know the rubber source, we don’t know the name of the font used by the tyre brand.
Tyres and nuclear reactors are known things. They’re everywhere. Just buy them and get on with it, like the rest of the normal world.
The Intellectual Ponderer. These are my personal favourites. They’re against nuclear power, but pretend to have arrived at that decision by an exhaustive process of expert inquiry.
They even allow that, yes, when all information is at hand, that nuclear energy is not, as it happens, particularly dangerous.
These people sound like they’re describing the chilling threat of an office photocopier.
The Time Twiddler. Usually of a dull leftish aspect, the Twiddler proclaims that 20 years is far too long to wait for approval and construction of atomic facilities. The Twiddler thinks that this is a crushing argument against nuclear power.
It is in fact a crushing argument against leftist bureaucracy and regulation. Remove them and hit the gas: during the 1940s, nuclear energy went from US presidential approval to ending WWII in just 42 months.
The whiners are putting a lot of effort into this. May it all be wasted.
Clare O’Neil warns pro-Palestinian protesters are ‘menacing’ and ‘violent’ [Unlinkable OZ]
Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil has declared pro-Palestinian protesters can’t be handed “a blank cheque for behaviour which threatens the cohesion of our society” and has slammed social media platforms for “germinating and growing the bigotry” that has plagued the country.
So, Clare has woken up to the distress caused by street violence to Australians who happen to be Jewish?
Oh…
In a speech to the Australian National University, Ms O’Neil declared the behaviour of protesters at the offices of Labor MPs was “menacing, violent and unacceptable”.
“People will disagree. That is part of being in a democracy … But preventing vulnerable people from accessing government services is not respectful of our fellow citizens. Jamming open the door of the offices of politicians and screaming until the staff have to leave, shaking, is not peaceful protest,” she said.
“Painting blood red symbols of terrorism, or leaving childlike fake bodies outside offices, is not properly peaceful protest … Our social cohesion is our most valuable national asset, and we cannot allow conflicts on the other side of the world to undermine or erode it.”
Funny isn’t it. Sailors & airman attacked by China muffled outrage, a Journalist bullied during a Chinese state visit and it’s the worst thing in the world. (Not trying to downplay this one as it was truly disgusting)
Jewish people being abused in the street meh, however shock horror if a Politician and an ALP one at that has their office defaced.
Sometimes they get there eventually. Other times, not.
Knuckle Dragger
June 25, 2024 7:24 am
Our greatest national embarrassment since Sarah Hanson-Young is thankfully looking to be denied a fairytale finish to his career (the Hun):
Australia’s hopes of claiming a Triple Crown of World Cups have likely been destroyed by another drop-catch horror show against India, and only a Bangladeshi miracle can revive them.
And:
Unless Bangladesh can upset Afghanistan later this morning AEST, Australia will be unceremoniously rissoled out of the World Cup with back-to-back losses and David Warner’s international career will be over.
Because:
Australia dropped six catches against Scotland (including three from Marsh), five in the shock loss to Afghanistan – derailment which is what’s put them on the cusp of elimination – and then Marsh’s critical blunder against India – to finish the Super 8s with the lowest catch efficiency of any team.
One might almost form a view that his teammates – who, with one idiot as an exception (Khawaja) still reportedly loathe him – may have done this on purpose to shut him up.
It entertains me to think that this may be the case.
I know nothing about cricket since I was born in Scotland. Last time I looked the Scotland team was full of Australians and new Zealanders who wouldn’t make the Oz team.
I have been here 61 years but I checked with my cousins. And yes, the cricket is NOT being reported in the Scottish press.
Play silly games & win silly prizes ..
Can’t believe in this age of the phone camera that folk still do this stuff in public then whinge when it fronts the internet socials ……
Comments on brekky tv were along the lines of “… teenagers do stuff but doesn’t change my view of Dutton …”.
GreyRanga
June 25, 2024 7:41 am
Knuckles it introduces the thought “is this a betting scandal “. Australia playing so poorly against the minnows. One game yes, many no. Not a conspiracy theory but does make one think.
While the majority of debate has centred on waste materials from nuclear sites, Senator Watt on Monday offered a far more devastating alternative as he appeared to suggest Australian communities could be at risk of a major nuclear disaster. …
Pressed on how similar disasters could occur, given Australia has a stable geological profile and no risk of tsunamis, the Senator pushed back, appearing to suggest the Fukushima disaster, which was caused by a magnitude nine earthquake, could be repeated in some part of the country.
“I mean, there have still been earthquakes in Australia over the years,” he argued.
Seriously? Well I suppose if you are an Agriculture Minister dead set on destroying agriculture then it make complete sense that he knows nothing about geology either.
Low wattage Watt. Everyone was on the spruik yesterday.
Bungonia bee
June 25, 2024 7:54 am
As sure as night follows day, we find that Labor are true to form!
Labor set to get their proboscis into super funds, and
Labor’s ideological bent sees gas shortage looming, a certain result of bans on gas exploration and extraction.
Coming soon, a shortage of explosives manufactured here by Orica for the mining industry – the same industry that delivered a (probably short lived) budget surplus to shyster Labor.
CS Energy, Qld govt to blame for Callide explosion, federal court told
Nick Evans & Angela Snowden, The Australian 24 June, 2024
CS Energy and the Queensland state government were responsible for the explosion that crippled the Callide C power station in 2021, the federal court has heard, with an independent expert report sheeting home the cause of the explosion to government ordered cost-cutting at the state-owned company. The explosion at Callide C was ultimately the result of the failure of battery back-up systems at the power plant.
But the federal court was told on Monday the battery systems failed because of the battery charger installed by CS Energy was “not fit for purpose”.
The revelations come from the report of forensic engineer Sean Brady, who was commissioned by CS Energy to review the cause of the explosion that took a unit of Callide C offline.
CS Energy has fought for months to keep Dr Brady’s report from public view. But, in a case being heard in the federal court aimed at preventing the sale of the unit back to CS Energy, lawyers for private Czech investor Sev.en read excerpts of the forensic engineer’s report to the court, saying they demonstrated the explosion was the result of “significant negligence” by the government-owned company.
CS Energy has previously confirmed the explosion was caused by the failure of battery back-up systems, saying in a February report that maintenance upgrades for the battery at Callide’s C4 unit meant the plant’s safety systems did not detect a failure inside the unit and power down the generator’s turbine in time to prevent it overheating and igniting hydrogen gas usually used to cool down the generator.
Acting for Sev.en, Chris Withers SC told the federal court that Dr Brady had found the plant’s battery back-up systems failed to activate because the charging system installed by CS Energy was not fit for purpose, saying the 2017 procurement process that bought the charger was “flawed from start to finish”.
“The decision to replace the battery charger was made by someone not responsible for that process. In going to market, CS Energy focused solely on price, with little or no technical input or oversight. The technical specifications that had been submitted for the charger did not establish or require that the battery charger could actually operate within its systems,” he said. “And unsurprisingly, the product they got was not fit for purpose.”
But the fault does not land solely on the purchasing decision surrounding the battery charging tender, according to the summary of Dr Brady’s report provided to the federal court.
Dr Brady’s report also identified cutting and instructions from the state government, through its shareholder mandate to the government-owned company, as a contributor to the disaster.
Mr Withers said Dr Brady’s report included a finding that the “significant constraints” faced by CS Energy included its status as a government-owned corporation, the joint venture ownership of the power station, and the impacts of climate change.
“Those constraints influence investment and cost-cutting, organisational focus and decision-making. The shareholder mandate focused on cost savings, while at the same time placing constraints on investment – including in its existing assets,” the report says, according to Mr Withers.
Mr Withers said Dr Brady’s report included a finding that the “significant constraints” faced by CS Energy included its status as a government-owned corporation, the joint venture ownership of the power station, and the impacts of climate change. Ah, “the impacts of climate change”. It wouldn’t be that government thought that they were getting out coal so they thought the battery wouldn’t be essential now would it?
File under sh1t happens. Privately owned Varanus Island gas plant had an incident in the NW. They were quite displeased if you referred to it as an explosion.
Roger
June 25, 2024 8:04 am
Have We Passed Peak Woke?
Why even ‘woke’ companies are turning their backs on HR ‘snake-oil’ sellers
More bosses are pulling the handbrake on costly and inconclusive diversity initiatives
The Telegraph (UK) 24 June, 2024
Behind office doors, HR departments at some of Britain’s biggest businesses have recently been feeling defensive and on the back foot.
Increasingly laid at their doors is the blame for allowing toxic identity politics to enter the workplace, and wasting millions of pounds on pointless diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) schemes.
Pointing the finger are belt-tightening senior leaders scrutinising their returns amid soaring wage bills, with some even feeling betrayed for being shepherded by HR into the vicious culture wars.
Christoffer Ellehuus, the Chief Executive of workplace training company MindGym, says: “A lot of them are blaming HR for not having reined it in and having had a much clearer business focus about what they were doing.”
My last company, (the Australian subsidiary) got rid of its HR outfit completely. It was hated by everyone. It was dominated by a couple of arrogant Indian women who had been moved sideways from the European office. They were racist, stupid woke and OH&S fanatics.
We brought in a brilliant and beautiful young woman who put everything useful online and ditched the rest. The ‘issues’ section of the website was examined at the weekly management meeting.
Job done. HR returned as a management function where it belongs.
Well said Bons. As belts tighten we may with luck see more of this.
Wally Dalí
June 25, 2024 8:06 am
Righto, let’s put a big fission tank 20k east of Meckering, on sand. It’ll be 50 km in the clear, and circle a date sometime in the year 2525 just in case.
Further to Mark Scott’s arse licking of the Sydney uni muzzie students, there was an excerpt on Sharri with the students (sic) giving a gloating press conference after Scott presented his arse for fuking. All of the students (sic) were thick gutted, full bearded guttural slurping caricatures, dressed in the robes and kufis. There is no better image of the capitulation of the Australian and Western intelligentsia and ruling class to the camel fukers than that image.
I saw that on Sharri last night and thought I was watching a speech from Gaza or Iran. What has happened to Sydney Uni? It is no longer a seat of learning, a prestige sandstone university, it is now an outpost of intifada and a real security risk. It has been conquered and any Australian government agency that partners with them is also a security risk.
Once again, conservative cowardice and exagerated fear of the media clowns have undermined our society.
But, it was not just cowardice. Scott was a hero on the polli champagne circuit. The SFL loved him. Perhaps they viewed him as a moderating influence on the ABC, or in Kean’s case, as a conduit for the permanent installation of croney communism in all elements of SU.
Today’s Paywallion:
Peter Dutton’s nuclear policy gives renewables investors a shock
Nick Cater
24 Jun 2024
Peter Dutton gave us more than a routine policy announcement last week. He delivered a credible threat of competition to a featherbedded industry that has grown lazy on government largesse.
If renewable energy was the cheapest electricity source and nuclear the most expensive, the green energy barons would have nothing to fear from a nuclear competitor.
Yet the market reaction to Dutton’s intervention proved investors don’t buy the government’s spin. They know that in a competitive market, nuclear generation will eat renewables’ lunch, just as coal once did before wind and solar were showered with subsidies and the market rules were altered in renewables’ favour.
The shift in the opposition’s policy settings would deter future investments and prompt today’s investors to reassess their positions, Clean Energy Investor Group CEO Marilyne Crestias told The Sydney Morning Herald.
Prices in relatively free markets like ours are not determined by ministerial decree, nor can they be accurately predicted by scientists at the CSIRO, however good their spreadsheets.
Prices are a mechanism that coordinates fragmented knowledge and spreads it instantaneously, allowing investors to allocate scarce capital for the most productive purpose. If the prospect of nuclear power is causing financiers to go cold on renewables, then the price signal has done them a favour by saving them from making a dud investment.
The Clean Energy Investor Group is hardly a disinterested observer. It is the peak body for major renewable investors, including Macquarie, Blackrock, Neoen and Tilt Energy. Together, they own 76 clean energy assets worth $38bn. The present value of those assets is now hostage to the electoral fortunes of Anthony Albanese, which is why cashed-up renewable energy investors are accumulating a war chest of hundreds of millions of dollars to keep Labor in power.
The influence of this powerful, crony-capitalist enterprise is one reason Dutton has only an outside chance of turning nuclear into an election-winning issue. Polling on public support for nuclear has been trending Dutton’s way, and the evidence from around the world is stacked in his favour.
The history of bad ideas shows them to be most potent when entrepreneurs discover ways of making a buck out of them, however. The influence of the cashed-up renewable energy sector in global politics and cultural institutions has made the net-zero narrative all but impossible to dislodge.
‘It is hard to find a single Western economy remotely on track to meet 2030 commitments, let alone the big one in 2050.’
Protecting the present value of trillions of dollars of global capital rests on maintaining the fiction that wind and solar power, backed up by numberless batteries yet to be built and pumped hydro yet to be installed, is the key to rescuing the planet. Trillions of dollars of capital have been misallocated to this purpose thanks to perverse incentives provided by politicians whose most pressing concern is not to save the planet, but to survive the next election.
Labor’s target of 82 per cent carbon-free electricity by 2030 was derived from the same RepuTex modelling that gave Albanese the confidence to stick his neck out on power bills by promising a household saving of $275 by this time next year. It is beyond the bounds of probability that either target will be met. Coal and gas generated 75 per cent of the electricity in the National Electricity Market over the weekend, a proportion that has barely shifted since Labor came to power.
Investment in renewable energy infrastructure is at its lowest level for eight years, and the rollout of new wind turbines, grid-scale solar, transmission and storage is hopelessly behind schedule.
The latest quarterly accounting report from the Climate Change and Energy Department shows Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions fell by 0.5 per cent last year. At that rate, the government won’t reach its 2030 target until 2051.
Australia is not the only country that was caught up in the exuberance of the 2019 Paris climate conference and promised more than it could possibly achieve. It is hard to find a single Western economy remotely on track to meet 2030 commitments, let alone the big one in 2050.
In a report published last month by the Fraser Institute, Czech-Canadian scientist Vaclav Smil outlined the task ahead. More than 4 terawatts of electricity-generating capacity must be replaced, and almost 1.5 billion gasoline and diesel vehicle engines must be converted to electricity.
Almost all the world’s agricultural and crop-processing machinery must be replaced, including 50 million tractors and more than 100 million irrigation pumps. New heat sources must be developed to smelt iron, manufacture cement and glass, process chemicals and preserve food. More than half a billion domestic, industrial and institutional gas furnaces must be abandoned. Novel forms of motive power must be found for 120,000 merchant vessels, and we’ll need to develop a carbon-free way of keeping 25,000 jetliners in the air.
All this must be achieved in a single generation, even though we have yet to reach the peak of global fossil fuel consumption and deploy any zero-carbon large-scale processes to produce essential materials.
For Smil, the most disturbing thing about the net-zero fallacy is what it tells us about the economic, numerical and scientific illiteracy of a generation that is, on paper, the most educated in history. As Smil told American author Robert Bryce in an email exchange, we live in a fully post-factual world.
The net-zero fallacy has taken root “because the soil is receptive: utterly brainless mass of mobile-bound individuals devoid of any historical perspective and any kindergarten commonsense understanding”.
The cartoonish reaction to Dutton’s nuclear announcement last week was evidence of Smil’s point. If there is a solid argument against legalising nuclear power in Australia, Chris Bowen failed to produce it. Until he does, Dutton can safely regard the debate as won.
Yet politicians are not rewarded for winning fact-based arguments. They are rewarded by winning elections. As Thomas Sowell points out, one of the differences between economics and politics is that politicians are not forced to pay attention to long-term consequences.
“An elected official whose policies keep the public happy up through election day stands a good chance of being voted another term in office, even if those policies will have ruinous consequences in later years,” Sowell wrote in Basic Economics.
Yet the test of Dutton’s policy is whether it will increase competition in the market, offering a credible alternative to the untrodden renewable-only path on which we are embarked.
The squeals from the renewable energy establishment last week suggest he is on the right track.
Nick Cater is a senior fellow at the Menzies Research Centre and a visiting fellow at the Danube Institute.
NICK CATER
COLUMNIST
The timeframe for building a single nuke plant is at least eleven years, says Dutton himself, and at least sixteen according to Frightbat Michaelia. So it’s sixteen minimum.
By 2035, the energy market will be dominated by renewables, let alone 2040. Nukes are just not needed.
They are a distraction, a radioactive squirrel released by Dutton to keep you lot occupied while he busies himself remaking the LNP according to Trumpian racism and policies nicked from the DLP.
You are a total thickhead if you get sucked in by his obvious nonsense. Of course, Cats are all over it like flies on a cowpat.
Five, idiot.
Albo just had Xi’s 2ic in town.
All he had to do was ask.
Facts are not agreeing with you, Monty.
Except for the likes of Canada, Japan, Russia, China, etc etc … All of whom learned from the massive failure that is germanys Energiewende.
How much of your SMSF is tied up in ruinables?
As for ” total thickhead”, tell us again about your PhDs in economics and electrical engineering. Oh, you don’t have such qualifications? As you were.
JC, this might be a good time to lay a bet with mUntyfa. Perhaps something about progress to Nett Zero each year until 2030.
The timeframe for building a single nuke plant is at least eleven years, says Dutton himself, and at least sixteen according to Frightbat Michaelia. So it’s sixteen minimum.
The ‘nuke plant will still be way ahead to be finished before the ruinables are supposedly ready and ruinables have to be replaced every 20 years. Ending up as landfill.
There has got to be a legitimate reason as to why Elbow has given the GG an extra $200Gs.
1) Maaaaaaaaates,
2) GG is Overworked and underpaid.
Or, more likely…?
3) He (or his party) is still planning to hold a referendum on a Republic in 3-4 years’ time. What better way to say “Look! The King’s Representative, basically a foreign sovereign, gets paid $800,000… surely that should go to a President?”
I do believe he’s that stupid.
Lysander, it’s simple: the GG’s pay rise simply emphasises that her new Labor paymasters OWN her.
There’ll be no John Kerr-style treachery. The new GG will follow Labor policy to the letter.
Sam Mostyn’s govenor-generalship is a Labor creation. She does not represent the king.
Almost makes Bryce look good
Option 4!
Thanks Tom, patently true!
Apparently the ‘top up’ is to compensate for the fact she hasn’t accumulated other benefits not having devoted a lifetime of public service, like say an ex military chap. Has she not been earning super or something?!
Pension for life follows GG appointment
The present value of those assets is now hostage to the electoral fortunes of Anthony Albanese
Thats Cthulhu level of horror for the carpet baggers.
“Heres my testicles, the only thing stopping them from going through the mincing machine is the stalwart intelligence, charisma and common sense of Handsome boy and his party”….
I note Monty has declined to opine on the time frame/cost/location for the big batteries needed to remove all fossil fuels to provide baseload 24/7.
Those timeframes and costs are not in the daily lefturd talking points, and mUntyfa lacks the intelligence, much less the knowledge, to make any even unreliable estimates.
Reminds me of a certain Monty Python sketch.
‘Woke garbage’: Department of Defence under fire for asking job applicants about pronouns and sexuality (Sky News, 24 Jun)
Sounds like a great way not to get any actual applicants.
renewables are only considered cheaper to build on an LCOE basis
… which is a confected crock of shiite
the instantaneous wholesale electricity price is weighted artificially toward renewables by burdening the CO2 dirty generators with extra costs artificially imposed via legislation
… which is also a confected crock of shiite
nuclear is not CO2 dirty
game-over
Hmmmmmm this will happen more and more…
About four years ago a ME looking man came up to me in our Church carpark and said:
“Do you believe in Jesus?”
“Yes, why do you think I’m here” I retorted, a bit angrily.
Then he said the most alarming thing:
“A day will come soon when the blood of all of those who do not follow the Prophet will flow through the streets.”
Me: “Oh f-ck off pedo apologist”
Also me (later): Hello ASIO…(the cops came out and scoped the Church for “exit points” and later our priest put in a whole bunch of new glass doors, fences around the perimeter of the church, bolstered with bougainvilleas.
The religion of peace sharing the love.
Bougainvillea – natures razor wire.
Apparently the Africans even use it to keep lions out. A basket weave of branches and some bougainvillea and you can sleep safely at night.
Bougainvillea? Like women, beautiful and dangerous at the same time. Be careful you’ll get scratched.
Lizzie,
re, slipping and falling on the ice, OUCH!
I broke my tail bone when a horse I was riding reared and flipped over backwards. Landed on me. I had broken my pelvis in two places, a vertebrae and my tailbone.
Funny thing was, docs said if the tail bone didn’t knit, they would have to remove it. I said NOOOOO. At that age, I believed that if my tail bone were removed, my bum would drop! hahahaha
The fact that if my pelvis moved, instead of healing, I may have been a paraplegic, didn’t bother me at all. The supreme confidence of youth. Lol.
A few years later, same thing happened. Horse flipped over, broken collarbone, and broken tailbone. Poor little tailbone has had a rough life.
Chortle.
More to the point Pogria, has your bum dropped?
Aww. Maybe Pogria is different but my bum is too big to drop. lol.
Can you walk over the curb without it going bedoomp?
Pogria, did you have ongoing pain with any of the tailbone breaks, and has your tailbone settled down? Mine seemed sore in January when I did it in 2023 but then settled but since November 2023 has been painful again and now there’s a grating sensation whenever I lean back. Cortisone deep injection seems to have fixed the pain, and I am charging around now (Wednesday) on such a high that I think the Fentanyl is still working, but now it’s 8pm and I’m sinking back into exhaustion and the grating of displaced bones is still there.
Poor Irish.
50 years of climbing out from “stupid Paddy” jokes undone in an instant.
https://x.com/SaraReyi/status/1805010339206938695
Also blonde jokes…
Is that a trannie?
mUnty, batteries are not rated in GW
you sound like an clown
Lefties have trouble with SI units.
I love the way my software treats units.
all scalars have units and can be written like strings..
1MWh.in(“J”) == 3.6e+9Joules
He is a clown. He has never grasped the concept of Megawatt or Gigawatt hours. I don’t think that was covered in either Economics 1 or J’ism.
Not just Econs 101 it would appear. What a j’ismist.
Hey mUntyfa, how much of your SMSF is tied up in ruinables?
so much ‘price’ is built on this renew balls rubbish
I think people misunderstand the financial destruction that nukes will bring
… or maybe they do and that’s why they don’t want it
when the inevitable happens this will be crushing for them
in my opinion it has the capacity to collapse everything
biggest pyramid evah !
Oh burn!
I remember years ago when people were investing in Geodynamics, thermal energy carpet-baggers who Rudd gave $90M of our money on the advice of “No Rain” Flannery.
They were laughing about how clever they were getting in early and they kept chanting “peak oil man, peak oil” at anyone who asked them why.
They really believed the hype.
They all lost their money.
There was an online forum (Graham Young’s) where people were sinking all their super money into GeoDynamics, because Rudd/Flannery wouldn’t be lying would they? Probably still is a forum …
FMD and no wonder people get scammed.
The fukwit doesn’t even understand the difference between power and energy.
He’s a journalist. He thinks power comes from a keyboard and energy comes from a drink.
yep
Brawndo !!
Coopers XPA, in purple tins, is the winter beer here.
Then Emu Ex between Grand Final Day and Anzac.
Scrymgour to sue Thorpe over ‘damaging’ commentsRhiannon Down
Labor MP Marion Scrymgour says she will sue Independent Senator Lidia Thorpe for comments she made about the Lingiari MP’s history with the Northern Land Council.
Ms Scrymgour accused Senator Thorpe of seeking to harm her reputation and taking her attacks outside of parliament by posting on social media, in a personal explanation after Question Time.
“Senator Thorpe does not respect the institute of parliament or what it stands for,” she said.
“But she is happy to use it to attack people she sees as her political opponents – especially when they are other First Nations women.
“What I don’t expect is to have one aspect of the system deliberately weaponised through social media in relation to something that has nothing to do with my performance as an elected member and by someone who seeks to augment her First Nations identity and credentials by claiming association and relationship with Aboriginal territorians.
“She has nothing to do with us. I have engaged lawyers in relation to the social media posts.”
Can I go to Ticketek for tickets?
Reconcilliation or Reparations?
Why not both!
Fight you b…..s, fight.
WATCH: Charges DROPPED against Aussie lockdown protest pioneer
mUnty, batteries are not rated in GW
you sound like an clown
Yeah, well…There would be a reason for that.
The bush is going to destroy the renewable scam.
We’ve already put it years behind and we’ve only just begun. The WRL transmission line was meant to be in construction by now and they haven’t even managed to do an environmental effects statement to this point.
Ausnet managers have resorted to skulking around the zone in unmarked cars because they know they will cop abuse and be chased off as soon as they try to “consult”.
Farmer Gez,
is there any way I can help?
I have mentioned before, I enjoy a bit of biff.
Ditto, what can an armchair warrior do? I already write to pollies and sign petitions, but how to get factual info out into the brains of the brain-dead !
Find a way to educate mUntyfa. If you can do that, the rest will be a walkover.
Here in Newcastle/Port Stephens we have armed up big time against the proposed offshore wind facility. Years of delays ahead.
Excellent news,Gez.
Way to go!
On the “unanswered questions” issue re: nuclear, such as costings, Dutton should just point to nuclear overseas, say that we aren’t doing anything unusual, so expect similar results.
If he puts his own figure on things, no doubt Bowen will have AEMO or the CSIRO fabricate lies that claim to be based on overseas costs to supposedly debunk him.
AEMO and the CSIRO should look to their own reputations, or else they will be eliminated. In fact, other entities might think of superceding their roles.
Monty effectively calling us all racists.
Remember, the Uniparty subverted the Tea Party, so Trump was the People’s answer.
Now the People are going to insist in being heard.
Ta for all the yummy data on renewables & nuclear today I just went through and cut & paste into a word doc for future use.
My tussle the other day in another forum amounted to nothing, whoever was at the other end of the keyboard was just trolling. I worked out after an insult and no actual argument other that that one was wrong it wasn’t worth it.
mUntyfa under a different tag? Insults and no actual argument are his style.
Sounds like Fatima Payman is about to jump the Labor ship and join the Greens.
Heh…as predicted.
Exxxcelllent!
But it’s an untested technology, 2Dogs. 🙂
Just to recap.
Keating is a venomous sack of shit. The worst.
JC
Why don’t you set up an annual bet with Fatboy? Along the lines of annual progress towards Nett Zero. You could have him buying annual steak lunches until 2050.
I would agree up to the last two words JC.
I don’t recall Keating unleashing an untested, experimental medical procedure onto the Australian public.
Of course, our current intellectually challenged leader, said more than 25 times in the lead up to the last election, that the death jabs were not being pressed into arms, quickly enough.
Great man!
In other news JC, water is wet.
They Are Using Lab-Grown Human Brains That They Have Enslaved Called “Organoids” to Run Computers
Keating is a CCP asset.
There’s nothing for China in the nuclear option and that is unacceptable to Keating.
A curious media would simply ask Paul Keating how much the Chinese government — a.k.a. the Chinese Communist Party — has paid him on the past 30 years.
I’m guessing it’s in the tens of millions.
The Chinese Communist Party owns Paul Keating, who is a traitor to his homeland.
Mike Burgess will be on to him any day now…
And he stays bought. He doesn’t seem to have the same sense of fidelity to the Australian people. Obviously we don’t pay him enough.
No doubt quite a lot of it.
It’s the very definition of crony capitalism.
Those houses won’t buy themselves ya know.
Is there any reason why Dutton can’t drop the GG’s pay back to previous levels if elected?
If he can he needs to,
And if she doesn’t like it she can quit.
Apparently the fool supports the Labor party on this. Weak as p###
I resent that
… I’m more like a dung beetle
Exactly
https://x.com/LizaRosen0000/status/1804991604467384450?t=s6OgXJmwQQSKrSOmoask3g&s=19
David Icke: “Prepare! The World’s About to CHANGE FOREVER!”
The poisonous mediocrity even more poisonous and spiteful than usual tonight. What ails it I wonder. Lotsa lies and false accusations too I see.
With Turnbull a close second.
Harsh. But fair.
When you look at the assumptions sitting behind the GenCost LCOE, a few things stand out:
Nuclear power plants only have a 30 economic life – apparently. The same as solar, and only 5 years more than wind. (Grudgingly, the report admits the life could go a little longer, but commercial operators would likely not amortise over a longer period.)
Nuclear power plants have an ‘efficiency’ of 33% – compared to 100% for renewables. The term ‘efficiency’ here appears to mean ‘fudge factor’.
The life and replacement cost of storage batteries is secret AEMO modelling business.
Terrible work.
One of Montys mates..
A complete lying, slithering turd as you imagine.
https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/1f4a7.svgsimon holmes à court
@simonahac
https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/2622.svg wait ’til the 10 million aussies living under a solar array find out their solar panels will have to be turned off routinely to accomodate the inflexibility of nuclear.
He is literally touting the variability of solar as a strength.
?
Rosie
June 24, 2024 6:49 pm
More of what some have called “mixed rhetoric”.
I want my integrals back !!
this is right up there with the bastards responsible for taking butter out of sandwiches
I see the resident Nazi is here spraying his excrement.
I wonder how many Nazis he’s punched today? I wonder how many mirrors he’s had to replace in his home? Because the only Nazi our resident Nazi puncher will ever see is the one reflected back at him when he looks in the mirror.
I’d suggest he’s confusing power and energy again
https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/2622.svg wait ’til the 10 million aussies living under a solar array find out their solar panels
will have to be turned off routinely to accomodate the inflexibility of nuclear.are slowly degrading and leaching toxic materials onto their house and down the drains.how about we just use nuclear at night-time ?
That’s essentially how RECs rendered coal base load uneconomic. I wouldn’t rule it out.
We’ll all be glowing in the dark by then, apparently.
These poor souls will experience exactly the same under large-scale renewables. Robber Barons aren’t going to invest just to have negative pricing, or curtailment for the convenience of homeowners.
WA Labor Senator Fatima Payman weighs up future as pro-Palestine stance leaves her on the outerDan Jervis-Bardy, Katina Curtis and Josh ZimmermanThe West Australian
Mon, 24 June 2024 1:34PM
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Fatima Payman’s future as a WA Labor senator is under a cloud as her strong pro-Palestine position ostracises her from the party.
Senator Payman has stopped talking to senior colleagues amid rumours she is considering quitting Labor and voting in support of a pro-Palestine motion from the Greens in Federal Parliament later this week.
Labor rules prevent its MPs from crossing the floor except on rare matters of conscience, meaning the Afghan-born senator would face expulsion if she backed the Greens’ motion while still a member.
Expulsion would also mean losing access to party-provided services, including electorate databases and most likely Labor-aligned staff from her office.
The West Australian has contacted Senator Payman for comment.
The 29-year-old has become increasingly isolated internally after breaking ranks in May to accuse Israel of carrying out a “genocide” in Gaza.
While some colleagues – including cabinet minister Ed Husic – publicly expressed support for the first-term senator, many others were privately seething at a shock intervention that distracted from the Government’s post-budget sell.
Shut the door on your way out, Fatima.
Sounds like Fatima Payman is about to jump the Labor ship and join the Greens.
I hope so, that means WA Labor machine will destroy her. The only reason this Jew hater is in parliament is because the stupid effing Liberals preferenced this Jew hater above PHON.
Great work WA Liberals.
Lessons of the 20th century have been ‘TOTALLY FORGOTTEN’ – history ‘relegated to IRRELEVANCE’
The Sky News on air talent have taken management to the cleaners.
Peta Credlin returned to work tonight after swanning around Europe in the northern summer for the past three weeks.
But Sky’s original prima donna Andrew Blot has extracted a deal from management that allows him a four-week holiday mid-year on top of the six weeks he takes of over Christmas-New Year.
Meanwhile, Sharri Markson is the only Sky host who sees her role as an actual journalist who breaks stories.
?
While Sky News’s daytime journalists are lazy leftwing activists, the nighttime crew are even lazier.
I’m sure she too will have her “disgusted by Trump” moment, as has Kenny.
Tom I’ve found the Bolt spot to at least be watchable now.
“solar panels will have to be turned off routinely to accomodate the inflexibility of nuclear.”
As though that doesn’t happen now.
Not to mention it’s the ‘flexibility’ of solar that’s the problem numbskull.
I suspect Dutton has screwed up future investments in renew balls and possibly totally fcked the Liars plan. It would be hard to imagine anyone making any future large-scale investments in the sector with this albatross hanging over everything.
Albatross. Would that be the big bird missing its head when the offshore wind farms start spinning up?
After all the Polar Bear b/s and after all the dams and mines kyboshed because of some insignificant fauna discomfiture, the silence of the climate lambs has been deafening.
“The only reason this Jew hater is in parliament is because the stupid effing Liberals preferenced this Jew hater above PHON.”
Give Labor some credit for selecting someone who hates Jews even more than she hates Australians.
BREAKING: Tory Candidates SHUT DOWN Election Campaign
Err, you mean like coal plants have to dial down now when the sun comes out and the wind blows, but be prepared to crank up when the sun goes down?
Cry me a ribba, Simon.
Somebody tell me why Fatima Payman can wear a hijab in the Senate, yet Pauline Hanson is not allowed to wear a scarf with a Star of David?
Because ….. Shut up!
Had it been simply the Star of David, a symbol of Judaism, you might have found an hypocrisy. No doubt a hijab is religious garb. But Hanson was actually wearing an Israeli flag (it had the blue stripes too). See photos https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/remove-israel-scarf-pauline-hanson-told-as-keffiyeh-also-banned/asr7omi2x
Why that should be against the rules is nonetheless a good question in an institution that has parliamentary privilege of commentary. It was, perhaps you’d agree, a touch insensitive given the event being commemorated?
The hijab is NOT a religious garment …… tho it is compulsory outdoors in Iran & Afghanistan …….
Well let’s say opinions differ on that.
https://yaqeeninstitute.org/read/paper/is-hijab-religious-or-cultural-how-islamic-rulings-are-formed
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/06/silly-lemar-found-out.html#comment-6a0177444b0c2e970d02dad0c7ac42200d
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes…
The copper certainly didn’t stuff around.
The timeframe for building a single nuke plant is at least eleven years, says Dutton himself, and at least sixteen according to Frightbat Michaelia. So it’s sixteen minimum.
You’re such a liar dickless; unless of course you are as stupid as blackout.
Bill Gates’ Terra Power is building in Wyoming on an old coal power plant site a .5GW Natrium plant for $4 billion which will take 5-6 years to build. This is a new type: Natrium is not water cooled, but uses molten salts MSR, less uranium, less waste. Other Gen IV reactors include gas-cooled fast reactors (GFR), lead-cooled fast reactors (LFR), sodium-cooled fast reactors (SFR), supercritical-water-cooled reactors (SCWR), and very high-temperature reactors (VHTR). China already has a natrium reactor, a small one, which started in 2021 and since 2020 and by 2025 will have added another 19GW of nuclear power to their grid.
In the West delays and cost blow-outs are caused by green tape and law suits by dickless greenies.
You are as obsessed with this Natrium thing as you are with dicks.
Even if Natrium ends up being the bee’s knees, it won’t exit from development to mature product for many years, so it’s irrelevant to Dutton’s plans.
Next!
In this case the Left position is remarkably similar to the man who kills his parents and wants clemency because he’s an orphan.
Sounds like Fatima Payman is about to jump the Labor ship and join the Greens.
s44 in the wind perhaps?
There’s some technicality about renouncing her Afghan citizenship – the Labor Party claim to have legal advice that she had taken all measures to renounce her citizenship.
Trying to remember but I think the HC was pretty black & white for once on this matter. I still like to see the dice rolled.
Wouldn’t put it past the ALP to roll it if she rats out.
It would afford me no end of amusement to watch the Labor Party turn on the “true believers.”
3rd nations putting in a claim for Great Keppel.
Queensland government to challenge Aboriginal group’s exclusive use claim of Great Keppel Island land – ABC News
What’s the current feed-in tariff for domestic solar?
Nowhere near what they were 10-15 years ago. And who is responsible for dialling back those rates? Sure as shit ain’t the noocular generators.
To paraphrase some soaring oratory from the past, “If you like your panels, you can keep your panels”.
When he says “turned off” what does he mean?
That some Noocular Police are going to turn up and stop you using your own panels.
Not if you declare a special economic zone and keep the CFMEU out.
If only
WTF is this:
Liberal Senator Dave Sharma says the University of Sydney capitulating to the demands of “activists and protesters” sets a “terrible precedent”.
The University of Sydney in a deal with its Muslim Students Association has committed to disclosing defence-related research publicly online
“I’m very concerned about it,” Mr Sharma told Sky News Australia.
“What we’ve seen here is a group of activists and protesters … basically hijack the university’s policies and interrupt or threaten academic freedom.
“The heart of that concept [academic freedom] is the notion that university researchers can establish research partnerships with other countries.
“It sets a terrible precedent.”
Peter Dutton’s son Tom pictured holding bag containing ‘white powder’
Daily Mail.
Based on other drug, alleged, incidents involving pix only evidence you’d have to assume plod will be “investigating” .. one to watch as to does the law apply to all or just thosewithout “influence” ….!
Could be crushed pain killers just like The Duck at Crown Perth that went nowhere. What a coincidence.
Just checked.
In round terms the solar feed-in in Victoria is 4 cents a KwH.
It is higher in early evening and overnight (10 cents in round terms) but, of course, you would need a decent battery set-up to access that tariff.
With retail rates at over 20 cents a KwH, the days of refund cheques lobbing in the letter-boxes of those with rooftop solar are long gone.
Rooftop solar is solely for those trying to avoid ballooning retail electricity costs, no longer a cash cow to feed into the grid.
Four cents isn’t really going to cut it.
Shouldn’t that be 20 cents a Kw?
In mUntyfa world, if you have a 1Kw appliance on, it costs 20 cents whether you have it on for a minute or for 24 hours.
JC
Why don’t you set up an annual bet with Fatboy? Along the lines of annual progress towards Nett Zero. You could have him buying you annual steak lunches until 2050.
Shaolin soccer on SBS.
Stupid and funny in
one of my favorite films !!
Wait ’til the millions of Aussies in the workforce find out their jobs will stop and start irregularly to accommodate the unreliability of wind and solar generation that does not have reliable backup.
And so will their pay.
Not if you are in the Union, boyo.
Then unless you are on the taxpayer teat, the employer and the job will both promptly disappear. Will the Union then provide employment?
And so will their electricity at home.
Sounds like Fatima Payman is about to jump the Labor ship and join the Greens.
Stupid question I know, but how does a hijab wearing devout Mussie join an outfit committed to LBGTIQ+ rights and advancement?
taqiyya
“Flexible” core beliefs.
Just like the rest of them.
And large scale solar does what to the home array?
Simon says the cash is mine mine mine.
Started watching the Paramount offering, “A Gentleman in Moscow” and have to admit my knowledge of the 1st years after the Revolution isn’t a strong point but I can’t recall ever reading about the, noticeable, numbers of “persons of colour” not only in Moscow but holding positions of influence in the revolutionary gummint …..!
It seems it’s not only Disney & Netflix that luv .. diversity .. LOL!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8230448/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Rooftop solar is solely for those trying to avoid ballooning retail electricity costs,
And to avoid blackouts; which of course requires a battery and a generator.
Further to Mark Scott’s arse licking of the Sydney uni muzzie students, there was an excerpt on Sharri with the students (sic) giving a gloating press conference after Scott presented his arse for fuking. All of the students (sic) were thick gutted, full bearded guttural slurping caricatures, dressed in the robes and kufis. There is no better image of the capitulation of the Australian and Western intelligentsia and ruling class to the camel fukers than that image.
IIRC, the remuneration of the Governors & the Goveror-General is fixed, that is, during their term of appointment their remuneration can be neither reduced nor increased.
The rules on recalling (or whatever the word is for sacking a G-G) I know very little of, & they may be a different matter.
The sum of my knowledge is that Whitlam, when he got wind of what Kerr was up to, attempted to have Her Majesty recall the G-G before Kerr could sack him. Whitlam wasn’t quick enough off the mark, & the rest is history.
After “The dismissal”, Whitlam had the Speaker of the House write to the Queen, urging her to dismiss the Fraser caretaker Government, reinstall the Labor Part as the rightful Government, and cancel the forthcoming elections.
Her Majesty replied that she could take no part – the whole matter was one for Australians to resolve under Sect 51(?) of the Constitution.
Ronnie RAAF, justifying his use of cable TV in the aircon, and once again from the nested comments:
This would be Somalia in 1993, for interested observers. This is from the AWM site itself:
Note carefully – RAAF ‘elements’. Also, and far from being Bomber Command, 9 Squadron in Vietnam or Top Gun:
So – FIFO resup pilots, and glorified bus drivers to and from Straya.
Tell ‘your ‘nobody went outside the wire’ horseshit to 1RAR and the reinforced 2/4RAR company supporting it, you mincing light blue poodle.
You are Captain Darling from Blackadder, no more.
Keep going, and you will deservedly earn the handle of Liability Bob 2.0.
FMD you are a moron.
The Army Group were stationed in Baidoa you fuckwit, about 120 miles NW of Mogadishu.
They were UNOSOM I.
We were part of UNOSOM II, stationed in Mogadishu, Oct 93-Apr 94.
The Army Group had returned to Australia prior to our “deployment”.
At least have the decency to bit of research before making a complete idiot of yourself.
Mogadishu was not Tobruk, patrolling would have ended in disaster, similar to the fiasco that was portrayed in Blackhawk down.
Even people I knew “deployed” to Baghdad, a few years later, could explore large chunks of the city.
Not only was that specifically banned in Local Instructions, it would have been suicide.
Whenever we were required to go to our HQ, in the Uni complex, we had to travel by helo, (via the “safe route”), or by convoy, with armour in support, via the “safe route”.
The US/UN NEVER had control, of even the majority of the city.
They controlled the New Port, the Old Port, the Airport and the University complex. That is all!
The rest of the city, (about 1 million in popn.), was controlled by the War Lords.
To get it through your thick skull, I’ll say it again.
No detachments, were patrolling through the city, none.
One “Special Forces Op”, (which included our SAS), not a patrol, was conducted to capture Mohammed Farah Aideed.
Perhaps it would be a good idea, if you didn’t treat John Wayne movies as the basis for your ideas on military strategy.
Your blinding ignorance appears to know no bounds.
You are unaware of the fact, that the Battalion Group you mention, was stationed in Baidoa, NOT Mogadishu. FMD!
Baidoa is about 120 miles NW of Mogadishu.
That Battalion Group was part of UNOSOM I.
We were part of UNOSOM II, in Mogadishu, Oct 93-Apr 94.
By the time we arrived in Mogadishu, their tour had finished and they were back in Australia.
They had some bad times in Baidoa, including at least one fatality, via UD.
They probably staged through Mogadishu, but they were never stationed there.
The US/UN controlled only a few parts of Mogadishu:
Old Port,
New Port,
Airport and
University complex.
The rest of the city was controlled by the war lords, including Mohammed Farah Aideed, who was captured in a Special Ops raid, assisted by SAS.
This is why it was so dangerous.
Just to confirm, there was never any patrolling, by any detachment, in Mogadishu during our tour. Even the yanks had stopped by then.
Now, your reference to Baidoa was correct, I saw footage of the Australians there.
Nice rant though, maybe do some research next time, so you don’t look like a blithering idiot.
I am curious, what mustering would accept such a buffoon such as yourself.
OIC Latrines I guess.
Would you like me to send you a map of Somalia, so you can see where we and they were?
Or, maybe a Dick and Dora reading book, to help you with comprehension.
Have a nice evening wannabe!
When he says “turned off” what does he mean?
I’m intrigued by how this can be achieved. My array isn’t remotely controlled. Never really thought much about the measly tariff payback. My sun-power goes into keeping the swimming pool toasty warm via the heater. And running the w/m and dishwasher and stove.
I have the panels cleaned and checked regularly, as most sensible people with a substantial investment would do.
Batteries for domestic use still don’t pass the cost/benefit test. The Beloved ran the figures about a year ago.
And I don’t want one of the stupid unstable things anywhere near the house. EVs ditto.
Mark Steyn’s latest about Pride month.
He has some interesting articles, not all interest me but some are very thoughtful, worth reading.
Hope he overcomes his health issues and beats his political enemies.
All of the students (sic) were thick gutted, full bearded guttural slurping caricatures, dressed in the robes and kufis. There is no better image of the capitulation of the Australian and Western intelligentsia and ruling class to the camel fukers than that image.
Yep.
Is there a picture of that Cassie?;
and do the Hamas lot still do regular runs through Jewish suburbs?
In that case, perhaps a couple of handfuls of caltrops under the front and rear vehicles will create a financial incentive to not do it. Done correctly, it would also provide an amusing traffic jam.
calli
June 24, 2024 9:36 pm
That makes me think, we have a holiday shack in a remote area but have electric.
Couple of weeks ago lightning struck the main line, single wire earth return, and caused damage to the house wiring, not yet fixed.
I was thinking of going off line with solar and batteries.
Storing the batteries in a shed away from the house.
People in the know, would it be better to use deep cycle batteries like the old Telecom discards instead of the new fangled ones and just how dangerous are they, I mean % wise?
I read about the fires frequently but it has to be seen in proportion of the numbers in use surely.
And further to the Sydney uni capitulation to the muzzie students (sic): in reality it is a capitulation to this:
Father-son terrorists describe raping, executing woman on Oct. 7 (nypost.com)
“Executing” usually involves some form of judicial process – this was murder, pre and simple.
I’d be happy to conduct the interrogation of these pieces of sh!t – beginning with with a pork sausage rammed up the clacker…
With respect to the payment of the incoming G G-
As the figure is fixed during the term of the appointment, the Govt must be anticipating some serious inflation; and
Isn’t the G Gs pay tax free, on the basis the Crown can’t/won’t tax itself?
I heard an explanation tonight ( via Paul Murray – not sure now) that the apparent large increase in renumeration for the GG has occurred because the current gent had a military pension already, so his GG dollars were”reduced” accordingly ( at his request). So it looks as if there is a sudden big increase in pay, but not really.
One of the conditions of service DFRDB (Defence Force Repatriations and Death Benefits) To qualify you had to do 20 years full time effective service. Not 19 years 363 days, but 20 years effective service. If you had taken leave without pay, been AWOL or served time in the slammer that counted as non effective service. When you elected to take discharge, you made sure that you had done 20 years to qualify, otherwise you got nothing except your contributions. A certain defence contractor had more than a few ex military personnel working for them that had their DFRDB/Com Super pensions and when it was time to negotiate for increased wages, they would vote to ‘defer pay rises’ or a reduced pay rise because, ‘it will put us in the next highest tax bracket and we don’t want to pay more tax on our DFRDB/Com Super.’ The management were quite happy to go along with it. That really pissed off the ex military that had not done 20 years for what ever reason and non ex military employees that wanted a full pay rise.
A mate told me at his interview for the job he got management brought up his DFRDB. Words to the effect ‘my DFRDB is none of your business and I am not using it to off set or supplement wages.’
The 20 year DFRDB/Com Super is now no longer and it is now onto its third or fourth version and now it is based on age 55. I think.
What a effin joke!
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Rebel News HQ:
BREAKING: Toronto Police investigate Rebel News for hate speech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X_7bBX8R94
Who is Ronnie RAAF and what is this all about?
I know I’m missing out but not enough time in the day to hunt around in nested comments.
Blimmin’ flip, the GG gets an office and staff; a house, and servants; a limo, and driver; and a plane, with pilot and peanut girls.
They should not get paid a single red cent.
I wholly believe that the amount of money being created and funnelled to the “public service” of pollies, unions, super funds and NDIS administrators will soon lead to a savagely leveraged urban elite, and an impoverished class of paysant serfs who work only to catch up to inflation and rent their land for the privilege of hosting transmission lines and carbon offsets.
“Sliante” to you horrible mob.
I’m having a few single malts, watching Billy Joel “We Didn’t light the Fire”, and thinking it’s a rather depressing exercise when you understand all the historical references…
The Bidenvasion is Worse Than You Thought—and Biden’s Wimpy Executive Orders Aren’t Gonna Cut It
An interesting site that tracks Illegal Alien crimes in the US.
New York’s Energy Transition Guru Responds To Basic Questions
@JackPosobiec
BREAKING: CNN host @kasie CUTS OFF Trump spokeswoman @kleavittnh the second she brings up Jake Tapper spending years comparing Trump to Adolf Hitler
This is a preview of how CNN will act during the debate
A Hamas Mob Roamed an LA Neighborhood Attacking Jews
The Logic in All the Madness
Vaccine-Injured Pharmacist Breaks Down Into Tears Testifying Before Ohio State Senate
Princess Anne has been rushed to the hospital after suffering minor head injuries and a concussion following an incident at the Gatcombe Park Estate Sunday night.
Doesn’t seem to be anything serious.
She is the only sane one of the lot, would be a pity to lose her.
I think she best give up horse riding at her age.
I gave it up aged 80 after a not very long or difficult trip on an Icelandic pony. They have a special jolting gait called a ‘toit’. It finished me off, especially when fording a deep stream of water, for I found myself near to voiding some more into it. The elderly pelvis declares desist. Sad for Anne though, but even aging princesses must face harsh realities.
Johannes Leak.
So good. I would have swapped the labels ‘Industry Super Funds’ and ‘Green Investors’’, since the former affects almost all Australians ( though a lot of them don’t have any idea that it does).
Industry super funds, IMF Investors and Liar maaaate Garry Weaven have been over represented in renewables from the get go. Massive transfer of wealth from the many to the few. Would put the average milk co-op to shame.
FFS I reposted this on facechook and meta removed it. Classifying it as green eggs and spam.
If course they would, you were ridiculing their holy of holies.
Carpetbags are a nice touch.
Most people have never seen a carpet bag, yet they pay for them every day.
Peter Broelman.
Brett Lethbridge.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Tom Stiglich.
Lisa Benson.
Humans can be the most cruel beings, but most of us also are kind and caring to people and animals.
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From;
Soulful Illumination ·
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Jimmy the Donkey was born in the trenches at the Somme, when a German shell fatally wounded his pregnant mother.
British soldiers were forced to deliver Jimmy in the mud of the battlefield.
The baby donkey was raised by the troops of the Cameronian Scottish Rifles who fed him condensed milk and rations.
They even taught the animal to salute by raising one hoof.
Jimmy would spend the years with the regiment, hauling supplies and keeping his human comrades’ spirits up.
He was wounded three times before the end of the war, but went on to become a mascot of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in the 20s and 30s.
He died in 1943 and was buried in Peterborough’s Central Park.
A monument was erected to commemorate him.
That was a BIG hit!
John force the worst day ever the crash in full Prayers for John
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgXgOSjdwHE
When will the terrorist boosters at the UN give it a rest?
https://x.com/Aizenberg55/status/1805237588862632156?t=2rnfknW7De8XnDzAWshP6Q&s=19
Never. They’re like the scorpion in the fable.
The UN is a terrorist organisation.
Why are we in it and supporting it when all it does is piss on us?
A thread on the design of a cathedral.
https://x.com/thinkingwest/status/1805238962190987543?t=7xzLu-bel8u03fSa4bz7-A&s=19
Tim Blair in today’s Tele:
WHAT KIND OF LAME ANTI-NUKE KOOK ARE YOU?
TIM BLAIR
25 Jun 2024
All credit to Peter Dutton.
By presenting his ambitious nuclear plan, the Liberal leader has wonderfully exposed the hysterical and irrational attitudes of Australia’s substantial anti-nuke kook community.
Perhaps you include yourself among that increasingly tense and jittery societal sector. But although a kook you may be, the precise nature of your leftist-infused nuke-frightened kookiness could still at this point be undetermined.
Perhaps this causes anxiety. Everything else does.
Well, fear not and worry no more – even though fear and worry are leftoid factory settings – because one of the following antinuclear categories is bound to match your own progress-opposing personality:
The Basic Fraidy Cat. This is the anti-nuke hierarchy’s lowest tier. Fraidy Cats sometimes cite events at Chernobyl, Three Mile Island and Fukushima, but their real opposition to nuclear energy dates back to the 1950s. They’ve been scared since the first radiation-enhanced B-movie monster smashed a scale model city.
The Wild Exaggeratrix. A boutique category dominated by Australia’s veteran anti-nuke campaigner Helen Caldicott, who in 2011 wrote: “By now close to one million people have died of causes linked to the Chernobyl disaster.”
Caldicott, who at 85 is 17 years older than the entire global commercial nuclear industry, also claimed that 2011’s Fukushima nuclear accident could “far exceed Chernobyl in terms of the effects on public health”.
Wrong. As environmental analyst Michael Shellenberger concluded in 2019, “the best-available science clearly shows that Caldicott’s estimate of the number of people killed by nuclear accidents was off by one million”.
The Cartoon Kids. Caldicott’s peculiar life mission was inspired by Nevil Shute’s 1957 end-of-the-world novel On the Beach. Inheritors of her antinuclear mania are now inspired by a 34-year-old episode of The Simpsons that showed a nuke-mutated three-eyed fish.
Thus continues an ancient leftist tradition of swapping science for fiction. Incidentally, as a few onliners have noted, the town depicted in The Simpsons seems to have since enjoyed endless affordable and safe nuclear power with no additional mutants.
Even in cartoon-land, nuclear wins. Yet Labor assistant minister Andrew Leigh is waving around a three-eyed Blinky Bill and asking: “Is this what Peter Dutton wants Blinky to look like in 50 years?”
The ACTU is running a straight steal of the old three-eyed fish and Victorian Labor Premier Jacinta Allen is doing the same. Bring on the copyright lawyers.
The Proximity Panic Person. This type uses the word “backyard” in every single mention of nuclear energy. Apparently Australian backyards have grown so much in size that they now include current and former locations of coal power plants.
A tip to our proximity people: for the sake of your own peace of mind, please don’t look up how surprisingly close Brittany Higgins’s French chateau is to the nearest nuclear reactor. It’s not exactly in her village’s backyard, but it’s possibly backyard adjacent.
The Eternal Questioner. Step forward, Guardian reporter Amy Remeikis, who variously claims of Dutton’s nuclear plan: “We don’t know how much it would cost, we don’t know what reactors they would use,” possibly right up to we don’t know what colours they’d be, we don’t know how many Hamas goons will turn up if we screen Israel’s flag on the side of them and so on, forever.
This is a delaying tactic. You could do the same thing to put off purchasing a replacement radial for the Kia: we don’t know the tread depth, we don’t know the rubber source, we don’t know the name of the font used by the tyre brand.
Tyres and nuclear reactors are known things. They’re everywhere. Just buy them and get on with it, like the rest of the normal world.
The Intellectual Ponderer. These are my personal favourites. They’re against nuclear power, but pretend to have arrived at that decision by an exhaustive process of expert inquiry.
They even allow that, yes, when all information is at hand, that nuclear energy is not, as it happens, particularly dangerous.
These people sound like they’re describing the chilling threat of an office photocopier.
The Time Twiddler. Usually of a dull leftish aspect, the Twiddler proclaims that 20 years is far too long to wait for approval and construction of atomic facilities. The Twiddler thinks that this is a crushing argument against nuclear power.
It is in fact a crushing argument against leftist bureaucracy and regulation. Remove them and hit the gas: during the 1940s, nuclear energy went from US presidential approval to ending WWII in just 42 months.
The whiners are putting a lot of effort into this. May it all be wasted.
Caldicott’s book was worse fiction than The Davinci Code
couldn’t finish it
Backyard adjacent – nice.
Fantastic column!
Thanks, Beery T.
Clare O’Neil warns pro-Palestinian protesters are ‘menacing’ and ‘violent’
[Unlinkable OZ]
So, Clare has woken up to the distress caused by street violence to Australians who happen to be Jewish?
Oh…
The Canbra Bubble; writ large and unembarrassed.
Funny isn’t it. Sailors & airman attacked by China muffled outrage, a Journalist bullied during a Chinese state visit and it’s the worst thing in the world. (Not trying to downplay this one as it was truly disgusting)
Jewish people being abused in the street meh, however shock horror if a Politician and an ALP one at that has their office defaced.
Double standards, what double standards…
The political caste protecting itself.
Chesty Blonde may have some redeeming features apart from being a Chesty Blonde.
Obviously hypocrisy is not one of them.
Sometimes they get there eventually. Other times, not.
Our greatest national embarrassment since Sarah Hanson-Young is thankfully looking to be denied a fairytale finish to his career (the Hun):
And:
Because:
One might almost form a view that his teammates – who, with one idiot as an exception (Khawaja) still reportedly loathe him – may have done this on purpose to shut him up.
It entertains me to think that this may be the case.
I know nothing about cricket since I was born in Scotland. Last time I looked the Scotland team was full of Australians and new Zealanders who wouldn’t make the Oz team.
I have been here 61 years but I checked with my cousins. And yes, the cricket is NOT being reported in the Scottish press.
Without a doubt the expose of Dutton’s son, Tom, has been orchestrated by some low life in Labor and the Greens.
Play silly games & win silly prizes ..
Can’t believe in this age of the phone camera that folk still do this stuff in public then whinge when it fronts the internet socials ……
Are you justifying it? I’m sorry, but the offspring of politicians, be they Liberal, National, Labor, or even Greens, are NOT fair game.
Dutton’s son has now learned who are his friends and who are not.
Comments on brekky tv were along the lines of “… teenagers do stuff but doesn’t change my view of Dutton …”.
Knuckles it introduces the thought “is this a betting scandal “. Australia playing so poorly against the minnows. One game yes, many no. Not a conspiracy theory but does make one think.
Or maybe just “up themselves” expecting to beat their, supposed, “inferiors”
Would have been nice to have gotten a call if it was the case.
Watt kind of lame anti-nuke kook…
Agriculture Minister Murray Watt suggests ‘earthquakes’ could pose threat to nuclear safety, claims ‘people are right to have concerns’ (Sky News, 24 Jun)
Seriously? Well I suppose if you are an Agriculture Minister dead set on destroying agriculture then it make complete sense that he knows nothing about geology either.
The ABC will fact check this claim, surely.
Any moment now…
Low wattage Watt. Everyone was on the spruik yesterday.
As sure as night follows day, we find that Labor are true to form!
Bung, have you got link to something about this?
I want to send something on that issue to my business partner
It’s been a round for a while but I just saw something on it on Sky News this morning, so went looking. Here’s a Nationals site but there are lots of others going back a few months. Farmers hit in Labor’s deceitful superannuation tax grab – NSW Nationals
thankyou
Top men.
Mr Withers said Dr Brady’s report included a finding that the “significant constraints” faced by CS Energy included its status as a government-owned corporation, the joint venture ownership of the power station, and the impacts of climate change.
Ah, “the impacts of climate change”. It wouldn’t be that government thought that they were getting out coal so they thought the battery wouldn’t be essential now would it?
File under sh1t happens. Privately owned Varanus Island gas plant had an incident in the NW. They were quite displeased if you referred to it as an explosion.
Have We Passed Peak Woke?
My last company, (the Australian subsidiary) got rid of its HR outfit completely. It was hated by everyone. It was dominated by a couple of arrogant Indian women who had been moved sideways from the European office. They were racist, stupid woke and OH&S fanatics.
We brought in a brilliant and beautiful young woman who put everything useful online and ditched the rest. The ‘issues’ section of the website was examined at the weekly management meeting.
Job done. HR returned as a management function where it belongs.
Well said Bons. As belts tighten we may with luck see more of this.
Righto, let’s put a big fission tank 20k east of Meckering, on sand. It’ll be 50 km in the clear, and circle a date sometime in the year 2525 just in case.
Hopefully the terrorist appeasers at SU have to sent out lots of similar letters.
https://x.com/AustralianJA/status/1805125911387488381?t=Bru6aqIIl5fHB7mxFz6GxA&s=19
Aaaah! .. Luigi forgot the net doesn’t forget when it comes to pay-rises …… LOL!
https://x.com/i/status/1805166738121633826
I saw that on Sharri last night and thought I was watching a speech from Gaza or Iran. What has happened to Sydney Uni? It is no longer a seat of learning, a prestige sandstone university, it is now an outpost of intifada and a real security risk. It has been conquered and any Australian government agency that partners with them is also a security risk.
The SFL promoted the evil terrorist Scott.
Once again, conservative cowardice and exagerated fear of the media clowns have undermined our society.
But, it was not just cowardice. Scott was a hero on the polli champagne circuit. The SFL loved him. Perhaps they viewed him as a moderating influence on the ABC, or in Kean’s case, as a conduit for the permanent installation of croney communism in all elements of SU.
Appalling to see my old Alma Mater brought down to such a low. Mark Scott was a disastrous apoointment.