Author: Rafe Champion

  • What is this shift to wind & solar?

    How many times have you read something like this? Written by an experienced member of the press corps. The shift to renewable energy is unstoppable and accelerating. The role for gas and coal will rapidly diminish as renewable technology advances to ensure a cheap, clean and reliable supply of power. Fact checking: Where in the…

  • Greens mugged by reality

    In north Queensland the useful idiots of the not-so-green environmental movement have been mugged by reality at Chalumbin. After spending years closing down forest-related industries and putting their neighbours out of work they find that the not-so-green wind industry is coming to get their trees and wildlife. You could say it serves them right. Short…

  • TEALS

    Traitors to Everything Australians Love. Discuss.

  • Popper on Rules and Orders

    The catastrophic state of the gas market in Australia demonstrates the failure of Labor’s new economics practically before the ink is dry on Jim Chalmers’s forthcoming manifesto in The Weekly. A piece in the Fin Review today tells the grisly tale. If you think we had problems with power prices last year, you ain’t seen…

  • Real Liberal Leadership

    Shame on Liberal leaders Who didn’t have the balls to say this. Something strange has been happening in conservative politics. TheLiberal Party is being told that the only way it can cling onto power(or win it back) is if the party panders to the demands of women.Women are out. Women are the reason Morrison lost…

  • Sensible Centre on The Voice

    This is another take on the situation, some of it I find agreeable and some I don’t. What about you? END THE CIVIL WAR 1. Set an end date for the culture wars on race and culture;2. Complete land claims, truth-telling exercises, and place name changes by this date;3. End the divisive practice of ‘Welcome to / Acknowledgement of Country’;4.…

  • Rafe’s Roundup 1 Feb

    Drop in and see what they are up to! The Energy Realists of Australia Jo Nova Quadrant on line IPA         Climate and energy program  CIS          The Sydney Institute Menzies Research Centre  Mannkal Economics Education Foundation           Advance Australia  Taxpayers Alliance  Australian Inst for Progress The Conservative Vagabond The Rathouse and The Site of Kilmeny Niland The menace of…

  • Take the White Pill!

    A message from Michael Malice by way of Dara Macdonald. The White Pill is an alternative to the Blue Pill, the Red Pill and the Black Pill. Michael Malice traced the rise of the Soviet Union and its outposts in every country in the world, from the bloody revolution through the catalogue of horrors, the…

  • Our wombat energy minister

    How many mistakes can the Climate Change and Energy Minister make in three sentences? According to Mark Ludlow and Angela Macdonald-Smith, writing in the Fin Review last Friday (20th), Mr Bowen said (1) the war in Ukraine was responsible for 90 per cent of the global electricity price rises last year. He said(2) the move…

  • A conservative vagabond guest post

    The New Conflict of Visions How new constrained/unconstrained religious visions produce the political polarisation of today Dara Macdonal I will explore the new conflict of visions that these new religions create and the political fall out of each, as follows: https://daramacdonald.substack.com/p/the-new-conflict-of-visions