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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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

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 How Africa defeated COVID so decisively without vaccines Read this alongside the…

“When you start to think about it, it’s pretty extraordinary that we – a select group of human beings, because of whatever touched us at some point in our lives – are able to sit in a room and come together and actually talk about saving the planet,” Kerry told a WEF panel on Tuesday. “It’s…

A pervasive pathology of government policy and planning In a discussion of the policy blunder of connecting intermittent energy providers to the grid, I was alerted to an IPA study of 20 state and federal policies. The study used ten criteria including establishing need, setting objectives, identifying options, designing implementation pathways and consultation with stakeholders.…