Australian Politics

The hostility the Grattan Institute has shown VIC on energy policy bespeaks a deep hatred of the state.

Why does Australia hate children so much?

The CEO of consultancy EnergyQuest claims that the “only” solution to a looming gas supply crisis is to import LNG from offshore into the southern states.

Somehow, it’s not as funny as usual. Australia, the world’s second largest exporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG), is preparing to do what no one saw coming.

While ordinary Australians are suffering through the worst cost-of-living crisis in generations and a record decline in household disposable incomes.

The RBA is about to lose the interest rate debate: Government subsidies for childcare, aged care and disability care have surged more than 20 per cent in the past year, but Labor has left the door open to more public spending ahead of the next election despite economists warning that this is unsustainable.

Earlier this week, Treasurer Jim Chalmers publicly attacked the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), claiming that its restrictive monetary policy is “smashing the economy”.

I do not like the Coalition’s spokesman on home ownership, Andrew Bragg.

New housing minister Clare O’Neil should be reported to the Albanese government’s disinformation register.

In the short term, gas imports into eastern Australia may lower prices.

The Albanese government has been trying to focus on one thing — the cost-of-living crisis.

Most opinion polls have federal Labor and the Coalition roughly neck-and-neck, with a hung parliament looking increasingly likely.

Australian politics is full of mise en abyme, the endless regress of self-referentiality into a meaningless abyss.

The Greens have called for the creation of a National Renters Protection Authority, with the Greens likening the proposed body to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

The wind blew and power was cheap for a day: Solar farm owners in south-eastern states are switching off their plants to protect their profits as extreme winds, abundant rooftop solar generation and low demand from customers enjoying the warm start to spring create an oversupply of power.

The Albanese government wants to combat disinformation with a new reporting register.

The Commonwealth Games should be the scandal that finally sinks the Victorian government.

Recall that failed Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil, who drove the rental crisis by overseeing the largest immigration spike in the nation’s history, was appointed Australia’s Housing Minister because she excels at spin.

There’s a great piece at Bloomberg today on how Japan is destroying Australia using our own gas against us: Every six hours, somewhere in the world, a shipment of liquefied natural gas controlled by a Japanese company leaves a port.

On 12 December 2023, Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan ignored expert advice and signed the first tunnelling contract to build the $200 billion, 90-kilometre Suburban Rail Loop (SRL) to nowhere.

Unbeknownst to all of Australia, the Australia Energy Market Operator (AEMO) has its finger on the answer to everything: Favorable weather conditions toward the end of winter and reduced gas generation demand have allowed Iona to start refilling its storage capacity.