Australian Politics

Rogue gas major, Santos, the firm most responsible for Australia’s energy market failures, has a history of egregious lying to take advantage of the Australian people.

By Stephen Saunders: Big Australia 1.0 vaulted the GFC and was only stopped by COVID-19.

Coalition leader Peter Dutton is an unelectable fool.

Mwahaha!

ABC: The federal government has announced a price cap on gas and coal to help ease the cost of energy.

The Grattan Institute’s Tony Wood has continued his mea culpa on energy market intervention.

Apparently, at the AFR: NSW has dropped its demand that it be compensated for about $100 million in royalties, which would be lost by a cap on black coal, and instead has convinced the Commonwealth to temporarily subsidise energy bills for households and businesses.

History is going to remember Scott Morrison well.

The vile AFR is rewriting economics now: Treasurer Jim Chalmers says the Commonwealth is considering compensating the states for a decrease in windfall profits caused by a price cap on coal, as it strives to reach a deal at the national cabinet meeting on Friday.

The vile AFR is  lying again for the gas cartel: A price cap on gas would amount to a government subsidy of more than $20 a gigajoule, a report from EnergyQuest has concluded, as the federal Labor government finds itself increasingly wedged on how to deliver promised relief.

The latest Newspoll has Labor doing well as the primary vote recaptures swing voters: But no change in TPP: Albo’s notable successes in pushing through the new industrial relations regime and anti-corruption watchdog playing a role.

The AFR is a vile organ these days.

This week, the Federal Parliament passed legislation to establish the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC), a watchdog that will investigate potential corruption at the highest level.

Meh: Kerry Stokes-backed Beach Energy has swiftly moved to regain the upper hand in the escalating takeover battle for West Australian gas developer Warrego Energy, lobbing a higher offer that tops the surprise bid by Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting by 2¢ per share.

The last time Albo’s cowards tried to fix the energy mess, Resources minister Mad King made the problem 400% worse when she gave the miners everything they wanted before disappearing on a junket fully paid by the same where she couldn’t answer questions.

The gas cartel and coal barons doing god’s work.

What a sector of scabs.

Sometimes you have to wonder where our political machines manage to dig up such a plodding cavalcade of idiots.

We were warned repeatedly from within the party’s own ranks that there was something wrong with ScoMo.

The RBA has made it plain how much the Albanese Government is reponsible for the inflation breakout: “One way of tackling inflation induced by supply-side shocks is to address the supply said,” Dr Lowe told Senate estimates committee hearing on Monday.

It’s an economic urban myth.

The Secure Jobs, Better Pay Bill is set to pass the Senate after the federal government struck a deal with independent senator David Pocock following lengthy negotiations.

Kevin07 continued his rewrite of Australian history in another oration late last week: If humanity is to avoid a bloody war over Taiwan, we all need a clear understanding of what such a confrontation might actually look like.