Australian Politics

If you were a powerful politician, there is a good chance you would make decisions that favour your mates.

Residents of the UK are doing so: Like millions of people across Britain, Josina, a teacher from Sheffield, is being pushed into poverty by rising energy prices.

Labor’s housing and homelessness minister, Julie Collins, yesterday gave a speech at Day 1 of the National Homelessness Conference at the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI), whereby she accused the former Coalition government of a “decade of inaction” on the issue.

You know you’re winning a debate when consensus followers like Chris Richardson are climbing aboard after years of ignoring a critical issue: After this month, however, consumer cash flows will be fully exposed…Much of the pressure is coming from energy costs.

The criminal conspiracy that is Australia’s gas export cartel is pounded again today by ex-AFR media that appears to have finally figured it out.

Nobody wants a war over Taiwan.

Here it is from the horse’s mouth.

The federal government aims to introduce legislation to establish a national integrity commission (NIC) by the end of 2022.

The entire east coast is now enjoying a still high but much-improved gas price of $11Gj today as the export cartel goes the raw prawn with the political economy.

What’s happened to journalism at the Australian Financial Review?

My own view is that this is wrong.

This is how the gas cartel operates.

Greens leader Adam Bandt will use today’s National Press Club speech to call for free childcare and dental care for all Australians.

The Aussie gas price continued to plunge yesterday as the evil gas cartel games the Albanese Government.

DXY launched last night as EUR flamed out: AUD was thrashed across the board: Oil is holding desperately to $100: Base metals rolled with miners and EM: US yields spiked as Fed speakers hawked-up: Stocks eased: Westpac has the wrap: Event Wrap Tensions between US and China rose as US House Speaker Pelosi landed in Taipei.

The $0.221-per-litre fuel excise reduction is scheduled to end on 28 September.

Doggerel from Umair Ghori, Associate Professor, Bond University. AKA Professor Idiot: With the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) warning consumers of huge price hikes ahead, further calls for the federal government to pull its so-called “gas trigger” seem inevitable.

One of the revelations in the ACCC’s superb gas report yesterday is how advanced is the cartel behaviour of the Curtis Island gas exporters: • The upstream market is highly concentrated and dominated by the three LNG exporters and their associates.

It is one of the great ironies of today’s hopelessly corrupted ideological soup.