Australian Politics

The Productivity Commission (PC) on Friday released a report entitled “In need of repair: The National Housing and Homelessness Agreement”.

A surge of popular discontent has arrived in Canberra with a caravan of a million men clamoring for energy price relief.

Here is your new gas supply agreement with the Evil Gas Cartel: And from Annex C on pricing guidelines: So, it is clear that both the Agreement and Code of Conduct use the JKM export netback price as the baseline for “competitive” offers in the local market.

Well, holy cow.

Or Donald Trump.

The Guardian has more on the fight of our lives: Gas exporters and the Albanese government remain at loggerheads over ensuring eastern Australia has sufficient supplies to meet domestic demand next year.

Rather than import so many warm bodies to feed this bottomless pit, let’s export Gerry Harvey to China.

Oil enjoyed a nice little pop last night as Vladimir Putin asked OPEC to fund his war: Russia is likely to propose that OPEC+ reduces oil output by around 1 million barrels per day at its next meeting in October, a source familiar with the Russian viewpoint said on Tuesday.

Federal housing minister, Julie Collins, continues to wax lyrical about Labor’s housing and homelessness plan, claiming she is incredibly passionate about “making sure that more Australians have a safe place to call home”: Ms Collins said she was working with state and territory governments and the construction sector on the issues.

Well, that escalated quickly. One minute Albo was everybody’s probity hero, the next he’s just another corrupt hack: Legal and integrity experts have criticised the government’s proposed National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) for having too high a threshold for public hearings, but those who the government will need to pass the legislation were more positive.

It’s not yet entirely clear what this means: Resources Minister Madeleine King has demanded the three major east coast gas producers sign a government-drafted deal that may include what some industry figures slammed as an “unworkable” and distortionary price cap mechanism to shield domestic manufacturers.

Here is Jim “chicken” Chalmers again late yesterday: Australia is not immune to a recession amid a struggling global economy, according to Jim Chalmers.

There is no more appropriate end to mankind than the developing new coal golden age.

The Canberra bubble is now a hermetically sealed mendacious dome under which lies prosper and public interest dies.

Some days you just have to laugh.

The Poms are doing the right thing: Businesses have been given an emergency package of government support including a cap significantly reducing the price paid for energy from 1 October to help them get through the winter.

Why wouldn’t it?

The worst treasurer in a century, Jim “Chicken” Chalmers, was at it again yesterday: Jim Chalmers says the nation’s fiscal deficit has seen a $50bn boost since March, driven by lower spending by the former government and strong commodities prices.

What is wrong with everybody?