Australian Politics

This makes a lot more sense than Mike Cannon-Brooks cable to nowhere: Andrew Forrest’s Squadron Energy is considering bidding for Sun Cable – the visionary $35 billion clean energy export project in northern Australia – against Mike Cannon-Brookes, but will dump a 5000-kilometre power cable link to Singapore if successful.

It’s a new year but it’s the same old gas cartel.

Coalition humiliation is complete: The Albanese government will cap the carbon price at $75 a tonne for miners and other big industrial emitters, in a bid to shield business from the risk of future cost spikes and provide certainty under Labor’s decarbonisation plan.

I will track these prices regularly.

It appears wolf warrior Xi Jinping is more like Xi the Idiot.

Albo was slow off the mark and buggered it up a few times but his government has averted a catastrophic 2023 energy crisis that was going to drive gas and power bills up by 120% (at today’s coal and gas prices) and add 7% to the CPI.

Housing Minister Julie Collins has named outgoing Mirvac CEO Susan Lloyd-Hurwitz to lead the federal government’s interim National Housing Supply and Affordability Council.

The last opinion poll of the year has seen the Albanese Government’s popular support lift after it passed its gas price cap through parliament.

The weekend media was full of gas crap.

Out of all the hills to die on, idiot Peter Dutton has chosen the worst one in siding with the foreign owned energy cartel over Australians.

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.