Australian Politics

Recall Labor’s Powering Australia Plan, which promised to reduce NEM wholesale electricity costs by $11 per MWh, from $62 to $51, by 2025.

The gas goons are on the run. Reuters. At a conference in Sydney, Australian executives of Shell (SHEL.L), opens new tab , ExxonMobil and Chevron (CVX.N), opens new tab pushed back on the coalition’s proposal, arguing more government intervention would hamper the development of gas supply.

Last year, an Instagram video of a migration agent instructing rejected student visa holders how to appeal their decisions to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) went viral.

The Australian Made Campaign has welcomed additional funding of $20 million in last week’s federal budget.

Regardless of which party wins the upcoming federal election, a match will be lit under Australian house prices.

Electric vehicles have been heavily subsidised in Australia. A recent analysis by the Institute of Public Accountants estimated that the federal budget has lost approximately $564 million annually in tax revenue due to the Fringe Benefits Tax (FBT) exemption for battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs).

After his recent botching of the Chinese maritime missile tour of Australia’s major cities, Albo is again trumped by the appearance of another hostile Chinese vessel.

The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) does not mince words.

In late 2021, the Labor Party released its Powering Australia Plan, which promised to reduce NEM wholesale electricity costs by $11 per MWh, from $62 to $51, by 2025.

The idiot MSM is at its gotcha worst.

As we know, the Albanese government is an inveterate liar on most matters of economics.

With the federal election campaign in full swing and voters heading to the polls on Saturday 3 May, the first batch of opinion polling has Labor leading the Coalition and Anthony Albanese ahead of Peter Dutton as preferred prime minister.

I hope the fake left still loves its ABC because it sure doesn’t love them.

Peter Dutton’s call for East Coast Australia to start reserving gas has drawn the usual vested interest shrieking in your mainstream media.

Progress towards peace in Ukraine is slow to the point of being imperceptible.

Recall that Tuesday’s federal budget forecast a significant slowing of net overseas migration over the forward estimates.

The ACCC is in panic mode about the gas shortage. We forecast a shortfall of 9 PJ in the east coast market over July-September 2025 (quarter 3) if LNG producers export all their uncontracted gas, and a surplus of 6 PJ if they only export their anticipated spot sales.

I was wrong to have written off Peter Dutton and the Coalition.

Let us recall the spectacle of Raja Albo dining with his fellow lords of Indian immigration over a damn good curry and discussions about how to gut the Australian border.

They keep trying and keep failing to describe what is going on.

Tuesday’s federal budget included the following explanation of how the decline in tobacco excise has resulted in the loss of billions of dollars in revenue.

Liberal leader Peter Dutton has thrown a cost-of-living Hail Mary at voters, promising to halve the rate of fuel excise for a year, which would cost the federal budget $6 billion.

As a politician, you have got to know when to hold them and when to fold them.