Opinion AUSTRALIAN Politics: Adelaide Board Discussion Part 5

[MsTopG]

 

[Bearded Clam]

Aaaawwwwe.. somebody call a waaaambulance for poor Craigy boy!..

I’m certain these establishments will be absolutely delighted to learn that that absolute flog of an excuse for a human, and his deadshit mates, wont be coming into their pubs..

 

[kirky]

Business has right to do what it wants to do. If it costs the business $$$, then it is on them.

If someone doesn’t like it then go somewhere else.

These are all metro pubs predominantly so will have little impact. Probably most of the cater for a younger crowd who don’t have the same racist tendencies as the older crowd like Craig and his ilk.

You have got to love the irony, telling people how they need to run their business. The business is not breaking any laws.

Craig Kelly still trying to stay relevant and keeping the culture wars going. Sky News will be all over this.

 

[Mutineer]

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Australia’s new Dark Ages: Gas offers energy crisis lifeline as summer blackout warnings are brought forward​

Aussie households face being plunged into summer blackouts unless politicians and regulators take urgent action on gas supplies. See what the experts say needs to happen now.



Households face being plunged into darkness – while paying even more for power – without urgent action on Australia’s gas shortage.
Industry leaders are eager to tackle the looming deficit, but to have any hope of success they say politicians and regulators must end lengthy project approval delays.
Today this masthead launches a week-long in-depth series explaining the critical importance of stepping on the gas to head off a crisis that also threatens to drive jobs offshore and trash the transition to renewables.
Just days ago, Sydney residents were warned not to run washing machines or dishwashers in the evening and government departments switched off the lights, amid fears the grid would be unable to handle an unremarkably hot day with temperatures in the 30s.

 

[Mutineer]

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/priced-out-of-existence-manufacturers-blunt-warning-on-spiralling-energy-costs/news-story/94651642d5f4eb2f2045adbab45476f5

‘Priced out of existence’: Manufacturer’s blunt warning on spiralling energy costs​

The soaring cost of energy is smashing both Aussie businesses and household budgets. See the alarming increase in gas costs being passed on from manufacturers to Aussie families.

Businesses that produce groceries are being smashed by soaring gas bills that are making it harder and harder to stay afloat.
From breakfast staples to bathroom supplies, the price you pay for goods to run a home are soaring upwards, hastened by energy costs.

Today this masthead can reveal more about the scale and breadth of the impact than has ever occurred before.

Homestyle Bake, which supplies Queensland supermarkets, schools, nursing homes and prisons, is paying about 200 per cent more for gas now than it was three years ago, said director Lindsay Weber.
Its electricity bills have leapt by about 300 per cent over the same time, Mr Weber said.

“It has become a huge impost on the business,” he said.

Homestyle Bake employs about 300 people at Toowoomba and on the Gold Coast.

“We have had to continually look for efficiency gains and take a reduction in margin.

“That means you have less money to reinvest in the business on bakery equipment, which wears out, as do delivery trucks,” Mr Weber said.
He said while he was a supporter of the “agenda for green energy”, it was vital that politicians “look at what impact that is having on businesses in Australia”.

“Manufacturing is being priced out of existence,” Mr Weber said.

“Energy costs here are extremely high compared to other countries around the world.”

 

[Bearded Clam]

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Australia’s new Dark Ages: Gas offers energy crisis lifeline as summer blackout warnings are brought forward​

Aussie households face being plunged into summer blackouts unless politicians and regulators take urgent action on gas supplies. See what the experts say needs to happen now.



Households face being plunged into darkness – while paying even more for power – without urgent action on Australia’s gas shortage.
Industry leaders are eager to tackle the looming deficit, but to have any hope of success they say politicians and regulators must end lengthy project approval delays.
Today this masthead launches a week-long in-depth series explaining the critical importance of stepping on the gas to head off a crisis that also threatens to drive jobs offshore and trash the transition to renewables.
Just days ago, Sydney residents were warned not to run washing machines or dishwashers in the evening and government departments switched off the lights, amid fears the grid would be unable to handle an unremarkably hot day with temperatures in the 30s.

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Pity your mate Howard the lying rodent allowed all the multinational gas giants to sell all our gas off in locked in longterm contracts to overseas markets at bargain basement prices.. leaving none for the local market..

But let me guess.. its all “Labor and Dans fault”…

 

[Mutineer]

Pity your mate Howard the lying rodent allowed all the multinational gas giants to sell all our gas off in locked in longterm contracts to overseas markets at bargain basement prices.. leaving none for the local market..

But let me guess.. its all “Labor and Dans fault”…

LOL

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Ms McCulloch said Victoria, in particular, had been “sleepwalking towards a cliff” after the “demonisation” of gas and blocking new supply. Shortages there could hit even sooner than the ACCC had warned, she said.

Gas would have to be imported into Victoria from interstate or overseas, Ms McCulloch said.

 

[Eagleboy2011]

Pity your mate Howard the lying rodent allowed all the multinational gas giants to sell all our gas off in locked in longterm contracts to overseas markets at bargain basement prices.. leaving none for the local market..

But let me guess.. its all “Labor and Dans fault”…

Both parties guilty. Sadly.

 

[Mutineer]

Pity your mate Howard the lying rodent allowed all the multinational gas giants to sell all our gas off in locked in longterm contracts to overseas markets at bargain basement prices.. leaving none for the local market..

But let me guess.. its all “Labor and Dans fault”…

Not what the Santos boss and APA boss are saying...


As an example, Mr Gallagher said that at the start of the year, Santos was working off version 72 of the National Gas Rules, but “today our marketers are working off version 82.”

He also cited the ongoing battle Santos has faced to get its Narrabri project, in western NSW, up and running.

“The environmental impact statement for that project was submitted in 2017 and in 2024, the production licences for Narrabri still cannot be granted because of ongoing litigation” over native title and climate change, Mr Gallagher said.

APA’s Mr Watson said he feared the newer Beetaloo project in the Northern Territory would suffer the same fate.

“If we keep putting hurdles up then we can’t bring it to market in time to address the shortfall,” Mr Watson said. “At times it feels like the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing.”

Ms O’Neill said: “Investment has been held up by the uncertainty caused by policy interventions, slow and complex approval processes and lawfare waged by anti-industry activist groups.”

 

[Eagleboy2011]

Not what the Santos boss and APA boss are saying...


As an example, Mr Gallagher said that at the start of the year, Santos was working off version 72 of the National Gas Rules, but “today our marketers are working off version 82.”

He also cited the ongoing battle Santos has faced to get its Narrabri project, in western NSW, up and running.

“The environmental impact statement for that project was submitted in 2017 and in 2024, the production licences for Narrabri still cannot be granted because of ongoing litigation” over native title and climate change, Mr Gallagher said.

APA’s Mr Watson said he feared the newer Beetaloo project in the Northern Territory would suffer the same fate.

“If we keep putting hurdles up then we can’t bring it to market in time to address the shortfall,” Mr Watson said. “At times it feels like the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing.”

Ms O’Neill said: “Investment has been held up by the uncertainty caused by policy interventions, slow and complex approval processes and lawfare waged by anti-industry activist groups.”

The last sentence says it all. Investment stifled or discouraged.

 

[Mutineer]

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/business/governments-risk-losing-the-mandate-for-australias-energy-transition-as-costs-pose-issues/news-story/8e0cf1e427e680b594449bdbdb30b240

Governments risk losing the mandate for Australia’s energy transition as costs pose issues​

The key takeaways from Macquarie Group’s latest Green Energy Conference – which headlined the chief executives of Origin Energy and Santos – were the ever-present risks of a poorly managed transition.
The event, held without fanfare one evening last week via LinkedIn, touched on the need for longer-term policy settings and clarity in energy transition regulation.

It made clear that what lies ahead is a long and bumpy road for the economy and consumers of energy, as the shift to cleaner forms of power occurs.

Macquarie’s CEO Shemara Wikramanayake, as well as moderating the discussion, said consumers didn’t fully grasp the increased energy cost and reliability challenges that lay ahead.

“Once it starts swinging then you start losing the mandate for this transition. But it’s too late because we haven’t created the back-ups, which is a challenge.”

Her point is a highly valid one.

 

[Mutineer]

He has a point..the most important of all.

Origin’s CEO Frank Calabria urged governments to make long-dated decisions, including around the planning cycle for the development of infrastructure related to the energy transition.
He said rural communities felt they were “wearing the burden” as it related to a scaling up of the nation’s renewable energy sources.

“As you move away from fuel-based generation into renewables where governments are likely to overbuild renewables, there’ll be a lot of energy but it won’t be produced at the time that everyone’s going to demand it.”

Calabria cautioned on the fragility of the energy system and said it was becoming “increasingly valuable” to have an ability to match energy demand in real time.

Federal and state governments need to tackle these issues head on and think laterally about solutions.

 

[kirky]

Pity your mate Howard the lying rodent allowed all the multinational gas giants to sell all our gas off in locked in longterm contracts to overseas markets at bargain basement prices.. leaving none for the local market..

But let me guess.. its all “Labor and Dans fault”…

You got to love the fact that the Coalition were in power for 9 years and did squat in relation to a national energy policy. And where was the Coalition’s long dated decisions?

So now everyone in business is whinging regarding roof top solar.

Would not surprise this is just another reason for business, ala Santos, to jack up the gas prices.

And yes, Howard, signed away our natural resources for **** all.

The current dashboard -

 

[Cantuseit]

Business has right to do what it wants to do. If it costs the business $$$, then it is on them.

If someone doesn’t like it then go somewhere else.

These are all metro pubs predominantly so will have little impact. Probably most of the cater for a younger crowd who don’t have the same racist tendencies as the older crowd like Craig and his ilk.

You have got to love the irony, telling people how they need to run their business. The business is not breaking any laws.

Craig Kelly still trying to stay relevant and keeping the culture wars going. Sky News will be all over this.

The irony I love is that they're against the colonist Australia Day, but own the Colonist Hotel in Norwood.

 

[Slippery Pete]

Aaaawwwwe.. somebody call a waaaambulance for poor Craigy boy!..

I’m certain these establishments will be absolutely delighted to learn that that absolute flog of an excuse for a human, and his deadshit mates, wont be coming into their pubs..

I might take a different tack, maybe a pub crawl at these specific hotels, wearing:

 

[MsTopG]

I might take a different tack, maybe a pub crawl at these specific hotels, wearing:


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No wonder pubs are going broke going with this type of woke bs. Why don't they **** off out of the country if they hate the country they live in.

 

[Eagleboy2011]

The irony I love is that they're against the colonist Australia Day, but own the Colonist Hotel in Norwood.

Will these pubs close on that day if they are serious. Will they pay overtime/Public holiday rates to employees?

 

[MsTopG]

Welcome international students. Everyone wins a prize. Pay extra and you get the degree plus family members bonus special courtesy of Albo.

 

[Vader]

Will these pubs close on that day if they are serious. Will they pay overtime/Public holiday rates to employees?

No reason to think that they'll close - they just won't be hosting any Australia Day themed events. As far as they're concerned it's just another Sunday, the same as any other.

It's still a Public Holiday, so yes, penalty rates would still apply.

 

[MsTopG]

 

[kirky]

The irony I love is that they're against the colonist Australia Day, but own the Colonist Hotel in Norwood.

You do get it that they weren’t going to rename.

A bit petty.

 

[MsTopG]

 

[Bearded Clam]

The irony I love is that they're against the colonist Australia Day, but own the Colonist Hotel in Norwood.

A couple of weird takes here.. but given the reactionist, and often
conspiracy ladden nonsense, we normally get from Top G and their ilk its to be expected..

This company that runs these venues hasnt stopped/banned/ended Australia Day..

No company can.. all any private company can do is decide to no longer spend money celebrating or promoting Australia Day in their venues.. which is all they have chosen to do out of respect for our first nations brothers and sisters..

For all we know.. The people in charge at this company will continue to celebrate Australia Day like most of the rest of us normal white Australians.. peacefully and, more often than not, in our own backyards with family and friends, cold beers and copious amounts of lamb on the BBQ..

Not sure what the fuss over this private company making this decision is all about.. but thats the hard right conservative snowflakes for ya.. they go into meltdown over the smallest of changes..

 

[Mutineer]

I might take a different tack, maybe a pub crawl at these specific hotels, wearing:


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Cuuld not like this enough...

 

[Bearded Clam]

Yeah.. best you read the article and understand it before you go using it to start pointing to it being about a failure of renewables..

Its not.

Its about a transmission cable taking longer to install than expected which is delaying all the energy currently being generated from new renewable sources around the country being delivered into SA..

Another miserable fail from TopG..