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That's rich coming from an ALP luvvie who thinks that Albo is the best thing since sliced bread.
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Opinion AUSTRALIAN Politics: Adelaide Board Discussion Part 5
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Almost all of these deranged commie agendas have this in common: the use of the failure of an approach as justification for carrying out more of that exact approach.
Which is exactly what you do when your intent is destruction.
High cost of gas generation still has a big impact on average wholesale costs in SA. This will be reduced as we ramp that down and NSW gets its shit together with its side of the interconnector. Our network costs shouldn't increase much like other states (extra $ for increasing natural disasters might affect this ironically), so I think our tariffs should trend down over the next 5 years. It might be a different story for eastern states, witch will depend on high cost coal and gas for a lot longer.
Chair of AER came out and said she thinks nuclear would take 25 years minimum. Says its 10-20 years too late. What would she know.
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I remember 20 years ago I think the Howard government simply asked a question about Nuclear power and Australia lost its collective mind. Since then no one has really been series about it. Its a political death sentence to any party who implements it unless they get elected with the mandate. Will be interesting to see if the LNP put this as a policy. Lots of talk about it it seems.
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Opinion piece in today's T'iser.
Lucky country is now stupid
TERRY MCCRANN
It’s still the economy, stupid. When I look at Canberra, individually and collectively, the very stupid.
The share market might be at record levels; property prices continue to defy gravity – making the two-thirds of adult Australians who own property at least feel rich; superannuation balances have just jumped 8-10 per cent over2023-24.
Yet the vast majority of Australians feel anything but financially well off.
Their all too real day-to-day reality is high interest rates soaking up much of their disposable incomes – if they have a home loan. Or punishing rents filthy don’t. If they can indeed find a property to rent, that is.
Then move on to the weekly supermarket bill, electricity and gas, education, healthcare, etc. etc. and many more etc.
Those tax cuts. The $300 electricity handout to come? Yeah, right; sitting somewhere between a drop in the ocean of financial pain, and an almost deliberate insult to their intelligence. We’ll screw you blind, and then expect adulation when we give you some of it back. ]
Then spare a particular thought for the 2.5 million or so SMEs – small and medium sized businesses – in Australia, and the maybe 5-7 million actual people behind them. Hey suffer all the pain that every Australian has been subjected to, as individual Australians. Plus, the (quite unnecessarily) exploding costs of trying to run a business, plus the ever-expanding red tape.
In that broader reality of Australians as consumers suffering financial pain and not having the discretionary money to spend on their goods and services. The critical, absolutely core, point is that it is all entirely self-imposed. It doesn’t have to be this way. It is the direct and deliberate decisions of politicians, mostly but not exclusively in Canberra. With the latest most obvious iteration, the out-of-control CFMEU – aided and abetted by the abolition of the construction industry watchdog by Prime Minister Albanese and the IR minister Tony Bourke.
Now, we can focus on this, and a host of other specific factors driving up costs and seriously hurting both jobs and business prospects and disposable incomes. Including by forcing the Reserve Bank to keep interest rates higher than might otherwise be necessary. But in big-picture terms it all comes down to two things – two monumental stupidities.
The first is the out-of control level of migration – a million migrants net in just two years, mostly flooding into Melbourne and Sydney. Yes, they might keep the economy ticking over at the margin – providing workers in hospitality and pumping their spending into the economy. But those benefits are far, far outweighed by the costs, which spread right across the economy. Even to those sectors that receive no benefit on the other side.
The second is the deliberate program to destroy our electricity system. We should be living in an Australia where electricity is plentiful, is reliable, and is cheap. As it used to be. It’s not just the pain you feel in your bill, but the way high-cost power feeds so destructively into everything.
Australia was the lucky country.
It’s now the – very – stupid country.
Lucky country is now stupid
TERRY MCCRANN
It’s still the economy, stupid. When I look at Canberra, individually and collectively, the very stupid.
The share market might be at record levels; property prices continue to defy gravity – making the two-thirds of adult Australians who own property at least feel rich; superannuation balances have just jumped 8-10 per cent over2023-24.
Yet the vast majority of Australians feel anything but financially well off.
Their all too real day-to-day reality is high interest rates soaking up much of their disposable incomes – if they have a home loan. Or punishing rents filthy don’t. If they can indeed find a property to rent, that is.
Then move on to the weekly supermarket bill, electricity and gas, education, healthcare, etc. etc. and many more etc.
Those tax cuts. The $300 electricity handout to come? Yeah, right; sitting somewhere between a drop in the ocean of financial pain, and an almost deliberate insult to their intelligence. We’ll screw you blind, and then expect adulation when we give you some of it back. ]
Then spare a particular thought for the 2.5 million or so SMEs – small and medium sized businesses – in Australia, and the maybe 5-7 million actual people behind them. Hey suffer all the pain that every Australian has been subjected to, as individual Australians. Plus, the (quite unnecessarily) exploding costs of trying to run a business, plus the ever-expanding red tape.
In that broader reality of Australians as consumers suffering financial pain and not having the discretionary money to spend on their goods and services. The critical, absolutely core, point is that it is all entirely self-imposed. It doesn’t have to be this way. It is the direct and deliberate decisions of politicians, mostly but not exclusively in Canberra. With the latest most obvious iteration, the out-of-control CFMEU – aided and abetted by the abolition of the construction industry watchdog by Prime Minister Albanese and the IR minister Tony Bourke.
Now, we can focus on this, and a host of other specific factors driving up costs and seriously hurting both jobs and business prospects and disposable incomes. Including by forcing the Reserve Bank to keep interest rates higher than might otherwise be necessary. But in big-picture terms it all comes down to two things – two monumental stupidities.
The first is the out-of control level of migration – a million migrants net in just two years, mostly flooding into Melbourne and Sydney. Yes, they might keep the economy ticking over at the margin – providing workers in hospitality and pumping their spending into the economy. But those benefits are far, far outweighed by the costs, which spread right across the economy. Even to those sectors that receive no benefit on the other side.
The second is the deliberate program to destroy our electricity system. We should be living in an Australia where electricity is plentiful, is reliable, and is cheap. As it used to be. It’s not just the pain you feel in your bill, but the way high-cost power feeds so destructively into everything.
Australia was the lucky country.
It’s now the – very – stupid country.
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Labor's energy transition threated after biggest supporter steps away from target
Labor's energy transition plan is under threat with one of the biggest supporters of hydrogen technology stepping away from the company's target.
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Labor's energy transition plan is under threat with one of the biggest supporters of hydrogen technology stepping away from the company's target.
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Ole Twiggy knows what side his bread is buttered....$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$'s
He don't like wasting his billions on pipe dreams.
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He don't like wasting his billions on pipe dreams.
Fortescue cuts 700 jobs and drops green hydrogen target
Billionaire founder and executive chair Andrew Forrest has been one of the most bullish voices backing clean fuel
Who do you think knows more about the energy market including generation, transmission, regulatory frameworks and the political system in which it operates? It's literally been her life for years and she's no chump.
The technology is not what is in question.
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She's not a nuclear scientist or expert he is, she says 25 years he says less than half that....I'm backing him when it comes to nuclear. The infrastructure aside from the reactors is mostly already there at the coal fired power stations.
Does Terry even know what the term lucky country even means?
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Do you?
She has vast insight into major infrastructure projects happening throughout the country right now and understands more than most how the political and regulatory frameworks operate. Who do you think knows more about the economics of the wholesale market and where it's heading? Do you think people like her twiddle her thumbs all day? She's literally making decisions on all facets of the energy systems 12 hours a day.
Obviously the guy knows more about how atoms work, but the current energy market is a huge beast.
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They're French?
Yeah and that opinion doesn't make sense given its context. Idiots like Terry have always misused the term.
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You obviously don’t understand the reference and went over your head - conservatives don’t want to change things, progressives do for the better.
So it was spot on.
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Even if Mr Potato Head gets in, he has said he will have 2.5 years of consultation which before we even start it will be 2028.
Then you have to have legislation etc and get States to change (all State Governments are against nuclear power).
So you think anything will actually start before 2030 and how much will it cost us by then.
This is all a smokescreen to do nothing and keep coal and gas going. Another Mr Potato Head brain fart.
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That's really galling...
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Terry belongs in an aged care home.
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Well they probably like Le Pen.
A lot of good points.
Greed, ego and governing for votes basically have rocketed Australia into the most expensive country in the world to live in. Or at least one of them.
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So these issues which he has raised have only just occurred.
Property prices are out of control due to tax concessions (negative gearing), halving of the capital gains tax (thank you JWH) and failure by both Labor and Coalition governments of not spending money on social housing for the past 25-30 years.
Immigration isn’t the problem it is made out to be either.
And whilst I’m a beneficiary, the concessions for superannuation are ridiculous and need to be reigned in.
And another thing is I actually don’t pay any income tax as I’m below the tax free threshold and yet I get all my franking credits back. Again, ridiculous.
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Hmmm
Terry said this :
"In that broader reality of Australians as consumers suffering financial pain and not having the discretionary money to spend on their goods and services. The critical, absolutely core, point is that it is all entirely self-imposed. It doesn’t have to be this way. It is the direct and deliberate decisions of politicians, mostly but not exclusively in Canberra. With the latest most obvious iteration, the out-of-control CFMEU – aided and abetted by the abolition of the construction industry watchdog by Prime Minister Albanese and the IR minister Tony Bourke.
Now, we can focus on this, and a host of other specific factors driving up costs and seriously hurting both jobs and business prospects and disposable incomes. Including by forcing the Reserve Bank to keep interest rates higher than might otherwise be necessary. But in big-picture terms it all comes down to two things – two monumental stupidities."
Now we have rabid lefty ABC luvvie's Raf Epstein and Stephen Mayne agreeing wholeheartedly in tandem..What a balls up "by Albo the ALP and the big "berk"
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