Still only September, the country is burning and Australia’s disgrace is on world display. Unlike Morrison and Turnbull, who had to placate the denialists on their own side, #Albanese and Plibersek are choosing #climate destruction against the wishes of their supporters and voters https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-20/australia-called-to-ramp-up-climate-ambitions-nyt-ad/102876940 Share this:Like this:Like Loading...
Read More »French Lesson: we don’t need nuclear power, we need a new Pierre Messmer
That was my suggested headline for my latest opinion piece, which ran in Australian online magazine Crikey under the sub-editors (blander IMO) choice of “We don’t need a nuclear renaissance. We need a solid plan on renewables” The idea of the piece was to respond to Exhibit A in the case for nuclear power, the successful French construction program of the 1970s and 1980s, under the Messmer Plan. I’ve previously written about the way this program depended on the power of the French...
Read More »Monday Message Board
Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the sandpits, please. I’m now using Substack as a blogging platform, and for my monthly email newsletter. For the moment, I’ll post both at this blog and on Substack. You can also follow me on Mastodon here. Share this:Like this:Like Loading...
Read More »HAFF-baked
The #HAFF was Albanese #Labor’s biggest single program, spending $500 million a year. The Greens extracted $3 billion more over (I think) 3 years, tripling the size of the program #auspol Share this:Like this:Like Loading...
Read More »Europe’s Bradbury moment
One of the iconic moments in Australian sport occurred in at the 2002 Winter Olympics. Australians are strong in most summer sports, but we don’t have much in the way of a winter, so it was considered quite an achievement for Steven Bradbury to make the finals of the speed skating event. He was given little chance of winning, and was trailing the pack until the final seconds, when all four skaters ahead of him crashed spectacularly. Bradbury cruised past them to claim the gold medal,...
Read More »As gas-guzzlers dominate our roads, the queue to buy an EV in Oz just gets longer
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Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the sandpits, please. I’m now using Substack as a blogging platform, and for my monthly email newsletter. For the moment, I’ll post both at this blog and on Substack. You can also follow me on Mastodon here. Share this:Like this:Like Loading...
Read More »The ageing alarmists won’t let go
My latest in Inside Story Fears about the impact of increasing longevity haven’t aged well John Quiggin 4 September 2023 1690 words Wrong assumption: treasurer Jim Chalmers launching this year’s Intergenerational Report at the National Press Club of Australia last month. Lukas Coch/AAP Image Share “It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future.” This aphorism, apparently of Danish origin and sometimes attributed to the physicist Niels Bohr,...
Read More »Millions
The Courier-Mail (no link) is running a #Brisbane airport propaganda line that a curfew would disrupt flights for a million people a year (8 flights per night*pax/flight*365). Using the same basis of calculation, and assuming 500k people under the flight path, they are disturbing about 100 million people a year. #auspol #greens #auspol Share this:Like this:Like Loading...
Read More »Albanese government’s close embrace of Qantas may no longer fly with the times
I wrote this for the Guardian last week, Events have already moved on, with the snap resignation of Qantas CEO Alan Joyce, but the anomalous status of a “national flag carrier” with no interest in the welfare of the nation remains unresolved. Share this:Like this:Like Loading...
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