Energy revolution on track: electricity bills to fall, transition to renewables accelerates
The good news is electricity prices are falling, decarbonisation is accelerating, and there should be little need for public subsidies for fossil fuel companies, despite their demands. Michael West speaks with energy finance analyst and renewable energy expert Tim Buckley.
RBA conundrum: to shrink debt or hang onto that record low funding?
The RBA has more than two policy levers at its disposal (tweaking interest rates and jawboning). It can curb interest rates by selling bonds back to government. What’s the scam?
Dreadnoughts and Virginias: why is Australia paying more than twice the price for submarines?
Paul Keating described the AUKUS deal negotiated by the Albanese government as the “worst deal in all history”. Is he right, and if so, just how bad is it?
Greg Hunt saves 40,000 lives (not nurses, doctors, just Greg)
“When Jack the Ripper died he saved the lives of women across London”
Beetaloo Inquiry: gas is for export, Santos admits
The Beetaloo Basin Inquiry reveals gas intended for export rather than the domestic market.
Crown found “unsuitable” laundering billions for Chinese Crime gangs. What’s the Scam?
The scam is that if you are a big money launderer for the Triads, better watch out, they might accuse you of “unsuitable” behaviour. But hey, keep your licence Crown and the authorities will make sure you are brutally, rigidly “independently monitored”.
NT Labor opens up Beetaloo
Should fracking go ahead in the Beetaloo, it will be impossible to meet Net Zero by 2050 targets.
The amazing Giuseppe Porcelli hits the CEO big-time without the help of a single customer
How a fast-talking tech entrepreneur turned a $4m company into a $100m company overnight – without the assistance of customers. Michael West with chapter three in the story of Lakeba Group and amazing chief executive Giuseppi Porcelli.
I just want a Ferrari, sorry, a nuclear submarine, no matter the cost
Australia has just committed to spending $368 billion on second hand US Virginia Class submarines, and eight next generation British AUKUS nuclear submarines. It’s a strategic blunder, and it’s not even going to happen the way PM Albanese has suggested.
“Let’s drop this now”: calls rise for Albo to ask Joe Biden for release of Assange in tonight’s AUKUS talks
There will be no better opportunity than now for Anthony Albanese to ask US President Joe Biden for the release of Julian Assange. Michael West reports on the Belmarsh Tribunal and calls for the release of Australia’s number one political prisoner.
Academy of Science, ANU compromised by government secrecy over damning emissions report
Science and secrecy are two words that rarely go well together. Yet remarkably, our peak scientific institution, the Australian Academy of Science is deliberately engaging in secrecy, aided and abetted by the Australian National University.
RBA conundrum: to shrink debt or hang onto that record low funding?
The RBA has more than two policy levers at its disposal (tweaking interest rates and jawboning). It can curb interest rates by selling bonds back to government. What’s the scam?
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