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By Jo Nova
It was never about The Science
And so we find that the global consensus quietly dispersed, there were no press releases, no ceremonies, just the dawning realization that nearly everyone had left the party without saying goodbye. And they didn’t wait for the UN to say “the science” was fine. The herd is on the move regardless…
One of the top majordomos at BHP delivers the bad news to Anthony Albanese. Everywhere on Earth is more attractive to a miner than Australia is. The world has changed, and everyone wants cheap energy, critical minerals, and lower taxes and other countries are giving it to them. Even Canada (ferrgoodnesssake!) is “walking back policies that the country can’t afford”. While Australia is the last nation on Earth steaming ahead to Renewable-nirvana.
Brandon Craig specifically mentions problems with climate targets, competitively priced energy, and Net Zero.
In the nicest possible way he’s telling our PM that his Net Zero plan is a dog.
Mining giant’s rising star Brandon Craig warns even green policy stalwarts like Canada are moving to protect their economies
By Brad Thompson, The Australian
BHP rising star Brandon Craig has warned Labor it needs to reconsider how policy settings are calibrated, including around emissions and climate targets, or risk being left behind by governments hungrier for mining investment.
Investment rivals like Chile, Argentina, the United States and Mark Carney’s Canada were acting to attract and secure multi-billion dollar investment from miners, but Australia was failing to meet their terms.
Mr Craig suggested it was time to reconsider net zero and decarbonisation policies to safeguard Australia’s economy. “I would let readers form their own conclusions but I think if we contrast directionally where the rest of the world is going versus where Australia is going across energy policy, tax policy, industrial policy, deregulation, even in some respects net zero positioning and decarbonisation, even stalwarts like Canada – in the face of tariffs and the impact to the economy from US policy – is walking back policies that the country can’t afford anymore,” he said.
The two things BHP particularly wants are the corporate tax rate lowered from 30 to 20% and reliable cheap power.
Brandon Craig is working in Argentina to develop the Vicuna copper project. He points out the tax rate there fell from 35% to 25% under the leadership of Javier Millei. And the successes of small government in Argentina are spreading to Chile — where voters go to the polls this weekend, and are expected to also elect “a hard right leader”. According to Craig, the word is that it’s likely the next government in Chile will improve their tax regime because they are competing with Argentina for mining investment.
The effect of liberty is infectious, isn’t it?
So, Mr ‘Blackout Bowen’, with all of your World trips to secure investment for the World’s ‘Ruinables’ Super Power, how many $ have you secured for investment in Sunny and ‘windy’ Australia? How much did I hear you say?
Meanwhile, Australian Mining and Manufacturing Industries are investing where the energy prices are lower along with lower tax rates. And that is not here in Australia.
Now, would you call that a success?
Don’t hide ‘Albo’, as you and all the other Marxists here in Australia are responsible too.
Oh, and there is a ‘Cost of Living Crisis;, ‘Housing Crisis’ and a long list of problems that you have all caused.
How about solving all of them as well as the ‘Cheapest form of Energy’ BS.
Marvellous stuff -sarc/
There is nothing wrong with ‘King Coal’ and all the other lovely Hydrocarbons.
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Perhaps Mr Craig could be more blunt next time he addresses the ruling mediocrity and just say strait to their face that are idiots and that their Net Zero delusion will ruin the country. It would make head lines, cause deafening caterwauling and will offend all the righteous. But the people will know he is right.
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BHP would sack him on the spot.
BHP are part of the problem.
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This morning, Ed, my wife said “but I don’t want Labor to drop Net Zero, as then the Coalition will have lost their best campaign weapon for the next election”. She is correct (she usually is).
But the Libs and Nats are going to have to get off their collective bums and start putting together a decent energy policy and start really selling it. So far, except for one voice, nothing.
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As is always the case with incumbent governments adopting opposition policies, on the go. It happened already in Victoria. Then opposition leader (LNP) Brad Battin went big on bail laws for children etc, then lo and behold the Labor Government decided to do the same. Mostly because they realised most of the crimes were being committed by less than 100 repeat offenders. So, with an election looming next year, it’s easier to just lock them up. There would have to be a huge ideological shift within both the Labor Party and the Canberra public service to reject Net Zero/ AGW/CC. Because I think the latter (PS) are just as responsible for the climate change zealotry. It’s why when LNP get in, not much changes.
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It has taken a long tIme but finally Big Business, well those not in the renewables camp, are telling the Government what it needs to hear if we are going to pull this Nation out of its economic death spiral. We can only hope that those that are pulling the economic levers in Canberra, are listening, and listening good, how many more signs of economic stagnation will they need to see/feel before they take action. My belief is that they will stick to this economic and energy pathway because they are too far committed to admit they got it wrong. Thus it will need an election, with the Opposition, whoever that may be, offering a 180 degree turn in energy and regulation, back to coal and gas, refurbishing the existing coal plants and renewing the oldest of them and a complete relaxation of gas exploration and delivery.
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Geological deposits, including coal, oil and gas, are by Constitution owned by the State Govts. Deposits in the two Territories belong to the Federal Govt, as does under sea beds between low tide and the international marine boundaries, but only NT matters in this context.
Yes, the destructive Vic Govt has just “relaxed” gas exploration rules on the known Gippsland deposits but “no gas” is now in the State’s Constitution so trusting investment there is a true act of faith. Geological exploration for Resources may be permitted to happen (if one risks the green and black tape) – extraction of then defined Reserves is another matter entirely.
A changed and determined Fed Govt may be able to wrangle a change bargaining with GST revenue or some such. Precarious is the balance then.
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I don’t understand how the ‘No Gas’ got into the VUC State Constitution. I always assumed that any proposed Constitution change had to go to a Referendum vote.
The VIC change most certainly didn;t as far as I know.
It certainly does need a Referendum vote for the Australian Federal Constitution.
Maybe State Constitutions are different then.
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Amending the commonwealth constitution requires a referendum.
Amending state constitutions can be done by a simple act of parliament. The exception is that sometimes state governments put extra steps so that constitutional amendments made by simple acts or parliament can’t be undone by simple acts of parliament.
Interesting subject that. Constitutional law. Like every other form of law it bears deep scars from the work of centuries of clever lawyers wanting to get their way.
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There have been plenty of Business people having a go at ‘LayBore’. Here is an earlier one –
Matt Barrie, chief executive of two companies and chair of another, went on a lengthy rant online, declaring “everything is cooked” in Australia.
August the 21st, 2025
“Energy through the roof pretending windmills and solar can power a G20 economy. Hot tip: you can’t. You need to move the power through time and space to where it’s needed. You also can’t run industrial thermal loads or precision manufacturing on intermittent power with phase instability.”
https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/australian-economy/ceo-says-government-has-many-issues-to-fix-before-productivity-can-improve/news-story/3ca98a8834ad24e19b8ca741c00f7eca
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I wrote to The Nationals today, telling them that dropping Net Zero wasn’t enough, they had to drop their lip service to CO2 emissions reduction too and bring the Libs along with them. Otherwise, One Nation would destroy them at the next election. A lot more people telling them the same thing might help. Might.
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They’re not listening. They don’t need to. They already know it’s a load of nonsense. Treasury included.
Nevertheless, in spite of this, they’re doubling down. They’re doing as their political masters tell them. The last remnants of frank and fearless advice went out the window on the election of the Albanese Marxist Labor government in 2022.
The lever-pullers are neo-Marxists by and large. Lefties who do the left Labor government’s bidding. Remember the Prime Minister is a Marxist. Most of his Cabinet are Fabians.
In fact, it’s worse than that. They’re bringing out the useful idiot “big guns” like Rod Sims, former Chairman of the ACCC to push the misinformation that increases in electricity prices are not a result of the wind and solar roll-out. Lies by commission. Lies by omission.
They’ve got Liberal Party members saying the same thing – Matt Kean, ex-Treasurer of the Liberal government in NSW, now the Labor appointed Chairman of the Commonwealth’s Climate Change Authority, as recently as 15 November 2025 was still pushing the debunked Hydrogen scam.
https://www.climatechangeauthority.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/2025-11/15%20November%202025%20-%20Matt%20Kean%20keynote%20speech%20-%20Ukraine%20Pavilion.pdf
The only solution is to vote the incompetent and ethically bankrupt Labor Party out of office. Quickly.
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In the 1990’s, when my father was still with us … how I tormented him over his unwavering support for PHON.
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He is now laughing at me from the great beyond – for having Voted for One Nation at the last 4 federal elections.
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I still miss his wisdom and wished we had more time together…
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‘In The Living Years!’
Tony.
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Mike and the Mechanics may help mend some broken familial relationships but they sure as hell can’t fix this nosediving energy system that Albo and Bowen are piloting into the ground.
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All we need is a miracle
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When all else fails …
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Not just a sinking ship it’s Titanic 2.0
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Given a chance I believe the alternative ( they’re certainly not in opposition) government still believes in net zero., the Paris Accord, wind & solar. The only aspect they’ve rejected are the targets. Why?? Are the targets too high or maybe they believe they’re too low. Nobody’s telling us the truth. That’s pretty obvious considering the glib announcements without any enthusiasm, convictions, or , most importantly not even a mention of the alternative’s policies. Nothing is set in concrete or even in a rice pudding!Typical Uniparty shenanigans!
Get up to speed quickly Barnaby. No time to waste!!
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Yes. The conservative Liberal party enjoy sitting on the fence.
What the hell does the party believe in?
Myself and many others say that’s one of the many reasons why we won’t return to voting for the Libs anytime soon.
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And the biggest problem with sitting on the fence is that you end up with splinters.
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And even worse if it’s a palisade-style fence…
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Or, rather, as David Lloyd George said of the somewhat hapless Sir John Simon, the ‘iron will enter his soul’.
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And Penguinite, we are in the leaking lifeboat.
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Murray,
Chances are that the news you hear today, like Rising BHP exec speaking, have already been discussed in private with this Federal Government a year ago. The problem, to use a word then new to Paul Keating, is “Recalcitrants” in government, here being ordinary people so in love with their ideology that they have not yet thought of changing policy because it is bad.
The Prime Minister seems dedicated to making Australia go backwards economically, when most of the rest of the world has dropped net zero aspirations or not ever started them. We are now stranded like a shag on a rock, with our PM demanding more wind and solar because of the doubtful reason that it is cheaper and able to combat intermittency by adding more. Sorry, Anthony, we have known since 1970 (to my knowledge) that this is wrong. We miners stuck to diesel for electricity at new mines. But the Teals of the world cause him to have raptures about CO2 being the work of the Devil.
A PM wanting a better Australia would admit his huge errors, apologise, call an early election, go on his allowed ten more international tourism family trips at taxpayer expense then RESIGN to join that shag on that rock before a land claim denies him access.
Geoff S
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Albo has a policy – it’s called Made in Australia.
It means if we like it we will fund it.
Eg. Arnott’s Group secures $45m government fund for global Tim Tam expansion.
No room for private investors.
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If we can’t even make biscuits profitably without a taxpayer subsidy then is it worth making them at all?
And as Australian industry continues to be shut down due to “renewables”, there will be fewer and fewer companies and employees paying taxes to fund these subsidies.
It won’t end well.
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Remember all those companies that received Government handouts just before they closed up shop eg Holden et al. It’s almost a death knell to be given a handout. Hope Arnotts are not going the same way.
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Brendan Craig of BHP seems to understand the Australian energy situation better than Greg Goodman. Goodman is aiming to build a big AI data centre in Western Sydney. A data centre won’t be much chop if it can’t obtain adequate power.
https://www.realcommercial.com.au/news/billionaire-greg-goodman-is-ready-for-the-next-ai-wave-with-huge-new-data-centres
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The Laundry is working well.
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No Robber, Albo’s policy is now – going MAD in Australia.
There is very little made anymore.
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Remember, the destruction of Australia’s energy supply wasn’t and isn’t a mistake or “based on best available advice”.
It was and is deliberate and malicious action by the Elites. They are of course supported by the lower-down echelons of the useful idiots of the Left who are merely followers, which is why so many of them wear septum rings in their nose like farm animals to indicate their status of being able to be led with a leash.
No apologies accepted.
Don’t forgive. Don’t forget. Prosecute.
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Who these mysterious elites ?.
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You can find them gathering at any WEF, UN, or IPCC meeting or any of those harvesting money from the renewables scam, at the expense of the consumer and the economy in general.
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Ah , those filthy capitalists .
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They are more subsidy harvesters, not capitalists, as they don’t operate in a free and open marketplace and would not even survive in one.
They only exist at the largesse of Leftist Governments.
They don’t produce a useful or desirable product at a fair price as free enterprise would do.
Take away their subsidies and protection from competition and they disappear overnight. And so do high consumer electricity prices.
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It’s ‘Crony Capitalism’. Very lucrative.
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Ha , Fossils are far more heavily subsidized.
The World is leaving you behind.
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Prove it, with real numbers for both sides.
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Rubbish. The claims of Australian fossil fuel subsidies include ridiculous ones such as pensioner energy subsidies, building of new wharfs, and the even more ridiculous one of assumed financial loss due to use of fossil fuels.
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97% of rational people know you’re wrong, Ponzi.
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That must be why we rely on them for their large contributions via royalties and taxes to our ever increasing welfare state.
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The long term contracts have to be cancelled.
Even in Canada, the largest industrial wind project in Ontario has another 10 years to go!
How can this be justified?
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Justified? What a quaint term from the distant past when some idea of morality existed in governments.
Remember the Live Sheep Industry? Gone with a stroke of the pen.
Remember in Victoria farmers no longer even own the topsoil. Any ole solar farmer/wind farmer can cross your gate and take what he wants for roads, sites and anything else.
Remember WA. It had a fishing industry before last Monday. Last year we had almost the entire south coast of WA, up to the South Australian border assigned as a marine park. All those fishing fleets along the south coast – they provide people and businesses to all those little hamlets and fish to the southwest – cannot fish in the marine park. They have to go out beyond the national boundary to fish. Just think of the capital in those boats, fishing licences, fishshops. Don’t expect cheap fish anymore as the costs of energy and amounts of it used are ballooned. That was a plan between WA government, activists and the Pew Society of the USA . The industry was simply notified!
Remember WA! The coast between Augusta at the bottom and Kalbari north of Geraldton at the top is closed to fishing instantly. No recompense except the government buyback of licences. How would you like to have put a $million or much more into a new fishing boat last week. What is your vessel/s now worth? All the demersals we love to feed on gone with a stroke of the pen. What fish do you think restaurants will have on offer? Those old toddlers from SE Asia or China? Fish shops? Transport? Town economies? Town populations? Tourism over the first half of the year? It only partially reopens (somehow) in a couple of years with some fish species permanently protected.
You see what I mean by ‘QUAINT’? Maybe the sharks (in the ocean) aren’t fed well enough on humans and this is designed to fix that problem. Whatever, I suggest we are going to see much larger sharks over coming years near WA beaches and little improvement in demersals as they feed the sharks. Labor governments seem to simply hate food, yet we’ve seen lately those at the top of the food chain wine and dine very well right around the world. They really do think the rest of us should eat nuts and be happy – or we will be fed to more sharks if we’re not!
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I think “Troughers” is a better description.
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‘Crony Capitalists’.
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They are chardonnay socialists, Poncie.
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You know, electrical engineering by ….. economists!
Tony.
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Exactly. Watt would an Economist know about electrons?
All an Economist can tell you is what has happened once it has happened.
Very helpfull.
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What would an electrical engineer know about supply and demand. 🙂
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They do know, or they did know when running the Grid years ago when Electrical Engineers ran the Grid, as with an Electricity Grid, you have to balance the supply and demand of electricity always.
Otherwise……………
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Why will we keep going down this dark path? It’s a preferential voting system, so Labor lives and dies on Green support. Please, stop it you fools.
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Unfortunately it’s a compulsory preferential system.
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You don’t have to vote.
And, if you do vote you can vote more than once.
No ID and no linked voting booths make that true.
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The trouble is that very few Aussies bother to check the data and many still believe in the toxic W & S disasters.
Thanks to BHP for starting to wake up and they and other sane business leaders should demand we build only BASELOAD energy ASAP.
Who wants to waste trillions of $ on expensive ruinables every 15 to 20 years until 2100?
And who wants to destroy thousands of klms of the environment and farmers properties as well? Unless they admit they were wrong and quickly change course our country has a very doubtful future.
WE should always remember that only BASELOAD energy gives us energy security and that always builds national security.
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‘ … admit they were wrong and quickly change course …’
They are in too deep and will have to be thrown out of office, not only federally but states as well. Of course they may simply adopt Canada’s approach, but we are a different political culture so that seems unlikely.
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It really annoys me when once sensible “middle of the road” type political policies are characterized as being “ far right”. Worse, when a supposed business executive uses the term to describe a government that is business friendly. One Nation tends to be described that way by lazy Australian journalists. Crikey, even certain members of the LNP get it, which is laughable.
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Labor eventually and inevitably will have to eat humble pie and slash its Net Zero commitments. But unfortunately by then Bowen will have been sidelined so we won’t get the chance to see Blackout Bowen become Backout Bowen.
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In fact, Id put money on the fact that Labor have been working out how to walk back their commitments ever since Dutton announced his energy plan in 2024.
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Why would the ALP want smaller government?
Why would people whose mission is the destruction of Australia as a nation want to remove policies that help achieve that aim?
Why would people who see themselves as superior want to spread wealth to their inferiors?
Why would Albanese disappoint the intention of those giving him his orders?
A prosperous people is not an asset to those seeking the mayhem required to bring in the new world order. Better to have nations engaging in suicidal policies. See UK/Europe – green suicide, immigration suicide, demographic suicide, warmongering suicide.
By the way, where did all the productivity gains over the last 50 years go?
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China
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I think the rot really set in to Australia after the Tasmanian Dams Case of 1983 when the High Court ruled that the Commonwealth could invoke its constitutional external affairs power (s 51(xxix)) to pass legislation based on external UN and other treaties and agreements.
This paved the way for extraterritorial governance of Australia by every communist idea the UN or anyone else puts up.
And Australia desperately wanting international recognition for its supposed virtue established a fanatical commitment to any and all UN agreements and treaties.
To this day, nearly half a century later it is prepared (all Uniparty governments) to govern the country by external treaty, not the wishes of the people, no matter how self-destructive these policies are.
It was a hugely damaging decision as far as Australian sovereignty goes.
It’s good to see TRUMP disengaging from these external treaties and agreements for the benefit of his country. I wish Australia had someone who similarly cared.
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There were at least a couple of fatal flaws in the Australian Constitution.
The idea was that if you were going to ratify treaties then you should implement local laws to give effect to treaty obligations. What could possibly go wrong?
What should have happened is that governments over the years would be exceptionally cautious about entering and ratifying treaties without ensuring that there was an escape hatch. What did happen is that governments over the years signed the nation onto anything and everything which fitted in with global governance especially by the UN and its tentacles. Only now are governments noticing the absence of any escape hatches. And yes the Tassie Dams case is a perfect illustration of good constitutional ideas gone bad.
The other fatal flaw is the corporations power which has grown over the years to being all powerful and all encompassing. There are many books on the subject.
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Re treaties.
In the Hawke/Keating era I attended a meeting where the Chief Justice of the High Court was also in the audience.
I made a comment from the floor that Minister Gareth Evans had gone wild with new treaties, mostly international, both multilateral and unilateral, so we now had a problem where these new, rushed treaties might conflict with each other. The Judge said this was not much of a problem because we could handle the 10 or so treaties, so I told him that the number was now several hundred.
I mention this as an example of the distance that Canberra operatives can keep as a comfort zone of ignorance of reality that commonly allows fast passage of new acts and regs with forseeable unintended consequences.
No wonder Australia is in trouble. Geoff S
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Career politicians will be forced to pick sides in this debate.
‘Queensland parliament has voted to kill its legislated renewables targets, despite a last-minute attempt to rename it the “Propping Up Coal and Delaying Renewables Amendment Act 2025”.
‘The bill also repeals a development approval for a windfarm near Gympie, the Forest windfarm. It replaces Labor’s targets with the LNP’s energy policy, which would extend the operation of the state’s government-owned coal generators past their planned closure dates.’ (Guardian)
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Thank goodness for QLD and also the NT.
I expect QLD to keep their Coal Fired Power Stations going for as long as they can.
Until the next ‘Laybore Guv’ment’ gets elected, which I hope is never, or, by the time that everyone has woken up to realising that cheap Energy makes you able to do lots and lots of good things.
Even become wealthy.
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Queensland has the four ‘youngest’ coal fired power plants in Australia, all of them SuperCritical plants.
Callide C- two Units – 2001
Millmerran – two Units – 2002
Tarong North – one Init – 2003
Kogan Creek – one Unit – 2007
None slated for closure till 2050 would be my guess.
Queensland also has the oldest coal fired plant in Australia, the six Unit plant at Gladstone which is now 49 years old, and, ho hum!, is scheduled for closure in 2035, time expired maybe, but the reason given for its closure is that the deal to supply coal to the plant expires then.
As Bowen says ….. they’re so unreliable ….. without mentioning just how old they are.
Hmm! I wonder how many pollies can say they ‘politicianed’ for 50 years!
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I’d perhaps even take a small bet here.
That Gladstone plant is (well, partly) privately owned by Rio Tinto, and the generated power is required for the operation of the Boyne Aluminium smelter, umm, also majority owned by Rio Tinto.
The Queensland Government has a private deal with the power station to buy all the excess power (not being consumed by the smelter) for the Queensland grid.
What’s the bet that as the coal fired power thinking ‘worm’ turns, it gradually becomes acceptable to (umm, you know, to keep those jobs at the smelter) replace Gladstone power station with a new coal fired power plant.
Also, keep in mind here that as North Queensland becomes more and more and more populated, they’re going to need, umm, ‘real’ electrical power generation, and there’s nothing of that nature north of Gladstone, other than the four Unit plant at Stanwell near Rockhampton.
Umm, as I’ve sorta been saying all along, coal fired power has a long future ahead of it yet.
Tony.
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Agreed. And QLD has lots and lots of ‘King Coal’ that is cheap to dig up.
QLD should have the cheapest electricity prices in OZ.
Just get rid of the ‘Ruinables’.
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Tony do you know the difference in price between a new basic coal plant and the latest Super Critical Plant?
I’ve heard about 10% to 20% more expensive for the S C plant or is that too low?
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There’s no way you’d build anything other than the latest tech coal fired power plant, and here, that would be an UltraSuperCritical plant. It’s like, well, you’ll pay less for a 75 Kingswood (analogy for existing Australian SubCritical coal fired power plants) than the latest model family sedan, but what are you getting, considering you want it to last another 50 years?
A new basic coal plant ….. actually IS an UltraSuperCritical plant.
And the price for something like that in adjusted AUD varies from (dare I even say it) model to model, depending on just how bad you want to make coal fired power look, as ALL those models are designed to do.
I’ve assiduously stayed away from giving costings because the accuracy varies so wildly, but hey, I’ll give it a bit of a go here, as I’ve recently found some new information.
Coal Australia, in a realistic GenCost LCOE quotes the AEMO GenCost LCOE is between 2 and 2.4 times higher than the ‘real world’ cost. Here, you need to take into account a number of things unique to Australia, compliance with Australian Standards and Australian labour productivity and cost factors, and then add on the cost of the land, but hey, build it on a ‘brownfield’ site, an existing almost time expired coal fired plant, and save money there as well.
Giving an even ballpark number would be wildly inaccurate, but you’re looking North of 6 to 7 billion, for (just sayin’) a two Unit plant of a nameplate of 1500MW,
Consider that number against a large scale wind plant, nameplate 500MW around $1.5 Billion. (conservatively)
And now for some context on a comparison between the two examples I’ve mused on here. That large scale USC plant will deliver NINE times the power of that wind plant each year and have a lifespan twice as long, so the equivalent wind power cost based upon power delivery would be a cost of, umm, $27 Billion.
See here, how an original cost which looks so much ‘humungouser’ gets put right into perspective.
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Coal plant locations exist and nearby main transmission lines exist already.
Wind plant installations each need feeder transmission lines to connect to main transmission lines.
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Thanks Tony and wind is looking even more super expensive every day and ditto for solar.
But we’d eventually have to install a Gas plant to back up solar every night and ditto wind during the day and nights when high pressures covered a huge area of the states.
So not very difficult to understand why we should always build much cheaper baseload coal or gas or nuclear.
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Who would build it? Up until about 20 years I would have said “we” (Australian engineers/construction) may have been able. Now, not so sure. Probably not. We would need help from someone who has recently built coal fired power stations. So, possibly one of the ASEAN countries or maybe Japan. I would lean towards Japan, because they already buy some of our coal etc. Based on age of current fleet you would build one in Victoria first. Maybe we could barter with the Japanese?
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Umm, now there’s a quiet little achiever, eh.
(Hey, look over there)(like China!)
While China had been building UltraSuperCritical (USC) plants outasite, Japan has been ever so quietly constructing their own ones, and in fact, Japan is now considered to be a World leader in USC technology.
Japan has 87 coal fired power plants and three quarters of them are USC plants.
Might not seem much when compared to China, but their coal fired fleet totals almost 50GW in total, so around two and a half times our total Nameplate here in Oz, and most of those USC have been constructed since the Fukishima problem, almost like they looked sideways and started immediately on USC.
They lead the World in developing the metals required for such high temps and high pressures involved with USC.
Odd isn’t it. We send our coal to Japan to run their USC plants, but here it’s a case of ….. ‘let’s just blow ’em up instead’.
The technology might be missing here in Australia, but if you ask me, I’d rather ask the Japanese to help us instead of the Chinese.
Just me though, eh!
Tony.
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Seems I still have to point out that Bluewaters WA is the youngest coal power station, which was built in 2009.
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Yes, and thanks Graeme.
While it is the youngest, albeit by just two years, it is that 60s/70s ancient technology, a SubCritical plant.
I just leave it out because, and hey Jo, everyone just thinks AEMO, and leaves out WA from power generation thinking, sorry.
Tony.
Hmm, shades of Jimi Hendrix there, eh! (seems I’m on a music roll today, but hey, if there was no music, there’d be, well, nothing really!)
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It’s interesting that everybody seems to be promoting coal, but it’s gas that does most of the heavy lifting in WA – was supplying 50% of the power at sunrise this morning. When there is an adequate supply of cheap gas, it’s a good choice. I haven’t checked NT, but I’m guessing that gas is the primary energy source there as well. WA SWIS grid is currently using 4GW peak, and this will go up to 5GW on hot days. Not sure how much gas is used up north, but I’m guessing well over another GW.
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correct on so many levels.
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So Leafy I suppose you don’t support the net zero idiocy and would be happy for Aussies to build new Super Critical Coal plants?
The horrendous cost of toxic, unreliable W & S should make your choice an easy one and we’ll save thousands of klms of our environments and also get off our Farmers backs for a change.
So do you now follow the data or not?
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Which data are you referring to?
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The problem is hubris. Few politicians will ever admit they were wrong. Labor is so deeply committed to net zero and any effective change in course would require a complete reversal of that policy. Other countries may be managing to quietly correct direction, but Labor is so heavily committed and is incapable of admitting to any mistake, they will keep blundering on. And the industrial and financial groups who are so heavily invested in “renewables” won’t abandon the gravy train if they can possibly help it, they’ll keep Labor on the same track as long as they can.
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Richard, I have no sympathy for Labor but you shouldn’t just single them out. The LNP are almost as bad and only now starting to wake up. It was Morrison and Frydenberg who signed us up to Net Zero. Supposedly under aspirational conditions, but nonetheless still signed up with all the virtual signalling to the populace.
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Australia via Morrison Government never “signed up to net zero emissions, at Glasgow COP 2021 the PM refused to commit and instead stated Australia will have an aspirational goal to achieve net zero emissions subject to development of new technology (for Australia that would include nuclear zero emissions power stations/plants) and without damaging the economy, economic prosperity.
Morrison was sticking with the guidelines established in 1997 via Kyoto COP Japan and emissions reduction agreement signed at that time.
Coalition continued to research and discuss nuclear power options and reports from Howard Government terms and later. Consider the Dutton Report published 2023/24 nuclear but not ruling out other technology including coal burning.
Coalition has been divided and the traditional centre-right MPs majority has been diluted by Turnbull introduced centre-left often called LINO left (Liberal In Name Only) and notably with LINO executives in certain state party headquarters. Consider the former NSW Coalition Energy Minister Kean now Albanese Labor energy executive with Minister Bowen.
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In the Labor Fairyland Fantasy of Net Zero & Australian Immigration -the last Sydney Dam Tallowa was built 1976 – In Runoff-rich regions like Greater Sydney, there is no water shortage but a lack of water storage.
Floods, also keep challenging Sydney’s water supply system.
According to the Australian Bureau of Meteorology’s records, from 16th March to 23rd March in 2021 Sydney area received 400–600 mm of rainfall, which equals almost half of the average annual rainfall of Sydney.
The water released from the Warragamba Dam spillway was 450 gigalitres per day (WaterNSW 2021a).
By comparison, the annual water consumption of Sydney in 2019–2020 was 535 gigalitres (Sydney Water 2020).
Similar situations exist in other catchments in the Great Sydney area, such as, in August 2020, the Tallowa Dam spilled about 20 years’ worth of local water use in just 24 hours.
Hence during high rainfall periods, a significant amount of flow is being released to downstream and ends up in the seas without being captured.
Meanwhile
Aussie Data Centres Could Swallow 40 Million Litres Of Water Per Day, That’s About 80,000 Households
The Water Services Association of Australia (WSAA), the nation’s peak water body, says data centre developers are seeking about 5 to 40 million litres of water per day to cool down their facilities.
Data centres, which store information for governments to businesses, cycle water through their facilities to cool down servers and prevent overheating.
WSAA estimates that by 2030, data centres in Sydney alone are estimated to use 10.5 billion litres a year (1.9 percent of Sydney Water’s supply).
By 2035, this is expected to balloon to 90 billion litres a year, the equivalent of 15 to 20 percent of supply.
Not Easy Under Albanese
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Albo Sleazy will be long gone by then.
Hopefully he one day has a nice trip over the cliff top by his cliff top house.
Happy landings Albo.
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I believe that some data centres use air cooling, or liquid rack cooling connected to external air cooling.
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Now, who said it would never rain over the catchments, even if it did rain?
Turtles, all the way down.
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Who would have thought that Australia holds the mantle as the wokest most gullible dumb and dumbest country on Earth, on par with England, but there yet…Wake up you leftists voting fools before you wake up one day and the lights don’t work, again.
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Meanwhile
An overwhelming majority of Westpac shareholders have voted against a resolution calling for more clarity from the bank about how its funding for coal, oil and gas is aligned with its stated commitments to the climate goals of the Paris Agreement.
Almost 86 per cent of shareholders voted against the resolution spearheaded by climate lobby group Market Forces and Australian Ethical and backed by some of the world’s biggest overseas pension funds at Westpac’s AGM on Thursday.
In an otherwise staid affair, Westpac shareholders started booing and heckling a woman who told the board she couldn’t sleep at night because of her fears for the planet.
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Sounds like the shareholders are starting to get it. I hope so.
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From Gerard Henderson’s Media Watchdog constant monitoring of the ABC bias:
Sarah Ferguson fulfilling her promise to fact-check Sussssssssan Ley’s assertion that renewables are expensive”
” Here’s how Ferguson concluded her fact-check:
Power bills are high, but the rollout of renewables are not the cause. But according to the experts, the bigger point is coal-fired power generation is becoming more and more unreliable. It has to be replaced. Replacing that energy with new coal and gas-fired stations is much more expensive than renewables.”
How preposterous.
Nobody but nobody can be so dumb as to believe truly in such nonsense. Not even brain-washed Gen Z nubiles can truly believe such nonsense. If not a true belief, then what?
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“. . . then what . . .?”
Something from a horses ass?
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Heavily researched does not guarantee correct. Even one erroneous assumption in common renders pages of references, papers and citations useless. CAGW’s GHE contains three such assumptions.
GHE claims without it Earth becomes 33 C cooler, a 255 K, -18 C, ball of ice.
Wrong.
Naked Earth would be much like the Moon, barren, 400 K lit side, 100 K dark.
TFK_bams09 heat balance graphic uses the same 63 twice violating GAAP and calculating out of thin air a 396 BB/333 “back”/63 net GHE radiative forcing loop violating LoT 1 & 2.
Wrong.
Likewise, the ubiquitous plethora of clones.
GHE requires Earth to radiate “extra” energy as a BB.
Wrong.
A BB requires all energy leaving the system to do so by radiation. Per TFK_bams09 60% leaves by kinetic modes, i.e. conduction, convection, advection and latent rendering BB impossible.
GHE is bogus and CAGW a scam so alarmists must resort to fear mongering, lies, lawsuits, censorship and violence.
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What was it that Winston Churchill said about the USA? Oh yes, we can always be counted on to do the right thing after we have exhausted all the alternatives. I now proudly grant that Australia can take over this quote as her own.
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Brandon Craig just flushed his career down the BHP toilet.
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Classic Bait And Switch racket. Now most of us have twigged that the bait was election promises of cheap renewable energy. Now that we’re thoroughly hooked we’ve found that we’re been pressured to keep shelling out for energy that has attained the price of a luxury item that is rapidly becoming unafordable. The shyster running this racket is well known. Time he and his bureaucrat slush fund mates were tossed out on their ears and put out of business.
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Here in Canada, we see that Mark Carney is the same GFANZ guru that has been leading Canada down the Liberal toilet for a decade. He is trying to enact a law that would allow a Minister to exempt a “person, organization or corporation” from any Canadian law except the Criminal Code”. ie Freedom of Information, Conflict of Interest etc. He is a Global resetting, Klaus Schwab loving, Common people hating piece of unowhat. His “MoU” about the pipelines and LNG installations are nothing more than smoke and mirrors. Canada is going down the drain faster than Oz and the Wizard of Odd is the maniac in charge.
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Thanks for that. Forgive me for not conveying my extreme mistrust of anything to do with Mark Carney.
Well said.
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Unfortunately Australia is not alone on the sinking ship. The UK is on it as well
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Ah Hem! If it has not ben mentioned already, here in the Mother Country we have a bunch of imbeciles in charge.
Led by mad Red Ed Milliebrain.
Interestingly our esteemed health secretary last week told us that 22.5% of our population have a diagnosed mental condition which means they are on benefits and cannot work.
Now as we have 1450 ‘people’ in government – 650 MP’s and 864 in the house of ‘lords(for what?) that makes 1276 useless eaters.
If Mr Streetings figures are correct we must have 333.57 certified imbeciles in Parliament.
My sympathies to the Australian Jewish people, just stop bringing those ‘things’ in to pollute your country.
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Carney talks endlessly about all the investment he is going to bring to Canada but it is entirely smoke and mirrors. He has essentially given veto rights to natives and the other provinces so he has a convenient excuse when nothing gets done. This is his way of trying to thread the needle of pretending to do something for the cratering economy while not losing his rabid left voter base. Plus any projects that manage to get approved will be “carbon neutral” which is left speak for completely uneconomic.
While a few other countries appear to be waking up to their economic demise, Canada is not among them. We are in sustained economic decline along with Germany, the UK and Australia. I hope you guys can pull out of it but I really have no hope for Canada.
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