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https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2026/04/16/renewables-are-costing-us-a-fortune-justin-rowlatt/
Link to a piece about the BBC’s Justin Low-Ratt who – after ten years or more – has discovered that ‘the whole system costs’ of unreliables are – err – an awful lot more then he has been puffing [as our Mr Miliband, a crazed version of your ‘Energy Minister’ Bowen].
The BBC is not backward in blaming Climate Change on ‘dirty’ this, that and the other – so the strings must have been pulled.
I don’t know by whom – the new BBC Director General-elect is a former Guardian journalist, so it may not be him
I rather suspect something else is afoot.
Best guess seems to be to take the unavoidable subsidies, handed out to the various crooks and chancers behind solar [yes, in the UK! FFS] and birdchoppers. and move them from the price of electricity onto – ahh Genral taxation.
Not the bill-payer paying – oh no!
It’ll be the tax-payer paying.
Same sucker – different hats [and very possibly an extra 10% on top to feed our ‘Rolls Royce’ of a Civil Service … Well, they deserve it – on top of the good salaries, secure jobs [unless you really, REALLY foul up], index-linked pensions paid by the poor suffering taxpayer – and gongs, too!]]
Ah me, what fun times!
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Australia has already shifted the burden from consumers to taxpayers. And none of the cost is publicly available.
Solar and wind farms in Australia are dead assets. None of the existing ones will be replaced. The new ones are based on guaranteed return on capital. Rooftop solar and household batteries have removed their demand. So they are increasingly limited by the lack of demand. But they new ones will get paid even if there is no generation.
The best thing for the economy is to make it clear to “renewables” investors that they are exposed to sovereign risk – Nigel Farage could make that clear. That has already happened in the USA as Trump has declared peace with carbon.
The superannuation funds in Australia are wanting more taxpayer incentives to take up the “renewables” fight.
USA is the largest source of oil to the UK. But if POTUS Trump really wanted to hurt the UK he would just cut off the woodchip supply. That would collapse the grid. Just to make the point on the vulnerability of the UK to energy poverty in their pursuit of the UN Climate Change™ hoax.
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“woodchip” supply…
How dare You!
Greta and the like will not be happy.
It’s Biomass….according to the loonies anyway.
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However the Greens here want to ban wood heaters in homes.
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Is the United States the only country that produces woodchip? I think there are quite a lot of trees growing in Canada, among other countries.
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Starmer has to go now, surely? Else he’ll be fronting adverts for sticks like *”#@. Miliband will be worse. We’re doomed.
https://order-order.com/2026/04/16/mandelson-failed-security-vetting-starmers-excuse-for-appointment-explodes/
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The comments below the OP are not exactly full of praise for Sur Starmer – hoist with his own petard!
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The latest is that he’s denying he knew until very recently and was getting ready to lay the information before parliament in the next few days. He’s fallen back on his tried and trusted no one told me/it didn’t cross my desk excuse.
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Interesting article on the importance of heavy oil in the future. Winners – USA, Russia – and losers – Europe, India
https://ddgeopolitics.substack.com/p/the-new-oil-order?r=20zy9l&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true
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Great article.
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Despite popular delusions, Australia is energy poor as we now know. It is obvious every time you pay your electricity bill, fill your ICE car or even recharge your EV at high cost, pay at the supermarket (the end of a long energy-dependent supply chain) or hear of the latest factory or other enterprise closure. Or can’t buy your next car with a large V8 engine because it has been taxed out of existence (the so-called “ute tax”).
We have lots of energy of course, but it is inaccessible to Australians.
And unlike most energy poor Western or Western-style countries like Israel, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Switzerland and Taiwan we don’t innovate to make up for our lack of energy (or resources) using our human capital either.
The supposed energy richness of Australia is for others to benefit from, not Australians. Foreign countries receive our exports, at low cost, of coal, gas and uranium which Australians are not allowed to use themselves.
Australia, or at least the Left who infest every institution, public and private, has an obsession with dismantling our properly engineered electricity generation systems (coal power stations) which for over a century have delivered inexpensive, reliable power which helped make Australia great in the past.
The refusal to install new coal, gas, nuclear or hydro generators and the political “leadership”, “academia” and their slave army of useful idiots being fanatically obsessed with installing wind and solar subsidy plantations (their only purpose being the harvesting of taxpayer or consumer subsidies for the Elites as they are not economically viable in a free market) is dooming Australia to destruction.
We are experiencing this engineered destruction of the energy supply and everything else we once held dear via uncertainty, insecurity, high and rising costs, reducing freedoms and reducing standards of living and social decay brought about by lack of enforcement of law and order and the mass importation of people who simply do not subscribe to Western Judeo-Christian values and are specifically imported as future Labor Party voters and are among the most violent, uneducated, anti-Western, anti-Australian, misogynisic, antisemitic and anti-Christian people on the planet.
Voting for a conservative party is the only answer and the only conservative party of any size or visibility we have is One Nation.
However, I think most Australians, most present company excepted, are quite content with the present situation. Everyone I know is conservative and already intends to vote One Nation but that’s not representative because I have made a deliberate decision not to associate with Leftists due to past painful experiences.
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Australia may be functionally energy poor due to political mismanagement, but at there is hope in knowing that the country is energy rich in terms of natural resources … if only the politicians would get out of the way. You guys may be in a bad spot presently, but it is a fundamentally different spot than Germany (for example) is in. They not only have bad policies, but they are also energy poor in terms of resources. Australia could rectify it’s energy problems overnight by throwing the bums out of office and replacing them with leaders who believe in energy abundance and independence. Germany is screwed no matter what they do. Even if they threw the bums out of office, they would still be energy poor and reliant on imports.
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A huge part of the reason for that is due to lack of refining capacity. Australian extraction companies can pull stuff out of the ground faster than it can be processed into useful fuels. So they have to ship it to overseas refineries, and once it is there, it doesn’t come back.
California has the same problem despite American ‘energy dominance’ policies. California has lots of oil/gas, more than enough to meet it’s needs, but environment policies make it extremely difficult (by design) for extraction companies to make money pumping it out of the ground, or refineries to convert it to useful energy products, and nigh impossible for pipelines to cross into their state to get energy from other domestic providers. So they have to have most of their energy imported via ship from foreign sources.
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One Nation of any size and visibility?
Put that in perspective, they are in Federal/Commonwealth of Australia Parliament just FIVE people;
Senators x 4
House of Representatives x 1
The House of Representatives MP Joyce was elected again in 2025 as a National Party MP and later changed sides to One Nation not what his constituents had voted for 2025 or previous elections.
Pauline Hanson says she would not want to be Prime Minister? But she is One Nation Leader and has been since 1997, she was in 1996 elected as a Liberal MP but disendorsed for making “contentious remarks against indigenous Australians”, as we who watch have noted many times she does speak her mind but often content following headlines are questionable.
And the primary goal of Pauline Hanson is Senate seats with the objective to hold balance of power there when votes are being counted to pass or block legislation from the House of Representatives also called the legislative assembly.
The former National MP plans to stand for a Senate seat at the 2028 election.
In the House of Representatives these are the seat numbers at present;
One Nation x 1
Labor x 94
Liberal National LNP Coalition x 43
Greens x 1
Katter x 1
Alliance x 1
Independents x 10
Senate
One Nation x 4
Labor x 29
Coalition x 27
Greens x 10
Others
Obviously government is formed by individual candidates by electorate having the most seats in Parliament House of Representatives.
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Ohhhh David, that hurt a bit! On the farm we have a 10kw solar system in the home paddock because, way back then , we were paid 20c a kw for the energy supplied. Now that has been reduced to 4c a kw. So, in view of the lessons of the current crisis we are in the process of having a 16 kw storage battery installed.
Please don’t condemn us for that . Although we have dams and a creek, our cattle primarily get their water via a reticulated water system to troughs via a bore which operates on electricity. As a result we can’t risk future threats to electricity supplied via the grid. And we so distrust the electricity companies, that we intend installing a switch that can isolate our system from the grid, lest our battery is drained at night. As some have warned on this site.
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Vicki, I wasn’t condemning people like you with private systems but was referring to the corporate subsidy harvesting installations (plantations).
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You might consider at least doubling that 10Kw array.and adding modern “deep-cycle” batteries. Solar hot-water system, of course.
One place I did some work for, had a “plantation” of panel arrays atop 10 foot tall steel posts constructed for optimal performance. The panels were mounted in arrays, in a steel frame attached to a lockable gimbal system. This provided the ability to re-align the panels seasonally. They also wash their panels from time to time. Drive around in the ute and mop and rinse the surface. All the cabling, DC to the battery shed and AC to the house was buried and marked. (deep enough to reduce risk from an enthusiastic “plumber” with a “Geo-Trencher”. ( Think: big chainsaw with mini excavator buckets instead of “teeth” running around the bar.)
They still maintain a 20 KVA generator that can hold up, with capacity to spare, the house full of off-the shelf 230V appliances / lights.
The days of 32V DC are LONG gone. The main reason for the height of the poles was to keep the panels clear of any cattle in the “home paddock”. The livestock seem to like the shade, though.
At a pinch, the 3-phase alternator attached to a serious Lincoln welder on a trailer, ( for building / fixing gates, grids, etc.). can be patched into the general system.
ALL of this “solar rig” cost a LOT less then the nearly 200 thousand asked by the electrical “reticulators” to run poles and wires from the “grid”.
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If this is being done in the US, you can be certain it’s bring done elsewhere as well.
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Was the Geelong refinery fire sabotage?
The following video asks the question. The author does nor say if it was or wasn’t but just notes it would certainly benefit foreign anti-Western interests or our very own Leftist anti-energy lobby who want us to all drive EVs, or better yet, no motor vehicle at all (we (non-Elites) can just stay in the confines of our WEF “15 minute cities”, rebranded in Australia as “20 minute neighbourhoods”).
https://youtu.be/m2wAT3HYHa4
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Oddly (or not) their ABC this morning online presented it as a war zone with satellite pics more reminiscent of a Middle East battleground.
We need refineries: we don’t need social engineering.
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Aerial footage looks a bit like what we saw out of the Chernobyl “fire” in 1986.
40 years ago, this 26th April.
Does anyone still have the spectacularly tacky T-shirt?
“Ukraine was a Blast, 1986”
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Russia and China are capable of any sort of mischief.
Sending incendiary packed sex toys by DHL or recruiting and paying random yobs on the internet to set stuff ablaze. It’s happening.
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Funny that video shows a Arab dude with a petrol bomb…
Flight tracker shows a Reaper drone flying from the Yank’s base in Darwin to Geelong at exactly the right time…
SMH has ignored the fire except to note Albosleazy went there, its full of Anti-Trump articles today saying he’s mad and they have the psychiatrists to prove it.
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Found the link- MQ4-C Triton drone, one of our own, flew from Katherine and loitered off the coast by Geelong.
https://x.com/AlexSaundersAU/status/2044631105794658693
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MQ-4C Tritons are not armed, just have sensors. If it was involved, it was just observing, not attacking.
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MQ-4C Triton explained
https://www.asdnews.com/news/defense/2024/09/13/unmatched-maritime-surveillance-what-you-need-know-about-mq4c-triton
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Everyone is sitting on their hands waiting for the Midterms, the Regime is tight knit and the 25th Amendment seems unlikely.
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Allied to all that is a spate of refinery fires around the world in the last 2 months. Middle East, Russia, US, Mexico and now Australia. Seems odd. You could say that maybe with increased activity, due to the Iran situation, more accidents are happening. Or you could be a conspiracy theorist and propose something darker. Seems coincidental, but you know what people say about coincidences. Manure occurs.
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All is fixed. Albo cut short an overseas trip to visit the refinery at Geelong. Wow, I’m impressed. What earthly benefit is there to this visit other than a photo op, pretending that Albo
a/ Understand engineering processes and b/ He has a situation under control. Both of these assumptions are wrong.
Popping up all over the place does not smack of “control” of anything.
During a signing agreement in Malaysia he made the comment that Australia and Malaya are “mates” The prime minister of Malaysia replied, that this was a strange term of phrase and asked “why did you say that”
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The facility is 72 years old and was sold off more than a decade ago. Over the past month it has been pushed to its limit to make up for supply shortages from offshore.
An old facility being pushed hard with flammable materials constantly in search of an ignition source. Now remember ignition sources are free in this world.
My bet is an accidental meeting of flammable material and ignition source.
The power grid is in the same vulnerable state of health. Fifty year old clapped out machines being asked to dance to the vagaries of wind and solar with ever present risk of furnace instability. A big bang inevitable. And already regular minor outages due to constant cycling and no love.
Australia is making an energy transition to energy poverty. I expect the transition will come quicker than most expect.
There is so much disrespect for previous generations who built Australian industry. So captured by the UN globalists that Australia’s big hope now is a fish shop proprietor – the most sensible member in the Federal Parliament without doubt.
Australia is a joke.
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This needs to be repeated, endlessly.
The “energy transition” is to poverty, not Net Zero.
Such a transition is as absurd and non-sensical as that other “transition” so beloved by the Left, of a man “transitioning” to a “woman”.
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Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction Angus Taylor said the Government recognised that Australian refineries are under significant financial pressure and is committed to working with the sector to ensure it has a long-term future.
“Almost all Australians are reliant on fuel and it is the lifeblood of so many sectors in our economy. Our farmers and miners rely heavily on diesel to do their jobs and provide services, while the transport sector sources 98 per cent of its energy from liquid fuels,” Minister Taylor said.
“That’s why it is critical that Australia has control over its fuel security arrangements and the Government is making sure of that.”
The construction of diesel storage will not only secure our diesel supplies but will support up to 950 jobs, along with 75 new ongoing jobs, many in regional areas.
A minimum stockholding obligation will act as a safety net for petrol and jet fuel stocks, and increasing diesel stockholdings by 40 per cent.
The Government will work with industry over the next six months on the legislative and regulatory design of the package.
Refineries play an important role in securing Australia’s fuel security and putting downward pressure on fuel prices for consumers. Modelling has shown that a domestic refinery capability is worth around $4.9 billion (over 10 years) in value to Australian consumers in the form of price suppression.
The Government is committed to a sovereign on-shore refinery capacity despite the threat to the viability of the industry. This is why we will design a market system for a production payment that recognises those fuel security benefits. It has been designed to protect Australian families and businesses from the around 1 cent per litre increase that modelling shows will hit fuel if all refineries close in Australia. For refineries to receive support, they will be required to commit to stay operating in Australia.
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Only a moron would accept that title. Because the emissions refer to carbon dioxide – the molecule of life. So his title is consistent with the objective of energy poverty and reduction in life.
LNP are worse than Labor. They hate carbon. Howard started the rot with his Renewable Energy Theft. Turncoat exploited the UN hoax with his family business.
The only sensible choice for Australians wanting to get away from the globalist inspired economic collapse is to vote One Nation.
LNP are so aligned with Labor that they preference them and Greens ahead of One Nation.
A vote for LNP is not a vote for carbon. It is a vote for more of the same UN stooges.
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RicWill:
I think that the Liberals preference OneNation last (or as near as that they can) is because they fear being run over.
The problem with OneNation is that they haven’t developed many other policies**, which is why I voted for Cory Bernadi in the Upper House in the recent election. As someone who has been around the parliamentary circus I thought he might steer them to being more than the “only choice among the moronic lot”.
No, I didn’t vote for them in the lower house (and never have).
**Like the Liberals
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It will be interesting to review his success or failure, maybe consider what has One Nation achieved over 29 years since 1997, in this example in Senate roles?
I honestly cannot think of one major success, they aim for balance of power being the numbers of seats to influence House of Representatives legislation in the Senate by voting for or against. Most often Greens and Independents have far more influence than One Nation does.
I am not opposed to One Nation, I am not a member of any political party, I am old and have decades of political and current affairs interest, and I have had experiences that most Australians do not have being what I call a fly on the wall position of no influence but eyes and ears inside the walls.
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There are four key policies:
1. Declare peace with carbon and remove all artificial constraints and costs on carbon combustion as well as remove subsidies for non carbon based energy.
2. Stop mass immigration of crooks and terrorists.
3. Stop apartheid and race division.
4. Remove gags on free speech.
Any government that takes on those 4 challenges and overcomes them will be in power for a generation.
Essentially it boils down to not being stooges implementing UN radical left policy.
These four policies have been pursued by Pauline Hanson and Malcolm Roberts for over a decade now. Longer for immigration and apartheid.
Malcolm Roberts has been active in many Senate hearings and is the only Senator able to ask sensible questions.
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“These four policies have been pursued by Pauline Hanson and Malcolm Roberts for over a decade now. Longer for immigration and apartheid.”
Over a decade now 2026, and achieved what result to date?
One Nation now 29 years since establishment, and what was achieved?
There is no point putting them on a pedestal when they are a micro party of five, half the number the Greens seats held
They need to follow Greens support for Labor by supporting the next largest side Coalition of two parties to get rid of Labor
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5 March 2026
One Nation will recommend that South Australian voters put the party first on their ballot papers and will not suggest preferences for other candidates at the state election on 21 March.
Party leader Cory Bernardi said the ‘major’ parties had failed to deliver for South Australians and didn’t deserve any preferences.
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What have One Nation achieved?
They’ve put mass immigration on the agenda in a way that can’t be ignored. Both major parties are changing their policies. That wouldn’t happen if One Nation wasn’t there to focus the frustration.
Right now, One Nation have a lot of soft power to influence. That doesn’t depend on how many seats they control but on how many they might control…
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It relates to the politics of each period or terms of government and in this example the problems dealing with Green Union Labor political attacks and allegations, coupled to too many gullible voters who seem to believe just about anything, my favourite example is the 2019 bushfires attacks on PM Morrison, holiday in Hawaii publicity ignoring that when any political leader is away the Deputy is on duty.
And that natural disaster like bushfires is primarily state government responsibility – State Emergency Services, NSW Rural Fire Service and others state, and Premier or Deputy Premier
It also pays to check all of the details and not accept out of context, cherry picking paragraphs, etc
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COVID-19 Pandemic period, blame game targeted PM Morrison and Government completely ignored that public health and hospitals, closing interstate borders and so on are state primary responsibilities, that Emergency Powers (notably in VIC) were based on legislation in State Parliaments at that time.
National Leaders Cabinet was formed from Council Of Australian Governments confining the members to the leaders and PM Morrison did that to try and gain cooperation and coordination between the States and Territories. And of course Federal/Commonwealth funding assistance provided including propping state economies with help to employers to pay employees during that crisis, that Labor criticised when it ended.
You must remember how Morrison was smeared with relentless negativity?
Same as PM Howard and Abbott and the political strategy continues from the left, and unfortunately via One Nation supposed to be on the same side as the Liberal Nation QLD LNP
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Please explain?
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Here is a US article on the true cost of wind energy.
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The true cost is de-industrialisation and growing dependence on China.
Only USA is now bucking that trend.
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Copied from Farcebook.
How is this legal?
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Years ago at the Sydney Holsworthy Army Base a nearby polling station during a state election favoured the Labor candidate by a margin that was not in line with past voting trends at that polling centre, being close to a military base and a majority traditionally voting conservative. Investigations revealed that ballot papers at the time had to be initialled by the clerk handing it to the voter as they marked off the name on the electoral roll. Many votes cast were not initialled and therefore had been declared invalid.
When they were included in the count the Labor candidate would not have achieved the numbers required.
At another time a small group of trade union members (police reported) had stolen a then metal box of votes and were bragging about it at a not far away hotel and were reported to police who arrived and searched their vehicle and discovered the metal box.
We really do need electronic voting system and photo identification presented
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We really do need electronic voting system and photo identification presented
Rural/regional voting stations are almost always populated by people who recognize the voter by face/name connection. But ask for ID – it would not be a problem.
Electronic voting systems?
Only if the KISS system is the governing factor.
1. Paper ballot
2. Scan at the precinct station into a standard format. No ballot processing. Effectively a COPY only.
3. On closing count the vote papers / forward electronic copies to AEC state center. Ensure paper/electronic total count agrees.
Securely transfer paper ballots to AEC center.
4. Convert the preference ranking on each ballot to a computer format. Report first preference totals. Publish.
5. Have computer process preference ranking. Publish the step wise process totals.
6. If top 2 candidates are within 3% start manual ballot categorization by first preference. Verify manual and computer first preference totals agree.
7. Ensure a process exists for a total manual re-count.
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One major problem rarely mentioned in Australia is the printed Electoral Rolls that every polling booth is issued with a copy to mark voter’s names off before handing us a ballot paper.
There is no cross referencing between polling booths to check if any voters have voted at more than one place on election day and pre-polling.
And if discovered later the election result has been declared, maybe fines might be issued, emphasis might be issued.
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This explains the union based “joke” of “vote early, vote often, comrade”
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A few weeks ago, there was a report that came out that showed Canada had fallen behind Alabama in per capita GDP. This got a lot of attention, especially considering that 20-30 years ago Canada was at parity with the USA in per capita GDP.
Well, a new report has come out regarding the UK as it compares to the USA and it is a doozy. Like Canada, about 20-30 years ago the UK was about even with the USA in per capita GDP. Today, it’s in even worse shape than Canada, ranking behind Mississippi in terms of per capita GDP. Mississippi ranks 50th among USA states (Alabama is around 45th).
Fortunately for UK leaders, perception is reality for voters, and Brits perceive themselves as ranking around 7th versus USA states (rather than 51st). That’s the kind of widespread delusion that can keep citizens from grabbing up pitchforks and torches and marching on the castle.
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2026/04/16/sorry-britain-but-youre-just-another-europoor-country-now-n4951861
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Went to the zoo yesterday. At the very first exhibit a lady with a PA started to describe the activities of the little furry creatures….she commenced the talk with the “acknowledgment of country” FFS.
Is there no place where this nonsense doesn’t prevail?
Does it occur in the birthing suite at your local maternity hospital?
I hear that cremation funerals are mistaken for smoking ceremonies.
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“Does it occur in the birthing suite at your local maternity hospital?”
Probably, didn’t you know that aborigines were the first people to have “birthing suites”. Any large tree with a cavity at the base has become a “traditional birthing tree”.
Roads are rerouted, myths and stories are developed all without evidence from observers of yesteryear. One of these trees exists (well it did until the Longford Fires this year) a few k’s away from my place. Strangely for my entire life of 8 decades, this tree was known as “the swaggies tree”. The cavity was large enough for a man of the road ( Tramp for overseas readers) to get into to remain dry and warm during inclement weather. Never a mention of birthing tree.
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There was a wonderful old tree not far from the local town. When I drove past this week, for the first time since the fires, all I saw were the burnt remnants. I wonder if that’s the tree you mention?
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Out near the famous pie shop Annie, on the road to the snow
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I believe that language is essential when acknowledging “country”, and the appropriate language for whatever “First Nation country” it is conducted in.
To have mixed languages, example Uluru Statement Uluru is the local language and include words such as Makarratta that is Arnhem Land language and culture makes no sense and noting UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People – UNDRIP. One condition acknowledged in Uluru Statement is that before any laws or referendum is proceeded with every First Nation must be consulted and grant permission.
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I found myself in another unexpectedly contentious discussion about sympathy vs. empathy.
I’m unclear about what transpired.
Apparently, sympathy is socially insufficient, or something … I think.
I might know where this comes from.
There was a wildly circulated vid of Charlie Kirk saying he preferred ‘sympathy’ towards the multitude of oppressed that the oppressors have been oppressing.
Therefore sympathy like Orange Man .. bad.
I think we have word teams now.
So be careful using the word sympathy in casual conversion.
I guess in Germany it might soon prevent you from getting a lease.
It’s weird out there.
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Demanding that people keep abreast of the latest lefty cause de jour, the latest feelings and nuances, use the ‘correct’ language, don’t use the ‘incorrect’ language (both rapidly changed to test your attention and loyalty); it’s just a way of exposing the others.
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This clip sees and raises your word teams:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsNfHlclew8
This is Canadian member of parliament and is not making a joke. “They” are deadly serious with their MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+.
People are voting for this.
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Does it add up to anything in Latin (?) because it’s complete gobbledygook in English.
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I remember the good ol’ days when if something de-fashioned to point of self parody, it became obsolete.
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These people are too serious to recognise parody.
Common sense departs when woke takes control. Politi Brawl pull these stunts on bringing in criminal illegals or keeping convicted killers rather than deporting:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JfyruAv46WM
Willing to sign a petition to bring in an illegal because it is woke.
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Pretty sure that’s right in DC.
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FWIW -for the covid files
“Can you feel the Reckoning approaching? Politico does. Wait till you see this development. Yesterday, Politico published the results of its own vaccine poll under the headline, “More Americans doubt vaccine safety than trust it, POLITICO Poll finds.” It was a stinker.”
More at
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/blender-bandits-wednesday-april-15?
Concludes
“Politico’s poll showed exactly what happens when the “experts” prioritize narrative control over honest, transparent communication. They didn’t just lose the argument over covid. They managed to create a massive, bipartisan wave of skepticism about all vaccines, to the point where regular people from all walks of life are now questioning childhood immunizations that have been accepted as “standard” for decades.
It is a spectacular, self-inflicted disaster. The experts built a ladder of absolute certainty, climbed to the very top of it, and then spent three years sawing off the rungs below them. Now they are stuck up there, yelling at the rest of us for refusing to climb up and join them.
And they still can’t hear the raccoon in the blender. I mean, just listen. You guys can hear it, too, right?”
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Vaccines have generally proven beneficial in extending average human life. On a community wide basis they have been perceived to be a net positive.
But as time goes by, the long term, accumulated harm is still under investigation. RFK Jr has probably been most visible in shining a light on that aspect.
There is greater skepticism.
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Exactly right and we now have a great opportunity to conduct some definitive research on the question. I read recently that apparently vaccination in Australia has dropped by around 10% so where are all the researchers lining up to use this 10% group in case studies. No doubt there are families which pre-covid followed the vaccinations but post-covid pulled back when it came to their subsequent children. Similarly there would be many who have had one or more children that have not been vaccinated. Here is a great control group, get them signed up and follow the children through for instances of all the things vaccines are blamed for. But no the science is settled lets just listen to the crickets, or worse as in the QLD QoVAX study biobank research attempt, destroy the records.
AI refresher comment on the QoVAX:
While the physical samples are set for destruction, the study data will be archived but effectively inaccessible. According to the March 2025 announcement, the data will be stored in accordance with government retention schedules but “will not be accessed or used for any future purpose,” a move critics argue prevents independent analysis of the unique dataset involving 10,000 participants.
Study Scope: The QoVAX Safety and Efficacy Statewide Study collected over 100,000 biospecimens and 11 million data points starting in August 2021.
Defunding: The project was abruptly defunded in June 2023, leading to the cessation of sample collection and the removal of the original lead researcher, Professor Janet Davies.
Legal Concerns: Some petitions argue this destruction may violate the Public Records Act 2002, which typically requires clinical research records to be retained for 15 years after termination.
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Earl,
It would not be a proper control group.
With the COVID “vaccines”, for example, the people who got jabbed included many people with dodgy health (people in hospitals, nursing homes, etc.), while the people who chose not to get jabbed were largely in rude good health. Not safe to draw any conclusions about one group from the other.
Mind you, that’s what statistical theory tells us, but statistical theory has been out the window for quite a few years (as we’ve seen in the COVID follies and the climate capers).
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Fair enough but I was looking more at the children rather than the elderly – there would be many who have had one or more children that have not been vaccinated.
The most immediate study could look at the indications of the effectiveness of measles vaccine. According to AI the death rate in Australia before the vaccine:
“Historical data indicates that 356 deaths were caused by measles in the two decades prior to the vaccine introduction (1956–1975), while 98 deaths occurred between 1976 and 1995, with the last recorded death in 1995.”
Cheers
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So now we’re assuming it was all a simple miscalculation.
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FWIW
More on the Iran blockade
“If Iran can’t ship the oil, it piles up while its local oil storage tanks fill to the brims. In as few as 13 days, they’ll have to stop pumping, because there’s nowhere left to store the oil. That’s a bigger problem than it looks. When you stop pumping, wells don’t just sit idling. They start dying. Two days ago, Iran International explained, “Forced shutdowns could permanently eliminate 300,000 to 500,000 barrels per day of production capacity – equivalent to $9–15 billion in annual revenue lost forever.”
$150 billion gone over the next ten years if Iran doesn’t make a deal in the next two weeks. And the pain starts now. “A blockade would effectively zero out Iran’s export revenues within days and trigger cascading effects across its financial system,” Iran International explained.
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/blender-bandits-wednesday-april-15?
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“Iran doesn’t make a deal in the next two weeks.”
That’s a lifetime in Trump world, the situation will change five times and maybe never make it back to today’s ‘close the Straits’. I’m sure China is aware of the problem too and the non-West are talking of how to change it.
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FWIW – more on that from today’s issue –
“This week, a regular reader challenged me on X. He assembled a long list of independent geopolitical commenters (like the ones above), and asked —not unjustly— whether a mere lawyer’s opinion could cancel out the pessimistic predictions of a score of professional war bloggers. I conceded my lack of credentials, but pointed out that the disagreement begins before the geopolitics start.
All these smart guys were wrong because they started with the same flawed premise: there is no plan. And they all made the same mistake of trying to interpret Trump’s tweets literally.
Once you concede that there must be a plan —a plan we aren’t privy to— and that the President isn’t just impulsively attacking Iran out of irritation, without remembering the Strait of Hormuz, the whole analysis changes. Once you start interpreting Trump’s tweets as messaging to negotiating counterparties —which means that sometimes we won’t even know why he says something, because we aren’t part of that conversation— then you can stop puzzling over rhetorical contradictions and start looking at results.
Will they ever learn to be patient and just let the man work? Probably not. First, TDS kills. It kills brain cells, at least. Second, nobody gets clicks by making boring YouTube videos headlined “Let the Man Work.” You need engaging titles like, “The US Is Falling Off a Cliff!”, or “Trump’s Iran Obsession Will Cause World War III!”, or “Five Surprising Reasons Your Bedroom Performance Suffers Because of Oil Embargoes!”
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/inexpertly-thursday-april-16-2026?
And other things there
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Would love to believe you if you at least hint at the timeframe – will the higher reason become evident in a month ?, 3 months?, a year?
Russia-Ukraine episode of Trump’s Saga, which is twice as long and a 100 times (a 10 000 times?) deadlier than Iran’s indicates that this here POTUS is not a politician but a force of nature.
Nowadays you do not pray for the rain to stop at last.
You cancel your morning walks or just buy a bigger umbrella.
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“Iran doesn’t make a deal in the next two weeks.”
Should be alright.
‘The Israeli occupation is likely to be the subject of talks that Trump said would take place in Washington next Tuesday between Aoun and Netanyahu – the first Israeli-Lebanese summit in decades.
‘The Lebanese state has not been an active party to the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, over which the Beirut government has very little control. In what appeared to be initial acquiescence in the agreement however, a Hezbollah member of the Lebanese parliament, Hassan Fadlallah, attributed the deal to “Iranian diplomatic efforts” and said Hezbollah would respect the truce as long as Israel remained committed to halting all forms of hostilities.; (Guardian)
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AEC loses ballots again!
Maybe it happens commonly. In this case it is a story because the vote was so close and the discovery could cause an upset.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/how-81-lost-ballots-could-flip-a-south-australian-election-result-6012693?utm_medium=Aoemail&utm_source=Aomorningbrief&utm_campaign=Aomb-2026-04-17&src_src=Aomorningbrief&src_cmp=Aomb-2026-04-17&est=MjMNWygnSjkS34OXsF3i7yiXXEgYZNtDoYzMqLjtSmJESDfYOpOr63cbZzdfRHWs3A%3D%3D
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Quote from Mad Max 2, opening narration.
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That is a future for our country that I am anxious to avoid.
We can turn around if we can get rid of the current government and the greens and return to sensible national policies.
What can I do about it?
One small thing is to donate to Advance Australia. They are conservative political activists that are trying to influence voters in upcoming elections.
Currently they have identified 10 federal seats held by Labor, where they think they can make a difference. The advertising campaign starts now.
https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/
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Here is the Geosciences Australia assessment of Australia’s oil supply and likely future exploitable reserves.
As an Australian Government department they will of course be strictly adherent to the Official Narrative that “oil is bad” and will naturally downplay any optimism of future economically viable discoveries. So best not to put too much trust in their assessment.
Opinions?
https://www.ga.gov.au/aecr2025/oil
I asked Gulag AI about the Rundle oil shale deposits in Queensland:
In short, it’s just not going to happen in Australia. The Government and the Left would rather see the complete economic collapse of Australia and the same applies to exploring for conventional oil resources as well. It’s just not going to happen.
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“In short, it’s just not going to happen in Australia. The Government and the Left would rather see the complete economic collapse of Australia … “
I don’t think that’s a bug but a feature. I know that sounds ridiculous but I honestly can’t see any other explanation for many of the crazy, economically and socially suicidal things that governments across the west are doing.
I mean, what other reason could there be? What other reason makes sense? I don’t think it’s simple ideological zeal or even incompetence. Sure, corruption is a part, but much of this nonsense can’t be explained that way. China is behind a lot of it of course, but do they really have so many stooges in places of power in the west? I suspect it’s the mechanism by which the ‘new world order’ is to be built – by first wrecking what’s standing.
As the great Scottish commentator, Neil Oliver often says, “These things are happening because they WANT them to happen.”
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Yesterday Matt Canavan explained on Sky some of the reasons why oil exploration and proposed ventures have stalled in the past, during his time as Minister for Energy specifically but he said despite Coalition Government Federal/Commonwealth best efforts;
* Green groups opposition including demonstrations and court appeals.
* State governments legislation and regulations and refusal to permit development.
* Combined Federal and State legislation requiring in many instances cooperation between governments.
In short he said the delays and problems arising have turned interested investors away from proceeding and losing their money in the process trying.
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As an example the present LNP QLD Government promoting a new oil venture and willing to give state approval, application to the Albanese Labor Federal Government has so far been unsuccessful in gaining cooperation.
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From whatI have learned over the last couple of months it would seem Australian oil deposits are either too deep, too small or the wrong type of oil. That is, it’s much easier to email your oil broker and obtain ships from the middle east to supply good quality oil. Or even better, just order JIT refined petroleum products from Singapore or other Asian refineries eg. South Korea.
I had mate who worked for upper management in Incitec Fertilisers. He ordered fertilisers by the shipload, literally. Was always sweating on getting enough orders from farm suppliers etc to put together a consignment. You can’t order 1/2 ships of anything.
Do we really care where the oil comes from to supply the end product ? Me, I couldn’t give a rats. If it’s Russian oil, so what? The petroleum industry is bit like the Iron Bank in Game of Thrones. No matter what war or who wins the war, the Iron Bank always makes a profit. It’s all the other stuff we get from the Middle east which is also important as well. Fertilisers ( both N and P ) and other chemical products to produce the vast array of everyday products we use. I think these days we even get a lot of sulphuric acid from the Middle East in ships. But there is one rule which is pertinent in my line of business, sometimes you wont find something unless you spend the time looking. Maybe there’s a large elephant size oil deposit sitting down in the Great Australian Bight. We know something is there, because Sarah Hanson Young (Greens Senator for South Australia) had a hissy fit about even exploration in that area. Then there’s Dorado, and probably many others. But as RickWill said the other day, do we even educate Petroleum Engineers any more?
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Where the oil comes from – or gas, or coal – is very important Ross. Having our own supplies gives us a degree of independence from other nations that might turn belligerent and refuse supply but also shields us from geopolitical upheavals that interfere with supply chains.
The same goes for food, medications and vital raw materials. The more dependent on other we are, the more vulnerable and even perhaps subservient we become. To me, we have become so dependent on China – for imports AND exports – that we are fast becoming a vassal state.
Still, it could be worse. We could be New Zealand which, not content with being more or less totally reliant on China for goods, like us, doesn’t even have its own defence force. Maybe they think Australia will come to their aid if China decides to move in? HaHaHa!
Also, HaHaHaHa!
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Are you, like me, fed up with the ever-tightening ‘security’ steps you have to take before using pretty much any device or app these days? It seems to me that life for ordinary, law-abiding citizens keeps getting harder and more difficult, where we are treated like suspected criminals in everything we do, yet as far as I know none of these measures have reduced the relevant crime rates. They merely inconvenience us.
For instance. I was doing something on my PC just now that required I go to my emails. To log in I have to type in my email address, then my password. Hotmail then requires I confirm I am me by one of several means, including responding to an email on my mobile containing codes, then select the one matching the number on my PC. Or is it the other way round?
I select the number then wait. A little while later, I get another email saying some security info has been deleted and that somebody might have hacked my account. I am given the option to repeat all the above, which I do while feeling mildly panicked. Thankfully, this works.
However, in order to do the matching number thing, I have to unlock my phone with my password, then open up Hotmail again using my email password, then once again read the secret email. All of that done, I hit ‘yes it’s me’ or whatever it says.
Nearly there. Before it will let me send the message with the confirmation code, I must pass the biometric test: my fingerprint. Phew. I’m in.
Only now I can’t remember why I needed to go into Hotmail in the first place.
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Generally I am impressed with the simplicity of security that I first came across with PayPal and now standard in banking as far as I know and many other transaction sites. If you log in from a new location, they send you a multi-digit number to your phone.
If have often refused to deal with call centres in India when they start asking for all my personal details. I have had a number of exchanges with Lumo Energy when I still had a gas account and regularly used their chat service to transfer funds from electricity income to gas bill. Both my accounts but they wanted all my details just to do that. Also similar issue with AusNet to advise them my electricity meter data was not being updated. I gave them the meter number and they had my email address. It was their problem that needed fixing. I was just letting them know they had problem.
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Why does Telstra require you log in to their app to receive and pay their bill if you are not on automatic pre-paid?
Would someone else be wanting to pay my account?
PLEASE !
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Another by Dr Campbell on cancer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM1t5BdptT4
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Albo Sleazy, communist, secures 26 hours worth of diesel for Australia and makes a big deal of it. And why is Export Finance Australia involved, and how much of our taxes did we pay for this? Surely the purchase should have been made by private companies?
See short video at link.
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Obviously the Prime Minister is desperately trying to find a way out of the corner he and his Minister for Energy, and other Cabinet Ministers, have positioned themselves.
Meanwhile the Minister for Energy continues to talk up renewables and even claimed yesterday that during his conversations with international counterparts there is no planning to continue with fossil fuels.
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The purchase was secured and made by Viva Energy Australia, not Albanese. It would have been a scheduled purchase – one of the 200+ that Viva makes each year for its Australian operations. Refined product shipments don’t just sit on the shelf like pineapples, waiting for a buyer to come along and select them – they are scheduled weeks and months in advance as part of the refinery operational planning.
Goodness knows what role EFA played in the transaction. Could be anything – but probably an unsolicited surprise gift to Viva given EFA is currently free-styling under its brand new mandate as a commodity trader and import agent.
The fact that one of the shipments is coming from Korea (which has so far avoided an embarrassing visit from Team Albanese) also suggests zero intergovernmental involvement.
So, very similar spin to Albanese claiming to feed the nation because Coles opened its doors this morning.
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..and eventually claiming the sun rose because he commanded it to…
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FWIW
“Guardian: “The Climate Deniers are In Charge Now” ”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/04/15/guardian-the-climate-deniers-are-in-charge-now/
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FWIW
“Australia’s ‘Renewable’ Obsession Decimates Industry”
“Fall from Economic Stardom
Australia once held a competitive advantage that was the envy of the world, with power prices consistently below the average of OECD countries, which comprise 38 mostly successful economies. That advantage fueled its mines, factories and the standard of living. But is now gone.
But since the mid-2000s, while other nations managed their grids with varying degrees of competence, Australia’s electricity prices rose to being around 30% above the OECD average. This is a massive swing in competitiveness that no government spin can hide.
Driving Australia’s current trajectory is the mythical claim that so-called renewables – mainly wind and solar energy – are inherently cheap and that any short‑term pain will give way to lasting price declines.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/04/16/australias-renewable-obsession-decimates-industry/
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On Credlin at Sky recently an interview with a businessman from VIC who spent $40 million on a project development and applications to government for planning approvals to use brown coal (lignite) resources to produce transport fuel, fertiliser and acid used to extract fertilisers in Victoria. Minister for Energy Ambrose refused to negotiate or consider.
The project has been moved to New Zealand where it was welcomed and supported.
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10 March 2020
Australia and the United States of America have signed a milestone Arrangement to bolster Australia’s access to emergency oil supplies in the event of a major global disruption.
The Arrangement will allow Australia to lease space in the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to store and access Australian owned oil during a global emergency.
Energy and Emissions Reduction Minister Angus Taylor signed the new Arrangement with US Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette during the Minister’s visit to the United States today.
The Arrangement stems from discussions between Prime Minister Scott Morrison and US President Donald Trump in Washington last August.
“This landmark Australia-US Arrangement represents our joint commitment to maintaining fuel security and improving Australia’s resilience, as well as strengthening the close bonds between our two great nations,” Minister Taylor said.
“The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is the world’s biggest emergency stockpile of oil. The US is a trusted ally which has been essential for global oil security and we are glad to be building on our strong, longstanding relationship, while ensuring Australia is best prepared to act during a global oil disruption.”
US Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette said that the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve is a critical asset for energy and national security that America has had at our disposal for decades. “There is no more secure or resilient place to store emergency oil reserves than the SPR, and we are glad that Australia is choosing to entrust us with their reserves.
“This Arrangement with Australia will strengthen the energy reliability of one of our strongest allies, providing them options in case of an emergency, and bolstering their energy security.”
Under the Arrangement, Australian Government owned stocks held in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve can be counted towards Australia’s compliance obligations with the International Energy Agency (IEA).
Under International Energy Agency obligations, Australia is required to hold 90 days of oil reserves and can hold these reserves offshore where a bilateral arrangement is in place.
A separate leasing agreement is currently being negotiated between Australia and the US. This would detail any future purchases Australia may make now the Arrangement is in place.
This deal with the US shows the Australian Government is taking practical action to enhance our fuel security by boosting Australia’s oil stockholdings.
Minister for Energy Angus Taylor
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Hmmm!
https://featureassets.gocomics.com/assets/8d50bfc00e80013fbec7005056a9545d?optimizer=image&width=992&quality=85
Via https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2026/04/faith-incentivized.html
(Having bought the makings for my next batch of home brew yesterday)
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Guess who:
Copied from a meme seen on Farcebook.
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Perhaps an unfair question. So many to choose from in Australian politics.
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So many contenders.
The only problem is the programmatic gender specificity.
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Steve Price discusses VicGrid access with a farmer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXjqvsUcNPY
What gets me is how switched on this farmer is regarding the futility of building power lines for wind and solar farms.
You can imagine what the issue will do to Vic Labor if fines are handed out.
I think the rock and hard place for “renewables” in Australia is beckoning. And it looks like Pauline Hanson.
Gina Rienhart does not have the visibility of Trump but probably has more money. She is doing the country a great service backing Pauline Hanson.
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You can imagine what the issue will do to Vic Labor if fines are handed out.
There is not enough regional/rural population to influence the government decision. Does the urban/suburban population care about transmission lines through rural areas?
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They would if they knew. But they are ignorant, and need to learn by experience.
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I’ve got a moral dilemma regarding fuel. I’m already suffering, and wracked with guilt, over using non-green fossil fuel to power my car. But now I find that I’m in another dilemma over fuel. I’m driving on an uncharacteristically hot day for this time of April. When there’s was no fuel crisis I would turn on the aircon. But now it’s different. Albo says we’ve all got to pull together in this international crisis and use our precious fuel wisely. I felt guilty about using the aircon so I opened the windows, but then I worry about the extra drag caused by altering my car’s aerodynamics. I suppose I could just shut all the windows and cook but I’m not that patriotic. My dilemma: Which is the best fuel conserving option? do I choose to put on the the aircon and shut the windows or keep the windows open and the aircon off?
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Today, windows open, no aircon. Tomorrow who knows. As always. If you need someone else to tell you what to do, get help.
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IIRC windows open destroys the streamlining of modern cars so less fuel efficient
And you have a perfect signal as to the time to worry – only necessary when “Elbow” shows signs of acting like it is really necessary – like when he stops starving the Tilley lights.
Remember back when USA dropped highway speeds from 70 mph to 55 mph the saying was that “it took crossing Texas from a journey to a career”
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What is the speed limit on the road crossing the Nullarbor?
Does anyone other than the articulated lorries actually follow it?
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Let’s make a distinction here.
A “deal” is not just mandating that Iran obey USA demands.
The USA (Trump, in reality) is operating illegally both with the attacks and blockade. Trump simply cannot guarantee Iran’s requirement that Israel cease all hostilities, and Netanyahu (Nitwityahoo?) is facing a wipeout at the polls, making him more desperate to achieve his life goal of destroying Iran.
Pakistan really doesn’t want to be a part of the “deal” process at all, and given their ties to Saudi Arabia, they shouldn’t be. Host talks in Australia instead? Pretty harmless country now. Ideal! /sarc
Word is that Iran is now going for the Bab el-Mandab strait (“Gate of tears” indeed if they do) which would be utterly catastrophic for the world.
Nukes are off the table for the west due to international laws and CRINK. The wildcard is of course Israel.
No, a “deal” won’t happen, and escalation is already happening.
No doubt you all have seen the farmer protests in the UK with giant banners saying no more food.
Input costs and availabilities globally are forcing farmers to make major reductions in planting, if at all.
Govt food shortages warnings are happening.
Even in Oz, with plentiful food and fuel for now, what heppens if there’s no packaging?
Plastics of all forms gone. No alternatives. Then what? That’s the Naptha crisis, building quickly.
Singapore – oil $210/barrel, Sri Lanka $286.
A couple of vids for Aussies:
Crisis, phase 3:
https://www.youtube.com/live/Hk6kMzuGwD4?si=SeKFEn7bP1GVXn7w
Food warning:
https://youtu.be/MSZDKwg95Kg?si=gkbjf2N4Th_0Ky3o
Or for the AI fans:
https://youtu.be/agZoEXc5qn0?si=OQEixKulu4t30Zz_
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Taroom Trough oil QLD
https://www.nrmmrrd.qld.gov.au/mining-exploration/initiatives/taroom-trough
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Local diesel price today lower again by 15 cents a litre to under $3.00
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FWIW
“20 Years of WUWT: What We’re Up Against & Why It Matters – Keynote Address at #ICCC16”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/04/16/20-years-of-wuwt-what-were-up-against-why-it-matters-keynote-address-at-iccc16/
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FWIW
“The state and “Cheddarisation” “Where the word came from and its wider application.
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-state-and-cheddarisation.html
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FWIW
“Without Warning, We Are This Much Closer to a Nightmare Wind Farm ‘What If?’ ”
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/04/16/without-warning-we-are-this-much-closer-to-a-nightmare-wind-farm-what-if-n3813967
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FWIW!!!
“Did Viktor Orbán Just Play the EU?”
“In a display of political chess so brilliant it borders on the comical, Viktor Orbán sniffed out long ago that the European Union, George Soros, Obama, and the whole globalist club were gunning for him. With no worthwhile left-wing opposition left in Hungary (none of them cracked the laughable 5% electoral threshold), the Hungarian prime minister decided to solve the problem his own way: he took his top ally and right-hand man, Péter Magyar, and sent him out front as a deluxe “opponent.”
More at
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/04/16/did-viktor-orban-just-play-the-eu/
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Orban was corrupt, Peter is a clean skin.
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“Orban was corrupt,”
They all are! Orban couldn’t be bought or bullied by the CIA, far more important!
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The CIA wasn’t offering enough.
‘The impact of Orbán’s regime on corruption is demonstrated in Hungary’s shift towards a state capture system, which involves Orbán and the ruling Fidesz party systematically controlling state institutions, resources, and decision-making so that they became instruments of political will and personal gain.’ (wiki)
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Oil Fields Australia known to date;
https://www.cccarto.com/oil/australiaoil/
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Oil Shale Deposits
https://geology.com/usgs/oil-shale/australia-oil-shale.shtml
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Major Oil Fields in Australia
Australia’s oil fields are primarily located in several key regions, with the most significant contributions coming from the following areas:
Western Australia
North West Shelf: This is the largest oil-producing area in Australia, known for its extensive offshore oil fields.
Carnarvon Basin: Another major region in Western Australia, it contains significant oil and gas reserves.
Other Significant Regions
Gippsland Basin: Located off the southeast coast of Victoria, this basin is known for its oil production.
Cooper Basin: Spanning South Australia and Queensland, this area is also a notable source of oil.
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Then there is the Taroom Trough, part of the Surat Basin, better known for it’s coal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr5UgXBa1fY
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FWIW – something to know about –
“IMF Warns Australia Set For One Of Highest Inflation Rates In Developed World”
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/imf-warns-australia-set-one-highest-inflation-rates-developed-world
More “Wonders of “Elbownomics”?
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‘He cautioned that further pressure on inflation would occur if the Australian Council of Trade Unions is successful in its bid to increase the minimum wage by 5 percent without a corresponding rise in productivity.
“Wage increases without productivity increases are almost always inflationary first and deflationary second as they put businesses out of business, increase unemployment, and contract the economy,” Young said.
Makes sense, but Australians will give the finger to economic rationalism.
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It seems that many Australians think that the way to fix all the problems caused by Labor is to vote them in again.
To be fair though, we haven’t had a credible alternative for a while.
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This is the hurdle.
‘Albanese Government maintains strong two-party preferred lead built on large support amongst women.’ (Roy Morgan)
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I’m eighty-four years old. I’m fed up with what our “leaders” are continually serving up.
I am fantasizing about a parallel universe. Here are what our “leaders’ would be uttering in that parallel universe:
Sally McManus: “I pledge the following hugely substantive productivity gains from my union before I make a single further demand for wage increases, or reduced work weeks. If I fail, I will resign”.
Chris Bowen: “Actually, renewables are not the answer to lower energy costs. I absolutely endorse coal, oil and nuclear. And I’ll stop driving around in EVs”.
Anthony Albanese: “My $275 electricity reduction pledge was nonsense. I acknowledge that I did fall off that stage. We never had a green, or renewables energy, goal, or become a super-power thereof. We have zero allegiance to China, or any other communist countries. My word, as you have seen, is not my bond!”.
Tony Burke: “Every single person I have approved for Australian citizenship will never do anything detrimental to this country. But, if they do, I will resign.!”
Penny Wong: “Restraint has NEVER failed.”
Jim Chalmers: “I wish I had never met Wayne Swan or Paul Keating!.”
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FWIW
The “Why of Small Dead Animals blog”
“Why this blog?
Until this moment I have been forced to listen while media and politicians alike have told me “what Canadians think”. In all that time they never once asked.
This is just the voice of an ordinary Canadian yelling back at the radio – “You don’t speak for me.”
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