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Policy debates don’t change gradually. They change suddenly. There has been a sudden change in Australia in public attitudes to energy policy. Anyone who has studied Australia’s energy production and consumption has realised that, if we continue on our current path of eliminating all fossil fuels and rejecting the option of nuclear power, we will be on a road to ruin.

Businesses that produce groceries are being smashed by soaring gas bills that are making it harder and harder to stay afloat.

Blackouts loom unless renewables firmed. Households face being plunged into darkness – while paying even more for power – without action on Australia’s gas shortage.

Sky News Australia reveals the true cost of the race to renewable energy in an exclusive investigation by political contributor Chris Uhlmann.

There was “no person” on Tanya Plibersek’s staff who could tell if the Blayney goldmine could recover from her heritage decision, department documents show, despite later assurances there was “no impediment” to it.

Article by Charlie Lewis, courtesy of Crikey. Ah would that it were National Mining Day every day. Where else could we get the peerless insights of mining magnate Gina Rinehart (except, oh

Anthony Albanese has personally intervened to scuttle a deal with the Greens on a signature plank of his environmental platform after appeals from WA Premier Roger Cook, again overriding his Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek just months out from the federal election.

Academic, legal and activist figures in the failed Environmental Defenders Office bid to scuttle a $5.8bn gas field near the Tiwi Islands concocted a rainbow serpent and crocodile man songline map based on guesswork and minimal consultation with Indigenous leaders, according to court documents.

Gina Rinehart has stepped up her calls for Australia to cut regulation and taxes while also borrowing from US president-elect Donald Trump with the pro-oil slogan ‘Drill Baby Drill’.

Australia’s richest person Gina Rinehart has taken aim at bureaucrats while calling for Trump-style cuts to the public service, saying taking the axe to public spending would pay for tax cuts.
The billionaire mining magnate and Liberal party donor used her speech at a National Mining Day event hosted by Santos last week to outline her vision of a stripped-back Australian Public Service.

The National Mining Day event hosted by Santos and sponsored by many leading mining companies was at Moomba in South Australia last week. This event celebrates the mining sector and its enormous contribution to Australia and its high standard of living.

As Australia’s richest person, Gina Rinehart has few qualms about giving out advice to the country’s leaders – and the odd museum curator.
But Rinehart, who was in South Florida to soak up the vibes at Donald Trump’s victory party, has returned to Australia with a spring in her step, even more buoyed by the immense wisdom shown by about 74 million Americans earlier this month.