The hypocrisy of Australia’s anti-coal contingent was exemplified this week by Richard Marles, who is the federal Labor Party’s spokesman for Defence. Mr Marles said “the global market for thermal...
Don Harwin is to be credited for his role as the state’s Minister for Energy and Utilities. But his recent suggestions for the future of energy and climate policy in Australia are misguided. This...
Hans Rosling’s posthumous book Factfulness proves Louis Armstrong and Paul McCartney were right: it’s a wonderful world and getting better all the time, writes reformed pessimist Richard Conrad...
Whatever your take on climate change, nuclear power is the safest option for averting Australia’s looming energy crisis, argues Bright New World Founder Dr Ben Heard. Once upon a time, Australia...
Our new research brief provides ten points about the Paris Climate Agreement. The binding international emissions reduction obligations imposed on Australia by the Paris Climate Agreement will...
“Dare to be different” is an advertising slogan employed in some form or another by companies like Honda to sell cars and Apple to sell computers, and by practically anyone who’s...
Only politicians could think it’s a good idea to spend billions of dollars pumping water uphill to generate electricity in a land with enough coal to last 1,000 years. Yet that is exactly what the...
Blaming your problems on the previous government is poor form. But blaming your problems on something that another government did over 25 years ago is, to put it politely, taking the mickey. Yet...
“The Morrison Government must put Australians ahead of European bureaucrats and withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement”, said Daniel Wild, Research Fellow at the free market think tank the...
When politicians are tempted by a big vision, fiscal prudence is rarely front of mind. Once there are nine or more digits after the dollar sign, the numbers are so ridiculously large that...
“The National Energy Guarantee (NEG) will impose substantial and irreparable economic damage without delivering a discernible environmental benefit. It is not in Australia’s national interest and...
This article was first published in the December 2017 IPA Review. Australia has some of the most plentiful energy resources in the world. The last two decades, however, have paradoxically seen...
The key lesson of recent wrangling over energy policy is this: if it sounds like a tax and looks like a tax, then it probably is a tax. The National Energy Guarantee (NEG) is the government’s...
“The decision by the Northern Territory government to lift the ban on the hydraulic fracturing (fracking) of onshore gas will create jobs, drive down energy prices, and boost economic...
“Socialism” is how critics have described the proposal of some federal Coalition MPs gathered together as the Monash Forum that the government build, own, and operate a coal-fired...
Australia has some of the most plentiful energy resources in the world. The last two decades, however, have paradoxically seen high and rising energy prices. In just the past decade, Australian...
The government’s National Energy Guarantee is not the knockout blow in Australia’s energy wars. Rather, it marks a continuation of three decades of failed energy policies. We shouldn’t buy the...
Free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs has welcomed the recommendations from the Select Committee on Red Tape interim report: Effect of red tape on environmental assessment and...
