16 August 2019
Greens Only Want To Make Power Less Affordable
A Greens-backed bill prohibiting government funding of coal-fired power in Australia would further worsen Australia’s electricity crisis. Government intervention in the energy market has seen electricity prices increase by 220 percent over the last 20 years, far outpacing inflation and wage growth. Policies that favour renewable energy at the expense of coal and gas have proceeded every major jump in
2 May 2019
Arvi Parbo on Politics and the Economy
On the occasion of the passing of Sir Arvi Parbo AC (10 February 1926 – 1 May 2019), giant of the Australian business community and in particular its mining sector, we pay tribute to Sir Arvi and reproduce a speech of his which appeared in an IPA Review of 1989. His address included this timeless wisdom: What appears important to
20 March 2019
Eighty-Nine Billion New Reasons To Quit The Paris Agreement
Momentum continues to build for Australia to exit the Paris Climate Agreement. New economic modelling prepared by Managing Director of BAEconomics and former executive director of the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Dr Brian Fisher, was released on Tuesday. It shows that the emission reduction obligations under the Paris Climate Agreement will cost Australia at least $89 billion
22 February 2019
Why Won’t Australia’s Ruling Elite Acknowledge The Benefits Of Coal?
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 coal has collapsed, and wonderful — that’s a good thing.” This statement is, of course, untrue. There is a desire among many in the higher echelons of Australia’s political, corporate,
20 December 2018
Businesses And Workers Pay A High Price For Zero Emissions Targets
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 week Harwin touted the NSW government’s policy of net zero emissions by 2050, argued for the integration of climate and energy policy, and decried the lack
26 October 2018
Ten Points About The Paris Climate Agreement
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 result in significant and irreparable economic and social costs without producing a discernible environmental benefit. Australia is not “on track” to meet the Paris emission reduction obligations despite extensive and prolonged government intervention
20 August 2017
Moving In Unison: Maximum Temperatures From Victoria, Australia
This post provides a link to download as a PDF, Chapter 10 of Climate Change The Facts 2017, “Moving in Unison: Maximum Temperatures from Victoria, Australia”, by Jennifer Marohasy & Dr Jaco Vlok. Climate change is often described by complicated statistics. In this chapter, we simply show all the maximum temperature series ever recorded by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology
8 August 2017
The Homogenisation of Rutherglen
This post provides a link to download as a PDF, Chapter 9 of Climate Change The Facts 2017, The Homogenisation of Rutherglen”, by Jennifer Marohasy. When climate scientists from Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology (the Bureau) issue media releases at the beginning of each year telling us that last year was the hottest on record, most of us understand that to
