28 March 2023
Labor’s Safeguard Mechanism Reforms Are Gambling Australia’s Energy Future In The Pursuit Of Fringe Green Policy
In this article, Saxon Davidson contextualises and disseminates the findings of the IPA’s research into energy security conducted as part of the IPA’s Net Zero Program. The IPA’s Net Zero Program aims to research the various ways net zero policies negatively affect Australia’s energy security, national security capabilities, and household electricity prices. The energy policy deal struck by the Greens
2 August 2022
Labor’s Net Zero Bill Will Give Eco-activists A Free Pass To Flood Our Courts With Disruptive Legislation
Proposed legislation to codify Australia’s emissions reductions targets would give licence to green groups to weaponise the law through courtroom activism. The Albanese government’s climate legislation will, if passed, unleash a torrent of activist litigation that risks throwing future economic development in this country into doubt. Last week, Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen introduced legislation that enshrines the
2 June 2022
Business Has Gone Woke – So Libs Should Focus On Dandenong Not Davos
Peter Dutton was right to dismiss corporate Australia as being more in step with Labor and the Greens. The automatic and close relationship between the centre-right of politics and big business is over. Anthony Albanese’s election victory has prompted all sorts of interesting reactions. Apparently, company boards should now start purging their ranks of “right-wingers”. That’s the view of Graeme Bricknell of
27 April 2022
Net Zero Means ‘No Coal’
The reality has finally dawned on Labor that Net Zero means no new coal projects. This is something that the Greens and the Climate Council have been saying for years and is the reason why Adam Bandt has consistently been pushing to put a stop to all new fossil fuel projects throughout the country. The Australian Financial Review reported that in a
16 March 2022
ScoMo Should Follow BoJo On Net Zero Pause
The West has played Russian roulette for more than two decades by outsourcing their energy supply needs to hostile nations, while presenting themselves as environmentally virtuous by pushing international net zero emissions targets. Following the invasion of Ukraine, western leaders are waking up fast to the fact their predecessors have left us all in the firing line. Today, energy security
14 February 2022
The Chilling Effect Of Net Zero Dreams
The push towards a Net Zero climate policy for Australia jeopardises investment of $200 billion in coal, gas and oil projects currently in development in Australia, with tens of thousands of jobs on the line. The Australian Greens have sent a dangerous signal to investors by making clear their Net Zero policies involving a moratorium on new coal, gas and
31 October 2019
Let’s Be An Open, Modern Society Without Trashing Our Heritage
For a political party that preaches tolerance, the Greens never miss an opportunity to take a whack at Australia’s roughly 12 million Christians. So it was this week, when the NSW Greens took aim at the humble Lord’s Prayer, with a motion to scrap it in the state upper house. For those unfamiliar with the finer points of parliamentary procedure,
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
28 May 2019
The Minors Are Now Major Parties, Despite Old Player And Media Whinges
Is there really a continuing drift away from the major parties in Australian parties? Like many I have in recent years bought into the narrative that we live in an age of political disruption – one reflecting a more general diminishment in the sense of affiliation people have to historic institutions – and that this had led to a flight
5 April 2018
A Universal Basic Income Would Create A Permanent Underclass
Greens leader Richard Di Natale told the National Press Club yesterday that, because of the changing nature of work, Australia should introduce a universal basic income. His proposal would be costly, unnecessary and would create a permanent underclass. A UBI is a liveable, unconditional payment to all citizens. Theoretically, a UBI could be almost cost neutral if it replaced all welfare,
