Another great article. I’d add that these agencies are unaccountable to anyone, and lack any governance and oversight. Time to reform the lot - and by that I really mean getting rid of them,
They are meant to be accountable to the minister. However with the calibre of many (most? all?) ministers and shadows the APS has nothing to fear in its Sir Humphey role. The paucity of policy is aggravated mightily by ministerial incompetence. I wish for a more positive perspective but can only rely on evidence. Recently listened to Tim Ayres, apparently Minister for Industry, he is prime evidence of the incompetence.
Until the Public Serpents are reigned in and controlled by those paying their bloated wages - we the people - they will continue to serve themselves and the highest paying masters of the Globalist blob.
"This is institutional betrayal."
Spot on. Also known as malfeasance in office. Or treason.
And if the majority do not fightback this will not change. If it is not soon it may be too late to recover and the lucky country will be a distant memory if it is not removed from history altogether.
Made massive sense to me. Keep this up Chris. I would applaud if there was a way to summarise this and get it into the hands of every Aus who cares about our nation. We need common sense leadership to start getting the public service to realise they work for us ... and redirect our focus to create policies to make abundant cheap energy available to all again. Andrew Hastie comes to mind! Are you up for it mate?
The State ‘only’ purses these grandiose projects because they are using other people’s money and having run out of that … they put us in debt over our heads. The only things worth doing are the things you would pay for… with your own money. Everything else is waste and fraud.
Warming, since the Little Ice Age ended some 300 years ago, has been unequivocally beneficial and we are still a degree or two short of the Roman Warm Period. That was the best time for living things in recorded history.
Fear of warming (and plant food) is driving the greatest misallocation of resources ever, equating to trillions of dollars worldwide.
Would you spend a single dollar to get the results of this great experiment?
Electricity costs have doubled or tripled. The supply is less secure, with blackouts looming in Germany, Britain, and Australia. The current is less stable in voltage and frequency, which are vital for modern manufacturing machinery.
We know that wind and solar won’t work, thanks to the combined effect of wind droughts and the lack of feasible and affordable grid-scale storage. Break the bank and build storage if you must, but McBatney’s Law dictates that you will never charge it with intermitent wind and solar.
Thank you Chris, this is perhaps the most masterful expose’ that you have published to-date on this topic. The question of Australia’s future resilience is seldom mentioned by most commentators, but you have nearly hit the nail on the head.
Underpinning resilience must be a reserve of expert operators and engineers (No Charlatans, Please). Most people would not be aware of the comprehensive training (both theory and practice), which has given past assurance of electricity system performance and resilience.
In the wake of the vociferous, false and persistent claims regarding the need to remove all fossil fuel power generation, guess what has happened to more than a century of proven training and personnel development programmes (including full-scope replica power plant simulator training and assessment activities).
Where are the expert trainers and educators, and where are the simulators and other training resources and, most importantly, where is the flowing stream of trainees at each stage of the essential programme? Sorry, there is no such thing anymore.
Let’s also not forget that, in order to prepare Australia for a transition to an emissions-free nuclear energy future, we first need to educate the present and future public. Indoctrination and vacant slogans are never going to be the answer to our energy-supported future.
Mike Knowles, you have hit one big nail in the head, but what’s the strategy?
Stuart Frost, simplification is but an impossible dream. With this topic, simplification merely produces many more demands for more comprehensive explanations of carefully simplified statements. Perhaps you could give it a try?
Well summarized indeed, though in response to "All this for what?" overlooks the most obvious answer "the solving of a non-problem".
CO2 is neither a pollutant, nor is it the primary driver of so claimed global warming.
On the contrary, CO2 is a minuscule, invisible, odourless, tasteless atmospheric trace gas necessary for life on planet Earth. Without it we'd be dead.
This entire fiasco is based upon demonization of CO2.
In the absence of empirical evidence proving the case against it (there isn't any), there's no sound basis upon which to pursue this madness that's based upon pseudoscience, NOT evidence based in accord with the tried & true principles of The Scientific Method.
The latter conveniently ignored by proponents of the Climate Catastrophe, embraced by Grifters & Carpetbaggers alike, gorging themselves upon the huge subsidies doled out by Govt in favour of the Unreliables, albeit carefully hidden from public view by commercial-in-confidence agreements, reportedly to the tune of $Bs.
What lunacy. Electricity cost 2 cents per kWh in 1974. An energy rich country putting its industry out of business, impoverishing households and sending jobs offshore.
I just don’t get why they’re hellbent on destroying our country in so many ways. Are they that dense they can’t see what a destructive force this net zero crap is or have the Globalists captured their very souls for some sort of remuneration? Which industries and small businesses will be left in their new world utopia of net zero to keep providing the glamorous lifestyles of the rich and famous they have become accustomed to off the back of the poor, weary taxpayer? I can’t help think these idiot traitors are being taken for fools as once they have completed their ‘orders’ from those evil, life sucking vampires, then they will also be thrown onto the scrap heap. This is the favoured MO of communists/socialists of which China seems to be behind all this for one world government! 🤬
Great article but you are wrong about China. Coal use declined in China last year ahead of schedule and the speed of decline will increase as new renewables and nuclear come on line. Its use oil is also on the way down as over 50% of new car sales there and an increasing percentage of trucks are electric powered. China is leading the energy transition in spite of being the centre of global manufacturing. Its reasons are strategic, to reduce energy imports and therefor vulnerability in time of war, but the result is the same. The problem in Australia is the how not the why. We are not decarbonising in the most economically efficient way.
Chris, thank you, excellent analysis. Climate and energy policy need to be decoupled. There is however a big remaining problem, namely, that global warming actually is a security problem, with growing risks of extreme weather, insurance retrenchment, biodiversity loss, etc. Sunlight reflection technologies can reverse global warming at a cost estimated by the UK Royal Society at 0.1% of achieving the same result through decarbonisation. Yet the climate mafia have conspired to totally exclude sunlight reflection from policy consideration, despite growing international scientific and policy recognition that it must become central. Please explore this problem and apply your forensic skills to it.
Another great article. I’d add that these agencies are unaccountable to anyone, and lack any governance and oversight. Time to reform the lot - and by that I really mean getting rid of them,
They are meant to be accountable to the minister. However with the calibre of many (most? all?) ministers and shadows the APS has nothing to fear in its Sir Humphey role. The paucity of policy is aggravated mightily by ministerial incompetence. I wish for a more positive perspective but can only rely on evidence. Recently listened to Tim Ayres, apparently Minister for Industry, he is prime evidence of the incompetence.
Until the Public Serpents are reigned in and controlled by those paying their bloated wages - we the people - they will continue to serve themselves and the highest paying masters of the Globalist blob.
"This is institutional betrayal."
Spot on. Also known as malfeasance in office. Or treason.
And if the majority do not fightback this will not change. If it is not soon it may be too late to recover and the lucky country will be a distant memory if it is not removed from history altogether.
Made massive sense to me. Keep this up Chris. I would applaud if there was a way to summarise this and get it into the hands of every Aus who cares about our nation. We need common sense leadership to start getting the public service to realise they work for us ... and redirect our focus to create policies to make abundant cheap energy available to all again. Andrew Hastie comes to mind! Are you up for it mate?
The State ‘only’ purses these grandiose projects because they are using other people’s money and having run out of that … they put us in debt over our heads. The only things worth doing are the things you would pay for… with your own money. Everything else is waste and fraud.
Great article!
excellent analysis of 2025 developments
We have got a lot of wind and solar installed, with a great deal more to come, but a lot of capacity ain't real capacity at all.
Like some oils ain't oils as the old saying goes.
https://youtu.be/c7TUiMCeils 40 seconds.
In case you are worried about warming and CO2 emissions, just read a good book or two and relax!
https://www.amazon.com.au/s?k=Rafe+Champion&i=stripbooks&crid=GZ66NWUYZ193&sprefix=rafe+champion%2Cstripbooks%2C262&ref=nb_sb_noss
Warming, since the Little Ice Age ended some 300 years ago, has been unequivocally beneficial and we are still a degree or two short of the Roman Warm Period. That was the best time for living things in recorded history.
Fear of warming (and plant food) is driving the greatest misallocation of resources ever, equating to trillions of dollars worldwide.
Would you spend a single dollar to get the results of this great experiment?
Electricity costs have doubled or tripled. The supply is less secure, with blackouts looming in Germany, Britain, and Australia. The current is less stable in voltage and frequency, which are vital for modern manufacturing machinery.
And the environmental carnage!
FACE IT, THE WAR ON CO2 HAS BEEN LOST!
https://rafechampion.substack.com/p/losing-the-war-on-co2
Simplify the grid and get cheap and reliable power again.
https://rafechampion.substack.com/p/its-time-to-simplify-the-grid
We know that wind and solar won’t work, thanks to the combined effect of wind droughts and the lack of feasible and affordable grid-scale storage. Break the bank and build storage if you must, but McBatney’s Law dictates that you will never charge it with intermitent wind and solar.
Terrific article. So perfectly encapsulates the feckless governance these Canberra clowns practise.
Thank you Chris, this is perhaps the most masterful expose’ that you have published to-date on this topic. The question of Australia’s future resilience is seldom mentioned by most commentators, but you have nearly hit the nail on the head.
Underpinning resilience must be a reserve of expert operators and engineers (No Charlatans, Please). Most people would not be aware of the comprehensive training (both theory and practice), which has given past assurance of electricity system performance and resilience.
In the wake of the vociferous, false and persistent claims regarding the need to remove all fossil fuel power generation, guess what has happened to more than a century of proven training and personnel development programmes (including full-scope replica power plant simulator training and assessment activities).
Where are the expert trainers and educators, and where are the simulators and other training resources and, most importantly, where is the flowing stream of trainees at each stage of the essential programme? Sorry, there is no such thing anymore.
Let’s also not forget that, in order to prepare Australia for a transition to an emissions-free nuclear energy future, we first need to educate the present and future public. Indoctrination and vacant slogans are never going to be the answer to our energy-supported future.
Mike Knowles, you have hit one big nail in the head, but what’s the strategy?
Stuart Frost, simplification is but an impossible dream. With this topic, simplification merely produces many more demands for more comprehensive explanations of carefully simplified statements. Perhaps you could give it a try?
Well summarized indeed, though in response to "All this for what?" overlooks the most obvious answer "the solving of a non-problem".
CO2 is neither a pollutant, nor is it the primary driver of so claimed global warming.
On the contrary, CO2 is a minuscule, invisible, odourless, tasteless atmospheric trace gas necessary for life on planet Earth. Without it we'd be dead.
This entire fiasco is based upon demonization of CO2.
In the absence of empirical evidence proving the case against it (there isn't any), there's no sound basis upon which to pursue this madness that's based upon pseudoscience, NOT evidence based in accord with the tried & true principles of The Scientific Method.
The latter conveniently ignored by proponents of the Climate Catastrophe, embraced by Grifters & Carpetbaggers alike, gorging themselves upon the huge subsidies doled out by Govt in favour of the Unreliables, albeit carefully hidden from public view by commercial-in-confidence agreements, reportedly to the tune of $Bs.
We're being glued & screwed by experts.
Yes, all insane.
Chris, totally agree and for your interest: https://substack.com/@davidarchibald/p-178757183
What lunacy. Electricity cost 2 cents per kWh in 1974. An energy rich country putting its industry out of business, impoverishing households and sending jobs offshore.
I just don’t get why they’re hellbent on destroying our country in so many ways. Are they that dense they can’t see what a destructive force this net zero crap is or have the Globalists captured their very souls for some sort of remuneration? Which industries and small businesses will be left in their new world utopia of net zero to keep providing the glamorous lifestyles of the rich and famous they have become accustomed to off the back of the poor, weary taxpayer? I can’t help think these idiot traitors are being taken for fools as once they have completed their ‘orders’ from those evil, life sucking vampires, then they will also be thrown onto the scrap heap. This is the favoured MO of communists/socialists of which China seems to be behind all this for one world government! 🤬
We are stuffed
Great article but you are wrong about China. Coal use declined in China last year ahead of schedule and the speed of decline will increase as new renewables and nuclear come on line. Its use oil is also on the way down as over 50% of new car sales there and an increasing percentage of trucks are electric powered. China is leading the energy transition in spite of being the centre of global manufacturing. Its reasons are strategic, to reduce energy imports and therefor vulnerability in time of war, but the result is the same. The problem in Australia is the how not the why. We are not decarbonising in the most economically efficient way.
Chris, thank you, excellent analysis. Climate and energy policy need to be decoupled. There is however a big remaining problem, namely, that global warming actually is a security problem, with growing risks of extreme weather, insurance retrenchment, biodiversity loss, etc. Sunlight reflection technologies can reverse global warming at a cost estimated by the UK Royal Society at 0.1% of achieving the same result through decarbonisation. Yet the climate mafia have conspired to totally exclude sunlight reflection from policy consideration, despite growing international scientific and policy recognition that it must become central. Please explore this problem and apply your forensic skills to it.