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Wednesday, June 18, 2025

It is time for real eform of retail electricity markets

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In his opening address to Energy Week today, Chris Bowen has announced planned changes o the Default Market Offer to make it a price cap on...
Friday, March 22, 2024

What is economics?

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A post on LinkedIn drew my atention to an ABC story about economics which has various economists talking about how economics must change. I...

What exactly is a mobile "blackspot"

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The MP for Flynn, Colin Boyce, has launched a petition calling for a Senate inquiry into "big telcos" , calling on telcos to ...
Thursday, November 02, 2023

Howard, Price and Forgetting

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It was always going to be the case that an unsuccessful outcome from the proposal to give indigenous Australians recognition in the constitu...
Thursday, June 29, 2023

Financability and network infrastructure

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The energy transition requires new electricity generation to replace the fossil fuel fleet (mostly coal in Australia) and meet growing deman...
Sunday, June 25, 2023

That Hawke quote

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As the public consideration of how to vote in the forthcoming referendum on the Voice, the No campaign has latched onto a quote from Bob Haw...
Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Dutton and the Voice

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Peter Dutton's first response to the proposed Voice was to ask how it would make the children subject to sexual violence safer. His argu...
Friday, August 12, 2022

A comment on teacher shortages

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This post will get me into trouble with so many people who will tell me that I don't understand teaching and the dynamics of school educ...
Tuesday, August 09, 2022

Stage 3 Tax Cuts

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The so-called Stage 3 Tax Cuts are a conundrum for the Albanese Government. As a reminder the cuts were legislated as part of a package in 2...
Sunday, July 31, 2022

The Voice

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I cannot match Prime Minister Albanese's eloquence in his speech at the Garma Festival that released his initial view of the constituti...
Saturday, May 28, 2022

The United States and Guns

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The rest of the world looks on in horror every time there is another mass shooting in the United States. Unfortunately, mass shooting is onl...
Monday, May 23, 2022

The 2022 Election

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As we sit in the idle time between the excitement created by Saturday night and the accompanying electoral hangover of Sunday and the eventu...
Tuesday, March 15, 2022

What excites Scott Morrison about a university

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PM Scott Morrison went to the Central Coast yesterday to open a new facility of the University of Newcastle . After talking about the dream ...