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Like many other Western countries, it is divided over many issues, including Aboriginal rights, immigration, economic hardship, climate change, and racial reconciliation.
by Mamtimin Ala - 4/12/2024 - 12 comments
Gladstone, for example, is an economic powerhouse with a regional economic output of over $20 billion per annum. Yet only a couple of years ago it closed its maternity unit at Gladstone Hospital.
by Ross Elliott - 22/11/2024
Here we go again. Falsely, ABC claims Australia 'doesn’t have' a population plan. But we do – and it’s massive. Can Donald Trump’s victory change that at all?
by Stephen Saunders - 11/11/2024 - 5 comments
Planners see it mostly as an opportunity to create housing density around train stations, on the assumption that most people who might live there will also want to travel where the trains will take them.
by Ross Elliott - 30/10/2024 - 3 comments
Economic growth in developing countries hinges on a supply of continuous, uninterruptable, and dispatchable electricity.
Because wind and solar work only a fraction of the day a 'renewables'-only grid needs insane amounts of generation.
by Geoff Carmody - 8/10/2024 - 4 comments
Arguments about how to cut Australian greenhouse emissions (incl using nuclear power) are rife. They've been all about the cost of policy options. They're partial and misleading, at best.
by Geoff Carmody - 24/09/2024 - 4 comments
Without more pie, announced policies claimed to boost incomes for all will fail. 'Magic puddings' are the fantasies of Bunyip Bluegum and Norman Lindsay.
by Geoff Carmody - 16/08/2024 - 15 comments
Current policy is for 100% renewables plus 100% battery back-up. That will deliver even more unaffordable and unreliable electricity.
by Geoff Carmody - 5/08/2024 - 9 comments
We can fix this. We could radically rethink the way each level of government is happily but secretly clipping the ticket on new housing, or is adding to compliance costs.
by Ross Elliott - 2/08/2024 - 10 comments
People who bought an electric car for quiet mobility will suddenly find they were just financing a cog in Bowen’s Blackout Insurance Plan.
by Viv Forbes - 30/07/2024 - 17 comments
The Dutton federal Coalition's announcement to move Australia to nuclear energy has immediately defaulted to a political rather than policy debate with an inevitable pile on by the government, various interests and experts.
by Scott Prasser - 26/07/2024 - 12 comments

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