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Brian Lara conroversial stumping by Ian Healy off Greg Matthews 1st Test West Indies Vs Australia 1992-93.. Australia doing Australia things👀.Healy should take back his appeal, even today worldwide🤦‍♂️..

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78,394 просмотров • 6 месяцев назад

Had so much fun chatting with Greg Kaplan (Greg Kaplan) and Michael Brennan of e61 Institute about Australia's stagnant productivity growth and how to fix it. The 2010s saw Australia's weakest productivity growth in 60 years. It was in many ways a lost decade. And it's dragging on—unlike the US, we haven't bounced out of covid with strong productivity growth. We discuss the extent to which this is being (i) caused by frontier-wide factors; (ii) caused by Australia-specific factors; and (iii) simply an artefact of how productivity is measured. We also go into a bunch of specific ideas, like: - why it could be better to densify Canberra than Sydney/Melbourne; - what should Albo do if he was bullish on AI; and - what we can learn from the stunning innovativeness of Australia's agricultural sector. And we discuss deeper questions around the role of government—as it's not really clear what levers the government currently has over productivity (at least for its *growth rate*). Links below. Enjoy! Timestamps: (0:00:00) - Introduction. (0:01:47) - Why has construction productivity stagnated—in Australia and the West? (0:08:38) - Can housing supply meaningfully grow just by improving construction productivity (without planning reform)? (0:12:50) - If construction and regulatory bottlenecks ease, what becomes the new supply constraint? (0:21:49) - Would densifying Sydney/Melbourne deliver big productivity gains—or should smaller cities scale? (0:29:48) - The most important limitations of GDP as a metric. (0:34:29) - Growth accounting in ~8 minutes: capital, labour, TFP. (0:43:04) - Is there a single “north-star” metric for policymakers? (0:47:12) - Should policymakers care more about TFP or labour productivity? (0:52:11) - Why revenue per worker is an imperfect proxy for firm-level productivity. (0:56:00) - Do these measurement critiques change what policy should do now? (0:58:25) - Stylised facts about the Australian economy. (1:04:01) - Status update on the health of the Australian economy. (1:06:43) - What would it take for Australia to be the richest country again? (1:11:23) - What growth rates are realistically achievable for Australia? (1:15:24) - How much GDP do we forgo over 10 years if weak productivity persists? (1:16:23) - Services, Baumol’s cost disease, and measurement. (1:29:18) - Lowest-hanging fruit for quality/productivity gains in services. (1:35:29) - Australia-specific vs frontier-wide causes of the slowdown. (1:39:51) - Best/worst Australian industries for TFP (i.e. “MFP”) growth over recent decades. (1:53:18) - Why has TFP slowed across almost every industry? (The chart behind the slowdown.) (1:59:41) - What is Australia’s “single most productive” company? (2:01:43) - Which industries have the biggest gaps between frontier and laggard firms? (2:07:53) - Is the median US firm more productive than its Australian counterpart, or is the US average skewed by superstars? (2:10:10) - What would Australian management look like if we converged on US practices? (2:13:15) - Why has the US—almost alone among rich countries—had strong recent productivity growth? (2:15:11) - How much of the US–Australia TFP gap is “culture”? (2:21:21) - Minimum reforms needed to restore 1–2% annual labour-productivity growth? (2:24:38) - Beyond Sydney/Melbourne: building (or scaling) new cities. (2:28:59) - If you were Anthony Albanese and bullish on AI, what would you do? (2:31:21) - How important is the CSIRO to Australia’s TFP? (2:33:02) - Three sensible reforms: tax; carbon pricing; road-user charging. (2:40:46) - Are the 1980s microeconomic reforms overrated? (2:44:33) - What levers reach the productivity growth rate—or is lifting levels the only game? (2:49:54) - Are we too concerned about the reform era ending? (2:56:12) - Most non-obvious lessons from the reform era.

Had so much fun chatting with Greg Kaplan (Greg Kaplan) and Michael Brennan of e61 Institute about Australia's stagnant productivity growth and how to fix it. The 2010s saw Australia's weakest productivity growth in 60 years. It was in many ways a lost decade. And it's dragging on—unlike the US, we haven't bounced out of covid with strong productivity growth. We discuss the extent to which this is being (i) caused by frontier-wide factors; (ii) caused by Australia-specific factors; and (iii) simply an artefact of how productivity is measured. We also go into a bunch of specific ideas, like: - why it could be better to densify Canberra than Sydney/Melbourne; - what should Albo do if he was bullish on AI; and - what we can learn from the stunning innovativeness of Australia's agricultural sector. And we discuss deeper questions around the role of government—as it's not really clear what levers the government currently has over productivity (at least for its growth rate). Links below. Enjoy! Timestamps: (0:00:00) - Introduction. (0:01:47) - Why has construction productivity stagnated—in Australia and the West? (0:08:38) - Can housing supply meaningfully grow just by improving construction productivity (without planning reform)? (0:12:50) - If construction and regulatory bottlenecks ease, what becomes the new supply constraint? (0:21:49) - Would densifying Sydney/Melbourne deliver big productivity gains—or should smaller cities scale? (0:29:48) - The most important limitations of GDP as a metric. (0:34:29) - Growth accounting in ~8 minutes: capital, labour, TFP. (0:43:04) - Is there a single “north-star” metric for policymakers? (0:47:12) - Should policymakers care more about TFP or labour productivity? (0:52:11) - Why revenue per worker is an imperfect proxy for firm-level productivity. (0:56:00) - Do these measurement critiques change what policy should do now? (0:58:25) - Stylised facts about the Australian economy. (1:04:01) - Status update on the health of the Australian economy. (1:06:43) - What would it take for Australia to be the richest country again? (1:11:23) - What growth rates are realistically achievable for Australia? (1:15:24) - How much GDP do we forgo over 10 years if weak productivity persists? (1:16:23) - Services, Baumol’s cost disease, and measurement. (1:29:18) - Lowest-hanging fruit for quality/productivity gains in services. (1:35:29) - Australia-specific vs frontier-wide causes of the slowdown. (1:39:51) - Best/worst Australian industries for TFP (i.e. “MFP”) growth over recent decades. (1:53:18) - Why has TFP slowed across almost every industry? (The chart behind the slowdown.) (1:59:41) - What is Australia’s “single most productive” company? (2:01:43) - Which industries have the biggest gaps between frontier and laggard firms? (2:07:53) - Is the median US firm more productive than its Australian counterpart, or is the US average skewed by superstars? (2:10:10) - What would Australian management look like if we converged on US practices? (2:13:15) - Why has the US—almost alone among rich countries—had strong recent productivity growth? (2:15:11) - How much of the US–Australia TFP gap is “culture”? (2:21:21) - Minimum reforms needed to restore 1–2% annual labour-productivity growth? (2:24:38) - Beyond Sydney/Melbourne: building (or scaling) new cities. (2:28:59) - If you were Anthony Albanese and bullish on AI, what would you do? (2:31:21) - How important is the CSIRO to Australia’s TFP? (2:33:02) - Three sensible reforms: tax; carbon pricing; road-user charging. (2:40:46) - Are the 1980s microeconomic reforms overrated? (2:44:33) - What levers reach the productivity growth rate—or is lifting levels the only game? (2:49:54) - Are we too concerned about the reform era ending? (2:56:12) - Most non-obvious lessons from the reform era.

Joseph Noel Walker

129,213 просмотров • 1 год назад

$We live in an increasingly fractured, polarised world where principles and values we once took for granted in Australia are being undermined. Today the Albanese Labor government gets away with doing things that would simply not have been acceptable in Australia a generation or two ago. Labor may have won the 2025 election with only 35% of the primary vote, but that hasn’t made the problems Labor created go away. We still have a cost-of-living crisis. We still have a housing crisis. We still have record immigration, increasing debt, huge budget deficits and declining economic productivity. The Prime Minister’s so-called productivity roundtable of his sycophants won’t change things at all unless it includes people who understand productivity and business: people like Gina Rhinehart, Solomon Lew, Gerry Harvey and Dick Smith. Taxpayers are still forced to foot the bill for subsidising renewable projects in the pursuit of net zero, coupled with rises in our electricity bills of more than 300% over the past 20 years or so. And more recently, Labor has gambled with our national security. For decades, Australia’s defence has mainly been funded by American taxpayers. America’s nuclear deterrence has prevented global war between major powers, America supplies us with our military platforms and our advanced weapons, and under AUKUS America will hand over to Australia the most closely-guarded military technology on the planet: nuclear propulsion. Yet our current Labor government is publicly appearing less than grateful for this generous support from the ‘arsenal of democracy’. Labor is ghosting our most important ally – the United States – and to all appearances is sucking up to communist China, Australia’s most potent adversary. China routinely commits acts of aggression against Australia as if it’s entitled to do so, and is not hiding its intentions to militarily and economically dominate our region. America simply wants the countries with which it shares close alliances and democratic values to step up and do some of the heavy lifting by increasing their defence spending. It’s called growing a back bone and taking responsibility to defend yourself instead of relying on Americans to fund your battles with their money and lives. The Prime Minister is gambling that he won’t have to, and that is a big mistake. It’s a purely political mistake based on arrogance. It’s not principled. Labor hates everything about Trump and Republicans. Labor has failed to appreciate the importance of America to our security, and that our relationship with the world’s most powerful nation must endure beyond the current occupants of the Lodge and the White House. It’s impossible to imagine Bob Hawke – Labor’s most successful and longest-serving Prime Minister – supporting this. He was a noted champion of the US alliance despite the very conservative Reagan and Bush administrations being in the White House. Hawke was also a vocal critic of communist China, especially after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. Hawke understood Australian principles. Prime Minister Albanese never got the memo, and now our relations with America are declining when we can least afford it. This is not in our best interests. Australia needs a statement of binding principles to govern how we conduct ourselves on the world stage, and to ensure petty politics does not risk important international relationships that must last well beyond every three-year Parliamentary term. This statement needs to say who we are, what Australia stands for, and who we stand with: · democracies like the US and Israel, not communist dictatorships or terrorist regimes; · we stand for the rule of law, self-determination and freedom; and · international peace and order, reinforced by a strong military to deter those who – like China – would disrupt that peace and order. These are One Nation’s principles. They should be Australia’s principles. They used to be. They were principles that didn’t even need stating a generation ago, but Australia is heading down a path under Labor where we cannot be certain of them any longer.$

We live in an increasingly fractured, polarised world where principles and values we once took for granted in Australia are being undermined. Today the Albanese Labor government gets away with doing things that would simply not have been acceptable in Australia a generation or two ago. Labor may have won the 2025 election with only 35% of the primary vote, but that hasn’t made the problems Labor created go away. We still have a cost-of-living crisis. We still have a housing crisis. We still have record immigration, increasing debt, huge budget deficits and declining economic productivity. The Prime Minister’s so-called productivity roundtable of his sycophants won’t change things at all unless it includes people who understand productivity and business: people like Gina Rhinehart, Solomon Lew, Gerry Harvey and Dick Smith. Taxpayers are still forced to foot the bill for subsidising renewable projects in the pursuit of net zero, coupled with rises in our electricity bills of more than 300% over the past 20 years or so. And more recently, Labor has gambled with our national security. For decades, Australia’s defence has mainly been funded by American taxpayers. America’s nuclear deterrence has prevented global war between major powers, America supplies us with our military platforms and our advanced weapons, and under AUKUS America will hand over to Australia the most closely-guarded military technology on the planet: nuclear propulsion. Yet our current Labor government is publicly appearing less than grateful for this generous support from the ‘arsenal of democracy’. Labor is ghosting our most important ally – the United States – and to all appearances is sucking up to communist China, Australia’s most potent adversary. China routinely commits acts of aggression against Australia as if it’s entitled to do so, and is not hiding its intentions to militarily and economically dominate our region. America simply wants the countries with which it shares close alliances and democratic values to step up and do some of the heavy lifting by increasing their defence spending. It’s called growing a back bone and taking responsibility to defend yourself instead of relying on Americans to fund your battles with their money and lives. The Prime Minister is gambling that he won’t have to, and that is a big mistake. It’s a purely political mistake based on arrogance. It’s not principled. Labor hates everything about Trump and Republicans. Labor has failed to appreciate the importance of America to our security, and that our relationship with the world’s most powerful nation must endure beyond the current occupants of the Lodge and the White House. It’s impossible to imagine Bob Hawke – Labor’s most successful and longest-serving Prime Minister – supporting this. He was a noted champion of the US alliance despite the very conservative Reagan and Bush administrations being in the White House. Hawke was also a vocal critic of communist China, especially after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. Hawke understood Australian principles. Prime Minister Albanese never got the memo, and now our relations with America are declining when we can least afford it. This is not in our best interests. Australia needs a statement of binding principles to govern how we conduct ourselves on the world stage, and to ensure petty politics does not risk important international relationships that must last well beyond every three-year Parliamentary term. This statement needs to say who we are, what Australia stands for, and who we stand with: · democracies like the US and Israel, not communist dictatorships or terrorist regimes; · we stand for the rule of law, self-determination and freedom; and · international peace and order, reinforced by a strong military to deter those who – like China – would disrupt that peace and order. These are One Nation’s principles. They should be Australia’s principles. They used to be. They were principles that didn’t even need stating a generation ago, but Australia is heading down a path under Labor where we cannot be certain of them any longer.

Pauline Hanson 🇦🇺

52,109 просмотров • 1 год назад

Electricity prices to jump by more than 7% across the country. 13% in NSW. The news informs us of the problem, regularly, with lovely puff pieces and point missing articles like the 9 News clip below. They tell us that we will receive a pittance of government assistance, because even though the promise cheaper power, they must give out taxpayer money to soften the blow. They tell us that the price caps didn’t work (which they never do). Price caps cause shortages. They tell us that the energy companies are doing their best. Oh… and my personal favourite, they tell us to shop around… What a joke. The market is dysfunctional, the retailers take the piss, the energy providers take the piss, and the so-called green energy swindle takes the absolute piss. Why doesn’t 9 News, or any of the mainstream outlet for that matter prosecute the case against the ridiculous policy settings that got the country into this mess in the first place. Instead of telling us to chow down on a sandwich made of bull waste, lovingly prepared for us by swindlers, cheats and scoundrels, why don’t they tell us that the sandwich is in fact disgusting poison. That the contents have been slowly crafted by the political elite in partneship with foreign and domestic mega-corporations who prefer to gain wealth from government, and market rigging practices than delivering cheap and reliable energy. The consumer problem is only part of the story. We are deindustrialising because our industrial relations system is better suited to a Kindergarten and that destroys productivity. That the fixed award system and super increases mean government granted pay rises for everyone driving inflation directly. But most importantly that energy is too expensive and too unreliable for industry to cope. Which it should not be, because Australia is a resource superpower. More jobs go overseas, and Australia is more reliant on fragile overseas markets every day. We are on the verge of World War 3 and the media in this country want to inform you of your options - that you should shop for a better deal, in a marketplace that is rigged against you. Rigged and controlled, such that there is no competition. It does not take an expert to see it. If the media is not holding government and the mega-corporations to account, then they really serve no point. Why they are not banging on Bowen’s door and asking him how he has allowed the nation to fall to its knees is beyond me. They ask the wrong questions, and they just repeat the lies. They let the politicians lie their way through elections, and don’t hold them to account on the other side. They are nothing more than a brochure for the political duopoly and predatory mega-corporations. There can be no functioning democracy without a strong and competitive media landscape… and in Australia that simply does not exist. I just want Australia back.

Electricity prices to jump by more than 7% across the country. 13% in NSW. The news informs us of the problem, regularly, with lovely puff pieces and point missing articles like the 9 News clip below. They tell us that we will receive a pittance of government assistance, because even though the promise cheaper power, they must give out taxpayer money to soften the blow. They tell us that the price caps didn’t work (which they never do). Price caps cause shortages. They tell us that the energy companies are doing their best. Oh… and my personal favourite, they tell us to shop around… What a joke. The market is dysfunctional, the retailers take the piss, the energy providers take the piss, and the so-called green energy swindle takes the absolute piss. Why doesn’t 9 News, or any of the mainstream outlet for that matter prosecute the case against the ridiculous policy settings that got the country into this mess in the first place. Instead of telling us to chow down on a sandwich made of bull waste, lovingly prepared for us by swindlers, cheats and scoundrels, why don’t they tell us that the sandwich is in fact disgusting poison. That the contents have been slowly crafted by the political elite in partneship with foreign and domestic mega-corporations who prefer to gain wealth from government, and market rigging practices than delivering cheap and reliable energy. The consumer problem is only part of the story. We are deindustrialising because our industrial relations system is better suited to a Kindergarten and that destroys productivity. That the fixed award system and super increases mean government granted pay rises for everyone driving inflation directly. But most importantly that energy is too expensive and too unreliable for industry to cope. Which it should not be, because Australia is a resource superpower. More jobs go overseas, and Australia is more reliant on fragile overseas markets every day. We are on the verge of World War 3 and the media in this country want to inform you of your options - that you should shop for a better deal, in a marketplace that is rigged against you. Rigged and controlled, such that there is no competition. It does not take an expert to see it. If the media is not holding government and the mega-corporations to account, then they really serve no point. Why they are not banging on Bowen’s door and asking him how he has allowed the nation to fall to its knees is beyond me. They ask the wrong questions, and they just repeat the lies. They let the politicians lie their way through elections, and don’t hold them to account on the other side. They are nothing more than a brochure for the political duopoly and predatory mega-corporations. There can be no functioning democracy without a strong and competitive media landscape… and in Australia that simply does not exist. I just want Australia back.

Matthew Camenzuli

51,986 просмотров • 1 год назад

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”. I didn’t really understand the profound opening line to “A Tale of Two Cities” by the great Charles Dickens when I first read it. I didn't until this decade. It’s as if he was looking forward to this very time, here in Australia. Today we live in a world where those that live in the bubble, the Canberra bubble, are living the best of times, with their accomplices. The rest of us are living through some of the most trying times anyone can remember. They speak of the need for more immigration, as the line for medical treatment grows. They speak about “free” healthcare, as more of us are slugged with fees. They talk about housing Australians, as the average price of houses – already out of reach – hit stratospheric levels. They talk about cheap and reliable energy in the abstract, as those with the money to buy the batteries, are subsidised by those that can’t afford their power bill. They talk about an Australia that once existed in present tense. It’s like they are talking about a different place, in a different time. Probably because they are so out of touch it hurts – us. Because they make their silly videos and promote their latest slogan. Labor, the Liberals and the Greens can’t even bring themselves to describe the problems, whilst One Nation don’t even need to describe the solutions. More people grow fed up with the status quo, watching the best of times people cause the worst of times. This has been a long time coming. I am an independent today, but I was once a Liberal, and I was proudly Liberal. I may have been completely naïve, but I truly believed in the “We Believe” statement, and the Party’s purpose. During my time in the organisation, I watched them slowly disconnect from the values that I held dear, the values that built this country. A set of values that saw home ownership jump to 75% of the population. Values that integrated people from around the world, through the provision of opportunity. Hope. A common purpose. Australia. We watched as the lobbyists perverted the principles, into profits. We watched as more of the authentic Liberal movement was corrupted by the Alex Hawke crew, as they capitulated one by one. We fought back with democratic reform, legal challenges and direct grass roots action to try and maintain a beachhead. Many of my good friends and I were expelled, blocked from running for seats, and were totally steamrolled on policy, principle, and purpose. But the fight raged on. It rages on still as good and decent people fight back both inside of the organisation, and out here in the real world. Because Australia matters, and the fastest way to restoring Australia is by restoring the Liberal Party. There is no doubt One Nation, the Libertarians, Family First and the rest have their important place, but I can assure you, their pathways are long and windy. Labor will lose paint along the way, but they will continue to destroy this country whilst the electorate slowly works out the solutions. It will take a decade or more. The fastest pathway to prosperity is through a restored Liberal Party, and a strong coalition. A coalition free of the forces of profit. Free of lobbyist interests, and free of Alex Hawke and his smarmy, grubby, slimy politics. I think today those forces have finally reached their peak. Angus Taylor is very well known to me, and I think he as very bright man, who when you get to know him personally is good company. He has been well schooled on the problems in the Liberal Party, and his route has been far more cautious than mine. I guess that’s why he navigated the hoops of the hopeless leadership and an utterly useless organisation. He followed leaders respectfully that I know he didn’t agree with. It has damaged many, and it has hurt the country, but that pathway has brought him here, tonight, to his resignation from the front bench and his shot at the top job. He understands the problems in the party room, but unlike many of his predecessors, he also understands the problems in the organisation too. That is what has destroyed so many good people, whilst promoting the worst, and turned the Party’s fortunes into “plans for your good” that never were that brilliant. The nonsense that has put the Party in this woeful position, did not start with Ley, it ended there. I believe Angus has the smarts, the patience and the capability to sort out the Party and bring those of good will along. After all, conservatives and libertarians together are the best balancing force on the centre-right of the political spectrum. Angus may be from the best of times -just like all of the rest of them, and I think he understands the worst of times. But he does not have a lot of time. I wish him well on his quest to take the opposition leadership, to restore the Liberal Party, and to restore Australia. Godspeed Angus. I remain and independent, and I just want Australia back.

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”. I didn’t really understand the profound opening line to “A Tale of Two Cities” by the great Charles Dickens when I first read it. I didn't until this decade. It’s as if he was looking forward to this very time, here in Australia. Today we live in a world where those that live in the bubble, the Canberra bubble, are living the best of times, with their accomplices. The rest of us are living through some of the most trying times anyone can remember. They speak of the need for more immigration, as the line for medical treatment grows. They speak about “free” healthcare, as more of us are slugged with fees. They talk about housing Australians, as the average price of houses – already out of reach – hit stratospheric levels. They talk about cheap and reliable energy in the abstract, as those with the money to buy the batteries, are subsidised by those that can’t afford their power bill. They talk about an Australia that once existed in present tense. It’s like they are talking about a different place, in a different time. Probably because they are so out of touch it hurts – us. Because they make their silly videos and promote their latest slogan. Labor, the Liberals and the Greens can’t even bring themselves to describe the problems, whilst One Nation don’t even need to describe the solutions. More people grow fed up with the status quo, watching the best of times people cause the worst of times. This has been a long time coming. I am an independent today, but I was once a Liberal, and I was proudly Liberal. I may have been completely naïve, but I truly believed in the “We Believe” statement, and the Party’s purpose. During my time in the organisation, I watched them slowly disconnect from the values that I held dear, the values that built this country. A set of values that saw home ownership jump to 75% of the population. Values that integrated people from around the world, through the provision of opportunity. Hope. A common purpose. Australia. We watched as the lobbyists perverted the principles, into profits. We watched as more of the authentic Liberal movement was corrupted by the Alex Hawke crew, as they capitulated one by one. We fought back with democratic reform, legal challenges and direct grass roots action to try and maintain a beachhead. Many of my good friends and I were expelled, blocked from running for seats, and were totally steamrolled on policy, principle, and purpose. But the fight raged on. It rages on still as good and decent people fight back both inside of the organisation, and out here in the real world. Because Australia matters, and the fastest way to restoring Australia is by restoring the Liberal Party. There is no doubt One Nation, the Libertarians, Family First and the rest have their important place, but I can assure you, their pathways are long and windy. Labor will lose paint along the way, but they will continue to destroy this country whilst the electorate slowly works out the solutions. It will take a decade or more. The fastest pathway to prosperity is through a restored Liberal Party, and a strong coalition. A coalition free of the forces of profit. Free of lobbyist interests, and free of Alex Hawke and his smarmy, grubby, slimy politics. I think today those forces have finally reached their peak. Angus Taylor is very well known to me, and I think he as very bright man, who when you get to know him personally is good company. He has been well schooled on the problems in the Liberal Party, and his route has been far more cautious than mine. I guess that’s why he navigated the hoops of the hopeless leadership and an utterly useless organisation. He followed leaders respectfully that I know he didn’t agree with. It has damaged many, and it has hurt the country, but that pathway has brought him here, tonight, to his resignation from the front bench and his shot at the top job. He understands the problems in the party room, but unlike many of his predecessors, he also understands the problems in the organisation too. That is what has destroyed so many good people, whilst promoting the worst, and turned the Party’s fortunes into “plans for your good” that never were that brilliant. The nonsense that has put the Party in this woeful position, did not start with Ley, it ended there. I believe Angus has the smarts, the patience and the capability to sort out the Party and bring those of good will along. After all, conservatives and libertarians together are the best balancing force on the centre-right of the political spectrum. Angus may be from the best of times -just like all of the rest of them, and I think he understands the worst of times. But he does not have a lot of time. I wish him well on his quest to take the opposition leadership, to restore the Liberal Party, and to restore Australia. Godspeed Angus. I remain and independent, and I just want Australia back.

Matthew Camenzuli

12,635 просмотров • 7 месяцев назад

The strategic military tactic of using air raids to target power stations—aiming to cripple an enemy’s electrical grid to weaken their industrial capacity—has been employed in conflicts from World War II right through to the most recent regional wars. If Australia were ever attacked, the first thing any competent enemy would do is hammer is our electricity generating infrastructure. They would seek to bomb our coal-fired power stations into oblivion. But in Australia today, the enemy is already inside the gates. We don’t need foreign bombers. We have the Net Zero mafia and the climate cultists doing the job for them, as they systematically blow up our reliable coal-fired power stations. The latest casualty is the Liddell Power Station, owned by AGL. For AGL, shutting it down and “blowing it up” was a cold, anti-competitive profit-maximising decision. By deliberately reducing supply, they drove up the wholesale electricity prices they were receiving from their other generating assets, making the company far more profitable with Liddell destroyed than running. AGL even rejected a $250 million offer from a competitor who wanted to buy Liddell and keep it operating. The station was literally worth more to AGL dead than alive. This is textbook anti-competitive behaviour by a company with substantial market power. It should be illegal. Yet when I raised this directly with the ACCC, they refused to anything. The brutal bottom line is this: if it weren’t for the deranged Net Zero obsession and the suicidal Paris Accord (which the USA has abandoned and China simply ignores), a brand-new, high-efficiency, low-emissions coal-fired power station should have been commissioned at Liddell back in 2018 for around $4 billion. Instead, we’ve already wasted over $40 billion on the energy-destroying white elephant called Snowy 2.0. We are not being invaded. The enemy is already inside the gates. We are committing national energy suicide — aided and abetted by our own politicians, bureaucrats, and corporate rent-seekers.

Craig Kelly:🇦🇺Foundation for Economic Education

19,319 просмотров • 3 месяцев назад

Another day, another band that arrogantly flogs the guts out of its audience. This time it’s the Hoodoo Gurus. The “Gurus” are men born in the 50’s that lived the very best of Australia in their prime. Men that still collect royalties for the work they did decades ago, when they played to the best pub rock scene in world history. Not only is it poor form to slander your customer base, and it is, but they just demonstrated how out of touch they really are. Worse than that, they don’t seem to care. They might as well be on the moon. The pub rock scene has been hollowed out by lock out laws, displaced by gambling machines, and the cost of just about everything, the final boot – the lockdowns – completely crushed our nightlife. Young aspiring musicians today would have a hard time finding a corner pub with a stage in it. There is no room for anything but tables in the dining room, what with the constant pressure to serve tables with overpriced beer – jammed to the head with excises. And pokies take up every available power point, flat-out generating poverty and state taxes. Young people today don’t have the spare cash or credit to go out, let alone buy a home in any of the capital cities or major regional towns that the band has toured. There aren’t even anymore young local factory out of workers – because the factories are mostly gone too. Gone with them the meaningful and important work, productivity and resilience that made Australia the place it was when these guys were in their thirties, forties and fifties. Now it is just a population ponzi, fuelling an education ponzi, driving a housing bubble, and rental queues that run from Liverpool to Bowral. There might have been a few people with extreme views out on Australia Day, marching for change, but the vast and overwhelming majority were just Aussies from all walks of life that have just had enough. People who don’t buy by Albanese’s spin, Ley’s lameness, Chalmers’ distractions and Bowen’s blabbering. They feel as though we have been sold their “betters” and that it has been a choice not an accident. They don’t think it is a new thing, and they know that the red team and the blue team, sometimes in partnership with the green team and the teals, have rubbed out their opportunity to live the sorts of lives those that came before them have had. That or they are rightly worried about their kids and grandkids. Because it’s tough out there and it is just getting tougher. Middle Australia doesn’t often get out and protest, but calling them names when they do, asking them not to enjoy Australian music – the sort of music that has been the backtrack of their lives – is just cruel. We have been watching as both of the major parties rapidly lose votes to the One Nation Party, and instead of sympathy, trying to understand why, bands like the Hoodoo Gurus and Men at Work would rather rubbish them, and light another cigar with yet another royalty cheque. The Brisbane rally didn’t burn any flags or denigrate anyone it was inclusive not divisive; it seemed to be to be just a bunch of people celebrating Australia. I don’t know if it’s the failing of the fabled victimhood, or the remake of Valances Kiss Kiss (XX) … But there is a change in the wind, for better or worse, and the establishment better start listening or they will be broomed out completely. Most of us don’t care either way, as long as things start getting better, and soon. I just want Australia back.

Another day, another band that arrogantly flogs the guts out of its audience. This time it’s the Hoodoo Gurus. The “Gurus” are men born in the 50’s that lived the very best of Australia in their prime. Men that still collect royalties for the work they did decades ago, when they played to the best pub rock scene in world history. Not only is it poor form to slander your customer base, and it is, but they just demonstrated how out of touch they really are. Worse than that, they don’t seem to care. They might as well be on the moon. The pub rock scene has been hollowed out by lock out laws, displaced by gambling machines, and the cost of just about everything, the final boot – the lockdowns – completely crushed our nightlife. Young aspiring musicians today would have a hard time finding a corner pub with a stage in it. There is no room for anything but tables in the dining room, what with the constant pressure to serve tables with overpriced beer – jammed to the head with excises. And pokies take up every available power point, flat-out generating poverty and state taxes. Young people today don’t have the spare cash or credit to go out, let alone buy a home in any of the capital cities or major regional towns that the band has toured. There aren’t even anymore young local factory out of workers – because the factories are mostly gone too. Gone with them the meaningful and important work, productivity and resilience that made Australia the place it was when these guys were in their thirties, forties and fifties. Now it is just a population ponzi, fuelling an education ponzi, driving a housing bubble, and rental queues that run from Liverpool to Bowral. There might have been a few people with extreme views out on Australia Day, marching for change, but the vast and overwhelming majority were just Aussies from all walks of life that have just had enough. People who don’t buy by Albanese’s spin, Ley’s lameness, Chalmers’ distractions and Bowen’s blabbering. They feel as though we have been sold their “betters” and that it has been a choice not an accident. They don’t think it is a new thing, and they know that the red team and the blue team, sometimes in partnership with the green team and the teals, have rubbed out their opportunity to live the sorts of lives those that came before them have had. That or they are rightly worried about their kids and grandkids. Because it’s tough out there and it is just getting tougher. Middle Australia doesn’t often get out and protest, but calling them names when they do, asking them not to enjoy Australian music – the sort of music that has been the backtrack of their lives – is just cruel. We have been watching as both of the major parties rapidly lose votes to the One Nation Party, and instead of sympathy, trying to understand why, bands like the Hoodoo Gurus and Men at Work would rather rubbish them, and light another cigar with yet another royalty cheque. The Brisbane rally didn’t burn any flags or denigrate anyone it was inclusive not divisive; it seemed to be to be just a bunch of people celebrating Australia. I don’t know if it’s the failing of the fabled victimhood, or the remake of Valances Kiss Kiss (XX) … But there is a change in the wind, for better or worse, and the establishment better start listening or they will be broomed out completely. Most of us don’t care either way, as long as things start getting better, and soon. I just want Australia back.

Matthew Camenzuli

27,321 просмотров • 7 месяцев назад

It is very clear that we are poorly served by a growing class of arrogant and out of touch politicians, and Bowen is their mascot. Our politicians forget themselves. They forget that we don’t answer to them - They answer to us. They don’t pay us - We pay them. Chris Bowen has broken just about every promise that he has made. Industry is furious, electricity users are furious, and now motorists are furious. They promised that power bills would come down. Instead, power bills have gone up, while at the same time industry continues its exodus. The government is propping up a select few corporations with tax dollars and even taking over some directly. That is not the sign of a healthy energy market, or sustainable industry. It is not the sign of success that Bowen needs to maintain a modicum of credibility. So, Liam Bartlett calls him out, asks him real questions that cut to the viability of Bowen’s solutions to our real energy problems. But instead of answering Bartlett’s questions, the Minister responsible for the broken promises chooses instead to attack the journalist. Liam Bartlett is finally asking the questions that need to be asked. He is not just smiling and curtseying to the press corps - he is doing his job. Bowen shows us the answers, not by the words he says, but what he doesn’t say. It begs further questions. For me they are; Who does Bowen think he is? Followed closely by, who does he think he answers to? The answers are as obvious as the lack of answers he provides about our energy future. If it wasn’t so important, it wouldn’t really matter. But on a large and isolated continent like Australia, energy security is our life blood. Without an abundance of cheap and reliable energy, we will starve. Bowen might think his primary role is curating the swooning reporters he likes, but we all know that it is not his job. He answers to us. If he finds the questions uncomfortable, too bad. If the press required him to explain the truth of the storm we are really in - a storm that has been brewing for decades and is now spiraling out of control in front of us - then so be it. We can’t fix what we can’t see. Bowen must level with us. If he can’t fix the problems, get out of the way for somebody who can. Bowen should sit down with Liam Bartlett, and respectfully answer his questions. The people of Australia deserve nothing less. I just want Australia back.

It is very clear that we are poorly served by a growing class of arrogant and out of touch politicians, and Bowen is their mascot. Our politicians forget themselves. They forget that we don’t answer to them - They answer to us. They don’t pay us - We pay them. Chris Bowen has broken just about every promise that he has made. Industry is furious, electricity users are furious, and now motorists are furious. They promised that power bills would come down. Instead, power bills have gone up, while at the same time industry continues its exodus. The government is propping up a select few corporations with tax dollars and even taking over some directly. That is not the sign of a healthy energy market, or sustainable industry. It is not the sign of success that Bowen needs to maintain a modicum of credibility. So, Liam Bartlett calls him out, asks him real questions that cut to the viability of Bowen’s solutions to our real energy problems. But instead of answering Bartlett’s questions, the Minister responsible for the broken promises chooses instead to attack the journalist. Liam Bartlett is finally asking the questions that need to be asked. He is not just smiling and curtseying to the press corps - he is doing his job. Bowen shows us the answers, not by the words he says, but what he doesn’t say. It begs further questions. For me they are; Who does Bowen think he is? Followed closely by, who does he think he answers to? The answers are as obvious as the lack of answers he provides about our energy future. If it wasn’t so important, it wouldn’t really matter. But on a large and isolated continent like Australia, energy security is our life blood. Without an abundance of cheap and reliable energy, we will starve. Bowen might think his primary role is curating the swooning reporters he likes, but we all know that it is not his job. He answers to us. If he finds the questions uncomfortable, too bad. If the press required him to explain the truth of the storm we are really in - a storm that has been brewing for decades and is now spiraling out of control in front of us - then so be it. We can’t fix what we can’t see. Bowen must level with us. If he can’t fix the problems, get out of the way for somebody who can. Bowen should sit down with Liam Bartlett, and respectfully answer his questions. The people of Australia deserve nothing less. I just want Australia back.

Matthew Camenzuli

29,981 просмотров • 5 месяцев назад

WATCH: NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas casts the bio parents of Baby Gabriel as the purest victims of this fiasco TOM LLAMAS: And in Texas, a story that is garnering a lot of headlines. A couple’s surrogate is now fighting for custody of the baby boy she carried, arguing she should be given parental rights instead of the biological parents who are also fighting for him. Brian Chandler explains what led to this legal battle. BRIAN CHANDLER: In Dallas, a boy's birth triggering a dramatic custody battle, pitting the baby’s biological parents against the surrogate who carried him. The boy’s California-based parents face a devastating decision after a diagnosis at 20 weeks. They learned the baby, who was being carried by a surrogate from Alaska, had a serious heart condition: Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. They chose to terminate the pregnancy. But gestational carrier McKenna West objected, fleeing to Texas for medical care and legal refuge. McKENNA WEST: I didn't think that I could live with myself doing that. CHANDLER: West sharing her story with the anti-abortion organization Live Action. She’s fighting for legal parenthood over the baby she carried to term in Texas. WEST: I just know that he- he's a fighter and he deserves to be surrounded by people who are 100% willing to fight alongside him. CHANDLER: The boy was born Wednesday. West is calling him Gabriel, but he’s Rumi to his parents, who want to take him back to California for medical care. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton intervening to support the surrogate, urging a court to prohibit the child’s removal from the state. The court sided with the state in part, blocking any attempt to transfer the child while prohibiting the gestational carrier from asserting parental rights over him. Tonight, the biological parents’ attorneys telling NBC News: “As if the heartbreak of his condition were not enough, they are devastated today to see their family tragedy transformed into political theater,” adding: “Our clients’ only focus at this time is ensuring that their baby receives the medical care that he vitally needs and that they as his parents are able to spend every precious moment they can with their beautiful baby son.” Brian Chandler, NBC News, Dallas.

WATCH: NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas casts the bio parents of Baby Gabriel as the purest victims of this fiasco TOM LLAMAS: And in Texas, a story that is garnering a lot of headlines. A couple’s surrogate is now fighting for custody of the baby boy she carried, arguing she should be given parental rights instead of the biological parents who are also fighting for him. Brian Chandler explains what led to this legal battle. BRIAN CHANDLER: In Dallas, a boy's birth triggering a dramatic custody battle, pitting the baby’s biological parents against the surrogate who carried him. The boy’s California-based parents face a devastating decision after a diagnosis at 20 weeks. They learned the baby, who was being carried by a surrogate from Alaska, had a serious heart condition: Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. They chose to terminate the pregnancy. But gestational carrier McKenna West objected, fleeing to Texas for medical care and legal refuge. McKENNA WEST: I didn't think that I could live with myself doing that. CHANDLER: West sharing her story with the anti-abortion organization Live Action. She’s fighting for legal parenthood over the baby she carried to term in Texas. WEST: I just know that he- he's a fighter and he deserves to be surrounded by people who are 100% willing to fight alongside him. CHANDLER: The boy was born Wednesday. West is calling him Gabriel, but he’s Rumi to his parents, who want to take him back to California for medical care. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton intervening to support the surrogate, urging a court to prohibit the child’s removal from the state. The court sided with the state in part, blocking any attempt to transfer the child while prohibiting the gestational carrier from asserting parental rights over him. Tonight, the biological parents’ attorneys telling NBC News: “As if the heartbreak of his condition were not enough, they are devastated today to see their family tragedy transformed into political theater,” adding: “Our clients’ only focus at this time is ensuring that their baby receives the medical care that he vitally needs and that they as his parents are able to spend every precious moment they can with their beautiful baby son.” Brian Chandler, NBC News, Dallas.

Jorge Bonilla

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