Mattyfisk wrote on May 27
th, 2022 at 12:34am:
Frank wrote on May 26
th, 2022 at 11:06pm:
Labor majority government wrote on May 26
th, 2022 at 10:56pm:
Frank wrote on May 26
th, 2022 at 10:48pm:
AN tony AL banesi - Australia has an anal Albanian PM.
How good is Australia?
HOw guDDa is STrayA
I bElieVe in mIRaCooLs
You know the rest , suck it up princess you got ya arse absolutely handed to ya and will be opposition for a very very very very long time
But I will never be an An.... Al.... Albanian.
Early election before the 3 years are out. The Albanian guy has no majority, only way too many hostile and resentful crossbencher repudiaters. He won't last.
He had fewer primary votes than the coalition. He is the non-elected PM.
Just so, old boy. Youre a li... A lib...
Sorry, would a capital L help?
You can trade it in for a c... if this helps.
It wont be easy under albanese.
Power prices to surge up to 18.3 per cent as energy market turmoil flows through to households
But power retailers have pushed for a big bump in tariffs this year as costs soar in the face of moves to
fast-track the exit of coal-fired plants, unexpected generator outages and international unrest.
In a fresh blow to households dealing with surging costs of living, the Australian Energy Regulator (AER) has decided to pass on hefty increases to a benchmark power price.
The tariffs, known as default market offers, will rise between 8.5 per cent and 18.3 per cent in New South Wales, up to 12.6 per cent in south-east Queensland and 9.5 per cent in South Australia.
Small business customers will also be affected by the changes, with so-called standing offer prices rising up to 13.5 per cent.
The increases, to come into effect from July, amount to more than $250 a year in some cases based on Australian Competition and Consumer Commission figures putting the average residential electricity bill at $1,434.
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The sad truth: small nuclear reactors would get us to carbon neutral
Every four days the world emits the equivalent of Australia’s annual contribution to global CO2 emissions. If Australia were to vanish from the Earth, China would cancel out the subsequent annual reduction in our carbon footprint in just one month.
The sad truth is if it were not for environmental activists of the 1960s and ’70s we’d be much closer to being carbon neutral today. Before they cared about global warming and climate change, environmentalists were antinuclear. If they had not successfully campaigned for the closure of nuclear plants across the US and Europe, the world would be less reliant on coal today.
This is true for Australia as well. From the 1950s onwards several nuclear plants were proposed for development but none of them got off the ground because of lack of public support.
In 2006, John Howard as prime minister commissioned a report that concluded that nuclear power was a good option for Australia. This report proposed that the first station could have been built within 10 years, with 25 stations delivered by 2050. This would have provided Australia with a third of our baseload power. Not long after this policy proposal was released, Queensland’s Labor government rushed to pass antinuclear legislation.
If Howard’s policy proposal had not been stymied, we already would have our first nuclear plant in operation in Australia and we would be on track for many more.
When teal independents and Greens slam the Liberal Party for its lack of action on climate change, they ought to remember this. If the Howard government’s push for nuclear energy had not been slapped down before it had a chance to get off the ground, we could have made significant progress towards a clean energy future.
Claire Lehmann