Policymakers would do well to heed energy experts like Schernikau and Stein. Chasing luxury beliefs do not cost well-heeled climate bureaucrats and renewables ideologues much, but the burdens of irrational energy policies will be borne by the world’s poorest. The real path forward lies in pragmatic, technology-neutral approaches that prioritise energy abundance over austerity.
Time to Stop Pretending Renewables Are Cheap
Time to Stop Pretending Renewables Are Cheap
14 Dec 2025 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, economics of regulation, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: celebrity technologies, solar power, wind power
Guest Post: The Peasants are Revolting
23 Nov 2025 Leave a comment
in politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA
A guest post by Peter Lynn: Over the last 30 years, state sectors of Western democracies have expanded and senior level state employment, with its high pay, security and access to the levers of power became a magnet for the academically gifted, especially independence minded younger women. University educated they initially moved into ministries before…
Guest Post: The Peasants are Revolting
Aussie Mainstream Opposition Formally Abandons Net Zero
15 Nov 2025 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, economics of natural disasters, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - Australia
But still wants to stay in the Paris Agreement?
Aussie Mainstream Opposition Formally Abandons Net Zero
The sad fate of human evolutionary biology in Australia
24 Oct 2025 Leave a comment
in economics of education, politics - Australia Tags: evolutionary biology, free speech, political correctness, regressive left
Although the times when Homo sapiens reached Australia are under revision, the latest data suggests that they arrived between 45,000 and 60,000 years ago—about the time that our species left Africa for parts east. And although changes in water levels made it easier to get to Australia by water then now humans still had to […]
The sad fate of human evolutionary biology in Australia
Claim: Renewable Australia will Have No Problem with Zero Generation Days
08 Oct 2025 1 Comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - Australia Tags: solar power, wind power
A new study suggests blackouts will only happen sometimes, if we build enough batteries and overcapacity, and a hydrogen export industry.
Claim: Renewable Australia will Have No Problem with Zero Generation Days
Australia Recognises Palestine – But With Strings Attached the Media Won’t Tell You About
26 Sep 2025 Leave a comment
in defence economics, International law, politics - Australia, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Israel, Middle-East politics, regressive left, war against terror, West Bank
Steven Gaskell writes – Australia’s Labor government has made a historic move: it has formally recognised the State of Palestine. Foreign Minister Penny Wong framed the decision as a step towards peace and a two-state solution. The headlines blared “Australia recognises Palestine” but almost none of the mainstream outlets bothered to mention the fine print. […]
Australia Recognises Palestine – But With Strings Attached the Media Won’t Tell You About
Tasmania’s unstable electoral system
25 Jul 2025 Leave a comment
in constitutional political economy, politics - Australia, Public Choice Tags: Tasmania
Tasmania’s electoral system, particularly its implementation of the Hare-Clark proportional representation method, has frequently faced criticism for its tendency to produce unstable governments. This instability largely arises from the system’s inherent design, which promotes a fragmented parliament and necessitates coalition-building and negotiations that may ultimately compromise governmental efficacy and stability. The Hare-Clark system, in theory, […]
Tasmania’s unstable electoral system
Emotions and Policy Views
07 Jul 2025 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, behavioural economics, economics of information, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA
I would call this a story of negative emotional contagion: This paper investigates the growing role of emotions in shaping policy views. Analyzing social citizens’ media postings and political party messaging over a large variety of policy issues from 2013 to 2024, we document a sharp rise in negative emotions, particularly anger. Content generating anger […]
Emotions and Policy Views
How did the Australian pollsters go?
02 Jun 2025 Leave a comment
Now we have a final result for the Australian election, we can look at how the Australian pollsters did. This shows the primary and then TPP vote for each pollsters’s final pre-election poll. The final TPP result of 55.2% to 44.8% was greater than all the polls. Four had it 53 to 47, so were […]
How did the Australian pollsters go?
He should have apologised
19 May 2025 Leave a comment
in law and economics, politics - Australia, property rights Tags: defamation, free speech
The ABC reports: There are concerns that former Victorian Liberal leader John Pesutto will be bankrupted after being ordered to pay costs of $2.3 million after losing his defamation battle with Moira Deeming. … The Federal Court order handed down on Friday morning, raises the prospect Mr Pesutto will be bankrupted and forced out of…
He should have apologised
Oldest known Australian hominin fossils to be reburied
21 Mar 2025 1 Comment
in economic history, economics of education, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - Australia Tags: archeology, evolutionary biology, free speech, political correctness, regressive left
Once again we have a conflict between science and the unevidenced claims of superstition. This time it’s from Australia. Some of the “Willandra lakes fossils” from New South Wales, which include the famous “Lake Mungo remains” (three sets of hominin fossils that are the oldest ones known from Australia), have been or are scheduled to […]
Oldest known Australian hominin fossils to be reburied
The splintering of political extremists
21 Mar 2025 Leave a comment
in liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left
Political parties on the extreme left and right tend to splinter due to a combination of ideological rigidity, personal rivalries, and strategic disagreements. Here are some key reasons: 1. Ideological Purity and Sectarianism 2. Leadership Conflicts and Personality Clashes 3. Strategic Disagreements 4. External Pressure and State Repression 5. Reaction to Success or Failure 6. […]
The splintering of political extremists
Labour Energy Price Lies In Australia
16 Mar 2025 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - Australia Tags: solar power, wind power
By Paul Homewood h/t Dennis Ambler Sounds like Australia’s Labour have been telling the same porkies a Britain’s! Jo Nova has the story: As the Opposition point out the Labor government went to the last election telling us 97 times how they would make our electricity $275 cheaper, but with the […]
Labour Energy Price Lies In Australia
Share the “Deep Internal Conflict” of the Green Aussie Billionaire who Just Bought a Private Jet
15 Mar 2025 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - Australia, transport economics Tags: climate activists
“… so I can run a global business from Australia, and still be a constantly present dad …”
Share the “Deep Internal Conflict” of the Green Aussie Billionaire who Just Bought a Private Jet
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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