Blackouts and prawns
"Peak energy demand" has nothing to do with a lack of "baseload" power, whatever the government says.
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Richard Denniss
Dr Richard Denniss is chief economist at The Australia Institute, a Canberra think tank, www.tai.org.au
Back in the day, they called it lying
Barnaby Joyce was "post-truth" way before it was cool. In fact, few politicians were better prepared for the new era of "alternative facts" than Barnaby Joyce.
Good debt, bad debt, and ugly politics
This week Scott Morrison killed off yet another of Tony Abbott's slogans. The budget emergency is now dead, and the Treasurer assures us that we now live in the era of 'good debt' and bad debt'.
Now that we know where wage stagnation can lead
The lives of more and more Australians are becoming precarious and insecure.
Why some jobs are more equal than others
As this week's focus on the hundreds of jobs that will be lost when Hazelwood shuts down shows, some job losses appear to be more important than others.
Politicians pulling funny faces as winds change
After 16 months of inaction the first of two new wind farms have just been commissioned as a result of the ACT's 100 per cent renewable energy target.
Population growth and the tram: If you don’t build it, they’re still coming regardless
If Canberrans can't afford a tram, who could?
What is so controversial about a climate ‘toolkit’?
The idea that an emissions trading scheme is the "one true climate policy" is one of the last vestiges of the Kevin Rudd era.
Scott Morrison reverts to type
A retired bank CEO with $10 million in his super pays zero tax each year. Nada. Zip. He wouldn't even pay the Medicare levy.
Outsourcing responsibility for census was a failure
It is not just the census website that doesn't work as promised, the whole idea that outsourcing tasks to "the market" has not lived up to expectations.
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