High prices of electricity coupled with unreliability of supply have cast doubt on the future of two of Australia’s largest aluminium smelters, Portland and Tomago (Newcastle), which convert alumina into the high-value metal aluminium. Aluminium smelters require vast quantities of electricity to reduce aluminium oxide to molten aluminium metal by electrolysis. Alcoa’s Portland smelter was…
Late in 2019 the Coalition Government set up a loan scheme for drought-affected farmers under the Regional Investment Corporation (RIC), yet drought-stricken farmers face waiting times of up to a year. The scheme is appropriately generous with no application or exit fees, two years’ interest free, then three years’ interest only. Loans of up to…
Queensland Senator Amanda Stoker, described by Bernard Lane in The Australian as “a free speech champion and rising star of conservative politics”, has taken a stand against the transgender activist agenda. Senator Stoker (pictured) says: “The transgender agenda demands that everyday Australians reject objective truth … It forces us to pretend that biology is not…
Forty per cent believe global warming not man-made Australia is world’s fastest adopter of renewables Media using fires to “prove” climate-change Since the widespread bushfires in Australia, the media has been having a field day linking the fires to climate change and highlighting polling that ostensibly shows that more Australians are…
