The decision to allow wholly Chinese-owned company Alinta Energy to purchase the Loy Yang B power station in Victoria, ahead of a majority Australian-owned consortium bid casts doubt on the efficacy of the Foreign Investment Review Board’s (FIRB) process and the Federal Government’s oversight. Lord, preserve us, should it come to this!…
Australia is often compared with countries such as Argentina and Canada, based on the observation that they are sparcely populated countries with huge emptinesses. But, at a deeper level, the country most like our own is New Zealand. It is so like to us and we are so used to NZ nationals living amongst us that their country of origin has become invisible to us. Bernard Moran brings us word from the land hidden under the Long White Cloud, and we would do well to listen to him as we in Australia are vulnerable to similar infiltration by cajolement from…
Since his arrival back in Australia after around six years as our ambassador to the United States, Kim Beazley (pictured below) has seemed to be trying to establish himself as something of an expert in matters geopolitical. Now apparently, he is extending his expertise to matters of international trade as well – if not globally, then certainly in respect of trade in Asia. Kim Beazley During his term as Ambassador – perhaps unwisely extended by Prime Minister Tony Abbott – Mr Beazley, negotiating on behalf of the Commonwealth Government, became an enthusiastic supporter of the Obama/Clinton initiative for the Trans-Pacific…
Having dallied in the last couple of issues of News Weekly (November 4 and 18, 2017) with a few observations about what is happening in China and how it impacts on the West, it’s time to come back to what’s happening at home. The International Conga Life of Appreciation for the World Trade Organisation. Peter Westmore’s recent comment in News Weekly (November 4, 2017) on the fallout from the New Zealand election and its connections with the dubious future of the ideology of globalism, is a starting point. Peter, correctly, is telling readers that all the evidence suggests that the…
The Government continues to flounder with directionless and inconsistent energy policies, inviting much public commentary, but the science these days scarcely gets a mention. As we have seen in social policy, the strategy of the left is first to shut down debate and delegitimise any dissent from the position adopted by the left-leaning elements of the media, academia, bureaucracy, the environmental movement and renewable-energy interests. Lacking the capacity to distinguish science from pseudo-science, the Coalition under Howard effectively acquiesced to the totalitarian-left idea that the science on global warming was settled. It dared not question the assertion that carbon dioxide…
The scaremongering and mistruths of the purveyors of anthropogenic climate change are threatening to destroy the economies of nations including Australia. One of the ways it is doing that is by engineering an ideologically driven loathing of coal. The push to consign coal to history comes at a time when global coal reserves are estimated to last 153 years at current levels of consumption, triple the reserves-to-production ratio (r/p ratio) of oil (50.6 years) and gas (52.5 years).[1] The r/p ratio of coal was 147 years in 2006,[2] meaning coal reserves have increased rather than decreased over the past decade.…
