Yes, there’s nothing more to say. We are so lucky to have someone like Chris, who really keeps his eye on the ball. The rest of us benefit hugely from his diligence.
The march through the institutions continues, the universities, CSIRO. AEMO, all the energy regulation agencies and now the Productivity Commission.
Worst of all, the industry groups, starting at the top with the BCA.
Many Australian big business leaders have been performed like “judas sheep,” in recent years, leading the flock to the slaughterhouse.
Too many leaders of industry groups and board members of corporations betrayed the interests of their members and shareholders, and the national interest as well.
They embraced wokeness and pushed or failed to resist a laundry list of destructive, divisive and productivity-sapping progressive causes. You name it - net zero, The Racist Voice, DEI, same-sex marriage, lockdowns, mandatory jabs, union-driven IR reforms.
Jennifer Westacott showed the way during her tenure at the Business Council of Australia. She has moved on to pasture in higher education but her spirit lives on. Last year the BCA announced that it was looking forward to working with the Net Zero Economy Authority “ensuring the transition to net zero creates improved business and employment outcomes across communities.”
100% Rafe - with a few notable exceptions, industry groups are now run by cowards who are terrified of being called whatever the current slur of the day is, instead defending their industry. They don’t seem to understand that the socialists will eventually come for them anyway, and by then it will be too late.
The BCA was taken over ages ago by soft socialist economists. CEOs are like Commissars - they don't care. Every time I read some bs company report with its pc nonsense I vote no to the lot on the proxy form.
The Productivity Commission is now an oxymoronic misnomer most clearly, it’s like so many quango government named bodies who sound important and in effect are so removed from their charter in what they deliver.
Ipso facto. Parliament of the people for the people - in election mode propaganda and vote-buying only!
Unfortunately, so-called analysts like Kos Samaras continue to view criticism of net zero through electoral lenses, as if that's reason enough to run with net zero. Someone needs to have the guts to call time on net zero and keep banging the drum no matter the electoral cost.
And unfortunately Labor now owns almost all the bureaucracy so we're quickly sliding into a Kafkaesque black hole.
The Productivity Commission sounds like it is failing to do it's job properly. Surely, when it comes to this green energy project, they should be hiring some construction engineers and scientists to look at how much the scheme is going to cost, the levelled cost of Energy, time to deploy it, impact on the existing integrated network, being the obvious.
We did this when we worked at FFI, which must have troubled Twiggy, but at least he didn't throw more than a few Billion dollars of Fortescues profits at it.
The PC job is not to cut green/red tape on how to clear farmers trees for more wind mills, and power lines, but to determine if they should exist in the first place. We have been hijacked by the Gas cartel, unless the government says to reserve more gas for domestic use for industry and houses, then we are forcing ourselves into an energy suicide, as the only stuff allowed is the unreliables wind and solar. ENERGY IS THE ECONOMY STUPID.
I hope that Chalmers' introduction of the Productivity Commission will result in a great outcome for Australia: his action must see electricity efficiencies, reliability and cost as a big problem for just about every issue in manufacturing, health issues in running hospitals, transport sector in moving goods, trains and everything else. If Charlmers get the response from his initiative that electricity and gas are big concerns for productivity improvement will he stand up with Albo to Chris Bowen and seriously open the door to more hydro, more gas generation, remove the ban on nuclear such as to allow it to be considered and see if a better mix in generation can reduce costs and likely stop the expected blackouts
Another triumph Chris
Thank you 🙏🏻
Yes, there’s nothing more to say. We are so lucky to have someone like Chris, who really keeps his eye on the ball. The rest of us benefit hugely from his diligence.
The march through the institutions continues, the universities, CSIRO. AEMO, all the energy regulation agencies and now the Productivity Commission.
Worst of all, the industry groups, starting at the top with the BCA.
Many Australian big business leaders have been performed like “judas sheep,” in recent years, leading the flock to the slaughterhouse.
Too many leaders of industry groups and board members of corporations betrayed the interests of their members and shareholders, and the national interest as well.
They embraced wokeness and pushed or failed to resist a laundry list of destructive, divisive and productivity-sapping progressive causes. You name it - net zero, The Racist Voice, DEI, same-sex marriage, lockdowns, mandatory jabs, union-driven IR reforms.
Jennifer Westacott showed the way during her tenure at the Business Council of Australia. She has moved on to pasture in higher education but her spirit lives on. Last year the BCA announced that it was looking forward to working with the Net Zero Economy Authority “ensuring the transition to net zero creates improved business and employment outcomes across communities.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/rafechampion/p/the-judas-sheep-are-getting-sheepish?r=5c3gj&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
100% Rafe - with a few notable exceptions, industry groups are now run by cowards who are terrified of being called whatever the current slur of the day is, instead defending their industry. They don’t seem to understand that the socialists will eventually come for them anyway, and by then it will be too late.
The BCA was taken over ages ago by soft socialist economists. CEOs are like Commissars - they don't care. Every time I read some bs company report with its pc nonsense I vote no to the lot on the proxy form.
The Productivity Commission is now an oxymoronic misnomer most clearly, it’s like so many quango government named bodies who sound important and in effect are so removed from their charter in what they deliver.
Ipso facto. Parliament of the people for the people - in election mode propaganda and vote-buying only!
Unfortunately, so-called analysts like Kos Samaras continue to view criticism of net zero through electoral lenses, as if that's reason enough to run with net zero. Someone needs to have the guts to call time on net zero and keep banging the drum no matter the electoral cost.
And unfortunately Labor now owns almost all the bureaucracy so we're quickly sliding into a Kafkaesque black hole.
The Productivity Commission sounds like it is failing to do it's job properly. Surely, when it comes to this green energy project, they should be hiring some construction engineers and scientists to look at how much the scheme is going to cost, the levelled cost of Energy, time to deploy it, impact on the existing integrated network, being the obvious.
We did this when we worked at FFI, which must have troubled Twiggy, but at least he didn't throw more than a few Billion dollars of Fortescues profits at it.
The PC job is not to cut green/red tape on how to clear farmers trees for more wind mills, and power lines, but to determine if they should exist in the first place. We have been hijacked by the Gas cartel, unless the government says to reserve more gas for domestic use for industry and houses, then we are forcing ourselves into an energy suicide, as the only stuff allowed is the unreliables wind and solar. ENERGY IS THE ECONOMY STUPID.
Fair to say the RBA Governor is taking on some of the frank talking that Chris points out was the Productivity Commission's contribution?
I hope that Chalmers' introduction of the Productivity Commission will result in a great outcome for Australia: his action must see electricity efficiencies, reliability and cost as a big problem for just about every issue in manufacturing, health issues in running hospitals, transport sector in moving goods, trains and everything else. If Charlmers get the response from his initiative that electricity and gas are big concerns for productivity improvement will he stand up with Albo to Chris Bowen and seriously open the door to more hydro, more gas generation, remove the ban on nuclear such as to allow it to be considered and see if a better mix in generation can reduce costs and likely stop the expected blackouts