Richard Denniss
If the Productivity Commission was serious about productivity, it would not target EVs
The Productivity Commission’s ideological slip is showing, and as a result, the advice it is giving the government is as confused as...
The house always wins: Why we can’t insure our way out of the climate crisis
It is time for the Australian government to admit we can’t insure our way out of the climate crisis our fossil fuel...
Nothing now stands the way of Labor and ambitious, progressive reform
What the Liberal Party does next is important to them and irrelevant to Australia. They attracted the lowest ever primary vote for...
Eighteen years since warning of climate refugee crisis, Albanese has the power to do something, but not the will
Eighteen years ago today Anthony Albanese issued a press release about the urgent need to not just act on climate change, but...
Labor’s NT election loss to have federal implications
Labor’s devastating loss on the weekend’s NT election not only has significant implications for the federal government, the Albanese government played a...
Why we’re turning off solar farms when the sun is shining
Markets aren’t nearly as efficient as they are cracked up to be. Our housing market focuses on building holiday homes for the holiday homeless...
The Coalition’s nuclear power crusade is a futile distraction
Nuclear energy really is remarkable. It solves so many political problems without solving any real-world problems. No wonder the government and Coalition...
What the Coalition missed in the fallout from the Dunkley byelection
Imagine if a strong female teal candidate had spent $400,000 on the Dunkley byelection instead of the angry Advance Australia lobby group....
‘Greedflation’ – it’s a boon for business but hurts average Australians
Markets don’t lift prices, individual companies do. Qantas decides how much to charge you to fly from Sydney to Melbourne; Energy Australia...
Super tax breaks were already well due for retirement
There are no self-funded retirees in Australia – there are just those the government supports through the age pension and those that...