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spiffmeister

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  • 6 things Australia should do to tackle the energy crisis rather than just building bigger fuel reserves

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  • For a country with a reputation for being rugged and resilient, people sure do buy the "don't worry everything will be normal again soon, you don't have to change."

  • Billionaire Gina Rinehart says ‘I don’t understand’ arrest of Ben Roberts-Smith over alleged war crimes

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  • Why does this grease sacks opinion get to be headlines? Her wealth?

    Correct.

  • Australia will be left with no submarines if it abandons Aukus, senior defence official warns

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  • You're probably right. From what I remember most submarine-boffins/recommendations was to build diesel subs anyway - I'm sure if we offer the French some baguettes and a chance to annoy the British they'll still build us some subs.

  • Australia will be left with no submarines if it abandons Aukus, senior defence official warns

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  • Surely the cost of just building our own (you know, just in case) is gonna be chump change compared to how much we paid for aukus anyway.

  • Willing backers of US militarism

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  • Ahhh, how spines change.

  • Power Games: Who’s driving high power bills?

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  • Renewables do decrease prices though? Maybe l2add?

    If you’d heard it was 40% why did you say it was only 6-8% in your previous comment?

    Because that's literally what the referenced article states? Maybe l2read?

  • Power Games: Who’s driving high power bills?

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  • You can do a bit better than citing a dude with vested interests. You can even find government sources that roughly agree with you: The AEMC report

    However the report also notes that:

    Delays to new wind and transmission build, and the uncoordinated use of CER are projected to have the biggest impact on electricity costs.

    Highlighting that renewables do decrease prices. Of course, reducing gas prices would probably also reduce prices.

    Also at least for last quarter the [AEMO] (https://www.aemo.com.au/-/media/files/major-publications/qed/2024/qed-q4-2024.pdf?rev=d75996ee2317495783a18c996d5878ac&sc_lang=en) report that coal and transmission are the driving costs. Negative energy prices were primarily driven by renewables.

    Also

    Transmission makes up about 50% ...

    Network costs (the poles and wires) account for about 45 per cent of a power bill and it's these costs that are on their way up.

    I heard it was up to 100% Last time I checked it was 156% Old mate said it was 196%

    The actual figure I saw was around 40%, but sure you can inflate things by saying upto.

  • Power Games: Who’s driving high power bills?

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  • You know you could just read the article

    The renewables in our grid lowered average household electricity bills by up to $417 in 2024, collectively saving households up to $3.8 billion in just one year.

    Thanks to the high share of renewables, wholesale prices nearly halved in the last three months of 2025.

    And on your point the report says

    Transmission – the highway system that transports power from where it is created, to where it is used. Transmission only makes up about 6-8% of an overall power bill.

  • Finally fixing capital gains tax is good – but linking it to another tax cut for Australia’s rich is bollocks | Greg Jericho

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  • Any article on Tim Wilson should be sure to call him "former right wing think tank Institute for Public Affairs member".

    The guy is a hack and a fraud and will do anything he can to get more money to rich people and screw the poors.

  • Australia is demanding bold changes. If Albanese doesn’t deliver, he will have failed us

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  • Albanese is a wet noodle and the only thing his government is going to do is make things less worse than the libs would.

    He's too spineless for this moment.

  • Exclusive: Albanese government expresses interest in setting up privileged faith advisory body | Rationalist Society of Australia

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  • Albo has decided to consume the liberal vote by adopting some right leaning behaviors.

    What I've never understood is, don't they realise those people will never vote for them? The libs will always be the party of the right, it doesn't matter what labor does or says.

  • Exclusive: Albanese government expresses interest in setting up privileged faith advisory body | Rationalist Society of Australia

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  • Why not give the Christian nationalists more power? What could go wrong?

  • Is £70 becoming harder to justify? The rise of cheaper blockbuster games

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  • I'll watch them go on sale for 50% and still not buy it. Maybe for a 90% sale.

  • Is Australia facing an economic reality not seen since World War Two?

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  • Sounds like communism or something idk

  • Police seize art posters depicting Trump, Putin and Netanyahu in Nazi uniforms from Canberra bar

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  • And what could be more fascist than police raiding your place to remove it?

  • Libspill: Ley Faces Liberal Spill As Angus Taylor Challenges For Leadership

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  • Great job, well done Angus.

  • Punching bags

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  • Hopefully nsw remembers this come elections.

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    Scott Morrison accused of ‘deeply ill-informed’ attack on religious freedom after Islam speech

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  • So he'll be charged under the new hate speech laws now right?

  • Why most Australians won't get a weekday off for Anzac Day in 2026 [but Western Australia and ACT do]

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  • But in January, Mr Bleijie said he would not be moving to substitute Anzac Day for another day as it fell on a Saturday, rather than a Sunday.

    This is the definition of un-Australian.

    No shock that the lnp is opposed to days off work though.

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    Voters, ‘left media’ to blame for Coalition wipeout: Rinehart

    www.smh.com.au /politics/federal/voters-left-media-to-blame-for-coalition-wipeout-rinehart-20250505-p5lwp9.html