I just hope the new Government move forward quickly to mitigate climate change, corruption and anything else that people are upset about.National Party kicks out Barnaby Joyce.
Just great. Maybe some integrity and intelligence at last.
David Littleproud elected new Nationals leader with Perin Davey as deputy
Barnaby Joyce has been defeated by the Queensland MP in a leadership spillwww.theguardian.com
I see Andrew Wilkie has put his hand up to become speaker in the new parliament.
Would be a good move to have an independent speaker, and Wilkie has been around parliament long enough to know the workings, the rules , protocols and of course "the conventions". Hates both sides of politics sufficiently to be non partisan.
Mick
As Morrison found out, a slim margin can turn into no margin if one of them cracks it like Kelly or George whathisname, or does something illegal/stupid like roberts or just gets shafted by the media (will have to be the murdoch press this time rather than the ABC/fairfax/Guardian alliance).
Who cares?I wonder where Peter Slipper is now.
Who cares?
Mick
My guess is the Labor/Greens/Teal's resolve will be tested over the next three years, as will the public's, when they have to make some extremely hard choices.There is an excellent analysis in The Guardian on the way Australians voted against the Coalition. Certainly suggests that if the Coalition doesn't accept the Labour,/Greens/Teal mandate for decisive action on CC they will have buckleys chance of getting back in power.
Five graphs that show how Australian voters turned on the Coalition
The primary vote for both major parties dropped dramatically, but in the Coalition’s case, it cost it 18 seats. Here’s how the numbers played outwww.theguardian.com
My guess is the Labor/Greens/Teal's resolve will be tested over the next three years, as will the public's, when they have to make some extremely hard choices.
Just my opinion.
As the election showed, the city elites are running the agenda at the moment and I personally think it is a good thing.And when we're sitting in cold homes around candles, and riding donkeys to the shop for the slim pickings available, while the rest of the world merrily burns our coal?
Our virtue signalling is going to cost us dearly.
Not just "virtue signalling", but inaction and bungling by the former Federal government that has seen us still reliant on fossil fuels with little planning for switch-over to renewables.And when we're sitting in cold homes around candles, and riding donkeys to the shop for the slim pickings available, while the rest of the world merrily burns our coal?
Our virtue signalling is going to cost us dearly.
As the election showed, the city elites are running the agenda at the moment and I personally think it is a good thing.
The renewables issue needs resolving, so bringing it to a head will clear the air once and for all, people need to decide how much they are prepared to pay to mitigate their carbon footprint.
Then we can move on, rather than going round and round in a media circle, now they can't blame this new Government, now the way forward has to be decided.
The previous Government was upgrading the HV transmission and installing more hydro storage in the Snowy and Tassie, to facilitate renewables.
The generation side they were leaving to the market to sort out, with the coal generators becoming less and less viable, the legacy companies were having to come to terms with losing market share to renewables, or having to change their generation to renewables.
Now the new Government appears that it will force the issue which will be interesting, because IMO the legacy companies will have to be somehow compensated if the Government is going to actively interfere in their operation.
As @SirRumpole said, it could very well end up another NBN, where instead of making the telco's pay to put in the fibre the tax payer did.
This time it could well be the Government having to buy the coal generators out and then pay them to run the plant and the taxpayer pick up the tab, while the generators use the money to install renewables.
Time will tell, but it may pan out very well for the legacy companies, not so well for the public.
Well as renewables are ramping up we are in the perfect position to fix it, now we have a Government that is focused on a non fossil fueled generation future, I for one am watching with great interest.Isn't the problem that gas is required for transition and given the absurdity of pricing / availability (east coast) the whole thing is a mess.
Plus there is no mechanism to fix.
Renewables just aren't going to do it.N
Not just "virtue signalling", but inaction and bungling by the former Federal government that has seen us still reliant on fossil fuels with little planning for switch-over to renewables.
Interesting comment.N
Not just "virtue signalling", but inaction and bungling by the former Federal government that has seen us still reliant on fossil fuels with little planning for switch-over to renewables.
Sure. Given that I'm not an industry insider , if these ideas can be torn down on technical grounds then I'll take my lumps.Interesting comment.
Maybe you could expand on what you think should have been done, as you do have a grasp of the issues unlike some.
Or are we all trying to turn the narrative, in expectation of an immanent failure, of the current Govt and the renewable sunrise future?
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