Already this country is a lost cause! Prepare for the long cold Greek winter of discontent.

ttbn has, despite protestation to the contrary, most certainly taken sides in this discussion - that of the whinging bosses and of the fact-free author.

Where, I wonder, did he pull that nice round figure of $10B from? Does the sun shine there?

What, perchance, is the definition of "tom foolery"? Is it a specific IPA term? Perhaps an analogue of "draining the swamp"?

JohnBennetts,

What a clever little Left-wing Vegemite you are! I say that I do not take sides but you have decided that I do take sides. You know what I think better than I do about how I feel? The idea, John, is to get that mass between your ears working before you start flapping your gums. That way you are less likely to make stupid comments.

I “pulled” the figure out of “Only in Australia”, a book your low reading age would prevent you from understanding. I suggest that you leave the thing that you are 'pulling' alone for a while.

The FWA,

Designed by the unions, for the unions and staffed by the unions.

“Judith Sloan, who understands the industrial relations system well, wrote a very good analysis in The Australian. Other than that I have seen little media comment. As far as I have been able to ascertain there has been no public statement from the Minister or from other more senior members of the Government responding to the Watson criticism and resignation.”

That there was little media content is perhaps not surprising, given that most of the media is Left-biased. The lack of public statement by the Government indicates inexcusable indifference, if not incompetence, on its part.

“This Country puts little focus on enhancing productivity and puts little effort into structural reform. … These days there is little debate about structural reform or micro-economic reform. We do not focus on enhancing the drivers of productivity growth.”

Sadly, that is a fair reflection of both major political parties.

Gone are the times when Australia made the most of its natural advantage in conventional energy to enhance productivity. Thanks to CAGW political correctness, now it has become ‘fashionable’ to penalise conventional power generation, so as to subsidise the promotion of inefficient, expensive renewables. So much so, that there is need for urgent review and correction of the dysfunctional policies that have been implemented.

One fears that realisation by our politicians and industry leaders that there is now far too much reliance on unreliable renewables, will come too late to enable effective corrective measures to be taken to avoid serious damage to the national economy.

For discussion of damage attributable to current energy policy, see Alan Moran’s 17 Feb 2017 OLO article, ‘Electricity: no end to the damage regulations are doing’
http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=18851