Once upon a time, there was a country with citizens who's power bills were actually a secondary consideration to other more important issues, such as paying the rent/mortgage for example: buying food was a normal and affordable process too.
That country of yor has for too long, been stuffed into a hand basket, and sent on its journey in a vacuum tube to hell.
A great advantage of the vacuum tube, was the screams against the dismissal of the poor could be ignored, (since sound does not travel in a vacuum). Taking advantage of the new discovery, the leaders of this once great Country, learned quickly to take advantage of the laws of physics, to protect themselves from involvement in their processes of power and control, to continue the process of rendering the middle class of that once great country, to the poorhouse quietly and without fuss!...cont.,

Noel,

Your paper is based on wildly optimist costs for renewables. The experience in the rest of the world is that the average cost of power in a country rises dramatically with the % renewables deployed.

Noel,

The rip off we the consumer are experiencing, is actually a conspiracy aligned by both renewable and conventional power producers, which has a mutually beneficial outcome towards increasing profits for conventional power production, effectively achieved by privatising generation, and eventually making renewables look an economic proposition by comparison; where we are now.

The very fine line between the two groups, will need close attention by politicians for this conspiracy to be effective for these vested interests, thus Abbott and his current stand for coal.
None of these players on all sides give a rats arse, if the bottom end of the economic spectrum in our communities, spend sleepless cold nights without heating, and without hot water for hygiene purposes.

The only consumer on the radar with politicians, is businesses such as manufacturing.
There is not a glimmer of hope in this F* country, for any relief for domestic consumers. They have been rendered out of the equation.

Put this lost cause beside other lost causes such as unaffordable housing and rents; escalating food prices, where consumers in Australia are sacrificed on the S* heap that is China, to pay what is world parity prices for food produced in this country, increasingly on farms owned and operated by Chinese agra businesses; add increasingly more short term insecure employment, and this country is in the hand basket to Hell, for too many Australians...whatever one of those is at the moment!