Try as I might, I cannot find a copy of the Finkle report. All I can find is other peoples' summaries of it. Can someone please post a link to the real thing so that I may draw my own conclusions to what so far seems to have been a waste of time and money.

David

So one of the idiots responsible for our second rate NBN (which wastes electricity and will have to be replaced in a generation) wants future governments to be liable for more than 100% of the costs of complying with the environmental regulations that the present government negligently fails to impose? I'm outraged, so why am I not surprised?

If the cost of getting multinational corporations to invest here were that high, we'd be better off without them!

Another twist in the NBN is some people are getting fibre to the node and some are getting fibre to the kerb. And in the same town.
The fibre to the kerb came about because of complaints made about the nodes delivery of speed less than we had before.

The first thing I noticed under the heading of "Orderly Transition" is "All generators will be required to provide three years’ notice of closure".
I wonder what the good Doctor and his team think can be brought on line as a replacement within that short time. Reading something like that so early in the report, gives me little optimism about the rest of it.

David

The highly subjective/subjectively selected Finkel Report, needs to be reviewed, so things left out and off the table, could be included and back on the table!

The most glaringly obvious and not included is nuclear energy! Not just any nuclear energy, but walk away safe molten salt thorium energy. That would allow a fully privatized energy sector to roll out power for 3 cents PKH or less, and still make a handsome return!

But more so if they were the creation of facilitating government agencies, and created as fully funded, competing employee co-ops?

Once the start up venture capital had been refunded? 3 cents PKH being top money!?

And just the start of an, [invest in your own people and their better ideas,] industrial renaissance, coupled to quite massive economic growth, supported by a truly massive cooperative capitalism based, entrepreneurial reindustrialization nobody but nobody could underprice/compete against, with fair competition! I kid you not!
Alan B.