First things first, Produce the world's lowest costing industrial dispatchable power and that leaves many high tech energy dependant companies with little other choice than relocate here, Add to that, an effective tax rate of just 8% and they crush each other in the queue.

Then we could add in medical tourism as sick kids and other cancer suffers sort cancer miracle cure bismuth 213. And no reason why these day clinics need to be located in even a major city, just close to a strategically located, molten salt thorium reactor MSR!

Low power prices and a competitive, single, stand-alone tax system would encourage droves of cashed-up self-funded retirees to relocate here.

Bringing with them an increased demand for services, mostly unskilled? Gardening/housework etc. And as they did, reduce the unskilled unemployed, many of who would go from job start where the taxpayer-supported them, to earning their own and contributing to the tax revenue base?

And a win-win all around. Self-funded retirees don't add to the demand for public schools or public hospitals but boost private practise hospitals and clinics. A win-win that sees their assets eventually transferred to other less fortunate Aussies?

It's so easy for the perpetual whingers to moan about new chums taking their jobs without ever even once contributing a positive win-win idea to the debate. With the only thing these drongos can think of or offer is reduced migration That's all!

No positive idea that allows we Aussies to extract an advantage in win-win outcomes. And where a new idea, would be a novel new experience!

But an expert at bagging the creativity of others!

Then wonder why the joint is going backwards at a rate of knots while our debt levels, domestic, foreign and government, surge!
Alan B.

ttbn: Human effluent is loaded to the gunnels with phosphorous and we pump millions of annual tons out to sea every year in a drought-ravaged country! Along with literally millions of litres of precious water!

Then import expensive fully imported nutrients for phosphorous deficient soil!

And overseen by the dart throwing parliament of Baboons who have either allowed or somehow personally benefitted from this blatant absurdity?

And arguably because they're focused exclusively on the daily episode of the political bun fight that dominates ahead of bipartisan pragmatism?

Why?

Because that's along with vested and or personal interest, what takes precedence!?

And the national interest comes a distant fourth?

Like most of what we use, just a waste creating a paradigm that serves very few!

We can do so much better!

And if we don't then the results for Longman will be the everyday reality for those who designed and created the obscenity, we call, a divided and dismembered, modern Australia?
Alan B.

Electricity supply is one of the obstacles, that is affordable and reliable.

This article denounces the industry stating the wind turbines will last 20 to 25 years.

https://stopthesethings.com/?s=lucky+to+last+10+Years

Dr Gordon Hughes is a Professor of Economics at the University of Edinburgh and a while back produced this cracking study which destroyed yet another wind industry myth about the longevity of their giant fans: windfarm peformance UK hughes.19.12.12.

Instead of the much touted 25 years, the output from modern turbines starts to drop significantly after about 8 – and they’re well and truly ready for the scrapheap by the time they hit their teens. Here’s a story on Dr Hughe’s findings by The Courier.

By 10 years of age, the report found that the contribution of an average UK windfarm towards meeting electricity demand had declined by a third.

That reduction in performance leads the study team to believe that it will be uneconomic to operate windfarms for more than 12 to 15 years — at odds with industry predictions of a 20- to 25-year lifespan.

They may then have to be replaced with new machinery — a finding that the foundation believes has profound consequences for investors and government alike.

Down the page are 2 pics of windfarms now useless and another problem is.
The company that wind power outfits use to hold the land holder agreements with farmers is usually a $2 company with no real assets and, therefore, the “promise” contained in those agreements to decommission turbines isn’t worth the paper it’s written on: the parent company will simply let the company with the land holder agreement be wound up in insolvency; and host farmers were too gullible to obtain decommissioning bonds to ensure the clean-up costs are covered. And planning authorities were just as stupid – they could have easily forced developers to provide decommissioning bonds as a condition of granting planning consent, but generally failed to do so.

Above should be.

http://stopthesethings.com/?s=lucky+to+last+10+Years

Rent-Seeker’s Nirvana: Ultra-Rich Pocket $Billions in Wind & Solar Subsidies at Our Expense.

http://stopthesethings.com/2018/07/29/rent-seekers-nirvana-ultra-rich-pocket-billions-in-wind-solar-subsidies-at-our-expense/

The hundreds of $billions paid in subsidies to intermittent wind and solar constitute the largest wealth transfer in economic history.

In Australia, the Federal Government’s Large-Scale RET gouges $60 billion from power consumers over the life of the scam, and redirects it to such worthy outfits as AGL and our favourite whipping boys, Infigen. In the history of the Commonwealth, no other single industry subsidy scheme comes anywhere near it in value.

When motor manufacturers, General Motors Holden and Toyota put their hands out for a measly $500 million to maintain their Australian operations, then PM, Tony Abbott told them would “not chase them down the road waving a blank cheque at them“.

A mere half $billion would have saved something like 20 or 30,000 jobs across the sector.

At present, the combined subsidies to wind and solar exceed $4 billion a year, and the number of permanent jobs generated is completely trivial; the instant the subsidies go, so do the jobs briefly ‘created’: Cut the Subsidies and ‘Green’ Jobs Instantly Vanish: 80,000 German Solar Workers Sacked

There is absolutely no economic benefit in having power generated by wind and solar; delivering power at crazy random intervals, rather than when power consumers actually need it, results in a product with absolutely no commercial value. And that’s the reason that – in the absence of guaranteed Feed in Tariffs, renewable energy certificates and government underwritten contracts – power generated by nature’s wonder fuels wouldn’t find a market, anywhere, anytime, ever.

It's hard to believe that 43 years have passed since the last act of common sense was enacted in Australia.

JBowyer,

Take issue with the source of the information, not with me if you think you know more.