Net Zero is the biggest policy blunder in peacetime history.

Net zero with labor's renewables and battery or pumped hydro backup, is going to give us the world most expensive energy. What we don't pay for directly will be paid for by the taxpayer as subsidies.

What butt sucking labor and the moronic greens ignore is nuclear is carbon free and much, much cheaper than labor's battery and pumped hydro backed renewables.

China has ironed out all the bugs in MSR thorium and is now looking for buyers for these reactors.

While we are getting premium prices for our export commodities, we should invest in a few dozen of these and even fuel some with nuclear waste we are paid annual millions to take. And in doing, create the world's cheapest industrial power.

Back that up with tax reform as a flat tax of fifteen percent everybody pays, will ensure we are all but trampled in the rush by energy dependant high-tech manufacturers. And reap the economic boom of unprecedented proportions that will create as well as many high paid high skilled jobs!

It may seem counter intuitive, but a flat tax of 15% will see the ATO take a bigger annual cashflow and given there will be no tax returns paid or necessary, keep more of it for capital expenditure on roads, rail and other essential infrastructure.

And taxpayers will be able to put the averaged tax compliance costs of around 7% back on the bottom line, a win, win all round for the taxpayers and the ATO! And the end of bracket creep! The future of tax increases will be made by increasing the number of taxpayers not by asinine bracket creep!
Alan B.

You may well be spot on Alan, but I am afraid such enlightenmet is a
whole season of blackouts away. Then everyone will have the same
bright idea and the queue will be decades long.
In the meantime we will have to develop survival techniques.

The writer does not 'believe' in the 'free market' nor follow science?

One would prefer to trust climate science & economic experts, but if you want to cite farmers, many anecdotally suggested climate change was real in the '80-90s, observing changing seasons and new variance in weather, in SE Oz.

It's a threat to the mining and fossil fuel manipulated (QLD dominated with LNP) National Party as they lose younger voters in regions who follow climate science and/or free market, as the NP ignores them in favour above median age support in regions (with much media help)?

According to Burn-Murdoch in the FT:

'Economics may take us to net zero all on its own. The plummeting cost of low-carbon energy has already allowed many countries to decouple economic growth from emissions'

https://www.ft.com/content/967e1d77-8d3c-4256-9339-6ea7025cd5d3

Helped not just by free market policies but EU net zero encouragement; in the embedded graphic the Anglosphere is lagging, quelle surprise....