Australia’s energy regulator sanctions price hike: Senator Roberts

brianajnz said – “… I have raised this before though Cairns News are yet to follow up…”

Seeing as how Editor Cairns News operates out the back of a rickshaw somewhere in Southeast Asia using a 1920s vintage typewriter with a cranky parrot on his shoulder for spell-checking and dictation, in between selling fried rice and murtabak out of a street cart to make a living, perhaps you might assist him by employing your prodigious intellect to fashion an article with suitably relevant subject matter and technical analysis for publication.

Particular attention to the harmonic content, combined power factor and superposition of all relevant electrical quantities would be welcomed.

Because enquiring minds wouldlike to know. Seriously.

I saw a bit of some debate between the contenders for Treasurer, both ended up calling each other a liar, I presume both were correct in every case. The incumbent said he had focussed the last 3 years on fighting inflation. This seems to have occupied his entire time. Apparently everything else went on the back burner. It’s too late to fight inflation when the money is already printed. What you are doing is trying to fight a wages breakout, by crippling the eonomy. A bit of truth boys !!! They collude where it suits them to.

Still on about emissions reduction – WEF?

Was reading something in a book about something else the other day and Climategate 2009 was mentioned – I suppose most people have totally forgotten about it and its difficult to find the whole truth now on the current internet, lots of mis and disinformation about it all.

What happened was that someone hacked the Climate Research Unit (CRU) in the UK and over 3000 pages of email and computer code were soon disseminated across the internet. In the hacked files was advice on how the scientists could avoid complying with UK FOI requirements for release of temperature data supporting their conclusions which made it a crime to deny a legitimate request for the data underlying a decision from a government funded agency. Included were discussions of how to manipulate the peer review process to exclude skeptics. Included also was the admission of a “travesty” – the failure of the CRU’s computer models to account for an apparent worldwide decline in temperatures since 1998 which had inconveniently defied all predictions of the climate change lobby.

Computer codes included with the sotlen documents revealed the underlying flaws in models that had triggered the climae warming alarm bells. Oh and not to the mention the fake ‘hockey stick’ graph.

I would say the foregoing casts considerable doubt about the integrity of the climate change mob. And why should anyone trust the science on this again?

acv19ff39b09e86, does not matter, ” You have the good old printing press…” Nixon used that one, and showed the citizens how it was done… Dollars coming out faster then you can earn them…

These despicable grub,s need to be tried for treason .

I AM SURE IT’S A SIMILAR STORY IN AUS

Dear ACV,

I’m writing to you because there comes a point when we need to blow the whistle and do something about the Government’s lack of progress in getting back in the black.

There’s no polite way to put this, but over recent months, it’s become clear that unless New Zealand fundamentally changes course, we are headed towards crisis.

The public has no idea just how bad the deficit and accumulated debt is becoming.

The media are not doing their job, and once again it falls on the Taxpayers’ Union to step up to the plate.

Right now, the Government is borrowing at a faster rate than when Chris Hipkins and Grant Robertson left office!

Despite all the media coverage about ‘brutal cuts’, it’s simply not true. The numbers do not lie.
While Nicola Willis and the National/ACT/NZ First Government talk-the-talk about prudent fiscal management, their task is mammoth. In order for them to make the tough, but necessary, calls to cut wasteful (non-frontline) spending, they need the public to understand the true scale of the challenge.

And with the media working lock-step with the Opposition Parties to oppose any spending cuts – no matter how commonsense they are – we need to get to work.

Your household’s share of the national debt: $92,500 (and growing!)
Right now, Nicola Willis is borrowing more than $1 million each and every hour.

Over the Easter weekend alone, the debt grew by more than one hundred million dollars.

On a per household basis, it’s sobering: right now your household’s share of the debt is now more than $92,500.

And it’s rocketing up… 🚀
Imagine if your household was spending more than it earns year after year. But that is exactly what the Government is doing on your behalf!

According to the 2024 Budget figures, Gross Debt per household will be $10,845 higher by the end of this financial year!

And with almost every Treasury forecast, the numbers only get worse. The recession is deeper than expected and, with economic headwinds, tax revenue declines. Nevertheless, Core Crown spending is still climbing.

The Government is already paying more in interest than it does on schools, and on Justice, combined. 🏫🚔
ACV, the interest payments on government debt are now among the largest single categories of Government expenditure. In fact, they already exceed what is spent on schools and justice, and surpass the combined budgets of Defence, Police, Corrections, and Customs.

Our plan to force Wellington to balance the books
ACV, I’m just out of a planning meeting with the whole team. Our sources in Wellington tell us that the Government Ministers know what they need to do – but can’t see the political room to do so.

That’s why the first step has to be raising public awareness – but we need your support to do so.

After a wet and soggy Easter indoors, the team are keen to start this long weekend with our own “Political Hikoi”, of sorts. A hikoi to “Balance the Books” and Stop the Debt Clock.

Can the Taxpayers’ Union count on your support, ACV?

The 2025 Debt Clock Tour: A political Hikoi calling for a Balanced Budget 😉
ACV, tens of thousands of New Zealanders saw our huge trailer-mounted National Debt Clock during the last election. Most looked at it and said “WOW”.

But the Debt is now tens of billions of dollars larger. We need to get the numbers in front of hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders and get them demanding the Government to ‘Stop the Clock’ by balancing the books.

debt monster
The Debt Clock appeared with the Debt Monster outside Parliament during the 2024 Election Campaign.

The massive Debt Clock – custom built and funded by thousands of our supporters back in 2023 – is one of the most effective ways to show New Zealanders in real time just how much Government overspending is costing us in the form of debt.

It’s been parked in a paddock and is in desperate need of a spruce up (and, unfortunately, a fix to some of the electronics!). That, plus the costs to get back onto the road.

We’re asking for you to chip-in so we can get the Debt Clock’s inverter fixed, spruced up, and back on the road.

Your donation to fix the Debt Clock and get it back on the road🚦
ACV, every dollar donated on this page will be used to fix the Debt Clock, get it re-registered, fuel to tow it, and to cover the tour costs so we can get the numbers in the face of Kiwis around the country.

So long as we can raise the funds today and tomorrow, we’re confident we can launch the tour as early as this weekend! But we need your support.

The Debt Clock needs to be back on the road and highly visible before next month’s Government Budget. Can we count on your support?

Thank you for standing for Balanced Books.

Let’s Stop the Clock!

All we get for from these sold out arseholes is a talkfest.If anyone believes they can vote their wake out of this … good luck with that

The author said – “… Who cares about the highest power prices in the world?…”

Not the foreign-owned corporate junta ruling Australia, that’s for sure.

They’re here to strip Australia, not develop it.