@John_Hempton I remember during the dot com bust, Mr Andreesen famously said “the only question you need to ask is whether there’ll be more internet or less internet”. I think here it’s more like x10? 100x? 1,000x?
Fantastically feisty interview with Da Wei @DSORennie you teased out some interesting perspectives. Let’s hope the CCP was watching & listening too.
@annabelcrabb great read. I suppose they could instantly double their female representation by (somehow) inducing all the Independents back into the liberal fold. Not that that’s ever going to happen! https://t.co/FlXN0a8vwI
@MrRexPatrick I beg to differ. I’m no LNP fan, but seriously, who would want to have to lead a country through a pandemic? 🤯 He and the other state leaders did a remarkable job. Very Australian.
@DSORennie A good quote David: “In the end the so-called nation-builders wrecked far more nations than they built, and the interventionalists were intervening in complex societies that they did not even understand themselves.”
Hard not to agree with Trump…
Not sure how many people realize that battery storage already supplies 30% of California’s electricity demand at peak.
Batteries aren’t the future — they’re here now.
👇Yup
“Labor’s extraordinary electoral victory is now coupled with the incomparable political gift of the implosion of the Opposition and a climate and energy-forward crossbench.”
Via Climate Energy Finance
“Had the coalition, when in office in 2015, not scrapped a carbon price, Australia would be collecting A$70bn ($45.2bn) more each year in revenue, says Ross Garnaut”
Precisely.
https://t.co/ArgMbQjjQD
@eward246@simonahac What an appalling situation. Almost no talent anywhere except a lust for power. That’s not going to cut it. Where will the new opposition that holds the government of the day to account going to come from?