Renewables: Higher energy costs, short operating life & more
16/05/2024
The only way to reduce power prices as quickly as possible is to build base load coal fired power stations using home grown resources.
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Farmers may have to pick up the tab for dismantling renewables
14/05/2024
Who will clean up the mess renewables will leave behind? In estimates I asked Labor who is responsible for cleaning up the mess that renewables will leave behind.
Great Barrier Reef fearmongering creates profits for dishonest scientists
13/05/2024
The Great Barrier Reef is not dying. The only thing that is dying is integrity in our scientific institutions. Back in 2019, at my first ever Senate Inquiry I asked the Australian Institute for Marine Science if they had kept a centralised database of health KPIs based on regular measurements across the length of Reef that demonstrated a trend that demonstrated that the reef was dying.
This is where water from the Snowy Hydro goes to evaporate away
03/05/2024
Our wealth is evaporating away. Earlier this year I was in South Australia for an inquiry in the closure of bank branches in the regions. On the way back from Kingston SE I stopped at the lower lakes to film just how shallow these lakes are.
How to spot a fire ant nest. Eradication programs aren’t working
23/04/2024
At the recent Senate fire ant inquiry I asked some questions on fire ants. The key takeaway for me is that they can live underground and travel on water and in the air.
Labor thinks it’s funny that I ask for evidence on climate change
22/04/2024
Labor are it yet again, caught out being unable to provide evidence on climate change. Despite mentioning climate change on multiple occasions throughout RRAT estimates, when I asked for further evidence on what exactly this mysterious climate change is, all I got was a clown show from the circus otherwise known as the Labor party.
PM Albanese & Chris Bowen take 2 jets to the same event
02/04/2024
Albanese and Bowen are out of touch with the everyday Australian. Not only that they are hypocrites for claiming to care about reducing CO2 emissions.
It’s a bloodbath out there under Albanese & Labor
27/03/2024
High immigration and renewables are causing a cost of living crises. If Albanese was serious about reducing the cost of living crisis he would reduce immigration. Not once have Australians ever asked if they wanted an immigration rate of over 500,000 people.
Renewables: Higher energy costs, short operating life & more
16/05/2024
The only way to reduce power prices as quickly as possible is to build base load coal fired power stations using home grown resources.
Farmers may have to pick up the tab for dismantling renewables
14/05/2024
Who will clean up the mess renewables will leave behind? In estimates I asked Labor who is responsible for cleaning up the mess that renewables will leave behind.
Great Barrier Reef fearmongering creates profits for dishonest scientists
13/05/2024
The Great Barrier Reef is not dying. The only thing that is dying is integrity in our scientific institutions. Back in 2019, at my first ever Senate Inquiry I asked the Australian Institute for Marine Science if they had kept a centralised database of health KPIs based on regular measurements across the length of Reef that demonstrated a trend that demonstrated that the reef was dying.
This is where water from the Snowy Hydro goes to evaporate away
03/05/2024
Our wealth is evaporating away. Earlier this year I was in South Australia for an inquiry in the closure of bank branches in the regions. On the way back from Kingston SE I stopped at the lower lakes to film just how shallow these lakes are.
How to spot a fire ant nest. Eradication programs aren’t working
23/04/2024
At the recent Senate fire ant inquiry I asked some questions on fire ants. The key takeaway for me is that they can live underground and travel on water and in the air.
Labor thinks it’s funny that I ask for evidence on climate change
22/04/2024
Labor are it yet again, caught out being unable to provide evidence on climate change. Despite mentioning climate change on multiple occasions throughout RRAT estimates, when I asked for further evidence on what exactly this mysterious climate change is, all I got was a clown show from the circus otherwise known as the Labor party.
PM Albanese & Chris Bowen take 2 jets to the same event
02/04/2024
Albanese and Bowen are out of touch with the everyday Australian. Not only that they are hypocrites for claiming to care about reducing CO2 emissions.
It’s a bloodbath out there under Albanese & Labor
27/03/2024
High immigration and renewables are causing a cost of living crises. If Albanese was serious about reducing the cost of living crisis he would reduce immigration. Not once have Australians ever asked if they wanted an immigration rate of over 500,000 people.
Speeches
Estimates & Committees
Questions on Notice
Speeches
MPI: The Prime Minister
10/08/2021
This matter of public importance is typical Labor: it’s all about playing the man and not the facts.
Take Note: Net Zero & Jobs
01/07/2021
I will tell you what our policy is, by the way, when it comes to energy: it is cheap and reliable energy that is going to create jobs in the manufacturing sector—not in the imports, not in the cost sector, creating energy; no. We had the world’s cheapest energy from the world’s best coal when Labor came to power in 1990…
MPU: Gas Industry
01/07/2021
The Morrison government has committed billions and billions of dollars to renewable energy—not the least $10 billion in the Clean Energy Fund; $5 billion in the Snowy Hydro; $3.5 billion for the Climate Solutions Package; $2.5 billion for the Emissions Reduction Fund; $1.5 billion for the Australian Renewable Energy Agency; $1 billion for the Grid Reliability Fund, which has now become another fund; and $0.5 billion for the Hydrogen Strategy. That comes to about $24 billion all up.
MPU: Climate & the Federal Budget
01/07/2021
The great Franklin Roosevelt once said that there’s nothing to fear but fear itself, so it’s good to speak to this urgency motion. For the record, I don’t support any subsidies at all to any type of energy…
The ‘Climate Scientists’ Who Cried Wolf
26/02/2021
Fear has been a tool that governments, and even the ancient civilisations of Egypt, have used to rule over their people, and these days there are people who are fearful of the climate changing enough that it will cause humans
Maiden Speech
10/09/2019
Mr President, I would like to acknowledge my colleagues in the chamber and special guests in the gallery who are here today. I would also like to thank the people of Queensland and the LNP for the faith they have placed in me to represent them over the next six years.
MPI: The Prime Minister
10/08/2021
This matter of public importance is typical Labor: it’s all about playing the man and not the facts.
Take Note: Net Zero & Jobs
01/07/2021
I will tell you what our policy is, by the way, when it comes to energy: it is cheap and reliable energy that is going to create jobs in the manufacturing sector—not in the imports, not in the cost sector, creating energy; no. We had the world’s cheapest energy from the world’s best coal when Labor came to power in 1990…
MPU: Gas Industry
01/07/2021
The Morrison government has committed billions and billions of dollars to renewable energy—not the least $10 billion in the Clean Energy Fund; $5 billion in the Snowy Hydro; $3.5 billion for the Climate Solutions Package; $2.5 billion for the Emissions Reduction Fund; $1.5 billion for the Australian Renewable Energy Agency; $1 billion for the Grid Reliability Fund, which has now become another fund; and $0.5 billion for the Hydrogen Strategy. That comes to about $24 billion all up.
MPU: Climate & the Federal Budget
01/07/2021
The great Franklin Roosevelt once said that there’s nothing to fear but fear itself, so it’s good to speak to this urgency motion. For the record, I don’t support any subsidies at all to any type of energy…
The ‘Climate Scientists’ Who Cried Wolf
26/02/2021
Fear has been a tool that governments, and even the ancient civilisations of Egypt, have used to rule over their people, and these days there are people who are fearful of the climate changing enough that it will cause humans
Maiden Speech
10/09/2019
Mr President, I would like to acknowledge my colleagues in the chamber and special guests in the gallery who are here today. I would also like to thank the people of Queensland and the LNP for the faith they have placed in me to represent them over the next six years.
Estimates & Committees
Is Australia already at Net Zero?
06/03/2023
Since then Australia has reduced its CO2 emissions from over 600 million tonnes to less than 500 million tonnes. So we are closer to absorbing four times more CO2 than we emit.
Net Zero 2030: $500 Billion & costs have gone up 20%
25/02/2023
In 2017 the CSIRO said it would cost $1 trillion dollars to convert the energy grid to 100% renewables. Then last year they claimed the costs had dropped by 50% or a lazy $500 billion despite rampart inflation.
Scientists should always be the best skeptics
20/12/2022
At the moment, much of research literature, as you probably will be frustrated by, is behind a paywall. You want to access information, and it’s fantastic that you are so interested in this, and be able to really dig in to really get an understanding.
Labor is subsidising electric vehicles, but there’s no plan for charging stations
12/12/2022
How long will people have to wait in order to recharge their electric vehicles? The government has no idea. This is despite the fact they recently passed legislation that will subsidize the cost of an electric car by up to
Department of Climate Change admit they can’t cost renewable targets
08/12/2022
Boy o boy is our energy grid going be in trouble with this lot in charge.If only bureaucratic spin could be converted into electricity we would become the energy powerhouse of the world. Key points from this line of questioning
ABC reports manipulated temperature data, not the raw data
06/12/2022
In the estimates spillover last week I asked why the ABC only ever report the homogenised temperature data set and not the raw temperature data set. This was a question I asked in prior estimates when the former News Director
Are renewables actually going to be cheaper?
17/11/2022
In estimates I asked the CSIRO if they had a roadmap as to how the government planned to reach its 43% reduction in CO2 emissions by 2030. Needless to say they passed the buck onto AEMO, the Australian Energy Market
Transmission lines not costed for 2030 emissions target
08/11/2022
Environment and Communications Legislation Committee07/11/2022EstimatesCLIMATE CHANGE, ENERGY, THE ENVIRONMENT AND WATER PORTFOLIOAustralian Energy Infrastructure Commissioner — Yesterday in estimates I asked the government whether or not they had costed the price on installing the required transmission lines to meet their
Is Australia already at Net Zero?
06/03/2023
Since then Australia has reduced its CO2 emissions from over 600 million tonnes to less than 500 million tonnes. So we are closer to absorbing four times more CO2 than we emit.
Net Zero 2030: $500 Billion & costs have gone up 20%
25/02/2023
In 2017 the CSIRO said it would cost $1 trillion dollars to convert the energy grid to 100% renewables. Then last year they claimed the costs had dropped by 50% or a lazy $500 billion despite rampart inflation.
Scientists should always be the best skeptics
20/12/2022
At the moment, much of research literature, as you probably will be frustrated by, is behind a paywall. You want to access information, and it’s fantastic that you are so interested in this, and be able to really dig in to really get an understanding.
Labor is subsidising electric vehicles, but there’s no plan for charging stations
12/12/2022
How long will people have to wait in order to recharge their electric vehicles? The government has no idea. This is despite the fact they recently passed legislation that will subsidize the cost of an electric car by up to
Department of Climate Change admit they can’t cost renewable targets
08/12/2022
Boy o boy is our energy grid going be in trouble with this lot in charge.If only bureaucratic spin could be converted into electricity we would become the energy powerhouse of the world. Key points from this line of questioning
ABC reports manipulated temperature data, not the raw data
06/12/2022
In the estimates spillover last week I asked why the ABC only ever report the homogenised temperature data set and not the raw temperature data set. This was a question I asked in prior estimates when the former News Director
Are renewables actually going to be cheaper?
17/11/2022
In estimates I asked the CSIRO if they had a roadmap as to how the government planned to reach its 43% reduction in CO2 emissions by 2030. Needless to say they passed the buck onto AEMO, the Australian Energy Market
Transmission lines not costed for 2030 emissions target
08/11/2022
Environment and Communications Legislation Committee07/11/2022EstimatesCLIMATE CHANGE, ENERGY, THE ENVIRONMENT AND WATER PORTFOLIOAustralian Energy Infrastructure Commissioner — Yesterday in estimates I asked the government whether or not they had costed the price on installing the required transmission lines to meet their
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Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA)
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Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI)
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