The shocking warning that already-sky high energy prices in Australia could soar by as much as 50 per cent in the next year has nothing to do with the conflict in Ukraine.
Any politician or journalist or economist who says it does is either ignorant or lying.
The official reason for the rise in energy prices is the rising global price of coal and especially gas.
While the 2021 Senate inquiry into the collapse of Sterling Income Trust, which left more than 100 elderly retirees and pensioners facing eviction and homelessness, is yet to result in any concrete outcomes, it has certainly contributed to a new push for a major inquiry into the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC).
Help count the number of cashless outlets that banks are trying to pass off as branches.
In the ongoing war on cash, the big banks are opening cashless banking outlets, or shifting existing branches to cashless outlets.
These can take the form of “tellerless” outlets, or outlets where cash can only be deposited or withdrawn via automatic teller machines (ATMs).
Thirty-one years after Australia embarked on electricity ‘reform’—corporatisation, privatisation, deregulation, national electricity market, and the renewable energy target—the experiment has been a massive failure. Re-nationalise the system—now!
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s headline agenda, which dominates media reporting, includes China, climate change, and a federal integrity commission. Besides those issues, he is now responsible for the unfinished business of the previous Parliament, on which his Labor Party took a position. Now that it is in a position to act on these issues, what will the Albanese government do?
Banking Royal Commission reforms
Australia Post, APRA/ASIC/ACCC/AUSTRAC, Royal Commission
