ripping off australia by way of stealth

This is just flagrant waste. They are lying to cover up the dreadful incompetent corruption

Well f'me I'm strait outta da scrub by hard ridin n can see we need coal or nuke to keep this show onda road til this shit is sorted 🤔 Only person that'll be gladta see these eyesores is the blind person ona gallopin horse before the horse run into it. Openya iiii n🧠 n learn howta vote someone in that gives as hit bout straya n strayans before tis 2FN late. Yeah I rote it slow so yas can readit Jes dun🤔4 uself 🤞

***Major problem with Climate Change Denialists is the increase in Natural Disasters means more $$$ Go to Recovery/ Rehabilitation from these Extreme Bushfires and Extreme Flooding events ( including droughts .. basically CC increases the frequency & intensity of All Natural Disasters) -which causes further Economic Stress Currently Southern California is struggling in Winter with Extreme Unprecedented Bushfires ** 🔸 Santa Ana winds, drought and a hotter planet have helped exacerbate the Palisades, Hurst and Eaton fires in California By Oliver Milman, with graphics by Lucy Swan, Ana Lucía González Paz and Paul Scruton Wed 8 Jan 2025 18.43 GMT Even in a state that’s become grimly accustomed to severe conflagrations, the rapid surge of wildfire that has torched the Los Angeles area has been shocking, triggering mass evacuations that have left behind charred suburban homes. 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Advertisement Until just two years ago, California was in the teeth of a decades-long drought that was part of a broader “mega drought” across the US that researchers estimate was the worst in at least 1,200 years. Rising global temperatures, caused by the burning of fossil fuels, have caused an increase in “fire weather” days due to the drying out of vegetation and soils and lowered humidity. Fires in the US west are becoming more frequent and larger, scientists have found, with climate change raising the risk of fast-moving fires by around 25% in California. Ten of the largest California wildfires have occurred in the last two decades, with five of these fires occurring in 2020 alone. Researchers have calculated that the human-caused climate emergency has contributed to a 172% increase in California’s burned areas since the 1970s, with a further spread expected in the decades ahead.

So in other words you get paid, I’m sure, a phenomenal amount to do stuff all

Why don't they have the figures where did they think they were going if not to the chamber to answer questions.

I remember Albo saying “ solar panels on your roof charging your vehicle for free overnight “ that’s what the future looks like. What an absolute dumbass.🤪

Just have to look at what happened to Broken Hill.

Stick your “new world” mate. We were doing very well with the old world

when is the government going to admit that the cheapest and most reliable source is coal powered stations and say good bye to the french accord which is making some people very wealthy at the expense of the general public. We closed 6 stations to save the world and there is over 1000 new coao stations panned or under costruction to provide cheap reliable power.

8 verses 25 and his answer is they are different 😳 WTAF

Way to many umms and arrs I think

Waste of money and resources that could be used where we need them most. Gov ripping us off once again.

The Elaine Victoria wind farm has been broken for more than 2 months now, I hope the owners are not getting taxpayers $600,000 per tower while it's not making a watt,

Don't forget wind doesn't work when they turn them off all the time.

Yes!!!

Omg Ayres makes me sick to even look at him, let alone listen to his arrogant dribble. He sounds so much like Wong in his manner of speech it makes me want to puke 🤮

All a big waste of money. A very sad joke

Thank you Senator Roberts. Love watching and listening to you grill these bureaucrats. What a lazy waste of space they all are. Time to cull their numbers..🤔🤔😀👍

Ayres loves his Freemasonic hand placements

The elephant in the room with regards to going to net zero is - "The quantity of metal required to make just one generation of renewable tech units to replace fossil fuels is much larger than first thought. Current mining production of these metals is not even close to meeting demand. Current reported mineral reserves are also not enough in size. Most concerning is copper as one of the flagged shortfalls. Exploration for more at required volumes will be difficult, with this seminar addressing these issues.” Source: Simon P. Michaux, Associate Research Professor of Geometallurgy Unit Minerals Processing and Materials Research, Geological Survey of Finland

Another department that needs to be ditched: like so many others. Time to do an Argentina; get rid of 90% of governments and prosper.

I bet Arena employees are on massive salaries.

With Australia's crime rate at an all time high , I can't help but to think of the possibilities that some young thug out on multiple counts of bail , targeting batteries sabotaging them setting them on fire 🔥 then what we have no redundancy power , mass black outs , the economy shuts down , back into the stone age , the possibilities are endless

Mate we never needed to replace gas and coal.I like the old world stuff your new world.