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James Macpherson
Dec 10, 2025
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Anthony Albanese and Chris Bowen are hell-bent on spending $128 billion rewiring the nation’s energy grid for their renewables utopia by 2050 …

THEN …

It’s only because they know - with the serene confidence of men who will be long retired, well-pensioned, and safely insulated from public wrath - that they won’t be anywhere near a polling booth when the whole grand experiment inevitably delivers the energy equivalent of dial-up internet: limited, interruptible, painfully expensive, and about as effective at “changing the climate” as yelling at a cloud.

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