Australia’s taxpayer-funded leftist propaganda unit national broadcaster likes to tout itself as Australia’s “most trusted broadcaster”. Which is about as convincing as Melbourne still trying to convince everyone it’s “the world’s most livable city”. No matter how many times they say it, they’re not fooling anybody.
Especially when they publish garbage like this:
Saturday’s election outcome was an endorsement of renewable energy over nuclear.
So, cost of living, Medicare, education, industrial relations and all of the stuff that Labor actually ran their campaign on, didn’t figure? What’s their basis for making this extraordinary claim?
At a household level, Labor offered a significant discount on home batteries to accompany the booming solar on rooftops all across the country, aiming to get 1 million batteries installed under the scheme by 2030.
This is the basic lie the ABC are peddling: that it’s either nuclear or rooftop solar. In the logic trade, we call that a false dilemma. Case in point: I’m all for Australia having a nuclear industry to provide reliable baseload electricity without greenhouse gas emissions. I also have rooftop solar.
That’s because, while rooftop solar is a perfectly viable investment for households, it simply cannot replace grid power. Not for households and, absolutely, positively, not for an entire nation. Not only is household electricity a minuscule segment of Australia’s total energy use, but residential power accounts for just 10 per cent of Australia’s total energy consumption.
As I’ve written many times, the sheer scale and cost of trying (note that: trying) to meet Australia’s total energy needs with solar (or solar and wind) is staggering. Trillions of dollars and vast swathes of the landscape covered in deserts of glass and whirling blades doesn’t even begin to cover it.
What Labor is offering is just more of the same middle-class welfare that steams the knickers of tilty-headed, cashed-up Boomers, but only drives everyone else’s power bills through the roof. Even with a ‘significant discount’ (i.e., a massive taxpayer subsidy), a home battery system still clocks in at between $15–20,000. Then it has to be replaced within a decade or so. In other words, it will have barely paid for itself before it has to be chucked out and replaced.
Not a problem, maybe, if you’re sitting on a multi-million-dollar house you bought for a song in the 1980s – or if you’re a well-paid ABC ‘journalist’. For those of us in the real world, it’s not exactly a winning investment.
Then there’s this howler:
The last election saw a new generation of independents join the parliament, riding a wave of climate concern. Any expectation that the “teals” were a single-election trend has been dispelled, with most of them set to be returned, and new ones joining their ranks.
While the Greens have an anxious wait ahead to see how many lower seats they’ll win, they recorded their highest-ever primary vote and will hold the balance of power in the Senate with 11 senators.
It looks like someone didn’t check the election counter on their own website. At least two of the Teals are battling to the death to hang on to their seats. The Greens are almost certain to be wiped out of the lower house and their primary vote suffered a two per cent swing. More than two million fewer people voted Green at this election than the last.
Don’t take my word for it: visit the ABC’s own election tracker.
Why would anyone trust a news service whose reporters either don’t even read their own election counts or lie through their teeth about it?
