the latest Budget is actually not relief at all. In this state the people who need it most are actually going to be paying more. We already pay the highest electricity bills in the country and it is set to go even higher.
Interestingly it is also claimed we have more "renewables" than anywhere else in the country. This is touted as a "good thing". Really?
I am getting more and more confused by all this. I am not an economist or an environmental scientist.
I studied "economic history" as an extra subject at what was then "Leaving" level (old "O" level in England) but it has not been any help in understanding what the present Treasurer here in Downunder is talking about. I am not sure he knows himself. He isn't actually an economist and I sometimes suspect he doesn't understand what people like the Governor of the Reserve Bank tell him. All I understand is that if your spend more than you have then you are in debt.
Environmental science puzzles me even more. We keep being told about "global warming" and it seems every natural disaster is now being blamed on "global warming". Why? Have all natural disasters throughout history been attributed to global warming? I don't remember this. Perhaps my memory is failing? Am I mistaken when I remember alarm over something they said was a coming "ice-age"? How much of the weather can we control and what effect does it have on the climate? Not much I suspect. That said, we have one small planet to live on and we should be taking much greater care of it. (Also, anyone who knows me knows I believe we should be planting far more of the right sort of trees in the right places than we do.)
Perhaps that "power bill relief" which is no relief at all is a good thing. If we all manage to use less power then we spend less money and save the environment from this global warming issue... the problem is that I don't like cold cereal in winter.
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