tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40813462024-03-13T10:27:36.845+10:00Anything GoesRandom thoughts (when I get around to it) on politics and public discourse by David Havyatt.
This blog is created in Google blogger and so that means they use cookies etc.David Havyatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10843396871891422509noreply@blogger.comBlogger1220125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4081346.post-31310639321776609752023-11-02T16:56:00.001+10:002023-11-02T16:56:18.122+10:00Howard, Price and ForgettingIt was always going to be the case that an unsuccessful outcome from the proposal to give indigenous Australians recognition in the constitution in the way they requested, the Voice, would be interpreted as if the question was more than just that.The Guardian tells us that John Howard is the latest. Speaking to a new right-wing group - the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (Arc) - Howard David Havyatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10843396871891422509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4081346.post-88058720318603439502023-06-29T16:07:00.003+10:002023-06-29T16:07:27.047+10:00Financability and network infrastructureThe energy transition requires new electricity generation to replace the fossil fuel fleet (mostly coal in Australia) and meet growing demand arising from the electrification of the transportation and heating sectors. AEMO's modelling calls for significant new transmission assets to connect this generation, though some (including me) think AEMO is underestimating the potential for distribution David Havyatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10843396871891422509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4081346.post-50341227209062508152023-06-25T13:09:00.002+10:002023-06-25T13:09:58.063+10:00That Hawke quoteAs the public consideration of how to vote in the forthcoming referendum on the Voice, the No campaign has latched onto a quote from Bob Hawke that reads:We are, and essentially we remain, a nation of
immigrants a nation drawn from 130 nationalities
in Australia there is no hierarchy of descent: there
must be no privilege of origin. The commitment is all.
The commitment to Australia is the only David Havyatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10843396871891422509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4081346.post-74001370548692628832023-04-12T17:42:00.001+10:002023-04-12T17:42:59.834+10:00Dutton and the VoicePeter Dutton's first response to the proposed Voice was to ask how it would make the children subject to sexual violence safer.His argument for supporting the No case is that a national voice will achieve nothing, instead proposing regional and local voices and a mere symbolic constitutional recognition. Today he visited Alice Springs and met with his own Senator Price and one David Havyatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10843396871891422509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4081346.post-51122136497296798862022-08-12T17:53:00.001+10:002022-08-12T17:53:31.198+10:00A comment on teacher shortages This post will get me into trouble with so many people who will tell me that I don't understand teaching and the dynamics of school education. So I am going to try to write it more as a series of questions or 'alternative propositions', rather than as dogmatic statements of fact. But knowing me, I will forget to do that. So as you read this please read anything I say as a proposition not a David Havyatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10843396871891422509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4081346.post-12683261110996950522022-08-09T14:15:00.002+10:002022-08-09T14:15:25.801+10:00Stage 3 Tax CutsThe so-called Stage 3 Tax Cuts are a conundrum for the Albanese Government. As a reminder the cuts were legislated as part of a package in 2018 (hence Stage 3) and will cut the rate applying to incomes over $45,000 from 32.5 cents in the dollar to 30 cents and will extend that low rate all the way up to $200,000, abolishing an entire rung of the tax ladder paid by the highest earners. David Havyatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10843396871891422509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4081346.post-70508603911074599732022-07-31T16:58:00.002+10:002022-07-31T16:58:52.288+10:00The VoiceI cannot match Prime Minister Albanese's eloquence in his speech at the Garma Festival that released his initial view of the constitutional question and provisions to give effect to the Voice requested by the Uluru Statement from the Heart. But I can respond to his invocation:All Australians have the chance to own this change, to be proud of it, to be counted and heard on the right side of David Havyatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10843396871891422509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4081346.post-69969016943939231452022-05-28T17:25:00.001+10:002022-05-28T17:25:05.734+10:00The United States and GunsThe rest of the world looks on in horror every time there is another mass shooting in the United States. Unfortunately, mass shooting is only one aspect of this carnage.Pew Research reports that in 2020, the most recent year for which complete data is available, 45,222 people died from gun-related injuries in the U.S., according to the CDC. Suicides account for more than half of these deaths (54%David Havyatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10843396871891422509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4081346.post-60716802052854142592022-05-23T17:13:00.001+10:002022-05-23T17:13:32.070+10:00The 2022 ElectionAs we sit in the idle time between the excitement created by Saturday night and the accompanying electoral hangover of Sunday and the eventual return of the Writs and a return to the business of governing, every pundit has been out giving their explanation of the significance of the vote. Why should I be any different?My first observation is that the ALP's 2022 campaign only looked like a small David Havyatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10843396871891422509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4081346.post-24431509655759892752022-03-15T05:43:00.001+10:002022-03-15T05:43:37.233+10:00What excites Scott Morrison about a universityPM Scott Morrison went to the Central Coast yesterday to open a new facility of the University of Newcastle. After talking about the dream catcher that one of his daughters hung over their bed, he gave us, in one inspired moment of Prime Ministerial sludge, a commentary on his idea of a university.But for that to work, you've got to have a community base of infrastructure and services. And what David Havyatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10843396871891422509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4081346.post-26509267007582508812022-03-13T05:38:00.000+10:002022-03-13T05:38:24.715+10:00Climate Change, National Security and the ADFOne way to view the role of government is that it delivers four fundamental securities; national, personal, economic and social. National security is the foremost protection, defending the
citizenry from interference with their rights by another nation. Personal
security is the analogue of this and includes defending citizens from
infringement by other citizens. Economic security aims to provide David Havyatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10843396871891422509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4081346.post-31657953157376805142022-02-22T06:28:00.004+10:002022-02-22T06:50:32.488+10:00The Sorry State of the NEMThe National Electricity Market, or NEM, is the name given to the interconnected electricity grids of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and the ACT. It grew out of the micro-economic reform agenda of the Hawke government (though its initiation predated the Hilmer report). Progressively since the NEM began Energy Ministers meeting under a string of different David Havyatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10843396871891422509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4081346.post-21550301939724251302021-04-28T20:03:00.003+10:002021-04-28T20:03:24.062+10:00A new era for NBN Co pricing Australia's National Broadband Network is not currently what it was planned to be. I was for many years up to my eyeballs in the policy issues. I was part of the discussions that initiated Labor thinking that structural reform of the industry should be achieved when a new access network was built (a proposition advanced at a Competitive Carriers Coalition and AAPT seminar in 2004). I was part of David Havyatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10843396871891422509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4081346.post-21790111679018390022021-03-03T16:41:00.002+10:002021-03-03T16:58:20.636+10:00Politicians and accusationsUnfortunately for Christian Porter my views on his statement today are tainted by the circumstances around Tony Abbott and the accusation that he threw a punch at Barabara Ramjan. Abbott's first comment was that it did not sound like him, but he followed it up with a categorical denial.We know that Ramjan was successful in a defamation action against News Corp. An affidavit was provided by a David Havyatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10843396871891422509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4081346.post-44944718712793845472021-03-02T11:15:00.006+10:002021-03-02T16:56:55.444+10:00Online Safety meets ClassificationThe Federal Government has introduced a new Online Safety Bill, that is evoking memories of Stpehen Conroy's ill-fated attempts at introducing a mandatory internet filter. While some might see the Bill as milder because it only introduces a take-down regime rather than a mandatory filter, that is false comfort because it extends far beyond the intent of Labor's scheme. First some history. AsDavid Havyatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10843396871891422509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4081346.post-45392162790294439162021-01-22T14:14:00.001+10:002021-01-22T14:14:47.298+10:00News organisations and digital platformsDoes anyone remember the days when the music industry used to complain about the internet and the 'illegal' downloading of songs? Do we remember the movie and television production companies and their attempts to make Internet Service Providers (ISPs) responsible for blocking access to video sharing sites?In both cases the response of the internet community was 'don't blame us - adjust your David Havyatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10843396871891422509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4081346.post-39561944320971057322020-12-28T05:57:00.003+10:002020-12-28T05:57:44.850+10:00Thank goodness we didn't have the pandemic in 2014Failed Leiberal Prime Minister Tony Abbott has given us (another) reason to be grateful that the COVID pandemic struck in 2020 not 2014. Of course, being as far into the 21st century has already been a good thing because of the wider prevelance of smart phones making QR code use and contact tracing easier. But in Mr Aboott's contribution to a book to be released in March with the awful title David Havyatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10843396871891422509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4081346.post-42378116805706155932020-10-30T14:36:00.001+10:002020-10-30T14:37:08.285+10:00Regulators and hammers - recent folly of the ACMAIn the great wash up of regulatory analysis, one of the reasons why regulation should be avoided is because it requires regulators. And regulators have a tendency to supplant the objective of the regime they are regulating with the objective of regulating.The Telecommunications Act 1997 expressly recognised this regulatory risk, and specifies a regulatory policy at section 4.The Parliament David Havyatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10843396871891422509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4081346.post-34662755598932566572020-09-23T15:59:00.002+10:002020-09-24T10:35:11.333+10:00History is always written by the victors - MTM morphs back to NBNToday the Communications Minister announced a plan to bring 'ultrafast broadband' to millions of families and businesses and he welcomed the release of the NBN Co corporate plan demonstrating how this can be financed from the company's internal resources and assume on its own books the debt previously provided by Government. (2)The recognition that the MTM isn't the ending point seems to have David Havyatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10843396871891422509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4081346.post-62008443732430041242020-09-15T23:32:00.000+10:002020-09-15T23:32:23.694+10:00More confusion in energy landPhil Coorey in the AFR told us the PM's tactic (it isn't big enough to call it a strategy) is to use 'energy week' to reset focus on the recovery Today he rocked up to Newcastle for the second element of this with some very confused messages about electricity and gas. The big announcement was:To ensure affordable, reliable power, we need the market to deliver 1,000 MW of new David Havyatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10843396871891422509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4081346.post-24364576916438847402020-09-08T17:20:00.002+10:002020-09-08T17:20:59.216+10:00National Cabinet misfires on energy ministers’ ‘tasking’George Santayana’s dictum “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” should be foremost in the mind of policy makers as we face a period of economic change and stress. The history of Australia’s energy markets and the policy making approaches provide valuable lessons that should guide future policy. We are at another critical juncture due to the announcement by Scott MorrisonDavid Havyatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10843396871891422509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4081346.post-72856975373706993462020-02-29T15:17:00.000+10:002020-02-29T15:17:12.086+10:00Who is responsible for energy policyLast week has seen the interesting prospect of the Victorian Government introducing derogations from the National Electricity Law in relation to transmission investment and instead providing quite broad planning powers to the Minister directly.
This raises two different sets of issues - the first is about constitutional responsibility for energy and the second is about the appropriate role of David Havyatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10843396871891422509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4081346.post-11368878265627644682019-04-10T08:08:00.002+10:002019-04-10T08:08:32.659+10:00EVsI just can't get enough of KKK doing the Coalition over on the EV scare campaign....
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Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans JWL
David Havyatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10843396871891422509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4081346.post-74246963972264250862019-04-08T11:43:00.001+10:002019-04-08T11:43:30.381+10:00What about the Climate Change Authority?Alan Kohler in the Oz has written a piece that concludes:
It seems to me the best way to achieve that, given the apparent seriousness of the situation, would be an independent body, a bit like an expert, permanent royal commission, made up of a cross-section of scientists, statisticians and economists, to pull together the data and advise the government.
It can’t be left to the David Havyatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10843396871891422509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4081346.post-83850093993563853322019-04-07T22:42:00.000+10:002019-04-07T22:42:04.424+10:00Understanding 'Paris'I made a big mistake this week. I decided to correct Chris Kenny on Twitter about the speed at which an electric vehicle (an EV) could charge. Of course I then uncovered a few crazies.
At the same time I have been thinking about how successful the Government has been in peddling the line that our "Paris commitment' is a 26-28% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 on 2005 levels. Even David Havyatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10843396871891422509noreply@blogger.com0