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Thanks Peter. You're doing a great job explaining how economics works to politicians. Imposing too many rules on landlords makes property a less attractive investment, which reduces the supply of places to rent and increases rental prices.

@matt_barrie @zerohedge Yes it's really stupid that Australia doesn't have nuclear power when we have so much uranium. We should use what we have available to produce cheap energy to boost economic development.

@zerohedge Meanwhile Australian government continues to actively sabotage the country with nuclear banned despite being the double Saudi Arabia of uranium

Four months later, China has added 9 more reactors and is now building a total of 39 nuclear power plants. Meanwhile the US has added 0 and is still building 0

Sky News Au The Loy Yang A power station in Victoria's Latrobe Valley generates 2210 megawatts of electricity. Around the clock. Every day. Rain hail or shine. It supplies roughly 30 percent of Victoria's entire electricity needs and powers over two million homes. It has been doing this since 1984. The active coal pit that feeds it covers 650 hectares. The total site including everything around it is 6000 hectares. To put that in perspective for anyone in regional NSW that is roughly the size of a decent family farm. In 2023 AGL spent 92 million dollars refurbishing one of its four generator units to keep it running reliably until its scheduled closure. The station is not worn out. It is not running out of coal. It is being closed by a political decision not an engineering one. Now here is the part that should make every Australian stop and think. The coal is not running out. The Loy Yang mine has reserves of 168 billion tonnes of brown coal. At current usage of 30 million tonnes per year that is enough coal to last roughly 500 years on that one site alone. Geoscience Australia calculated total recoverable brown coal reserves across the entire Latrobe Valley at more than 76 billion tonnes. At current production levels those reserves are expected to last more than 1000 years. And getting at it is not difficult. The layer of dirt covering the coal seam is only between 5 and 24 metres thick. The coal seam below it averages 180 metres thick. You remove a thin layer of topsoil and there it is. The Victorian Government has already extended the mining licence to 2065. The mine was originally planned to operate until 2048. It is being deliberately closed 13 years early. So what does it take to replace it. To generate the same amount of electricity from solar panels during daylight hours you need somewhere between 14000 and 16000 hectares of panels. That is more than 20 times the land area of the entire Loy Yang site including the mine. And after all that solar produces nothing at night. Nothing on heavily overcast days. And nothing at all after a hailstorm tears through the installation. So you need wind turbines to cover the nights and the cloudy days. Australian wind turbines have a real world capacity factor of around 30 to 35 percent. That means a turbine rated at 6 megawatts only generates an average of around 2 megawatts of actual power across a full year because the wind does not blow consistently. To replace 2210 megawatts of around the clock coal power with wind you need installed wind capacity of roughly 6500 to 7000 megawatts. At 6 megawatts per turbine that is over 1100 wind turbines. The Sapphire Wind Farm in NSW has 75 turbines and covers 8921 hectares. Scaling that up to 1100 turbines you are looking at roughly 130000 hectares of wind farm sprawling across regional Australia. And even then it still cannot guarantee power on a calm cloudy night. For those periods you need batteries or pumped hydro storage which requires yet more land and yet more billions. So to replace one coal power station and its mine covering 6000 hectares you need approximately 14000 to 16000 hectares of solar panels plus approximately 130000 hectares of wind farm plus thousands of kilometres of new transmission lines to connect it all to where people actually live plus battery storage or pumped hydro for the gaps. That is a total footprint of somewhere between 130000 and 150000 hectares against 6000 hectares for Loy Yang. More than 20 times the land area. Mostly on prime agricultural land across regional Australia. And it still cannot guarantee a single watt on a calm cloudy night. The transmission lines needed to carry all this electricity are already blowing out catastrophically in cost before they are even built. The Central West Orana transmission zone near Dubbo started at 650 million dollars and is now confirmed at 5.5 billion. Eight times the original estimate. The VNI West project connecting Victoria and NSW went from 3.9 billion to potentially 11 billion. Project EnergyConnect from South Australia to NSW went from 1.53 billion to over 4 billion. Every dollar of every blowout goes onto your electricity bill for the next 30 to 50 years through network charges. Australian taxpayers and electricity customers have already paid more than 29 billion dollars subsidising the renewable energy industry over the past ten years. The 2024 federal budget committed another 22 billion on top of that. That is over 50 billion dollars and counting. For a fraction of that money Australia could have built several modern high efficiency gas or coal power stations that would generate reliable electricity around the clock on a fraction of the land. Or we could have a serious conversation about nuclear power which France has used for decades to generate cheap reliable around the clock electricity on minimal land with zero carbon emissions. Instead we are deliberately closing a perfectly good power station that was just refurbished for 92 million dollars. Walking away from a coal reserve that would last 500 years. Covering tens of thousands of hectares of prime agricultural land with solar panels made in China using coal fired electricity. Building 1100 wind turbines across farming country that still cannot keep the lights on after dark. And spending hundreds of billions on transmission lines that blow out to eight times their original cost before the first pole is in the ground. We are closing a 6000 hectare power station and mine that has powered Victoria for 40 years to build 150000 hectares of solar and wind infrastructure that cannot match what it replaces. And the people making these decisions do not farm a single acre of the land they are covering with panels and turbines.

@DrewPavlou @PeteZogoulas Good work guys. You're doing a great job exposing fraud. I really appreciate it.

ABC News used our NDIS fraud investigation for a story without crediting us The official public broadcaster in Australia relies upon the investigative work of @PeteZogoulas and Drew Pavlou Suck shit to all the annoying critics like FriendyJordies who said we did fake journalism, we are literally doing better work than journalists part of a billion dollar organisation

@anasalhajji Thanks for highlighting this Dr Anas. A windfall tax is a terrible idea. A high Australian tax rate may cause energy companies to shift investment to other countries. This would lower Australian production and keep reliance on importing expensive gas from other countries.

Pursuing this would likely accelerate capital flight from Australia’s energy sector, motivated more by climate ideology than by any realistic energy or economic strategy.

China releases as much CO2 in 12 days as Australia does in an entire year! China prospers and Australia suffers. Net Zero is destroying this country and the countries that have signed up to it. @Electroversenet

@KatyKray73 Thanks for sharing this. Yes Australia needs to develop its nuclear power production.

Chris Bowen – Australia has ZERO nuclear fallback! Renewables alone can't cut it. Honeywell CEO Vimal Kapur at Davos: data centres, steel, cement & heavy industry run on ENERGY DENSITY. Not headlines or green goals, PHYSICS. Solar won't smelt steel. Wind won't make concrete. Coal, gas & nuclear are needed for demand. The world's going digital, but still powered by heavy industry. Time to face reality. ⚡

@NoLongerTheFuzz Thanks, I really appreciate you sharing your experience.

WE HAVE BEEN SOLD OUT! 🇦🇺😡👇🏽

Thanks to @DanNeidle for exposing this company selling UK estate planning trusts.

@PaulineHansonOz The development of Australia's nuclear power industry would build resilience and reduce energy costs too.

As the fuel crisis is getting even worse, One Nation wanted to debate our Bill that would establish a national gas reserve. Our gas can even be converted to petrol in an emergency. The fact that almost all of Australia’s gas is exported overseas for minimal tax is criminal. We only get two times a year to debate our own Bills. Yet Labor and the Greens teamed up to block One Nation from debating our own bill. The government is saying they might do a reserve someday, but only for new contracts. That means billions in gas would continue getting shipped overseas and sold for cheaper than Australians can buy it for. Labor and the Greens were on the side of greedy, tax-dodging foreign gas companies against One Nation. Our Bill’s name is the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment (Domestic Reserve) Bill 2026. We want a reserve so Australians get first priority for our gas!

@SonofManwithus Thanks I really appreciate you sharing your story .

I never thought sharing my struggles with alcohol and my decision to get sober would effect other people. But it seems it's done exactly that. I have received some comments of others being inspired to give up the booze. That's absolutely fantastic! God bless!

@QBCCIntegrity Why doesn't the government build apartment blocks on them to increase the supply of affordable housing?

The sale of historic defence sites has nothing to do with “funding the military” and everything to do with Labor’s mission to “decolonize” Australia. This is an active attempt to destroy heritage sites of Australians and erase a proud and strong culture

@RupertLowe10 Thank you.

An update on our independent Rape Gang Inquiry. For those who don't know, I was so frustrated with the lack of action on the rape gangs and Labour’s failure to establish a national investigation, I crowdfunded over £600k to start our own independent inquiry. This was the largest crowdfunder in British political history. All achieved with almost zero help from the media. It was done by the people, with the overwhelming percentage of donations small amounts. It was a humbling experience, and I want to thank every single person who donated - one penny or one thousand pounds. This effort helped to push the Labour Government into action. I have been desperately depressed with their progress. My parliamentary motion calling for action has been signed by both Conservative and Labour MPs. No Lib Dem. No SNP. No Reform. Our job is not only to press ahead with our investigation, but also to pressure this appalling Labour Government. Our team has been working tirelessly, gathering evidence, speaking with survivors/relevant witnesses, and preparing for our hearings which are taking place in early 2026. The mental health and safeguarding of the survivors is at the very heart of everything that we do. - We have mental health support on offer for our participants seven days a week. - A qualified mental health nurse, whose own daughter was a survivor so he understands better than almost anyone the pain families have been through. - Professional risk assessments are being carried out on all survivor participants for the hearings, and robust support will be provided throughout the fortnight and after. - A qualified safeguarding lead with vast experience. As you can see, we are taking this incredibly seriously. I want to thank the team for their work on this and continued support for those who have been so comprehensively failed by the state. Clearly, we have a limited budget, but we are doing everything we can. We have released a number of research reports detailing our quantitive findings so far. Crucially, the lack of data available from local councils/police forces has meant that nobody has any idea about how widespread this scandal is. We launched a petition, and reached the successful number in a matter of hours. This will now be debated in Parliament thanks to you. I am chasing a date for this… One of the most powerful experiences as an MP was welcoming dozens of survivors to Westminster to tell their stories. MPs from across Parliament came - Labour, Tory, Northern Irish, Plaid, independents. No Reform, Lib Dem or SNP MPs bothered to show up. It was an emotional day, to be honest - not one I will forget. But the vast majority of our effort and preparations are going into the hearings in 2026, and then the preparation of our report. Following that, we are planning to take out private prosecutions. This is not a talking shop. We want to see action, and we want justice. That will mean finding appropriate targets, and then taking the relevant legal actions. More details on this will emerge at the right time… Our hearings will take place over a ten working day period in central London. We have a topic for each day, and have invited specialists to help our barrister chair and Sammy Woodhouse, who is leading on the inquiry. She is a survivor herself, and this was vital to the work we’re doing. I wanted this to be a survivor-led inquiry. And that’s exactly what we’re doing. Sammy has done incredible work, and I want to personally thank her for everything that she’s done, and what she is doing. I can think of nobody better to lead such an inquiry. The daily hearing topics are. Parents and carers. Pregnancy, abortion, born of rape. Whistleblowers. Policing and justice. Social care. NHS, mental health and sexual health. Education and licensing. Demographics - the role of religion. Media, social media and the mechanisms of online grooming. Politics. We will not shy away from the difficult questions, including on the role of Islam. Of course, we’re all entirely in the unknown. We shouldn’t have to be doing this. The Government should be doing this, but they’re not. So we have had to try. It’s that, or moan on social media. I choose trying, every single time. Invitations have been sent to our prospective panellists and expert witnesses, and we have had a number of positive responses already. The hearings are planned for early February 2026, with the report being drafted after that. Again, I want to thank everyone who donated and who has supported our inquiry. It simply wouldn’t be possible without you. It’s easy to talk in politics, we are trying to do. Labour are failing. The Tories failed in their 14 years. Reform promised an inquiry, and failed. The Lib Dems fail to even properly acknowledge there’s an issue. It’s so very disappointing. Survivors, and their families, all deserve so much better. The mass rape of working class white girls is a rotting stain on our country’s history - this inquiry is doing our very best to drag the scandal into the spotlight. I've always found that actions speak louder than words. Progress made, a lot more to do.

Some extremely worrying statistics about UK government debt and borrowing: ▪️The UK government net debt is touching £3 trillion. ◾️The UK government is paying over £100 billion a year interest on the national debt. ◾️The national debt has risen by £2.5 trillion in just 20 years. ▪️The government borrowed almost £100 billion between April - September 2025. The ever highest amount on record for that period (apart from the Covid era).

Thank you for highlighting this waste.

Thanks for posting this Neil. It's really important to highlight government waste.

@MePlasticSea Thank you

Extreme litter-picking challenge - complete! ✅ 75,000 pieces of #litter. Over two days. 29.5 miles walked. 61,571 steps. 23 industrial sized bin bags collected. #litterpick #cleanup #devon

@RupertLowe10 @officialsammyuk Thank you. You're doing a great job.

An update on our own independent Rape Gang Inquiry from Sammy Woodhouse, @officialsammyuk. We are progressing well, with hearings being arranged for early 2026. Progress made, lots more to do.

@JakobFolmar @sarahandrews77 @sequi_simon No it's not.

@sarahandrews77 @sequi_simon Why would Brits want similar weather? It's freezing there and monochrome grey all year.

I often think about leaving the UK. I wonder how many of you do? The question is, where do you go? I travel a lot, and I honestly don't believe there are many Shangri-las left, if there are any at all. The thing that angers is me is that the United Kingdom is actually one of the best countries in the world, it's just that it's led by some the worst people in the world.