K0ogs

Whenever anyone suggests European energy ideas to me as workable in Australia ... 'well, assume you have a battery.... a really large battery' - @FootnotesGuy is absolutely right here. We are a diesel fuelled continent.

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This plan was always going to fail. The fact is new supply has only gotten harder to deliver in recent years. It’s well past time the government got serious about solving this issue. That means: 1. Reducing immigration to reduce demand to enable new supply to catch up 2. Reforming taxation to direct new demand to new supply, and encourage downsizing for more efficient use of existing stock 3. Government directly building social housing for those who will never afford market housing 3. Reforming planning and building bureaucracies to enable market housing to be delivered more quickly and affordably

Australia's housing crisis has reached a critical point, with the federal government's target of 1.2 million new homes in five years already 77,000 behind after just 18 months. 7NEWS begins a special six-part series on the future of housing in Australia.

@TheKouk As a qualified economist, how can you think Norway's sovereign wealth fund is going to 'run out' once they sell the last of their oil? They have 2.1 trillion USD in assets. No wonder Labor doesn't understand economics with advisors like you.

This is wrongly framed. Australia has 20 million plus sovereign wealth funds - each individual's superannuation. Now $4.5 trillion and growing like the clappers & will not run out, as Norway's will when they sell the last off their oil. Oil output is already falling in Norway

@taipan168 Minns is good no arguments there but one state out of the whole country doesn't cut it, especially when Federal Labor has been an absolute disaster.

@k0ogs At least in NSW, they are.

I’ve been saying this all along. Population growth in Australia isn’t above historical levels. But of course the innumerate morons who support One Nation don’t care about the actual data. afr.com/policy/economy…

@taipan168 Agreeing with you, then why aren't the governments of today doing it? Based on your other posts you've got issues with every other party that's not in power right now. Why isn't Labor taking any action?

@k0ogs I'm saying that's what needs to be done. And free up planning and reduce barriers to development, some of which is already happening thankfully.

@taipan168 There's a federal Labor government in power with a majority/mandate and the majority of state governments are also Labor. What are they doing to break the stranglehold of the CFMEU?

@k0ogs We are not at capacity, not even close. Remove some of the ridiculous planning constraints that are in place, which thankfully is happening, and break the stranglehold of the CFMEU on construction, and we'll have a building boom.

@taipan168 Inflation is the cause, I'm demonstrating to you why we can't 'simply' build more as you suggested. We are at capacity, and insolvencies are at record highs before the Iran War inflation shock fully hits us.

@k0ogs Immigration is not the cause of that. And construction firms have gone insolvent since the year dot.

@taipan168 You obviously don't understand the situation...

@k0ogs So let’s build more. Very simple.

@taipan168 Here we are 20000 homes short in the last quarter of 2025. The issue with the target we didn't even reach is that its below the 87000 net immigration number from the September quarter. December NOM hasn't been released yet but I can guarantee it's higher than home completions.

@k0ogs I don’t see why not.

@taipan168 Spot on because our capacity to build will never keep up with current net immigration numbers.

@k0ogs Correct, we haven’t been building enough.

@taipan168 Maybe but that's not the point you were making. And on the point you've just made, we have the lowest recorded rental vacancies in every major city which says we aren't handling the growth. Average house price to average wage ratio has never been higher also says otherwise.

@k0ogs The capacity of the country to handle population growth scales as it grows.

@taipan168 @APSports83 Where are the stats showing people 'tend' to buy new dwellings before they start a family?

@APSports83 People tend to buy new dwellings before they start a family.

Yesterday’s increase in Interest rates is not going to do anything to fix the underlying structural imbalances in our economy. It is not going to help build one oil refinery or find a new discovery oil. The reason we have persistent inflation in Australia is because our government is running high immigration, high spending programs alongside chronic underinvestment in infrastructure and manufacturing after decades of privatisation. It is completely absurd that the Australian people are now going to be punished with higher interest rates alongside higher fuel costs. The higher fuel costs is in-itself going to dampen demand by increasing the cost of living so why pour fuel on the fire by increasing the cost of living even more. We are in this mess because of government spending not because Australians are spending too much just to survive. Manipulating interest rates is only dealing with the symptom not the cause. Notwithstanding we can’t solve inflation in the next 30 days, Australia needs to start building more infrastructure and factories and training our children the trades needed to do it. This will increase the supply of essential goods to bring inflation down. People First is the only party with the policies that will do this. We will create an infrastructure bank to fund the infrastructure free from foreign debt and we will bring back the military apprenticeship scheme to train our children how to build and maintain the infrastructure and manufacturing plants. Sign up today at Peoplefirstparty.au

@AvidCommentator Three yearly federal election cycles means we're never forward looking enough as a country, future planning isn't rewarded or recognized enough.

This is a rough AI estimate, but it would have cost under $20bn to build a 100m barrel oil storage facility & maintain our former refinery capacity capable of supplying ~70% of our fuel needs If this becomes a protracted crisis, it will cost the economy that it in about 3 weeks

The insanity continues and keeps getting worse #ausbiz macrobusiness.com.au/2026/03/net-lo…

The Kouk is the Jim Cramer of Australian financial advice

Arab gangsters tried to murder the most prominent left wing political commentator in Australia in a firebombing attack yet nobody in Australia talks about it and the entire Australian left basically has an omerta about it. The New South Wales police won't charge the Arab gangsters who tried to murder him. And the Labor Party won't do anything about it because they don't want to lose votes in West Sydney. It's honestly extraordinary. FriendlyJordies is literally the number one pro-Labor media guy in the entire country. He's probably shifted hundreds of thousands of votes to the Labor column at election time - I am not exaggerating when I say his work has been instrumental to the Labor Party's success, to the point that you could easily argue he's been one of the most important Labor Party figures of the 21st century. He's been hundreds of times more impactful than the average Labor Party hack backbench MP who just makes up the numbers in parliament for a salary. He's genuinely a prime mover in Labor Party history. Yet the Labor Party is happy to literally physically sacrifice him in order to avoid losing votes to Islamist identity politics voters in West Sydney. The NSW Labor government - which appoints the NSW Police Force - is seemingly fine with FriendlyJordies just straight up being killed by Arab gangsters. That's their revealed preference by failing to charge the culprits in the Alameddine crime family who ordered his attempted killing. How does this insane fact not change the way he sees politics? I don't understand how he can't recognise that Australia's migration policies have failed. He was literally firebombed by a foreign crime gang - how is this not enough to help lift the scales from one's eyes? FriendlyJordies, wake up. We do not have to have a single member of the Alameddine crime family in Australia. This was a strange and weird choice made by politicians decades ago and it's clearly been a disaster for the country. We made an active choice to welcome them to this country only for them to turn around and spit in our faces by killing dozens of people in drug wars while also promoting Islamic extremism. So why do we have to have them here? We could just deport them. FriendlyJordies, wake up.