Is Australia ‘giving away’ its natural resources?

No, no, no Diane. We are paying the multinationals to take them.

Good doggie, roll over and have your tummy scratched.

Yes that interruption annoyed me too. And the indifferent way Stiglitz was treated generally on the panel, with little chance to say much.
But I think Karvelas is simply uninterested in the issues, rather than actively antagonistic. That’s the way she comes across to me on RN Breakfast.
Also her more animated demeanour this time on Q+A suggested she was probably under some desperate instruction to “liven things up.”

Australia, known to all carpetbaggers and shills as Treasure Island.

Perhaps this was one of the reasons for the coup of 1975.

Like much of what ails this country, credit goes to The Lying Rodent and his boy treasurer The Smirk.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/into-thin-air-why-is-australia-facing-a-gas-crisis-20220721-p5b3gi.html

He was also interviewed for The Business a week or so ago, and Epstein’s radio show (Aug 7?).
I don’t think they thought he was worth 7:30 time?

And guess how they convert the gas into a liquid? Compression and Cooling uses almost as much gas as the rest of Australian industry. And how much do they pay for this gas? Well, almost nothing really. They already “own” it.

It has been more than 30 years since the great orgy of deregulation and privatisation and corporatisation of publicly owned assets occurred. The evidence is compelling, privatisation has completely failed to deliver the promised benefits to the Australian people. Electricity, gas, communications, banking, housing etc have all been monumental failures that have left consumers worse off and contributed to the exponential growth of wealth inequality.