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Nuclear a common factor in European countries with cheaper electricity prices

Following our recent MRC report into electricity prices, MRC Senior Fellow Nick Cater has been actively exploring new arguments in support of nuclear power. As Nick’s recent work has found, the claim that renewable energy is cheapest  is easily refuted by examining comparative electricity costs across Europe. Countries that invest in nuclear have consistently cheaper prices than those that do not.

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The price of big government

Since 2019, the rate of government spending a day has increased four times faster than inflation, driven by public sector wage and headcount increases. This is painful news for families struggling in a cost of living crisis. By Nick Cater.

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Trillion dollar transformation

The most comprehensive modelling ever done for any policy by any opposition in Australia’s history failed to predict that the wholesale price of electricity would more than double to between $121 MWh in Victoria and $162 in Queensland – somewhat higher than the $50 we had been told to expect. By Nick Cater.

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Mind the gap

A report this week by the Grattan Institute offers clues as to how a Labor government might reduce the structural deficit which it estimates will rise to $100 billion if left unchecked by the end of the decade. The report’s title, “Back in black?” would be heartening were it not for the question mark which suggests that Grattan thinks that budget deficits from here to eternity are an actual option. By Nick Cater.

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