Tom Quinn
@tomquinn
Number cruncher. Story teller. Coalition builder. Vision setter. Working to build a better future and drive emissions down as fast as possible. #atypoineverypost #climate #energy #economy #IntRel Posting from Dja Dja Wurrung Country
There's going to be a hilarious number of aluminium industry workers marking "Canberra" on the Census this year. Heap of workers (not pictured 😂) from the entire supply chain in Parliament yesterday for a big showcase event.
New record high for electric vehicle sales in Australia over the past quarter. EVs now account for 21% of total sales, or 32% if combined with plug in hybrids. That's 103k EVs which will cut fuel imports by 128m litres per year, or 1.28bn litres over the next decade. That's real fuel security.
Beautiful first day of 'sprinter' for those in the south east. Wattles are blooming, sky is clear and blue, frost on the ground. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Middle of July and our mulberry tree is setting fruit. Cool cool, everything is fine and normal.
Korean BBQ unbeatable though in my opinion. So good and so many sides to go with it, I also love any meal that is cooked in the middle of the table. But really made me question Australian BBQ culture, we love them but are we actually that good at BBQ compared to SK, Argentina, Brazil or the US?
The kids stand out favourite was of course bingsu, the shaved ice desert for which Korea is famous. I also love how it's a sharing desert and one bowl was comfortably enough for us all.
Back from an extended trip to South Korea with the fam. So much fun, so much good food, such a good different set of perspectives for the kids from regional Victoria. Will post a few sporadic reflections.
For Australia, there is no bigger impact we can have on global emissions than driving than pushing as hard as possible on making green iron here for export to our trading partners Working together with our key trading partners in the region we can drive down emissions in steel.
Steel is a major emissions source which intrinsically links Australia's exports (iron ore and met coal) and with the huge steel making industries of South Korea, Japan, China and Taiwan. You can see the sheer share of steel emissions for these economies in this chart.
A privilege to be back in Seoul for the World Economic Forum Decarbonisation and Industrial Growth and Competitiveness discussion Big turnout with very high level representation from across industry, government and foreign ambassadors.
Big batteries are absolutely crushing the role for peaking gas in Australia's National Electricity Market. Less gas means lower bills and lower emissions for all of us.
Drove the electric car down the farm last weekend ~500km return trip and it cost about $40 in fast charging. Just popped a little under 60L diesel in our 4WD which will get us maybe 600km range - and oof $110 bucks. EVs just crushing ICE vehicles on refuelling economics.
Finally got around to pulling out the cherry tomatoes plants for the season - and looks like there were another 2-3kg of unripe little guys just hiding out in the leaves.
Also, depending on how it's deployed, 20% could massively oversupply the market. A 15% reservation is probably sufficient on our numbers. But ideally you'd prevent gas companies gaming the system by some strict requirements like no sales on spot market unless domestic storage (esp. Iona) is full
Still very unclear from this gas market announcement today what it will involve and how it will work (worringly, neither do the LNG exporters or unions yet). For example, there's a very big difference between a 20% reservation based on volume of exports versus only on uncontracted gas.
Final batch of tomatoes ripening up inside. But of a weird season. Very slow to start, but we've had a stack of absolutely huge green units coming through right at the end.
In the late 1980s, according to his memoirs, Robert Manne faced coordinated attacks essentially accusing him of being antisemetic by Isi Leibler and Michael Gawenda. Stemming from his advocacy for the War Crimes Legislation to also cover crimes in Asia, not just those in Europe. Pp.235-246
"What we really want to know is why our government hasn’t publicly condemned the kidnapping our son and the detaining of him illegally on international waters – and also, when in heaven’s name our government will break their silence and business-as-usual as the genocide of Palestinian"
Digging through the latest Quarterly Energy Dynamics report from AEMO. Striking how average battery bid prices into Australian energy market have steadily dropped every year, while in contrast gas bid prices have increased every year. Less gas + more batteries = lower prices
It's pretty wild especially in the context of Japan. The power is all in Australia's hands - but the PM acts like its the reverse.
LNG revenue to WA is in a state of collapse, on track to fall by 88% by end of the decade. All the while gas exporters are extracting tens of billions every year and sucking the state's resources dry. A smart government would seize the opportunity of a 25% tax to help fill the budgetary hole.
Japan is highly dependent on Australia for fossil fuel imports, but the reverse isn't true.
Let's check in on those PrSM munition stockpiles that Defence is spruiking to go along with the $2.3bn we are dropping on the expanded HIMARS assets. "An Army official reportedly shared that the “entire inventory of PrSM” had been expended in the Iran war" Cool cool. www.csis.org/analysis/las...