One bet that one can have on Australia and it's management of...

One bet that one can have on Australia and it's management of it's power generation and transmission systems going forward for the foreseeable is a pretty sure bet

it will be a continuation of the quality of the management of the situation as it's been for decades -

which is basically - a very large cockup


to me - all of what we see in Oz -------- be it power, gas, transportation, health, education, drivers licences, estate issues, real estate sales systems, housing, -------- the list is long long long long --

are a clusteroot of multilayer government overlays and cockups

much of which sheets directly home to the system of government - in particular a federation

I cannot see a great improvement whilst such a dud system remains in place.

There are, of course, a lot of downsides to central control - time is something - it takes time for changes to filter out of central control often - but, not always

but, there're a lot of benefits to national control - to be done with the total craziness of trying to have things like national grids and networks whilst having to drag a gaggle of states into some kind of agreement

it's pretty basic stuff - stick 9 aussies in a circle ----------- ask a question

when did you ever see that they all agreed?

never --------- and never will

so, don't expect a lot of action with 6 states and several territories

god help us if ever Jervis Bay Territory decides to go it's own way from the ACT

we might have civil war