Australia's Energy Crisis | Q+A Highlights | ABC News

What does Australia’s deepening energy supply crisis mean for you - and how can state and federal governments strengthen our energy policy?
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Panellists: Chris Bowen, Minister for Energy and Climate Change; Zoe Daniel, Independent member for Goldstein; Saul Griffith, Inventor, author, and scientist; Sarah McNamara, Chief Executive of the Australian Energy Council; and Tony Wood, Energy and Climate Change Program Director, Grattan Institute.
This episode was broadcast on Thursday June 16, 2022.
0.00 Introduction
0.45 Australia's natural resources and the energy crisis
12.26 Household solutions to climate change
23.41 Labor's three year vision to end the climate wars
28.56 Outro
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[@boonhaiteoh905]

The panel members did very well by admitting their short comings and not shifting the blame to others. Well done

[@mickgatz214]

Funny how we have this issue now since the government privatised our infastructure and utilities......

[@turbodewd1]

yep, no investment in coal or gas...great idea

[@Squashed8Ball]

@@turbodewd1 🤦‍♂️

[@Klistern2]

Yeah it's so they can get rich pushing policy. The American way now the Australian way.

[@Squashed8Ball]

@@tjmarx Queensland power generation is not 100% state owned and are you saying Anthony Albanese was banned from parliament for five years in the 90s?

[@Squashed8Ball]

@@tjmarx lol well they didn’t buy back my shares in Arrow Energy which produces 500MW for QLD and last I checked Shell was still the majority shareholder.

[@brianmackenzie5692]

The last item of infrastructure that was planned decades ahead was the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

[@AviationSports1978]

In norway the people own the gas in Australia we sold all our things to overseas snd pay high price for OUR material. It needs to change and the companies should only be allowed a lease but with the country owning the material and setting the price we want not what they want

[@eric5901]

Then aus will go bankrupt by not selling overseas lmao maybe have a look at how the aus economy works before suggesting such an idiotic solution

[@garrybuckley1503]

@@eric5901 rubbish

[@blueknight07]

Wow. Zoe Daniel is gonna make a pretty good MP. I'm impressed!

[@davidcarter4247]

She is a trained media professional. But for the next three years her job is to attend to the needs of her constituents as she has no other role in the parliament. She is not part of the government, which has a clear majority, nor has a role in the formulation of policies of a future government. Oh, and appearing on the ABC. I predict Daniel will make a lot of appearances on the ABC, more than all the other teals combined. The ABC does look after its members.

[@blueknight07]

@@davidcarter4247 Shush. I know you libs are upset that you were beaten but grow a spine dude.

[@davidcarter4247]

@@blueknight07 Independents need to be the excellent local members and represent their constituents truly. A failure to do so will see them voted out at the next election. Plenty of precedents of independents reelected over and over again and independents dumped at the first opportunity. It is hard work being an independent local member, much harder than one with a party to win votes for them. Staying away from Canberra when parliament is not sitting is a good place to start.

[@goodyear05]

How do we all buy $100,000 electric vehicles and charge them at your rental property with no solar

[@kingsley3208]

These people are all out of touch bouguisse

[@Elixan1]

You'd buy solar off the grid during peak generation.

[@davieb8216]

Didn't even bring up that that we are selling all of our gas over seas (except in WA) and not leaving any for Australia. Would be fine if we taxed that gas, but we don't. Terrible effort Virginia.

[@davieb8216]

Ok 17min it was brought up!!!

[@davieb8216]

But completely hand waved. Sometimes you need to ignore some sovereign risk. Labor & libs, both paid by gas.

[@richacoll1]

Correct we are the largest gas exporter in the world. It’s a profit Ponzi scheme. Which is why we are seeing huge hikes in energy rates and equally record energy profits……………. Privatisation is a cruel joke.

[@kingsley3208]

Nationalise the energy companies

[@ozwalks8185]

Don’t be silly there politicians it’s there job

[@Chad-qw8ok]

Time to take control of our resources!!

[@kingsley3208]

Nationalise the energy companies

[@tedlanz5038]

My goodness! And not one word about climate change being a hoax!!! What is Australia coming to!?!?

[@jacadarhome1406]

The concept of introducing hydrogen into the mix is based on an unnecessarily expensive business model - generate,store, transport plus safety infrastructure. A call to budding inventors out there: invent a spark plug that splits water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen which can then be combusted inside the cylinder head. No.need for all that dangerous stuff and expense. Shove the garden hose into your fuel tank. Job done

[@whatstrue1481]

This "Crisis" is exactly why esential services should never never privitised!

[@grahammewburn]

Oil geologists have been warning mankind for over half a century. You took no notice. Now it's too late. Please grow your own food.

[@nathanmulligan4302]

As for agriculture, you city bound space cadets need to come and actually see how we work and the struggles we face, you have no idea, we get no support no help but we get told to change, for that to happen we need help where is that ?

[@justinoz1526]

Given that a regular ICE vehicle is increasingly becoming a luxury fewer and fewer can afford, it is a bit of a ridiculous insult to tell people to buy an EV. That's not even taking into account the number of EVs available to Australian consumers is incredibly small. Our market isn't a priority for manufacturers. EVs probably are the future but EVs have nothing to do with the energy crisis we are facing now.

[@terryquarton2523]

Toyota said in 2019 they would be building 52,000 hiluxs by 2025. Going EV is the same as going from horse and buggy to cars. There are groups doing bulk orders for EVs.

[@justinoz1526]

@@terryquarton2523 None of that addresses what I posted. In fact, it is a complete non sequitur.

[@Wasabitheband1]

@@terryquarton2523 If 30% of Australian households buy EV’s as quickly as they bought solar panels, do you think Chris Bowen’s magic battery and shiny new grid will be able to charge them all overnight??? 😂

[@terryquarton2523]

@@Wasabitheband1 yes they could if the fossil fired power plant were pulling their weight and weren't sand bagging. Even then it would still be cleaner then being individual internal combustion engines car. Because there suppose to be cleaner if they running at moc. If the LNP had done right thing and encourage the power plants to change to has as the transitions fuel instead of dolling out millions on the carbon capture fairy. We wouldn't be in this mess. Those LNG ships sailing out of Gladstone were making 50 to 60 million each load now would be making 120 to 140 million dollars per load. At lease seven ships a fortnight on average. And ConocoPhillips laid off a third of the staff and contractor using the pandemic as an excuse. That good a corporate company was allowed to act under the LNP. Profiteering at the expense of the Australian people. You if you are claim to be Australian.

[@k.whiking4372]

@@Wasabitheband1 Nope, not a chance.

[@cameroncasasola1620]

Here the big word that wasn't said. Tax avoidance

[@cameroncasasola1620]

Also Nationalisation

[@Rawdiswar]

I've been hearing about hydrogen since I was a little kid and I'm damn near 40 yrs old.

[@pahum67]

What about Nuclear?

[@benjamingriswold2564]

Did she really just say "never waste a good crisis" lmao

[@fbryce1ify]

we arent even producing enough energy from renewable to store!

[@chrism9300]

"Never let a good crisis go to waist..... that's why I was elected" so one would assume future crisis would further benefit you.....

[@cameroncasasola1620]

you can hear how much they hate these company's when they clap when someone finally states the number.

[@GordonMelsom]

nuclear is the way forward

[@thomasschumacher5362]

Used to be called a debate now its called a conversation only the result hasn't changed a big fat nothing

[@chrism9300]

It's just leftists talking to each other

[@tacticalbanana_]

🤬average Australian citizen 🤗big industry, government and China

[@paulzhang1310]

always use the China card

[@tacticalbanana_]

Straight facts 😢

[@Anna.Mason151]

Big money to the person who can help Australians regain ownership of our own resources.

[@raymondingram2539]

And the other problem is overpopulation so unless we deal with that it won't matter what we do.

[@EmilNicolaiePerhinschi]

weren't there some outages a few years ago ?

[@edwin5419]

Australian? You mean Eastern States. We're fine here in WA.

[@thomasschumacher5362]

Bugger all population and money thrown at at you from the rest of Australia no wonder you are fine in WA

[@WesternAustraliaNowAndThen]

@@thomasschumacher5362 No, we have a government that reserved 10% of our gas for local use so that the greedy businesses can't price gouge us as they are doing in the east. Our government fixed the problem before it became one! As for 'money thrown at us' - WE SUBSIDISE YOU LOT!

[@lightntangy9128]

@@thomasschumacher5362 is that a skynews line?

[@thomasschumacher5362]

@@lightntangy9128 skynews never watch them too left wing

[@thomasschumacher5362]

@@WesternAustraliaNowAndThen sure you give us a share of what actually belongs to all Australians .Mining royalties aren't the exclusive property of WA

[@andrew_l1900]

We should all drive electric cars without the infrastructure or power generation to sustain them…….how out of touch are these muppets

[@pussycatquessy3074]

I'm lucky i don't have a gas in my house and i also know Chris Bowen and team a doing there best to find the resolution 🇦🇺🙏👍

[@detectiveofmoneypolitics]

Still watching Frank G Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺 ❤️

[@robdimasi2758]

Australian black winter

[@PikachooUpYou]

Love Virginia.

[@ozwalks8185]

Has anyone seen planet of the humans ?

[@terryquarton2523]

That one has been debunked. It was over fifteen years out of date

[@efraimcupido6170]

We in South Africa have been having Loadshedding or a energy crisis since 2007. Australian's should have been making plans for renewable energy since then. They were probably laughing at us and now they are in the same situation.

[@markwest2810]

as an Australian we are 20-30 years behind the rest of the world and we like to sit back and not learn any of the lessons that the rest of the world has learnt...

[@efraimcupido9304]

Most of the Southern Hemisphere countries are behind the rest of the world it’s crazy. Why must the People suffer because of Money Hungry leaders filling their pockets full of tax payers money.

[@alklapaxida850]

now i know what "ZELOTS" look like to do anything the economy needs to have money in it now that the energy has choked out of the country so has the money what do you think your going to transition to with now money ? (riddle me that batman)

[@R.E.A.L.I.T.Y]

Saul is the only one needed on this panel. All the rest are more ignorant than he and or lobbyists.

[@Boogleye]

Bottom line the government allows this to happen

[@Boogleye]

You can get evry thing you need to run your home from a camping store ,Look up the way people lived back in 30s 40s 50s you can live with out it """"EVRY ONE TURN OF THERE POWER """"" You can run a caravan on solar, look up the things you can set up yourselves, LIGHTS, CHARGERS ,POWER SOLAR PANELS, LOTS YOU CAN DO ,""""TURN POWER OFF"""

[@Chad-qw8ok]

Pretty disappointed in Bowen. I voted Labor for meaningful reform! Australia's resources are all of ours, not a few corporations!

[@lawrencechan2693]

How is that Bowen's fault?

[@Chad-qw8ok]

@@lawrencechan2693 the crises obviously isn't Bowen's fault. My point is we should have more control over our resources, especially with the insurmountable debt the Liberals racked up.

[@Signorscrittore]

It's not Bowen's fault, reform in Australia is doomed to be a compromise for as long as half the country is prepared to vote for either of the suicide squad coalition parties.

[@oliverhumphris4771]

The gas companies act as a cartel. There is very little any politician can do about it at the moment due to our reliance on them. It's sad but the point is it's not Bowen's 'fault', goes right back to the decision to privatise energy.

[@user-sn3ni6kd9p]

To all who are thinking of buying an EV. Try and sell a secondhand EV! Nobody wants them. Who wants to by the ev and realise they have 💰 35K for a new battery. Car dealers don’t want them.

[@garrybuckley1503]

Agree with what your saying but you need to lose tha annoying smile Chris Bowen and what's with the muppets in the masks are they worried about catching a cold

[@garydavo07]

The ABC echo chamber ! Pointless

[@MrWhitmen1981]

Not a common working class man on that panel. I loved it trying to justify middle class welfare like electric cars.

[@AviationSports1978]

They are all out of touch and have no idea

[@Elixan1]

They should have invited someone from the ETU who works in generation and distribution who represents these workers.

[@paulzhang1310]

i thought elon musk already solved the problem what happened ?...

[@singyiutse8386]

👍👍👍👏👏👏

[@liphrium9858]

No More COAL!

[@mickgatz214]

Good, all the volcanoe activity will take care of the CO2 emissions. :)

[@turbodewd1]

then gas...

[@tonyanzellino4359]

Shutting down coal without profitable new green energy in the system. You need a base power system complimented by new green energy infrastructure that works 24/7.

[@Boogleye]

Power company's are thevis

[@Boogleye]

Turn your power off You can get evry thing solar now, GO to your camping shop and TURN YOUR POWER OF ,GO BACK TO THE OLD DAYS AND USE KERO FRIDGES COPPER'S ,IM OVER BLACKMAILING PEOPLE AND GOVERNMENTS,

[@doriangray6633]

Constant busllshit!

[@richacoll1]

We need nuclear power a better grid and green options

[@tgittify]

Have you got a spare 15-20 years to build it?

[@lawrencechan2693]

AEMO already has a plan to build the energy system of our future and I'm sorry but it doesn't involve nuclear power. You can understand that I'm going to go with AEMO on this over John Citizen from the KZbin comments section 10 times out of 10.

[@kurt21275]

You are been deceived

[@Joe-dt4pm]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@michael506]

Drill. Baby. Drill….or pay through the nose and suffer. Go woke, go broke…

[@PikachooUpYou]

Troll

[@mystictraveler8642]

Yawn

[@fbryce1ify]

funny how they all agree with each other…. what happened to alternative views.

[@PikachooUpYou]

Why the need to disagree when they are all right? Facts don’t care about your feefees.

[@Signorscrittore]

Alternative views still need to be relevent, and climate change deniers have been given more airtime than their views are worth since the 1990s.

[@stpOwner]

I love how they demonised coal, leading to lack of coal reinvestment...... then complain when the grid doesn't perform

[@lightntangy9128]

The current crisis has nothing to do with that

[@ronanmccarthy8361]

Laughable. You think investors give a shit whether assets are ‘demonised’ by a political party?They are interested in return on investment. Nobody has invested in coal because it is expensive and inefficient and can’t compete with new technologies.

[@stpOwner]

@@ronanmccarthy8361 Investors will not risk capital reinvestment, because of risk of capital confiscation via windfall profits tax, carbon tax and similar schemes.

[@turbodewd1]

​@@ronanmccarthy8361 no renewables at night bro...

[@lancebond2338]

@@turbodewd1 apart from hydro, battery storage, wind and potentially wave or nuclear….

[@carenama6346]

How do they plan to charge evs without energy? These people don’t take any responsibility, they blame others, and their solutions don’t solve anything but exacerbate the problem.

[@Wasabitheband1]

Chris Bowen has a magic battery 😉

[@lawrencechan2693]

Did we watch the same video? Three pretty clear points: more renewables, more transmission, more storage. Didn't seem too hard to miss.

[@garydavo07]

Paying for stupid green policies

[@lawrencechan2693]

Paying less than we would be if we were just relying fossil fuels? Yeah. Good point.

[@garydavo07]

@@lawrencechan2693 you obviously don’t live in the same world I do!

[@Signorscrittore]

Do you carry a bucker of sand around with you?

[@goodyear05]

And what did labor do when last in government apart from a carbon tax that no one wanted and food and power prices went through the roof, and labor is now in charge and are doing nothing as our power is crap

[@michaelpettigrew2465]

They've been in for 3 weeks, what the hell could you expect so quickly?

[@barrythompson8813]

Do your research and lookup Peta Credlin's 2015 admission that it wasn't a carbon tax, just more LNP lies and BS.

[@goodyear05]

@@barrythompson8813 WTF Gillard said and promised there would never be a carbon in a government she led

[@Signorscrittore]

The ALP did a truckload when they were last in office, they always do.