Good old Shakespeare, or was that Sir Francis Bacon, who said that “All the world’s a stage“. This was a quote taken from the play “As You Like It”, first published in 1623 although it had been performed live for at least 20 years before that.
Pythagoras was accredited to have said that “This world was like a stage”, in the play “Damon and Pythias”, written by Richard Edwards apparently before Shakespeare was born in 1564, … … nudge, nudge, wink, wink, (if you know what I mean).
But who is Pythagoras to have any credibility?
It’s not like he invented philosophy, is it?
Life on the world’s stage continues to be very entertaining with seemingly increasingly more tragic comedies becoming the norm. Imagine, if you can, a family household where Mum and Dad send money to the family who lives in the third house from the end of their street for them to buy new push bikes for their kids whilst one of the children in their home has to sleep on the tiled laundry floor because there’s not enough money for them to buy him a bed nor is there any convenient place to put it.
Of course, both Dad and Mum have the latest luxurious cars that each desire, because, extant in the household is an equitable two-party system of family government, being either Dad and Mum or Mum and Dad, depending on the subject being addressed, who share the same policies and vision because they both desire the same outcome. Yes, there are two parties in the governing system but generally they both agree on the desired outcome and the desired outcome is send resources to another practically unknown family way down the end of their street. Once the funds had been sent to the governing parents of the family, the donating players would not be involved in funding allocation but hopefully the monies would be used to purchase bikes as designated, but, where the funds actually went would be determined by the households governing body. The governing body has a conventional two-party system, and accountability is simply assumed.
Incidentally, for those interested in Etymology, Democracy, includes the two parts Demo and cracy.
- From Old Galician-Portuguese demõ (“demon; devil”), from Latin daemon (“demon”), from Ancient Greek δαίμων (daímōn, “god, goddess, divine power”
- word-forming element forming nouns meaning “rule or government by,” from French -cratie or directly from Medieval Latin -cratia, from Greek -kratia “power, might; rule, sway; power over; a power, authority
Democracy, … to be ruled by a demon ((figurative) an evil person)
Who would have thought?
They didn’t teach us that at school.
Democracy is apparently good and allegedly much better than an Aristocracy which is never an available option on a voting ballot.
Ref: https://www.etymonline.com/word/-cracy
Realistically,
“If voting made any difference, they wouldn’t let us do it”,
or perhaps,
“If voting made any difference, it would be illegal”.
In 2024, the Australia Federal Government allocated $600 million dollars, that’s $60 million dollars each year for ten years, to get PNG ready for the NRL. For those who aren’t up to speed with these alphabet gangs, PNG is Papua New Guinea, herein after metaphorically referred to as the third house from the end of the street, and NRL is the National Rugby League association which may in the future become the IRL, being an acronym for the International Rugby League association or maybe even more appropriately designated the ATFRL being an acronym for the Australian Taxpayer Funded Rugby League association.
Ref: https://www.news.com.au/sport/nrl/deal-is-done-australian-taxpayers-to-fork-out-600m-for-png-to-join-nrl/news-story/cbdc1b45274bbe883117ecbd5c6ac2c7
But back in the real world, not everyone has the luxury of a hard laundry floor to sleep on.
Our political parents, that is, both sides of the two-party system, continues to support importing people such that official government statistics advise that of the 26.7 million Australians, 8.2 million of them were born overseas.
As advice on their official site, “The proportion of Australia’s population born overseas increased to 30.7% in 2023“.
Australia, metaphorically, ran out of laundry floor room many years ago.
Importing this type of poverty is a trend that is rampant in every Western nation but in the “household” of Australia, we haven’t built the necessary extra accommodation to house those flocking to our shores and as a result, basic housing, including bedrooms and laundry floors are beyond the reach of many who have grown up in this lucky country.
Imagine the Australian household that brings another resident into their home such that now two kids have to sleep on the laundry floor or other less glamourous arrangements have to be made to cater for the increase.This at a time when no Federal Programs for housing has produced any new places of residence, as of mid-2025, … … no not one.
This at a time when our political parents are exporting $4.77 billion to households down the end of the street (2024 stats), being nearly 5 thousand million dollars for rugby sweaters and footballs and metaphorical brand-new push bikes when our fellow Australians don’t have appropriate accommodation and are sleeping rough in locations that it is against the law to be poor.
Our political mum and dad think it’s best do other things with family money.
Ref: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-18/australia-investing-less-foreign-aid-system-overhaul/102683746
Ref: https://www.youngausint.org.au/post/why-does-australia-give-money-away-australian-spending-on-foreign-aid
Of course, there are other taxes in addition to Direct Income Tax to make up the missing billion dollars each year and we have to pay interest on “THE DEFICIT”, our parents have put on our great grandchildren’s credit card.
Ref: https://www.grantthornton.com.au/globalassets/1.-member-firms/australian-website/mid-size-business/blocks/federal-budget-may-2024/fb24_report.pdf
The Americans have been even more crazy than the Australians spending infinitely more on overseas aid so much in fact that their political parents could have bought a brand-new house for every retired war veteran many of whom are living rough because they don’t have enough money to pay for appropriate accommodation and other luxuries like food.
Of course, every country’s government, being a registered corporation in Washington DC, (as identified and proven earlier), is in debt and promises the future labour of the residents as collateral.
But who are they in debt to?
Perhaps it is the Martians because every country is in arrears.
But our political parents don’t send all of our money down the end of the street.
They waste a huge amount of it here and at an ever increasing amount.
Apart from increasing the national debt which our grandchildren and great-grandchildren will have to service, being a wonderful Legacy, … … … not, … … … those who administer our democracy have found wonderful ways to spend the money on shore, figuratively speaking, as nearly all the money ends up going offshore to some foreign corporation.
Australian tax revenue 2014 to 2015 included the collection of a little less than $450 billion. In the financial year 2023 to 2024 it was over $800 billion.
Simple maths being that 1 + 1 =2 shows that in the last 10 years, the amount of taxation collected from the Australian population is nearly two times as much.
That is, collected tax has almost doubled in the last decade.
Ref: https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/economy/government/taxation-revenue-australia/latest-release
That money primarily came out of the pocket of the average working Australian as the multinationals pay very little taxation, if any at all.
Ref:https://www.facebook.com/david.greening.148/videos/1430574351633866/?rdid=sEhZdZs6XdftYCbI
Ref: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1319338232748448&rdid=kOllLZi2dJKLUST0
Ref: https://www.facebook.com/reel/3277754922366691
Since our focus is why are retail electricity prices continuing to rise, let’s have a look at the expenditure of some of these collected funds affecting this subject.
Anthropogenic climate change is simply man-made weather manipulation as discussed earlier citing a plethora of weather modifying patents dating as far back 16 July 1891.
Modifying the weather doesn’t always end well.
As cited earlier, rain seeding by Hydro Tasmania back in June 2016 resulting in death, stock losses, etc, etc is a prime example of the “benefits” of mankind’s involvement in weather modification including highlighting authorities’ reluctance to take responsibility for any catastrophe resulting from any government sponsored program.
Ref: https://wearechange.org/cloud-seeding-before-flood/
Spraying the sky with toxic chemicals such as barium, aluminium, radioactive thorium and caesium, copper, titanium, silicon, lithium, cobalt, lead, ethylene dibromide and other pathogenic agents to stop the sun from shinning on the plants and animals on earth is now well documented worldwide having had the constituents of the sprayed particulates identified more than a quarter of a century ago.
Of course, misinformation is never in short supply.
Sites like Ref: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/12/chemtrail-conspiracy-theories-heres-why-rfk-jr-is-watching-the-skies/ , called “Chemtrail Conspiracy Theories: Here’s Why RFK Jr. Is Watching the Skies”, published Dec 2024 states, “This theory, which has no evidence to support it, has been put forward at various times since the 1990s despite being repeatedly debunked.”
But privately sponsored documentaries such as,
“What in the world are they Spraying? 2011
Ref: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFQ2_0QNiks and then later
“Why in the world are they Spraying”,
Ref: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEfJO0-cTis who debunked the debunkers a decade or so earlier.
Man-made weather modification techniques have been patented and therefore in use for well over 100 years and those with CEO’s of start-up companies being paid by governments decades ago admit to having no data on the health effects of spraying nano particulates, including aluminium, over a population.
Ref: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFQ2_0QNiks
Many cats are out of the bag and have been for some time including but not limited to the revelation that Santa is not real, (the toys are funded by your parents) and chem-trails to block the sun are real (funded by governments with programs extant world-wide).
The businesses who spray these materials do so with the stated intent of blocking the sun to reduce global warming for the welfare of those who live on earth. …. Nice.
In the same breath, I note that governments world-wide “subsidise” rooftop solar panels for homes and further bankroll multinational corporations to build hectares of solar farms on what frequently was pristine farmland to collect cheap/renewable electricity for the masses.
Paying to block the sun and then building infrastructure that relies on solar exposure is like driving your car with the brakes on.
In Australia financial incentives in each state produced contracts for homeowners to “go solar” and for them to lucratively sell the excess energy they collected back into the grid.
The incentives rewarded the partakers handsomely.
ie. go solar, save the planet and get paid to do so.
The amounts varied from state to state but a return in the neighbourhood of 64 cents per kWh was not uncommon when the retail cost of electricity was in the order of 18 cents per kWh.
No wonder electricity costs have gone up.
Those early contracts signed before June 2011 guaranteed supply payment of 44 cents per kWh until mid-2028.
Another problem with everyone going solar is that the sun only shines during the day and the peak time for electricity consumption in any household is early in the morning and early evening when the sun is not performing well. Baseload power, ie reliable power on demand, must be readily available, so conventional supplies from coal-fired power stations, now increasingly being supplied by gas as the coal fire power stations are being closed to save the planet, is called on to make up the missing power demand.
We now have a situation whereby rooftop solar in Australia (2025), supplies about 10% of the energy required, but unfortunately for those who are interactive and export their excess into the grid, being about 27% of participants, most of the production is not at a time of great demand and transmission lines are overwhelmed to the point where people need to pay to “dump” their excess energy or store it in batteries. This is occurring at a time when the Government continues to fund solar farms that collect energy at exactly the same time we are already inundated with oversupply. No bonus points for that decision.
With a shelf life of perhaps 25 years, the recycling of panels will have to become more financially viable as dumping expired solar panels in landfill is not ecofriendly at all.
We personally have had three sets of panels replaced on our roof as a result of hail damage over a 16-year period, so, even if we stay unscathed for another decade, we are proof that the life expectancy of a solar panel in the wild, anticipated to be 25 years, is not necessarily assured.
When damaging weather, (possibly due to climate change/ weather manipulation) wipes out the majority or the entirety of many hectares of solar arrays, someone must pay for that. (Guess who?)
Another interesting factor adding to the increase of retail electricity over the last decade includes a subset of Australian’s who think they are exporting their excess energy into the grid but in fact export nothing.
Shhhh, don’t tell them because they don’t know, but let me tell you.
Those supply contracts signed before June 2011, include a goodly number of alleged suppliers who are not suppliers at all.
The consumer, who has to pay for electricity that is never delivered, should be livered (whatever that means).
I am not an accountant, but I suggest that paying for a commodity that can never be received is money not well spent.
I try to stick with referenced facts, but I do admit that this suggestion is merely my opinion.
Examples of those whose metres read that they have produced excess electricity and exported it for others to access but have done no such thing are found nation-wide.
This situation is predominately also unknown by the participants.
Let’s get technical.
If the voltage of a roof top solar exporter is below the mains voltage, it will not/cannot be exported onto the grid.
One simple example is a household that gets their mains supply from a local step-down transformer. Electricity is transported in high voltages to reduce losses so homes accessing mains electricity after a transformer steps the voltage down to 220-240 volts cannot send any solar generated electricity supply back into the grid unless they have a step-up transformer to meet the voltage in supply. Country areas have mains power delivered via 11000 volts supply stepped down via a step-down transformer. To put excess electricity back into the supply for others to use you need your supply to be just above the supply voltage, ie 11001 volts in a perfect world.
Step down transformers (11000 volts to 240 volts) are common but step-up transformers (240 volts to 11000 volts) are as rare as hen’s teeth. It’s not commercially viable to have them as the cost outlay for the exported energy is not practical.
If you are not technically au fait, excuse my French, this simply means that nation-wide, there are people being paid to supply nothing because they can’t put their excess energy into the grid.
For many others, any excess electricity that goes into the 240-volt supply is only available for those on the 240-volt side of the supply and frequently those homes also have solar and would have an oversupply of energy at the same time.
But if you are under contract you will be paid for providing whatever your meter advises was excess to your needs even though no energy went back into the system.
Many technicians were aware of large commercial suppliers with large solar arrays that were paid to supply nothing.
I wonder who though this all out.
Perhaps someone, like Anthony Albanese who thinks the future has your electric car being charged at night with solar panels, … … for free. Ref: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyS9uqRLbB8
These are undoubtably the panels that everyone needs secured beside the ones that work during the day so a household can access electrical energy day and night.
“All the world’s a stage” and this part of the show is a dark comedy.
And for some more dark comedy, lets have a look at the outlay for return ratio on wind turbines. (… … … to be continued)
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