Aussienomics

It certainly sounds like criminal activity perpetrated against the Australian taxpayer. From The Australian: “Annastacia Palaszczuk says the federal and state governments knew taxpayers could be slugged up to $450m to compensate mining giant Rio Tinto when the national energy plan was rushed through parliament this month.

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Imagine for a moment that you run a successful business – in fact, the most successful business in your industry. You want to expand. You could issue equity or borrow the funds, but both of those options come with a hefty amount of risk.

In March 2020, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) created the $200 billion Term Funding Facility (TFF), essentially a slush fund for banks that locked-in three-years' worth of funding at rates well below what was available on global wholesale markets.

The Australian government’s energy market intervention bill will be rammed through both houses of Parliament today with the support of the Greens and independent David Pocock. Less than a week old, the whole process has been rushed to the extent that the competition watchdog, the ACCC, failed to define what it meant by “new gas field”, and Treasury officials struggled to answer questions.