Some of you may be interested in this free online event from Parents for Climate. They say it's a "practical, no-nonsense webinar designed to help households reduce energy bills, improve comfort, and understand what to look for when taking the next step toward an all-electric home, whether that’s now or sometime in the future...
This is a national session, so we’ll focus on principles, real-life examples, and decision-making frameworks that apply across Australia. Where relevant, we’ll point you to tools and programs to help you find local rebates and support. It's aimed at parents, homeowners, renters, and anyone curious about lowering bills and future-proofing their home.
What we’ll cover:
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Where most homes are wasting money on energy
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How to get off gas (without doing everything at once)
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What to consider before upgrading to solar, batteries, hot water heat pumps, and efficient heating & cooling
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Induction cooking and EV charging: what you need to know (and what you don’t)
Date & Time of Webinar (by State):
May 04, 2026
7:30pm (VIC, NSW, QLD, TAS)
7:00pm (SA, NT)
5:30pm (WA)
Send RSVP: https://www.parentsforclimate.org/electrify_your_home_webinar
We should absolutely be making our own solar and batteries, a smart government would have included some money in the budget towards kick starting and incentivising that, they could call it Future Made in Australia.
The problem with Nuclear is that it requires multiple decade commitments to be practical, we have an entire wing of politics which actively wants to take retrograde steps to keep us on gas and coal as long as possible, the next time they are in power they will find ways to go slow on nuclear.
You are right that the best time to start is decades ago, but starting it now will result in us making Hinkley Point look like a model of efficiency.
What we need is to develop our grid in distinct achievable packets of work to minimise the Liberal parties opportunities to piss all over modernisation to help their billionaire buddies.
I have had multiple people show me that 7 Spotlight propaganda piece and try to tell me this is why renewables are a scam, then get defensive and rude when I ask which liar they want me to listen to, the Journalist turned fossil fuel PR flack turned "Veteran Journalist" (who works for a company owned by a billionaire), the politician (and member of a climate denial club called Saltbush that counts a certain mining magnate billionaire as a member) that wants us to build out coal and concedes we should probably do nuclear at some stage, the "conservationist" who won't admit who is funding him and appears to be a compulsive liar.
We need to get rid of coal and gas as quickly as possible, we need to reduce our usage of fossil fuels in the transport sector, and we need to kick start local manufacturing and R&D. Once we have a reasonable level of security we can start building out capacity for the next century, until then I worry we will be debating and procrastinating until the rest of the world overtakes us... Or worse, laps us.
We really don’t need to get rid of coal and gas as quickly as possible though. Australia’s emission footprint is irrelevant to the world. A fart in the wind. Even if we got to net zero it would change nothing.
Yeah, one more drink won't hurt, we can stop any time, it's not a problem.
Actually I'm going to go a few steps forward and let coal and forward get used, but remove every tax breakand subsidy from them. The second a Billionaire starts threatening to take their money elsewhere start nationalising for the sake of the workers.
We need to start treating the existence of billionaires as a sign of serious imbalance and imminent failure.