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And meanwhile, at the same time, there are growing questions about the cost of Australia's massive renewable energy build-out, including in the New England renewable energy zone, with the transmission infrastructure required to connect it, and whether some of the projects that have been counted on to deliver Australia's future energy supply will ever actually get built.

Let's go to Aidan Morrison, energy expert at the Centre for Independent Studies.

Aidan, welcome to the program once again.

Thank you.

Cheers.

All right.

From the Centre for Independent Studies, energy expert Aidan Morrison.

He explains it superbly.

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On the line is Peter Tulip, Chief Economist at the Centre for Independent Studies, a former economist at the Reserve Bank.

Peter, thanks for your time.

Hi, Heidi.

I see why you're the young would-be homeowners.

I see why you're saying they're right to feel a bit bitter and angry.

Peter Tulip there, Chief Economist at the Centre for Independent Studies and former economist at both the Reserve Bank of Australia and the US Federal Reserve.

Your views ahead.

Don't go away.

Joining me next is the Director of Energy Program at the Centre for Independent Studies, Aidan Morrison, and he's issued a dire warning on the state of the New South Wales energy system after attending the state budget estimates.

Where the heck is the opposition? Like if there is a moment in political history where you need the opposition to just do their job, this is it.

We literally have a situation where the lights are gonna go out and there is silence.

I mean, try and make it make sense.

Joining me now to discuss this and more, Director of Energy Research at the Centre for Independent Studies, Aidan Morrison.

Aidan, it would seem the market, that being the consumers, is simply not interested in this product.

They don't want to be dictated to about when they should and should not use their power.

alluded to it and we couldn't speak about it because it was all hush-hush last time.

So he's for Centre for Independent Studies.

So he released this report showing that we've got basically a problem with discipline in Australian classrooms, which, I mean, we kind of knew, but I'm not diminishing what Blaise did.

I think it's really important work to actually get that survey out there.

It does have a future.

Aidan Morrison is the Director of Energy at the Centre for Independent Studies.

He's on the line.

Aidan, good evening to you.

Great to talk to you, James.

Thanks so much.

That's Aidan Morrison, the Director of Energy at the Centre for Independent Studies.