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Power bills have become a growing source of stress for Aussie families and businesses. Many families are forced to make impossible choices: three in 10 parents are struggling to afford basics like food, electricity and insurance. Government rebates provided some relief, but this was only a band-aid solution.

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[–] shirro@aussie.zone 5 points 3 days ago

It's mostly privatisation. The regulators are supposed to regulate but they don't do it effectively and competition isn't working, least of all in distribution which is a natural monopoly.

There is a huge amount of money spent to blame it on renewables despite the evidence showing clearly that they aren't the problem.

Unfortunately this takes the publics attention away from the real problem. This is becoming very common in today's social media driven populist politics. People incited to anger against scapegoats while the real perpetrators sit behind the scenes pulling the strings.

Unfortunately not much for reasonable people to do but let the mob fuck things up and then let them pass into the history books and be a lesson for a few generations before they once again forget it all.

The government can't win. If they move to fix the real problem they will be out on their ears in a week. If they sit on their hands the same people are organising against them anyway.