Bob Katter Tells Albanese To Just Say The Word And We Can Begin Nationalising The Energy Grids, It Can Be Swift, And It Can Be Bloodless, Unless They Want Otherwise. My Son Robbie And I Can Take Care Of Any Power Stations North Of The Brisbane Line, And Don’t You Dare Think For One Minute That The Proud People Of North Queensland Adhered To The 1996 Firearms Agreement, Because We Didn’t. We’ve Got Caches Of High-Powered Weapons Buried In Container Units Right Across The Gulf, And When We Liberate The Grid, You Can Tell Those Greedy Bastards At Telstra And The Commonwealth Bank That We’re Coming For Them Next. Australians Built These Institutions, And We Can Take Them Back, By Force If Need Be, And Let Me Just Say I Hope That It Is Needed, Because Where I’m From Snakes Get The Shovel, And If This Current Crisis Tells Us Anything, It’s That There’s A Den Of Poisonous Snakes Slithering Through Boardrooms From Brisbane To Hobart. Privatisation Serves No One But The Top End Of Town, And That’s What I’ve Been Warning These Useless Fools In Canberra For Half A Century Now. They’ve Buggered It All Up, And They Know It. Our Nation’s Greatest Assets Have Been Sold At Less Than Cost Price To The Sandstone Friends Of The Ruling Class, They’d Sell Them The ABC And Australia Post If We Weren’t Looking. But That Ends Whenever You Say It Ends, Albanese, My Dear Friend. Let ‘Em Know We Are Ready, We’ll Take Back The TAB Too While We’re At It. Because Australians Deserve The Dignity Of Knowing That Every Time They Do Their Arse On The Punt, At Least Their Losses Are Being Spent Of Fixing Roads And Hospitals, Not Some Soul Sucking Corporate Villain’s Yacht. These Blue Blooded Cowards Thought I Was Joking When I Said Australia’s Not For Sale. Well It Isn’t, And They Can Find Out The Hard Way, If That’s What They Want.

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In the boldest act of the new Labor Government, The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) has been given full support to take the extraordinary step of suspending the spot market for wholesale electricity across the country.

It’s the first time the market has been suspended nationally and it will be reviewed daily in each state, and signals the beginning of a new era, where any villainous free-marketeers attempting to extort the Australian people will get slapped down very publicly.

This comes as the electricity sector ducks and weaves through soaring costs that are being felt by every household in the country.

This cost-of-living crisis has forced AEMO to cap prices and compel generators to offer their services when needed, rather than making shit up and blaming Australians for leaving their heaters on overnight. This now means the spot market for wholesale electricity has been suspended to try and ensure reliability.

Federal Energy Minister Chris Bowen has said he is pleased with the operator’s decisions, and has confirmed that households along Australia’s east coast should not experience power outages this week.

Bowen says the issues with the national energy market are evidence the system has been mismanaged for the past decade, and that this kind of intervention should send a warning to any other price-gauging corporate bureaucrats that they will get found out.

This unprecedented corporate take-over has been received very well by Australia’s rural agrarian socialists, namely the Member for Kennedy, the honourable Bob Katter III.

Speaking to The Betoota Advocate today, Katter struggled to hide his sheer elation – as Australia edges ever closer to doing away with the capitalist privatisation of our nation’s electricity sector.

“This is real good new, boys” said Katter.

“Very bloody good”

“The drums of nationalisation are now banging, gentlemen”

“Not long now and it will be ours once again.

The Maverick North Queensland MP went on to explain that he has called Prime Minister Albanese this morning, and offered his services to help claw back the energy grid from the private sector.

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