Techlash free South Seas New World Beckons Besieged ex Presidential Efficiency Czar

A new opportunity awaits Elon Musk in the federal sphere and it is in Australia which the Labour (i.e Democrat) government is loudly positioning as the world’s “green energy superpower.”

Musk is no stranger to Australia which was the site of his defining coup with his trademark battery technology.

Trump’s former efficiency czar has a simple technique in his ability to overhaul an area which everyone else has overlooked.

These included the way in which battery technology had become a research and development backwater. Another was how rocketry had become too costly even for the US government.

His Australian battery breakthrough (pictured) was commemorated in the implementation in South Australia under a no-cure-no-pay deal of what was then the world’s most powerful energy storage array in the form of massed Tesla batteries.

His ability to straddle win-win market opportunities based on government procurement or on government policies is encapsulated in his Tesla offsets deal in the United States.

This is a cross subsidisation in which non-electric vehicle manufacturers such as Ford, Toyota, General Motors have to buy Tesla credits in order to sell their petrol or diesel powered vehicles.

Last year alone Tesla earned in pure profit only slightly under the equivalent of AUD5 billion from its offset carbon credits.

Now all this along with all the other green incentives and offsets will evaporate under the Trump presidential purge on mandated incentives.

Another problem: China is the ultimate source of battery ingredients and so much else in green energy making it vulnerable to every twitch in Trump policy.

Australia now beckons as the new launching pad for Elon’s ventures.

When it comes to rocketry Australia at Woomera once led the pack. Musk’s Starlink with its low altitude satellites is an internet feed to the remotest nooks and crannies in Australasia and everwhere.

With his own NASA appointee his buddy Jared Isaacman pointedly sidelined at the last moment Musk is likely to find Australia’s space agency ASA much more helpful.

Musk’s developments such as into neuro surgery blend with the determination of the Labour government to wean Australia’s economy away from reliance on resources and force it into a hydrogen powered service economy aligned to a Singapore model. Minus the oil refineries.

Back in the United States Elon’s former boss is unlikely to forget the salvo of public parting shots increasingly personal and vituperative from his onetime Oval Office anti feather bedding supremo.

Musk as a presidential lightening rod is likely already considering how to recuse himself from the United States and attendant troublesome regulatory interference from his former Oval Office boss..

There is the way in which for example Tesla has to maintain its lead in autonomous vehicles seen as the new automotive horizon

Musk is basing his technology on human vision imitating camera recognition. Competitors notably Alphabet’s Waymo brand are based on Lidar technology.

Success though may not rest with the market. But with officialdom. Autonomous vehicles rely for mass take-up on federal transport safety regulations.

Alphabet is part of Google which in recent years has found a research and development base in New Zealand for new era energy generation capture. Urs Holzle a pioneer Google figure has residency in New Zealand.

Google co-founder Larry Page similarly has New Zealand residency

In a curious coincidence so does Peter Thiel, an associate of Elon Musk’s in PayPal days in which the technologists correctly perceived an answer to the lagging payment systems required by accelerating digital banking.

His White House transition saw the presidential cost-cutter as an inner circle consigliere, then as a weirdly-garbed courtier evolving into a latter-day court jester and finally into a mediaeval-style turncoat.

A new life in a new part of the New World might reasonably beckon. In the United States Musk was only a quite recent convert to the Republican cause.

Typically Musk anticipated the shift of public sentiment known as the Techlash against Silicon Valley and so he re-positioned himself politically.

In Australia he will find a Democrat equivalent party running the federal government and with no Opposition in the accepted parliamentary sense of having discernible opposing policies. Especially one likely to threaten his offsets or incentives.

Undeclared in Australia suburban public life lurks a deep seated belief.

It is that Australia can somehow leap to the fore through a native and world-saving intellectual asset base that can be implemented without having to penetrate, rip up, or even disturb the terra firma.

Nobody answers this submerged but politically exploited yearning more than Elon Musk and his ability to generate assets from thin air.

Advisors Focused Liberals on Excitable Voters Mirrored Across Tasman

No mystery has suffused Australian politics such as the precise reason why the Liberal-led coalition gave the impression of receiving its federal election advice from its opposition the victorious Labour Party.

In New Zealand the Jacinda Ardern era ideals remain immovable. One is the piously showboating legislative self-harm in the exalted strangling of access to the nation’s abundant oil and gas reserves and the institutional welcome to subsidy-laden progressive substitutes.

In the 1970s Australia ranked 6th on the OECD rich list. It is now 21st h.

New Zealand in the 1970s was 11th. It is now 33rd.

The general elections in both countries rarely touched upon this sobering decline. The New Zealand general election which required the centrist National Party to enlist two coalition partners to gain a parliamentary majority picked its way around ethical victim-oppressor issues.

Eighteen months later the Australian election was characterised by a similar deflection. This took the form of an inability of the Liberal Party to pull itself away from the media-sown magnetic mine field ready to detonate with any departure from a scripted identity/climatic priority.

An enduring impression of the election is of the seat-losing and flummoxed Liberal leader Peter Dutton’s (pictured) smooth cheeks puffing in and out like bellows as he sought to sidestep any direct response to the issues that only a few months before his party had decided were the ones to ride to victory.

His appearance was of someone deeply conflicted, unable to make up his mind, and torn between two opposing marketing options: the moral high ground or the actual real-life issues, the down-to-earth ones.

A clue is now emerging across the mists of the Tasman Sea indicating that the coalition’s focus groups were indeed focused. But on the governmental picture in New Zealand which demonstrated the extent of progressive partisanship notably in the nation’s public service determination to promote progressive priorities.

Half way through its mandate New Zealand’s National Party- led coalition has proved powerless in curbing throughout the public realm the constant use of Maori language to describe state departments or what they do.

Similarly it has proved impotent in these departments to rein in ambitious head start schemes favouring those claiming Maori descent.

The National coalition has proved its helplessness in disciplining its own state broadcasting agencies in regard to the enthusiasm of announcers in showily framing their utterances in the Maori language.

In anything remotely official state operatives believe themselves obliged at the outset to verbally genuflect toward the precolonial era occupiers of the land on which the event is being staged.

The mystery of why the Liberal coalition was so guided by moral issues deepens in recalling that the Australia Labour Party’s previous leader Bill Shorten was deemed to have lost the federal election six years before because of fears over a single policy plank.

This was that his pursuit of the then frenzied international climatic regime. The victorious Liberal opposition claimed that if imposed it would hit voters where it hurt most which is in their pocket.

In office Scott Morrison the new Liberal prime minister though looked befuddled by anything remotely in the bright shining rainbow prism be it the climate or identity.

After Morrison’s losing and shuffling campaign the incoming Labour government now supercharged its own rainbow colours and identity themes by floating its Voice referendum, essentially a vote on a separate Aboriginal parliament.

It was voted down. It was now that the somewhat surprised Liberal opposition seriously scented victory in this just recent federal general election which it so decisively lost.

An as yet unidentified element now intervened at the outset of campaigning that swung the Liberal Party from anything but vague or abstract challenges to the Labour government’s moral issues orthodoxy.

Focus groups are designed as a sieve to sift marketing schemes by separating the ideas likely to work from those that wont. Did there emerge from this rigorously structured hierarchical vetting system a notion, even an overriding conclusion?

Was this that the only narrow win by New Zealand’s National Party was proof positive of an Australasian regional passion for luxury beliefs transcending grocery prices, the deficit, defence?

Eighteen months down the line the National Government’s evident failure in controlling, or even cooling the nation’s now demonstrably enduring social passions provided further evidence that the path that Peter Dutton must take was in never confronting this suburban virtuous morality signalling.

After all in spite of New Zealand’s stratospheric retail meat and butter prices pastoral land was still being taken up for planting pinus radiata trees.

Then there was the routine confidence in the accompanying taxpayer funded international credits market designed to somehow offset foreign pollution. Was not the confidence in this new-age auction formula still endowed with an official depth of sincerity in an inverse ratio to any provable value?

Now though an explanation takes shape. It is that as the election drew near one of the highly credentialed focus groups or focus groupies pointed to New Zealand and uttered to former policeman turned party leader Peter Dutton something akin to these words-

“Mate, forget the facts. The fairy tales are the ones that count.”

In Australia mysteries don’t stay mysteries. Someone always blabs. Until now.

The Lucky Country’s horror of being seen to be influenced by outsiders is a factor here. So is the anonymity of focus groups. The 11th hour Liberal campaign U-turn riddle solution as residing across the Tasman Sea is one that holds water.