Wow where I live is starting to get darker every night. More houses and flats have the lights out or one dim light in one room. Our bill jumped by about 20% and is touching $500 a quarter. This is up from about $300 a year or so ago. Consumption is dropping but the bill keeps increasing. It feels like the only real option in the future will be to try to go completely solar with a generator and batteries and then ask for the mains connection to be severed.

Sure its not all due to the carbon tax but adding the cost of that to all the other costs, plus having a consumption tax on a carbon tax doesn't seem fair.

Meanwhile they are exporting millions of tonnes of coal as quickly as they can dig it out and ship it off to whoever wants to burn it. I've heard South Korea has cheaper electricity than Australia and they import amost all of the fuel they need to generate electricity.