Stephen “Karl Marx” Joyce picking winners again and gambling with taxpayer money. The Government is putting nearly $7 million into a partnership that will investigate producing biofuel from forestry waste. Joyce said-

“If the technology can be proven and commercialised, the economic benefit over the next 20 to 25 years is estimated at an annual increase in GDP of up to $1 billion and the creation of 1200 jobs,”

Yes, the pilot may be successful, or it may fail. Either way, its not any justification for this kind of cronyist fascistic government over-reach. National and Joyce should piss off and leave it entirely to the private sector, as their party’s founding principles oblige them to.