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Dear ,

I have to provide the Brisbane Club with final numbers for the Peiser lunch by close of business today, or early tomorrow. While there is always a little wiggle room, if you're coming to this function you need to book now. You can do that by clicking here.

Peiser is Executive Director of the UK's Global Warming Policy Foundation and is touring the USA and Australia talking about the British experience with renewable energy and electrification of the economy.

We will also have a bonus guest at the function with Alan Moran of Regulation Economics attending along with Benny. Alan is a former Deputy Secretary in the Federal Department of Treasury and is a well-known commentator on global warming and power generation. If you read the Spectator you will have seen his regular contributions there.

Alan is chaperoning Benny around Australia and will be introducing him at the lunch.

Tickets are $165 for general members of the public and $135 for AIP members (or $1,350 for a table of ten, members or otherwise) which includes 2 courses and drinks. The lunch will start at 12:00 for 12:30 pm in the Brisbane Club, 241 Adelaide Street, Brisbane. Discounted parking is available in Macarthur Central and Post Office Square carparks, and Central Station is one block's walk away. Click here to book.

Electrification of the economy is something which ought to be upfront and centre in this election campaign as there is a straight line relationship between civilisation and electricity consumption, yet too much of this debate is framed by fairy tales of supply and output that seem to assume electrifying the grid is as easy as picking up an electric power tool from Bunnings.

After this lunch you'll be much better equipped to explain why it is much more complex than that and to understand the complications that have occurred in Western economies, like the UK's, that have pushed electrification further than we have.

Look forward to seeing you there.

Regards,

GRAHAM YOUNG
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

P.S. I will also be discussing power generation policy on Steve Austin's ABC program this afternoon around 5:40 pm as I spar with Labor's Rachel Nolan. You might be interested in listening in.