THE Institute of Public Affairs, a mainstream conservative lobby group, is blowing the whistle on Australia’s net zero-induced economic decline, and most of Canberra is not listening – not Albanese and Labor, not Ley and her close circle of wanna-be Teal Liberals and certainly not the Greens and Teals themselves.
Adam Crichton, a long-time journalist with The Australian newspaper, says the Australian economy has regressed from “two-speed” to one speed, “and it’s actually reverse”, with nine of the past 11 economic quarters being negative while Australia suffered the sharpest fall in living standards in OECD member nations since 2022.
He also noted that Victoria’s debt had ballooned from $23 billion in 2019 to $15 billion now. Crichton suggested most of the blame lay with net zero, which was certainly “the most insidious economic policy that we have in Australia”.
On a positive note, he said Liberal Party branches in South Australia and NSW had dropped net zero as a policy, as had the UK Conservatives. Even UK Labor party MPs were questioning it. Crichton also showed a chart showing a dramatic fall in the mention of words related to climate change in the ALP’s recent budget papers.
Crichton was speaking at an IPA event also featuring former ABC journalist Chris Uhlman, who is campaigning nationally against net zero, and US economist Robert Bryce. Both outlaid a series of hard facts and figures around energy use and emissions showing the utter folly and stupidity of net zero ideology.
Uhlman’s colourful addressed traced the development of primitive fire to the era of coal and steam and then oil, noting that his grandfather was born in a household in Brisbane in 1899 without running water, electricity, plumbing or motor vehicles. This all changed in his 68-year lifetime primarily because of oil.
Ulhlman said net zero was about reverting the modern, oil-based energy system into what it was before oil and coal, that is weather-dependent like the sailboats of the high seas that brought his German ancestors to Australia.
Bryce, on his second visit to Australia, hit the large crowd attending with a “stat bomb” and called for the plug to be pulled on net zero policy. Bryce’s statistics were not complicated, they revealed the reality that Australia’s alleged emissions problem is not a problem at all. It’s propaganda.
Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce has exposed a case illustrating the diabolical and destructive nature of net zero policy: a $3.5 million carbon tax and “ecological assessment” bill quoted for a proposed aged care home in Denham, NSW.
The Federal Government’s response to the shocked project organisers was “oh, the private sector can help you meet the cost”. In response, Joyce has produced a Bill to repeal net zero and put it before the Parliament. Cairns News is hoping to get a copy.
Joyce recently addressed the Parliament recently outlining the reality of net zero losing popularity or simply not applying in most regions including Africa, the Middle East, China, India and Indonesia.
“Our GDP per person is going down, people are becoming poorer,” he said. “If you go into shops they talk about 30 to 40 per cent of their costs being energy, whether it’s pie shops or hairdressers it doesn’t matter – it’s hurting Australians.”
If Albanese and his advisers are not listening to Joyce they are at least obliged to listen to informed journalists and economists like Crichton, Uhlman and Bryce. If Albanese does not listen, Australians are going to have to take drastic action before the country is driven into serious economic malfunction. It is happening already.
As noted by Joyce, Australia is losing its industries like plastics, and glass while aluminium smelting was hanging on by its fingertips, only because of subsidies.
Joyce and his anti-net zero Bill needs to be supported. He has other Nationals behind him and some Liberals, and certainly the One Nation team in the Senate. Maybe the rest of the Coalition will wake up and force Albanese to quickly and quietly back down.
Also requiring a serious hosing down is the clownish Matt Kean of the Federal Government’s so-called Climate Authority, along with the overpaid Mike Kaiser, secretary of the Department of Climate Change and Energy, who is systematically ripping out the wealth of Australia’s productive sector – or what remains of it.
These bureaucrats are a waste of taxpayers’ money and burden on hard working Australians and simply feathering their own cosy nests of privilege and power.
