POLITICAL corpses continue to pile up in Australia as out-of-touch politicians hold tight to a fanatical obsession with global warming and climate “emergencies”.
As if the career-ending mistakes of Bill Shorten, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull (twice) weren’t warning enough, current Labor leader Anthony Albanese has seemingly volunteered to sacrifice his otherwise promising career to their cause.
UK Prime Minister Boris “ban all oil” Johnson won’t be far behind.
WARNINGS
You’d think people paid to represent the will of the people would have bloodhound-like instincts to sniff out the public mood.
Not this lot. Despite mountains of warnings and zero credible computer modelling, they continue to lecture voters who neither care nor believe them.
There’s a reason why The Project is the lowest rating program on prime time commercial television.
It’s the same reason ABC and SBS struggle to pull an audience outside the inner city café set.
It’s why Bill Shorten lost last year’s unlosable election. The one he branded the “climate change” election.
The same again that saw Gillard lose all her credibility and flush Labor’s primary vote down the toilet, ensuring at least nine years in opposition – and counting.
It’s why the last landslide election victory was won by a candidate who vowed to roll-back climate change madness – Tony Abbott’s 35 seat majority in 2013.
Despite suburban and regional communities repeatedly telling politicians to cut the climate emergency claptrap, they’ve been ignored. And, Tony Abbott aside, this has continued since Gillard struck a deal with the finger-waving Greens in 2010 to retain government.
Every worthwhile opinion poll is consistent and clear. Take JWS Research’s poll published in last week’s Weekend Australian newspaper.
CONCERNS
A staggering 95 per cent of Labor voters rated climate change as a non-election issue at last month’s Queensland general election. They ranked climate change last behind COVID-19 response, the economy, jobs, living costs, healthcare and border control, in that order.
Even more Liberal voters, 98 per cent, rated climate last. Their primary concerns being the economy, jobs, living costs followed by border security, COVID-19 measures and healthcare.
Even Greens supporters – who are usually single-issue voters – are falling away, with almost half (43 per cent) ranking jobs, living costs, COVID response, borders and healthcare ahead of global warming.
Yet, politicians like NSW Energy & Environment Minister Matt Kean are now hinting at re-introducing a carbon tax.
Sydney’s Daily Telegraph newspaper reported last week that Kean had thrown his support behind a discussion paper calling for the re-introduction of a Julia Gillard-style emissions tax. That’s sure to go down like a fish bone with his conservative electorate – not to mention with his Liberal Party colleague Prime Minister Scott Morrison.
Other “modern” Liberals also continue to defy the Prime Minister – and side with climate radical Zali Steggall – hoping to ban gas exploration off the central NSW coast.
And even after their cold, dead careers are stretchered from public office they bang on as if their next meal depended on it.
Take Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull on ABC-TV last week gloating about a Joe Biden “Green New Deal” presidency.
Watching was vomit inducing.
Words like “discombobulating”, “carbon neutrality”, “big-boy pants”, “global treaties”, “international order” came in gushes. And nightmare memories came flashing back.
But the presenter seemed to lap it up.
Listening to Rudd and Turnbull lecture voters on climate is akin to having a used car salesman bang on about the latest model horse and buggy. Or someone trying to get rich selling pre-industrial wind mills.
SMARTEST
Climate change is their pet project. It’s not a community issue. If they want public funding, they should open a cake stall.
Despite what they may think, neither Malcolm nor Kevin are the smartest people in the room – and never have been. No-one who’s lost the same job twice for the same reason can claim heightened intelligence.
While their prime ministerial successor Scott Morrison throws an occasional bone to quieten the climate community, he has no intention of losing his job for their cause.
Last week he said Australia would like to get to zero emissions as soon as possible. No right-minded person could wish otherwise.
He’s smart enough, though, not to commit to a date.
Reducing our impact on nature is a noble goal but, under Morrison’s watch, the economy won’t be sacrificed.
Despite all their big words, it’s clear who aren’t the smartest politicians in the room.PC
Obviously “climate change” is never going to be a hot topic…
News Corp is in trouble with Rudd and Turnbull for lampooning Global Warming. Both major parties profess adherence to the Climate Change faith yet apparently about half the general public don’t. If News Corp fell into line that faith would control the media arena. We’re really in a battle of freedom vs control.
Will go down in history as Australia’s worst Prime Ministers.
Both these blokes were imposters, neither of them were there for the party or believed in their party principles. They were only there for the own self aggrandisement.
I vote Liberal but couldn’t stand Turnbull. He was so out of touch with real Australia. Can’t think of one good thing he did as PM. Didn’t mind Abbott, at least he stopped the invasion of boats which was bleeding Australia of Billions of $$