AFTER years of double speak and dragging its heels on mining approvals, Labor has now publicly embraced coal as Queensland’s 2020 election looms. Holding a slim two seat majority, ALP Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk is targeting regional electorates to assist her retain government – albeit with a bet each way.
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NSW Environment & Energy Minister Matt Kean has prioritised his personal ideology first and foremost, placing at risk NSW citizens’ jobs while doing so.
The Liberal Party minister, who is breathlessly nicknamed Captain Planet by his Greens Party allies, has been accused of sabotaging NSW energy investment.
COAL will be around “for a long time yet” according to BHP chief executive Mike Henry as Labor fast-tracks approval of a massive new coal mine in central Queensland. Mr Henry, whose company mines both metallurgical and thermal coal, confirmed this week that BHP was committed to coal and that he expected ongoing demand.
A SHRINKING Zali Steggall has swapped Warringah for Twitter while revealing an almost unhinged obsession with global warming. The federal Member for Warringah, elected in May last year to replace former Prime Minister Tony Abbott, has almost disappeared from public view since her local newspaper — and No.1 cheer squad — closed its print edition earlier this year.
IN A bombshell exposé, Premier Gladys Berejiklian’s leadership could be “sunk” if her actions as transport minister were made public.
In an article published on page one of The Australian newspaper on Tuesday it was inferred Ms Berejiklian’s successor to her transport portfolio, Andrew Constance, was in a position to undo the Premier with revelations from her time leading that department.
PRIME Minister Scott Morrison’s harsh rebuke of a self-serving United Nations bureaucracy should serve as a lesson for Australia’s hostile public sector. Mr Morrison this week reminded the UN it worked for its members and not for its own “processes, institutions and officials”.
LABOR leader Anthony Albanese has sided with radical hippies as ALP unions, factions and shadow ministers go to war over weather.With the nation’s focus firmly fixed on Coronavirus recovery, Labor has spent the past six months tearing itself apart over carbon.
AUSTRALIANS would never sell out to China and would stand by their national principles despite calls for appeasement from Labor MPs and profit-driven executives.Australia’s ambassador to Washington Arthur Sinodinos told a US audience this week that Aussies would never “compromise national interest to safeguard economic interests”.
UNELECTED activist bureaucrats are intimidating Australians into silence for attempting to state the obvious according to Federal Senator Claire Chandler. The under fire Tasmanian MP said it was appalling that everyday citizens, including herself, were being put through the “legal wringer” for stating normal mainstream views.
