by ROGER CROOK – WHEN in Australia’s recent history did we agree that those in whom we entrust our future could lie to us and get away with it?
Labor doesn’t care what debts they saddle the people with. Socialist ideology is more important to them than truth and the national balance sheet.
- There is a fine line between surplus and famine.
- Starvation these days is almost totally due to wars and politics.
- This government prefers that we go hungry in the name of its political agenda.
This week’s news is that “Australia is set for its longest stretch of sub-par economic growth since the global recession of the 1990, weighed down by weak consumer and business confidence, high interest rates and resurgent inflation”. (The Australian newspaper July 7,2026.)
Deloitte Access Economics has slashed its gross domestic product (GDP) forecasts to an abysmal 1.3 per cent this financial year. They expect back-to-back years of sub two per cent growth.
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They expect headline inflation to stay above four per cent for the rest of the year, and unemployment to peak at five per cent in 2027-28.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers, of course, does not agree with these forecasts. He prefers to blame “lingering costs and consequences of the war in the Middle East” even Ukraine.
In spite of all the brew-ha-ha between the political Parties in Australia, the president of Virgin Airlines says the 1.3 per cent might as well be negative, as it has been for a few quarters.
The Clean Energy Investor Outlook’s third annual report notes that delays in transmission lines and Labor’s Capital Gains Tax overhaul is “damaging” Australia’s reputation as an investment option.
This is not the future we are constantly being promised by Prime Minister (Sleazy) Albanese, and his cabinet of the very best Labor can muster.
What kind of prime minister and cabinet runs Australia when they don’t bat an eyelid when one of their own can seek and gain office overseas – and to meet the needs of that office charge Australian taxpayers the $500 million unbudgeted cost of another 100+ public servants?
Five hundred million dollars to satisfy a political ego trip. A chance for Labor to strut the world stage while the minions at home go cold in winter.
When striving to get COP 31 to Adelaide in November of this year – and failing – Minister for Climate Change & Energy Chris (Blackout) Bowen, while in Baku, Azerbaijan, for COP 30, accepted the position of “president of negotiations” for COP 31 which will be held in Turkey later this year.
His attempt to get COP 31 to Australia cost taxpayers at least $1.5m to fly about 75 public servants to Azerbaijan at an average of $20,000 a head.
Why 75 public servants to support Bowen? Nobody knows. It was unbudgeted; presumably the Treasure didn’t blink. It is just another example of Labor’s largesse with borrowed money and our debt.
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There have been three Conference of the Parties (COP), and the Dept of Climate Change & Energy has revealed that the Australian Pavilion at each conference cost about $1m.
That is in addition to the $102,000 spent by Bowen and his staff getting to COP29 and not counting the $20,000+ cost of Bowen’s Assistant Minister Josh Wilson to the same event.
The other day Mr Bowen said that he was not expecting this year’s COP to provide “massive breakthroughs” on global climate action, he claims that Australia will benefit economically from his role as its president of negotiations.
Being Bowen he didn’t say how, he just claimed that his efforts were “middle power diplomacy at its absolute best”.
What he meant by that word salad I have no idea. Middle power diplomacy with the country in a fuel crisis? For goodness sake!
As far as I can see all Bowen is doing is spending $500m on a climate project from which the taxpayers of Australia will derive nothing, zilch, zero!
Many of those same citizens pay their taxes, yet they cannot afford a house and enough electricity to keep warm in winter and cool in summer.
If the recent oil crisis has shown this country one thing, it is that 90 per cent of the energy we use in this country comes from hydrocarbons, oil, gas and coal.
We have grown use to accepting that the supermarket shelves will always be full and the local service station will always have what we want. Not realising the effort that goes into keeping the shelves and bowsers full is dependent on hydrocarbons.
There is a fine line between surplus and famine.
Between 2001 and 2023 the world’s total cropland per person declined by about 20 per cent, from 0.24 to 0.19 hectares.
Between 1970 and 2010 the world lost almost 33 per cent of its arable land, yet the people of the world have never been better fed.
To put the achievement of agricultural scientists and farmers around the world into perspective, in 1970 the world population was 3.7b, in 2026 it is 8.3b.
Starvation these days is almost totally due to wars and politics, not a shortage of food.
The reason that farmers and scientists have been able to feed the burgeoning world population with less and less arable land, is because of the planned and sophisticated use of natural gas-derived fertilisers, especially nitrogen.
Many of the safest herbicides, insecticides, fungicides and nematicides applied to the worlds crops – which in turn enable high yields – are derived from hydrocarbons.
So in the light of that rather worrying evidence of declining arable land and an increasing world population, what does the Australian Labor Government do?
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It embarks on a ludicrous, unattainable program of making Australia the renewable energy capital of the world.
Labor’s renewable energy policy involves requisitioning thousands of hectares of good farmland from farmers, all so Labor – and it is just Labor – can meet their renewable energy targets.
Labor cannot reach that target without China. China has now cornered the market in solar panels and wind turbines.
The same China that just fired a ballistic missile 7000km across this country’s bows as a warning after we signed agreements with our Pacific neighbours. China is not Australia’s friend, it wishes to become its master.
China is the country in which our Labor Government would place our future. Wind turbines and solar panels wear out in 20 years or so and if the nation is to survive, they will have to be replaced, and the only source is China.
Albanese and Bowen are placing Australia’s future in the hands of China and communism.
Last year the two industrial giants of China and India accounted for 87 per cent of all new coal-fired power station under construction or being planned.
The world is burning more coal now than it ever has; more than during the industrial revolution.
The industrialised world is returning to coal fired power generation as world oil supplies become less reliable.
South Korea, Germany and Italy – all with extensive manufacturing commitments – are returning to coal and abandoning plans to phase it out.
China cannot and never will be able to feed itself. It currently relies on Australia, America, Brazil and many other countries for food.
In claiming to be working towards saving the world by reducing Australia’s 1.3 per cent of world emissions, Labor is hypocritically and quite deliberately reducing the amount of land available to grow food.
How difficult is that for Blackout Bowen and his team of destructive climate zealots to understand?
Australian food production is important to Australia and to the rest of the world.
In any one year Australia provides all of the fresh food and much of the processed food (canned, bottled, dried) that our ever growing population needs.
In addition to that achievement, Australia grows between 10 per cent and 20 per cent of the grain traded around the world. We feed other people.
What should concern the Australian people is that if, over the past 30 years, our resources had been properly managed, the recent worldwide oil and fertiliser crisis would not have impacted Australia.
We have oil, we have coal that can easily be made into diesel and petrol. We have crops – that we now export – which can satisfy our need for aviation fuel.
We are rich, but this government prefers that we suffer in the name of their political agenda rather than prosper from our inheritance.PC
Blackout is a traitor; it’s as simple as that. But then the entirety of the ALP are traitors so he is in the right party.
Extract from the Coalition – Liberal Dutton Plan
Dutton Plan for nuclear power stations, five power stations with multiple generators and two plants with a single generator unit, also retains coal fired power stations, gas turbine generators, diesel generators and hydro power stations, wind and solar under contract as well but remove the incentive subsidies and not for any new installations and remove the fossil fuelled notably for coal restriction penalties.
Environmental benefits
If you are serious about meeting our international climate change targets, then you must include zero emission nuclear as part of your energy mix. Zero emission nuclear power plants produce no air pollution or carbon emissions.
Zero emission nuclear power plants also use much less land and raw materials than large scale renewable projects. For instance, a next generation nuclear power station, including all auxiliary buildings and the security perimeter would cover about 45 acres (roughly the size of a mid-sized shopping centre). For every MWh of electricity produced:
Wind requires 360 times more land than nuclear.
Solar requires 75 times more land than nuclear.
In addition, unlike a modern nuclear plant, which can be plugged into the existing grid, Labor’s expensive renewables-only grid requires up to 28,000km of new transmission lines.
By reducing impacts on our landscape, zero-emissions nuclear will not only protect regional communities, but our environment and wildlife
Albasleazie and his socialist mob want high food prices so they can blame the retailer.