WESTERN Australia’s opposition Liberal Party has split with Prime Minister Scott Morrison, announcing net zero carbon emissions a full 20 years earlier than Labor’s economy-wrecking target. Mr Zak Kirkup, who was elected Liberal leader last November, has described his 2030 net zero plan as “bold”. Others describe it as crazy.
MALCOLM Turnbull replacement Dave Sharma has told conservatives to “get over it” as the Liberal Party continues its radical lurch Left. Self-described as a “modern Liberal”, the new member for Wentworth said the Party was a broad church and that green energy was “inevitable”.
NSW Environment Minister Matt Kean this week criticised Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s emissions plan – saying he should act more like former US President John F Kennedy. Mr Kean, who hangs a picture of the assassinated Democratic Party president in his office, described the prime minister’s environmental agenda as “ridiculous”.
PRIME Minister Scott Morrison has vowed never to sacrifice Australia’s economy on the altar of climate extremism. While Labor’s hardline climate warriors tear their Party in two, Mr Morrison made clear this week that technology, and not taxation, would be the sole driver for reducing emissions.
EARTH is rapidly entering into ice age conditions according to an international team of environmental scientists led by Cardiff University in Wales. The researchers say melting icebergs in Antarctica are acting as a trigger for a prolonged period of cold temperatures on earth.
THE architect of Labor’s 2019 election climate policy has warned that medium-term emissions targets are unnecessary, contradicting the ALP’s dominant Green wing. Australian National University economics professor Warwick McKibbin said while medium targets were not required, costs controls most definitely were.
FORMER Labor cabinet minister Joel Fitzgibbon has labelled climate politics “dishonest” and “delusional”, saying Australian voters were being lied to.
In a broadside speech given to The Sydney Institute on Wednesday, Mr Fitzgibbon said Labor had no business setting medium-term emissions targets.
LABOR leader Anthony Albanese is incapable of steering his fractured Party towards its working class base, according to ALP historian Troy Bramston. The inner Sydney MP, who toyed with communism during his time at university, has been accused of leading Labor over a cliff while pandering to its radical Green Left parliamentary wing.
WATERED down laws dealing with drug use – along with the threat of a new carbon tax – lie in store for NSW citizens if senior members of its Coalition government have their way.With NSW debt skyrocketing and its AAA credit rating downgraded this week, the Berejiklian government appears side tracked with implementing Greens Party policy.
A CARBON tax will not be re-imposed onto Australians according to Federal Energy & Emissions Minister Angus Taylor. Mr Taylor said while he was keen to reduce emissions, he would not do so by imposing a cost onto the economy or households.
