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.
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.
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.
THE Berejiklian government remains teetering despite Nationals leader John Barilaro walking back plans to withdraw his parliamentary support. The Deputy Premier last week announced – then withdrew – plans to lead his entire Nationals team to the cross benches in response to the government’s latest Greens-inspired environmental planning policy – the so-called koala habitat protection plan.
NSW NATIONALS leader John Barilaro started it, by threatening to take his bucket and spade from the sandpit and go play on the cross benches. He made a thorough goose of himself on two counts: tittle-tattling to the public about matters that should have been sorted out behind closed doors and displaying his ignorance of constitutional conventions.
ANGER over NSW’s hard lurch leftwards has spilled into public view, with voters expressing disgust at the Berejiklian government’s Greens-inspired policy agenda. The government’s direction has become so unpalatable that its Nationals coalition partner has announced it would move to the cross bench en masse.
NSW Environment Minister Matt Kean is on a collision course with the State’s powerful Parliamentary Development Committee which has warned renewable energy is incapable of meeting growth demands. Mr Kean, who hopes to reduce State carbon emissions by 35 per cent by 2030 and 100 per cent by 2050, is under pressure to back away from his pet project by the cross-Party committee findings.
JOB-destroying climate policies are being championed by law-makers misled by “politicised” science, according to Federal Senator Malcolm Roberts. The Queensland MP said many politicians failed to scrutinise the highly questionable science they were embracing.
